8o Bog-Trotting for Orchids 



swamps are stock}- and short-scaped, bearing highly- 

 colored blossoms; while in shaded, muddy glooms the 

 plants are rank and tender, with pale flowers, which 

 do not last nearly so long as those which grow in the 

 sunlight. The deeply colored specimens mentioned 

 above grew wholly in the sunshine, and beside a fresh 

 flowing stream. 



I have transplanted all the New England species of 

 Cypripedium, but only two of them took kindly to the 

 garden for a succession of seasons. The small yellow 

 species, Cypripedium parvifloruDi, seems easily natu- 

 ralized in our damp woodland corners of the garden. 

 The large 3-ellow species, Cypripedium hirsutum, 

 closely allied with the small yellow species, is easily 

 managed in the same colon3\ The Ram's-Head {Cy- 

 pripedium arietimuTi) is more choice in its home, being 

 rarely seen in cultivation. It is not very plentiful even 

 in its native haunts. 



I have sent plants of the Showy I^ady's SHpper and 

 the Large Yellow Lady's Slipper found on Mount CEta, 

 to New Bedford, Massachusetts, to Herkimer, New 

 York, and to New^ Haven, Connecticut. In every in- 

 stance the}- have become happy in their new surround- 

 ings, thriving and blooming through several seasons. 

 The Small Yellow Cypripedium in New Haven has 

 flourished and bloomed for ten seasons. The seed- 

 capsules of these orchids, however, have never matured 

 fertile seeds in this garden; and the pods wither up 

 and do not develop as in the forest bogs, for want of 

 the proper insects to fertilize them. It would be well 



