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Derbaceous plants. 



Purple Fringed Orchis, Habenaria fimbriata. — A tall 

 meadow plant two or three feet high ; root-leaves oval, 

 stem-leaves lanceolate, small ; flowers large, 

 violet-purple with a beautifully fringed lip; 

 spikes loose, few-flowered. For planting in 

 very moist places in a rockery in l>eds pre- 

 pared as for orchis. The best orchid to cul- 

 tivate is H. conopsea, a small but beautiful 

 plant with rosy-purple flowers. The night 

 violet (// chloranihd) is a very handsome 

 plant with large milky-white flowers in June. 

 Spikes cylindrical, a foot high. Sweet-scented 

 at night. Will succeed planted as orchis, the 

 last one in deep shade among coniferous trees. 

 Rattlesnake Plantain, Goodyera pubes- 

 ecu*. — Leaves in large tufts a couple of in- 

 ches high, ovate, beautifully veined with silvery white. 

 Spikes of white flowers in June, six 

 or eight inches tall. Planted in sandy 

 loam in shady shrubberies or among 

 H. chhrantha. 



Moccasin Flower, Cijpripedium. — 

 The showiest of all wild orchids, with 

 large plaited leaves and mostly soli- 

 tary flowers in spring or summer. 

 AVill succeed planted and treated as 

 orchis among evergreen shrubs such nG i 5 9.-moccasin flower 



, t ,-ii mi (CYPRIPEDIUM PUBESCENSl 



as rose bay and mountain laurel. I lie 



best are C. acaule, leaves in pairs, large, oblong; flowers 



on a slender scape eight inches high or more, large, with 



FIG. 158— FRINGED 

 ORCHIS (HABEN- 

 ARIA FIMBRIATA). 



