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enough to keep the air moving and preventing the houses from feeling chilly. 
Temperatures will still be out of control as far as sun heat is concerned, but 
it will do the plants no harm to let them run up so long as the houses are 
not kept stuffy. A little air put on early, and increased as the sun heat 
increases, will generally keep them fresh and airy. 
Any plants that are at all sickly should be accommodated in a house by 
themselves, so that they do not interfere with ripening the healthy plants. 
A corner in the stove will generally bring them round again. Houses should 
be damped frequently to keep a nice atmosphere, and fumigated frequently 
to keep down the pests which growers have to contend with. 
A mistake crept into my last Calendar, which I wish to correct. The 
sentence commencing on the last line of page 167 should have read :— 
“Their houses are not built on the Viaduct system; the Orchid houses 
are ordinary plant houses, and the Orchids do well, and the cost of such 
houses is about one-third the cost of Orchid houses in England.” The 
sentence beginning at line 12 of page 168 should have read :—‘‘ Here we 
use cocoanut matting for a double staging, and get our houses much better 
ventilated (without putting so much air on) than is possible in houses where 
solid stages are used, as the air and heat from the pipes can pass through 
the matting, and in the winter, instead of using all the heat up the back 
and {front of the stage, and the centre of the stage cold and wet, we get an 
even heat through the stage, and get no rush of it anywhere.” 
ORCHIDS AT RAINHILL, LANCASHIRE. 
H. J. BromiLow, Esq., having just won the ‘Sander’? Cup for Cypri- 
pediums at the meetings of the Manchester and North of England Orchid 
Society, a few words on his collection of Orchids may not be out of place. 
Rainhill is not one of the easiest places to get at, but arriving at Rann Lea, 
Mr. Bromilow’s garden, the inconvenience is soon forgotten in handling 
and discussing the many rare things, for Mr. Morgan, the head gardener, is 
an Orchid enthusiast, with that quiet but forcible enthusiasm which is at 
once infectious. The Rann Lea collection is of very recent growth, as about 
five years ago, in response to various hints from Mr. Morgan, Mr. Bromilow 
handed to him a modest sum of money, and told him to spend it as he liked 
on Orchids. Since then the collection has grown apace, and now numbers 
about 4,000 plants, the bulk of which are Cypripediums of the best varieties. 
Mr. Bromilow’s houses are not of the best for Orchid growing, being mostly 
lean-to’s, but as they are to be re-modelled or rebuilt in the near future, this 
disadvantage will soon disappear. We first came across a few Odonto- 
glossum crispum, the remains of an importation, the poor varieties having 
been rigorously weeded out. We noted a very healthy batch of Lelia 
