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On the Cultivation of Rare Plants. 



used to be with me at Chapel-Allerton, where they ripened 

 seeds, which germinated plentifully on every damp pot 

 they happened to be blown upon, and often on the surface 

 of the tan- bed ; they were there planted in pots quite full of 

 broken tiles, mixed with knobs of old bark which had not 

 been in the tan-bed, but taken fresh from Gledhow wood. 



Auliza Cilia ris. MSS. Epidendrum ciliare. Linn. Sp. 

 PL ed.2.p. 1349. 



Of the rare exotics among the Orchidece, none deserve a 

 place in our stoves more than this, which was introduced by 

 Messrs. Whitley and Brames, nurserymen of Brompton, 

 in 1797. It is likewise parasitic, if a plant, which merely 

 grows upon, without being nourished by the sap of another, 

 can be called so. It should be planted in pots, filled with 

 porous stones, a few decayed leaves, and knobs of bark taken 

 fresh from the woods : but it requires very little water ; and 

 if the leaves turn yellow, it is a sign they have either too much 

 wet, or too much sun. With such treatment, by keeping four 

 or five pots of it, the stove will be enlivened with their long 

 tubular flowers, slowly succeeding one another, at most periods 

 of the year. It is easily propagated by dividing its stems. 



Amphiglottis Secunda. MSS. Epidendrum elongatum. 

 Sims in Bot. Mag. n. Gil. cum Ic. Epidendrum secundum. 

 Jacq. Hist. Amer. p. 224. t. 137. 



Introduced by E. I. A. Woodford, Esq. in 1800, in 

 whose stove it flowered most of the following summer, being 

 very easily kept and propagated. 



Amphiglottis Lurida. MSS. Epidendrum fuscatum. 

 Smith Spicil. p. 21. t. 23. Epidendrum anceps. Jacq. Hist. 

 Amer. p. 224. t. 138. 



