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Till'. (U IDE TO NATURE 



ica. The following quotations and sum- sistance were many and varied, some be- 

 mary from that letter will be of interest. ing of an exciting and almost tragic 

 Mr. Lager's accounts of traveling in nature. 



CATTLEYA GIGAS ALBA. 

 This is a natural variety of C. Gigas with pure white flowers of great beauty. This plant is remarkable for 

 the fact that it is the rarest orchid ever found. The plant flowered for the first time this year and was 

 exhibited at the great orchid show in Boston last May, where a gold medal was awarded it. 



South America are remarkably interest- 

 ing — not only as a collector of orchids, 

 but as a traveller. His difficulties in 

 travelling and in obtaining food and as- 



Here is a sample of the ecstasy that 

 he experienced in some of the successful 

 efforts of the expedition : 



"With orchids and orchid collecting in the 



