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Cypriperium Charlesworthii, C. Spicerianum, and C. Leeanum 

 should also be added. The larger, heated conservatories 

 might well be furnished with the Orchids recommended 

 rather than the plants generally used for decorating them, 

 for these have to be changed frequently. The Orchids, if 

 carefully tended, will grow permanently in the conservatory 

 and be a source of never-failing interest. In these large 

 conservatories, Stanhopeas in baskets for suspending are 

 ornamental plants, and Sobralias on the floor or central 

 bed would prove satisfactory. To those enumerated many 

 more might be added, but in all cases it is best to get 

 only evergreen kinds, which may be grown continuously in 

 the same house. 



CHAPTER XV 

 ORCHIDS AS CUT FLOWERS 



ORCHIDS having flowers with persistent perianths, in which 

 the segments do not drop as in many other flowers, are of 

 the highest value for cut flowers, as some or other of 

 them can be obtained in every month in the year. Large 

 quantities of the large-flowered Cattleyas, especially C. 

 labiata, of C. Harrisoniana and its near ally C. Loddigesii, 

 Odontoglossum crispum, 0. Pescatorei, Dendrobiums, and 

 other showy Orchids are grown for cut flowers in nurseries 

 where Orchids are not required for other than market pur- 

 poses. In many private gardens, also, the same kinds of 

 Orchids are grown for decorative purposes, even without 



