Plate 241 . 
ODONTOGLOSSXJM PESCATOBEI, 
Yae. SPLENDENS. 
We are glad again to embrace the opportunity given to us 
by the new cool treatment of Orchids, of figuring one of the 
genus which has proved itself most amenable to the method of 
culture, and that, one of the most beautiful of its tribe. For 
this we are indebted to the kindness of Mr. James Veitch, of 
King’s Road, Chelsea. 
As might have been expected, a change so great as that pro¬ 
posed. in the treatment of many of those Orchids which had 
heretofore been subjected to a high temperature, was likely to 
meet with opponents, and also to be carried to extremes by its 
advocates; but we have seen enough during the past winter to 
convince us of its practicability and success, for we had an op¬ 
portunity of seeing the establishments of perhaps the two 
largest Orchid-growers in the neighbourhood of London, amongst 
public and private cultivators,-—Mr. Veitch’s, of Chelsea, and 
Mr. Rucker’s, of Wandsworth,—and in both we saw abundant 
evidence of the successful adaptation of this method of culture. 
In the garden of the latter gentleman we saw a spam roofed 
house or pit divided into two compartments: in the first com¬ 
partment the temperature had been maintained at from 45° 
to 50°, and here Lycaste, Odontoglossum, Barkeria, etc,, were 
flourishing and flowering in great vigour; in the second house 
the temperature had been about 5° higher, and in it many 
varieties of Cypripedium, Calanthe, Dendrobium, Leptotis, and 
Cattleya were in equally vigorous health. Surely this is a great 
point gained; and we hope the extreme views which many will 
be apt to rush into, of subjecting Orchids not suitable to it and 
then proclaiming its failure, will not prevail to prevent its 
