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pretty genus, most of them early flowering, and elegant plants, 

 and worthy of cultivation. 



CYPREPEDIUM. 



Lady's Slipper. 



Cyprepedium, from Greek words, Venus, and a slipper, 

 in allusion to the elegant slipper-like form of the labellum. 

 Handsome indigenous plants, that thrive only in a shady border 

 and peat soil. 



The most common species is C. humile, or Two-leaved Ladies' 

 Slipper, or Whip-poor-will Shoe. It is found in rich and some- 

 what shady woods, with two broad-plaited leaves, from which 

 rises a leafless scape, producing a solitary white and purple 

 flower, six or eight inches high. There are six species to be 

 found in the United States, with white, yellow, and purple and 

 white, or green flowers, all of them singular in shape. 



CYNOGLOSSUM. 



JVavelwort. 



It is a beautiful little perennial plant, with brilliant blue 

 flowers, in April and May ; six inches high, and is common in 

 every cottager's garden in England ; and would be here, if 

 more extensively known. 



DELPHINIUM. 



Larkspur. 



There are many species and varieties of the perennial Lark- 

 spur, which are indispensable in a collection of plants ; all hardy, 

 flourish in almost any soil, and easily propagated by dividing 



the roots. The double varieties are in flower most of the sea- 

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