All this supposes a house of moderate temperature, but the same 
kind of treatment can be most satisfactorily applied to those of any 
of the grades known as "stove" heat. When visiting gardens where 
Orchids are grown, it has always been a matter of keen regret to see 
a collection of some of the most lovely and wonderful flowers merely 
placed one after another on a straight shelf or suspended from the 
roof in a straight row, with the ever-present consciousness of how 
much better they could be employed. For here also an arrangement 
of rocky banks and walls with a good groundwork of greenery would 
not only form a delightful garden picture, but would enable each kind 
to be seen to much greater advantage. Moreover, so many tropical 
Orchids are epiphytal, growing on trees in dense forest, that they do 
not require the bright light that is essential to the well being of so 
many greenhouse plants; therefore, a house that is a lean-to against 
a high wall would suit them well, and the rockwork could be built 
higher. Any space of wall that would otherwise be bare can be covered 
with ferns and mossy growth by fixing wire netting so that it hangs 
parallel with the face of the wall and about two or three mches from 
it. If this is packed with common moss or Spagmun mixed with a 
little earth, and some small ferns are planted in it, it soon becomes a 
sheet of greenery. A house such as this would be most satisfactory 
with only a few of the more easily grown Orchids — the noble Phaius, 
Coelogyne cristata Calanthe and several of the varieties of Cypripedium 
insigne, with a few other tropical plants such as Pancratium and Hip- 
peastrwn in variety and with foliage of Acalypha, Pandanus Veitchii, 
Caladium. Croton, Dracaena and Begonia Rex. 
The paths in any such house should be paved with flagstones that 
have natural, not rectangular, joints. The dipping tank for water- 
ing is arranged to look like a little rock pool ; the usual iron tank is 
let into the ground and its hard edge is hidden by stones unevenly over- 
lapping. It can be made all the more interesting if the outside gutters 
are so adjusted that they come to a point where the rainwater, led by 
a pipe through the side of the building, feeds a little rocky channel 
inside and comes with tiny falls and splashes into the tank. 
I have read with much interest Mrs. W. A. Hutcheson's pamphlet, 
"A Wider Program for Garden Clubs," and as I am invited to com- 
ment on some portions of the question I will endeavor to do so. The 
project of having in villages a center for Garden Club purposes is 
undoubtedly an excellent one. In many places in England there is a 
village Hall which serves many purposes of use and entertainment. 
If you have such a place it might also serve for the conservation of the 
interests of the Garden Club. Whether it is desirable to have a fixed 
program for all places seems doubtful; I think it should be quite elas- 
tic, so that the special wants of each place may be the better discussed 
and practically met. But in any case, out of the fifteen headings 
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