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Cruikshank. — If we read aright the address on that box, the cargo belongs 

 to one of the most staunch and scientific collectors of his day, and we, 

 therefore, only the more deeply deplore the calamity with which, it is hut 

 too clear, his importation has been visited. The conduct of his people 



exertions may he crowned with triumphant success. It is indeed a cruel 

 thing to expect Epiphytes, and receive only Cockroaches ! ! to see the very 

 case which ought to have been richly stored with lusty Orchidacece, prove, 

 upon opening, to contain nothing more than — 



Fig. 44. A\ exciting incident, depicted by George Cruikshank. 



■ Dum jacet in ripa, calcemus Caesaris hostem.' 



Juvenal." 



The drawing suggests as a free but by no means a literal translation : 

 " They ran helter skelter, hurling themselves upon the foe, and completely 

 vanquishing them " — for the time being. At all events, their presence in 

 our collections to-day suggests that they were not completely annihilated. 

 These gentlemen are ardent orchidophilists, and connoisseurs too. The 

 other day we went to see a striking new hybrid, purchased for fifty guineas, 

 and found that the previous evening one of them had made a hearty supper 

 off the flowers. We hope it disagreed with him. 



