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Tropics and yellow and brown-red are the prevailing colors of 

 their flowers. 0. tigrinum and its near ally 0. splendidum are 

 exceedingly showy ; O. leucocheilum from Guatemala has panicles- 

 of flowers often nine feet long, the color being greenish and white. 

 0. papilio, the Butterfly Orchid, has broad, usually spotted leaves 

 and striking yellow and brown banded flowers which bear a stong 

 resemblance to a butterfly, 0. cavendishianum, 0. varicosum and 

 its variety rogersi, and 0. ampliatum have all done well with me. 

 0. 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. teres 

 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, Brassavolg, glauca, Chysis aurea, 

 Ly caste 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 



