THE ORCHIDS OF NEW ENGLAND. jg* 



cate Orchids has been cultivated for years in the house and 

 blooms every year." Dr. Walcot had raised Habenarias ciliaris 

 and blepliariglottis, also Calypso borealis. Mr. Falconer, of the 

 Cambridge Botanic Garden, thought C. spcctabile almost the 

 only wild flower very amenable to winter forcing. " Some 

 Orchids, like Calypso, though very pretty are not generally 

 satisfactory as out-door plants, but are better for pot culture." 



I have tried my own hand in a partially shaded corner of a 

 stone wall, adding to the leaf mould already collected there, a 

 mixture of swamp muck and sphagnum. All the Cypripe- 

 diums but acaule have taken kindly to their new home, and so 

 have Orchis spcctabilis, Habenarias Hooker i, viridis and psy codes, 

 Calopogon piilchellus, Liparis Loeselii, the Goodyeras, and Aplec- 

 trum hyemale. Calypso bloomed finely this spring (1883), but 

 some insect, that must have had purely malicious intentions, 

 gnawed off the blossoms and left them lying on the ground. 

 Pogonia pendula met with the same fate. There are at least 

 thirty species in the bed, and that those unnamed are not do- 

 ing well is due solely, I think, to a lack of sufficient moisture. 



The appended List of Stations, though incomplete (bota- 

 nists appear to be " rare " in New Hampshire, and eastern Con- 

 necticut), is reliable as far as it goes. I have been aided in 

 compiling it by none but accurate observers, and out of a large 

 number of stations have selected enough to be of use to collect- 

 ors and to give a fair idea of the distribution of each species 

 through New England, though my pleasure in printing it is 

 considerably lessened by the fear that I may be sounding the 

 death-knell of some of the rarer kinds, Grant Allen says that 

 the Yellow Lady's Slipper in England now lingers but in two 

 places; one of these, " a single estate in Durham, where it is as 

 carefully preserved by the owner as if it were pheasants or 

 fallow-deer," and in New England so many wild flowers are, as 

 Higginson pathetically puts it, " chased into the recesses of the 

 Green Mountains," that I predict the formation, before-many 



