THE ORCHID REVIEW. 133 
THE HISTORY OF ORCHID CULTIVATION. 
PART III. 
: (Continued from page 78.) 
THE Botanical Register was founded by Sydenham Edwards, in 1815, but 
only three Orchids appear in the first volume—Epidendrum nutans (t. 17), 
E. fuscatum (t. 67), and E. umbellatum (t. 80), all of which have already 
been noticed. In the following year, however, a new genus was figured in 
the work, namely, Cryptarrhena lunata (t. 153). It flowered with Messrs. 
Lee and Kennedy, at Hammersmith, having been introduced from Jamaica. 
It is probably not in cultivation at the present time. Cyrtopera Woodfordii 
also flowered in 1816. It had been sent from St. Paul, Brazil, by Mr. 
E. J. A. Woodford, to Mr. Anderson, Curator of the Apothecaries Company’s 
garden at Chelsea, where it flowered. 
In 1817 Sarcanthus paniculatus flowered at Smallberry Green, in the 
collection of Sir Joseph Banks, who had introduced it from China, and was 
figured in the Botanical Register (t. 220) under the name of Aérides panicu- 
latum. The event was noteworthy, as affording apparently the first instance 
of basket culture of Orchids in England, for we read: ‘‘ The most successful 
mode of treating plants of this nature in these climates has been devised by 
Sir Joseph Banks. . . . The method he pursues is to place the plants 
separately in light cylindrical wicker-baskets or cages, of suitable widths, of 
which the framework is ‘of long slender twigs wreathed together at the 
bottom, and shallowly round the side; the upper portion being left open 
that the plant may extend its growth in any direction through the intervals, 
and yet be kept steady in its station, the ends of the twigs having been tied 
together by the twine that suspends the whole to the woodwork of the stove. 
A thin layer of mould is strewed on the floor of the basket, on which the 
root-stock is placed, and then covered lightly over with a sufficiency of moss 
to shade it and preserve a due degree of moisture, water being occasionally 
supplied.” A sketch of this rather primitive Orchid basket is given on the 
plate. 
In 1818, Messrs. Loddiges, of Hackney, commenced their Botanical 
Cabinet. The first three volumes all bear this date, and include seventeen 
Orchids. The work commences with the North American Goodyera 
pubescens, and we note that in commenting on its recorded introduction 
by the Duke of Kent, in 1802, they observe that it ‘“‘ had been known long 
before, as we received it above thirty years ago from our ancient and 
worthy friends, J. and W. Bartram.” The most interesting Orchids 
figured are Hemaria discolor (figured as Goodyera discolor at t. 143), said 
to have been introduced from Rio, but now known to be Chinese, and 
Bonatea speciosa (t. 284) from the Cape of Good Hope. The North 
American Habenaria lacera (t. 229) may also be mentioned. The remainder 
