LIST OF 0RCI1IDEJE. 
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sue of the plants as frequently to cause it to split; this must be 
carefully avoided, by refraining from exposing them to any 
weather likely to make them start, until a prospect is opened of 
its lasting. There need be no fear if the plants do not even 
push till April or May, but that they will then do so with much 
greater vigour. On the other hand, the autumnal exposure 
should be maintained as long as possible, suffering them to re¬ 
ceive all the influence of the sun, that the wood may be thoroughly 
ripened. 
With attention to these particulars success is made certain. 
The advantages derivable from this manner of growing plants 
are important, and easily made apparent, for beside the satisfac¬ 
tion of being able to grow handsome plants, where before only 
coarse climbers would succeed, or having valuable in the place 
of common plants, we must consider the ultimate effect pro¬ 
duced on the constitution of the plant, and the increased proba¬ 
bility of its being by these means induced to withstand all at¬ 
tacks, even without shelter; the received opinion being that 
all vegetation will endeavour to form its tissue in accordance 
with the situation and circumstances under which it is produced. 
Ed. 
LIST OF ORCHIDEiE. 
(Continued from page 68.) 
7. JEranthus Grandijlora. So named from the largeness of 
its flowers. It is nearly allied to the genus JErides in the ap¬ 
pearance of the growth, except that the leaves are rather more 
slender; the flower-spike slender, and upwards of eighteen inches 
long, supporting, a few flowers of a pale green colour. It suc¬ 
ceeds best when suspended, requiring a mixture of sphagnum 
and turfy peat. Requires a temperature of 70°. It is not a 
showy flowering plant .—Native of Mauritius. 
8. Aspasia Epidendroides. Large variety; so named from 
the flowers bearing a resemblance to that genus. This is of the 
pseudo-bulbous class, which of this plant are large and flat. The 
leaves are produced in pairs, about one foot long and an inch 
and a half broad, the raceme rising from the base of the young 
bulb producing from eight to twelve flowers, of which the sepals 
are brown slightly veined with green, and the petals are a pale 
purplish green, the column white, with a stain of purple towards 
