IN FLORIDA 69 
Tropics and yellow and brown-red are the prevailing colors of 
their flowers. O. tigrinum and its near ally O. splendidum are 
exceedingly showy; O. leucocheilum from Guatemala has panicles 
of flowers often nine feet long, the color being greenish and white. 
O. papilio, the Butterfly Orchid, has broad, usually spotted leaves 
and striking yellow and brown banded flowers which bear a stong 
resemblance to a butterfly, O. cavendishianum, O. varicosum and 
its variety rogersi, and O. ampliatum have all done well with me. 
O. ornithorhynchum has lovely, delicate lilac flowers, but is a cool 
house orchid and soon dies here. 
The Vandas are superb Orchids from the East Indian region.. 
I have V. coerulea which has handsome blue flowers and V. éeres: 
with pink flowers, also an unnamed species, all of which are doing 
well. 
Phalanopsis is a genus of Orchids from the Indo-Malayan 
region, and contains, perhaps, the most chastely beautiful species 
of the entire family. Here I have in splendid condition P. ama- 
bilis and P. schilleriana, the former bearing long racemes of nearly 
pure white, large flowers while those of the latter are a lovely 
lilac rose. They have a rich, waxy texture and solid substance 
that causes their flowers to be as lasting as those of any Orchids 
grown in the state. I have had individual blossoms of P. ama- 
bilis remain in perfection for four months. Here on my trees in 
the low land they send out their large, flat roots in great pro- 
fusion and produce their handsome, glossy, leathery leaves with 
the greatest vigor. In fact, although these are considered rather 
difficult plants to grow in northern hothouses, they have done 
better with me than anything I have grown. They have en- 
dured long droughts and winter temperatures of light frost with- 
out injury, and when in bloom they have been the wonder of a 
great number of visitors. 
Besides the above I have tried quite a number of other Orchids 
including Brassia verrucosa, Brassavola glauca, Chysis aurea, 
Lycaste aromatica and skinneri, several Maxillarias, Miltonia 
roezeli, Schomburgkia tibicina, a couple of Gongoras, Stanhopea 
sp. and a considerable number of unnamed plants from Guate- 
mala and Cuba, most of which are doing well. 
There is a class of Orchids which grows at high elevations in the 
