6 PRESENT-DAY GARDENING 



Weir, Blunt, and Schlim went to New Granada in search 

 of Odontoglossums, and they were successful in introduc- 

 ing plants of Odontoglossum crispum (Alexandras), collected 

 above Bogota. These collectors also contributed to our 

 knowledge of the proper methods of cultivating cool 

 Orchids. 



So things have gone on until our own days. Orchids 

 hold one of the most important places in gardens, and 

 such genera as Odontoglossums and Cypripediums are 

 so popular that they are cultivated on an extensive scale 

 even by many who do not care to grow a general collec- 

 tion of Orchids. 



CHAPTER II 

 STRUCTURE OF ORCHID FLOWERS 



MOST people are familiar with the regular arrangement of 

 the segments of the flowers of Amaryllids and Lilies, with 

 their prominent pistils and anthers. The first stage in the 

 advance of the Orchid family is shown in the Apostasieae, 

 comprising Apostasia, Neuwiedia and Adactylus, in which 

 the perianth segments are more or less regular and the 

 anthers in some degree prominent, Neuwiedia, with its free 

 stamens and prominent style, appearing at first sight nearer 

 to some of the Amaryllids than to the Orchideae commonly 

 seen in gardens. 



The Cypripedieas, although so widely separated from 

 other sections as to suggest that in the operations of nature 

 a vast number of connecting types must have become 



