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238 THE PHIL ADELPHIA FLORIST . [Dec'r 



(«r\ might be discovered those plants suited to such a locality. There was r® 

 ~ here none of that formality which characterises the garden of the mo- M; 

 dern amateur. Templeton, like Bartram, has passed away ; the old 

 house, we suppose, still stands, and before it the old tree where 

 William of Hanover tied up his horse, when he made the conquest of 

 unhappy Ireland; and although the Botanist has long ceased to attend 

 to the cherished favorites which were so profusely scattered about the 

 grounds of Cranmore, (great tree), and though other less cunning 

 hands turn over the precious leaves of his herbaria, yet he too is re- 

 membered as a child of nature. Amongst the late evidences of the 

 riches of his collection of dried plants, we might mention that in 

 1847 one of the young men employed at Kew, when on an herboris- 

 ing excursion along the Thames, near London, found a species of 

 fresh water Algce, quite new to him, but very beautiful. He procured 

 a quantity, and on his return submitted it to Sir W. Hooker for deter- 

 mination; it was decided to be T/iorea ramossissima, found described 

 in Templeton's manuscripts, with a dried specimen in his herbarium. 

 At first sight the collector thought he had made a rich discovery, but 

 the venerable Templeton had anticipated him more than fifty years. 

 Bartram's name descends to posterity, associated with a genus of 

 beautiful mosses — Bartramia, fit subject to perpetuate the fame of a 

 modest laborer in the field of nature. Templeton's name is attached 

 to a genus of Leguminous plants not very commonly cultivated in this 

 country, of which there are two species, Templetonia glauca and re- 

 tusa, from N. Holland, showy little plants from their comparatively 

 large scarlet flowers. All science can do for such men is to give their 

 names to fame, attached to the objects so much cherished by them. — 

 The Philadelphia^ will not soon be forgotten here; and the scientific 

 public of Belfast will also remember their Templeton for many years 

 to come. 



On the Management of Orchids. 



The taste for cultivating this highly interesting tribe of plants be- 

 ing so much on the increase, I am induced to offer a few notes on 

 their cultivation. 



The house for their growth should be so constructed as to give 

 them an abundance of light without admitting the sun's direct rays. 

 The heating apparatus also should be so constructed as to be able to 

 keep the atmosphere of the house constantly moist, and its tempera- 

 ture to 70° in the coldest weather. To gain the first object nothing 

 is better than to build the house on a north aspect, where any other 

 aspect is adopted, side lights should be introduced, and the top sashes 

 (^receive a thin shading of paint — this will admit the light, without ( 



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