Excerpt from Annals of Natural History, Vol. 3: Or, Magazine of Zoology, Botany, and Geology, (Being a Continuation of the 'Magazine of Zoology and Botany,' and Sir W. J. Hooker's 'Botanical Companion;')
The Vanilla plant in order to flower should be at least five or Six years old. The older and larger it is, and the more branches it has, the better and more abundantly it will flower. Nevertheless, the number of flowers is not in direct propor tion to the vigour of a plant; for I have two plants thirty feet high, but perhaps about a hundred feet long, one of which is much more feeble and sickly than the other, and the weakest bears more flowers than the stronger one. The quantity Of flowers has more relation to the situation than any other cir cumstance; but in general old plants are necessary, and horti culturists are quite wrong in throwing away their old plants.
Secondly. - I have found by experience that the best me thod of cultivating the Vanilla is the following.
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