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ORCHIDS. 



saslies on both sides of the house, with glass from 15 to 

 20 inches high, and not made to open. Many of the 

 Orchid-growers object to the side-sashes, and generally 

 recommend brickwork, with the roof laid on the brickwork, 

 and no glass on either side ; but, in my opinion, that is not 

 the best plan, and I would recommend any one about to 

 build an Orchid-house to have upright sashes on both sides, 

 and glass at the south end and brickwork at the north 

 end. I have found by experience that Orchids cannot 

 have too much light ; that this is the only way to get good, 

 stout, ripe bulbs for flowering. Small houses are the best 

 for Orchids. There are several large houses in different 

 parts of the country, but in no instance have T seen the 

 plants gi'ow well in them. These large houses take twice 

 the heat to keep them at the right temperature ; and, after 

 all, they do not seem adapted to the wants of the plants. 

 I w^ould advise those who have large houses and their 

 Orchids not doing well, to pull them down, or turn them 

 into some other purpose, and try smaller ones for Orchids ; 

 the expense would soon be saved by diminished cost of 

 pipes and fuel. 



Treatmsnt of Plants in Floiver, and the best Mode of 

 protractmg their Bloom, 



There are many Orchids that may be removed w^hen in 

 flower to a much cooler house than that in which they are 

 groTO, or even in a warm sitting-room. The following are 

 among the advantages of keeping them during their period 

 of flowering in a cool and dry atmosphere, rather than, as 

 is frequently the case, in a hot and moist house : in the 

 latter, the flow^ers do not last nearly so long as they do 

 when moved to a cooler house or a warm room. Perhaps 

 there are not many cultivators who have studied this point 

 more than myself, and I never found the plants injured by 



