ill/ -^ flobi^i' (iT^^r^d^r) drid I^alor). ^ 



Fig. lir)3 -C. Si'tcTAUiLt, from plioto . '> 

 Ottawa (reduced one halt). 



Wliyte, 



OUR NATIVE CYPRIPEDIUMS. 



Ladies' Slippers or Moccassin Flowers. 



N every collection of orchids a but none of the high priced foreign sorts 



prominent place is ^iven, and justly surpass in beauty our native kinds. 



so, to the genus Cypripedium. Few floriculturists are aware that in our 



The number of species and hybrids bogs, scattered all over the country, 



is now very great, and yearly increasing, there grow no less than five species of 



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