1.34 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
2gth, 1895, entitled “ How to popularise Orchid growing” (a reprint from a 
paper read by Mr. E. H. Woodall, of Scarborough, before the Royal 
Horticultural Society, on October gth, 1894), in which the turning out of 
€ool Orchids into frames during the summer months is advocated. 
I proceeded at once to act upon these suggestions, this seeming specially 
desirable, because the cooler Orchids in my greenhouse, which, with its 
southern aspect, could not fail occasionally to be heated to excess, though 
some light tiffany blinds were used in summer to break the power of the sun. 
I had a wooden tray made with a water-tight bottom, and placed in one of 
my frames, supported on bricks, and about two or three inches of water 
were then placed in it. In this I placed some inverted pots, and about the 
beginning of July there were removed to the frame two Odontoglossum 
Rossii, two O. crispum, one O. Pescatorei, and one Ada aurantiaca, In 
very dry and sunny weather the frame lights were kept down over the 
plants; though some ventilation was left on, and some matting was thrown 
over them to shade, wholly or partly, the plants in the tray; but at night, 
and in wet weather, the lights were entirely removed, and the plants thus 
got the benefit of any showers and night moisture. The good effects of this 
treatment were at once visible. 
Towards the end of July I left Teignmouth for about a month’s stay in 
the neighbourhood of London, and the Orchids were left in charge of a 
reliable man, Lewis Jackman, who came once or twice a week for a full 
day’s work, but on other days for a short time only, in the morning and 
evening, to do any watering and shading, and to see to any ventilation that 
might be necessary. The experiment was slightly risky, but I cannot say 
that on my return I found anything the worse, and the Orchids in the frame 
were looking very well. Other plants were then also placed in the frame, 
and the majority were kept there till the colder nights made a return to the 
greenhouse advisable. These Orchids included Odontoglossum maculatum, 
O. cordatum and O. triumphans, Masdevallia Harryana, Epidendrum 
vitellinum majus, Bletia hyacinthina, and a few of the hardy Cypripedium 
spectabile. Amongst plants of other families liking this treatment I may 
mention Narcissi of the Bulbocodium group (especially N. B. citrina), N 
cyclamineus, and Lachenalias. 
In June, 1896, I left my residence at 2, Cross Park, Teignmouth, having 
arranged to take a house then in course of erection about a quarter of a mile 
off. I was able, before I left Teignmouth for a trip abroad, to remove all my 
Orchids to a newly-built Orchid house, erected by Messrs. James Crispin & 
Sons, of Bristol, a well-known firm of horticultural builders, in the garden 
of my new residence. It was in two divisions, separated by a wall. One 
part for Cool Orchids, with a soft water tank running the length of it, faced 
— the other part faced south. —— greater part of this I intended, at 
