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contrary, some growers predict that they will never be so extensively grown, on account of 

 their liability to get out of health. Some who have them recommend that they be given 

 plenty of heat, with much moisture in the atmosphere, and also that they be kept much 

 shaded. Where this course is followed, it is more than likely that the predictions about 

 their getting into bad health will be realised. Under such treatment they will probably 

 make luxuriant growth, and possibly flower proportionately for a time, but their continuing 

 in such condition is little to be expected, the plants virtually exhausting themselves. A 

 considerable amount of heat they no doubt require whilst growing, and they ought never 

 to be kept, even when at rest, so cool as many species ; but if they are kept too dark by 

 being stood away from the glass, with too little air in a close smothering atmosphere, 

 their healthy existence will be of short duration. Their thin leaves are not likely to bear 

 much direct sunlight, but enough shade to protect them from its effects when its rays 

 would otherwise come upon them is a very different thing to the darkened places to which 

 they are sometimes subjected. 



