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THE GARDENERS MONTHLY 



[May, 



and they are almost always present in some 

 collections at horticultural exhibitions. At the 

 March meeting of the Germantown Horticul- 



of the moth orchids. Cypripedium villosum 

 was shown by Alexander Young, gardener to 

 Mr. R. S. Mason, and the old but very beautiful 



CROTON RECURViFOLiDS. (See opposlte page.) 



tural Society, Mr. Wm. Jamison, gardener to j Bletia Tankervillae or Phajus grandiflorus, as ita 

 Geo. L. Harrison, Esq., had a fine plant of the name is considered more properly to be. Thia 

 rare and beautiful Phalsenopsis grandiflora, on? last seems to have bloomed more freely every- 



