THE ORCHID WOULD. 
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ORCHIDS IN THE GARDEN OF MR. J. C. HARVEY, 
SANBORN, MEXICO. 
THE accompanying photograph will 
show the fine display of bloom pro- 
duced by the Orchids ni Mr. Harvey's 
garden. Owing to the naturally high tem- 
perature it IS impossible to cultix ate the cool- 
growing species, and the warmer kinds 
require little protection, certainly no glass 
structures, merely a protecting roof. 
In the tropics not many Orchids do well 
111 pots or pans, for these, on account of the 
heavy rains, quickly become waterlogged, and 
the plants are killed. The best results are 
obtained by fastening the plants on slabs of 
calabash and other native woods, many of 
the Orchids so treated producing larger 
pseudo-bulbs than when first received. 
Cattleya superba is at home in this climate, 
and produces an abundance of richly-coloured 
scented flowers. To be seen at its best this 
species requires a hot situation, and plenty 
of sunlight and air when it is ripening up its 
bulbs. Mr. Harvey grows it with Cattleya 
Dowiana in the full blaze of the sun, only 
shading it a little during the months of April 
and May, which is the hottest and driest 
season of the year, the temperature averaging 
go to loo degrees at midday, and with a 
reduction to 80 at night time. 
The garden also contains a remarkab)le 
collection of palms, more than 125 different 
species having been collected during the last 
fifteen years from all parts of the world. 
Crotons and Dracaenas, in more than thirty 
varieties, grow in great bushes seven feet in 
height, furnished to the ground with leaves, 
and not a scale or mealy bug on them ; they 
are a grand sight. Caladiums may be seen 
in all their beauty, and during the growing- 
season make a fine show. 
The photographs were taken in the middle 
of last February, and the following list will 
show the great number and variety of Orchids 
which were in bloom at the time: — Cattleya 
Skinneri, with more than lOO flowers, C. 
Trianae, C. Schroderae, C. Loddigesii, C. inter- 
media, C. Schilleriana, Epidendrum atropur- 
pureum, E. Stamfordianum, E. aurantiacum, 
Phalaenopsis Aphrodite^ P. .Schilleriana, P. 
Stuartiana, Pilumna nobilis, Trichopilia suavis, 
Oncidium splendidum., Chysis bractescens, 
Saccolabium giganteum; .S. viola ceum, Gon- 
gora maculata, Dendrobium aggregatum, D. 
aureum, D. Ainsworthii, D. Luna, D. bigib- 
bum, D. Findlayanum, D. Cybele, D. Dal- 
housieanum, Coelogyne flaccida, C. speciosa, 
Brassavola cucuUata, B. nodosa, Oncidium 
luridum, O. l^apilio, O. ampliatum, Vanda 
Boxallii, \'. suavis, Renanthera Imschootiana, 
Piiaius grandiiolius, Angraecum citratum, and 
Mormodes species. 
Mr. Harvey's Native Orchid Grower. 
