ORCHIDS

The beginnings of the orchid family are shrouded in mystery. Since most orchids are epiphytic that is, having aerial roots through which they accept sustenance from the minerals in the damp loaded air of the tropics they have left no traces such as the fossilized vestiges of ground upward plants. Dr. E. Soysa, text in [...]

There is no cultural difference between orchids and other garden plants. All green plants have five essential advance requirements: air, sunlight, affection, food, and water. Cultural divergences among plants are not qualitative, only quantitative. The same is dutiful with orchids. They must be givens these five factors in certain explicit proportions which are, however, considerably [...]