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they perfect their bulbs, should be left in the dry stove until signs 
of flowering appear, and upon this they should be taken to the 
moist one until the flowers are just about to blow. From this it 
will be observed that there is a difference of seasonal habit in them ; 
some species forming their bulbs and displaying their flowers by one 
continuous growth, as it were ; and others taking repose after the 
one effort, before they have vigour enough for the other. This is 
closely connected with the occurrence of the rains in their native 
regions. If there is only one rainy season during the year, that 
wives the stimulus to both efforts ; but if there are two, the habit is 
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to bulb in the one and flower in the other. We shall, however, 
take a future occasion to examine this point, which is common to 
the physiology of many plants in countries where the rainy and 
dry seasons are strongly marked. 
In all cases, however, the plants should be taken to the moist 
house whenever they begin to show signs of flowering, and kept 
there until the flowers are ready to expand, because the flowers 
will enlarge more rapidly, and attain far greater size and finer 
proportions, than if they were to be flowered in a dry house. 
By having an abundant collection, and following this mode of 
treatment, with perfect knowledge of the habits of each species, 
the Epiphyte house might, I feel confident, be made as gay as the 
Tulip bed ; and indeed far superior to it, from the endless variety 
of forms, and the sweetness of perfume, in addition to colours 
not surpassed in the whole floral kingdom, in the brilliance of their 
tones, and the gracefulness of their arrangements. 
By means of the two houses, persons whose constitutions were 
unable to bear the hot air and vapour of the moist house, would 
have the pleasure of enjoying successively the full beauties of their 
collection in the dry house, because the heat there never requires 
to be so sreat as in the moist house. 
Those who receive importations of Orclridese late in the season, 
should not attempt to put them immediately in the moist house in 
order to force their growth, as a number of fine plants have been 
lost by such attempts to force them before their proper seasons. 
They should be put into the dry house till they begin to show 
buds ; and then they are not merely safe, but certain of coming 
to maturity in the moist one. The proper season for giving 
Orchidese their annual repose in this country is during winter ; 
and, though there are some few exceptions, the proper growing 
