"J. M." writes: "Will you allow me to inquire of the readers of the Monthly if any of them have observed a tendency in our native orchids to bloom profusely but every other year? Several years ago I was desirous of obtaining a few flowering specimens of Goodyera pubescens, and visited for the purpose a place where the plants grew by the hundred. I could not find a single plant flowering that year. The present season, on a like errand, I went to where some one hundred plants of Cypri-pedium acaule were growing. The half of the number were large and vigorous, but there was not one had flowered in the lot, though past their season. Can any one say if this is usual with orchids?