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of Saurauja, Medinilla, Michelia, and others. As I before re¬ 
marked, the plants appear local; each kind seems always to be 
together in one situation, except near the sea, where sometimes 
there will be several genera scattered over a range of some few 
miles. In the dark and dull forests few are to be found, but in 
all exposed places, where trees have been blown down, or any 
other cause has left an opening, there they inhabit, and almost 
universally the ravines, where it is nearly always damp, are filled 
with Orchidacese. They bear very heavy rains without injury, 
and also a very powerful sun from nine till four o’clock, with an 
extremely variable temperature. My belief is now, that, under 
cultivation in England, they have too much shade, too much 
heat, and not sufficient air while growing; they require an 
abundance of water, but it must not remain about them, and a 
moist atmosphere is far more natural than frequent waterings to 
the roots. To see them flowering here you would think them 
the most beautiful objects in creation.” 
THE CHINESE CHRYSANTHEMUM. 
Although these flowers have engaged the attention of horti¬ 
culturists for above half a century, there still appears some¬ 
thing to learn respecting the best mode of managing them. 
That they are hardy, autumnal flowering plants, which may be 
had in pots protected in the greenhouse, and which sometimes 
display their handsome blossoms in the open air, every one 
knows; and that they are highly desirable at that particular 
season is universally conceded ; but how to ensure really fine 
flowers on dwarf plants in the first position, or to ensure them 
at all in an unprotected situation is by no means certainly 
defined. 
Various and opposite rules have been given for the attain¬ 
ment of the object, without other result than the increased 
chances consequent on a knowledge of the several methods, 
and in my turn I propose to mention a course of treatment, 
differing materially from all those usually followed, and which 
for two seasons has been eminently successful. 
