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[July, 1913. 
germinative condition, and a further period 
of several years of necessary cultivation. It 
is only when the plants flower, after an 
average of some four or five years, that the 
owner can distinguish the good varieties 
from the bad. Here, then, is one of the 
principal factors that will always impart to 
Orchids that rarity and value which allows 
them to stand out so prominently from all 
other forms of vegetable life. 
Odontoglossum Empress oj India, a handsome hybrid, exhibited by Messrs. Charlesworlh & Co., 
at the Chelsea Show, May, 1913. 
