ACCORDING TO SEASON 



They are interesting and pretty plants, less fre- 

 quently met with than the pink species. 



A May orchid which I have not yet found grow- 

 ing in this part of the world is Calypso borealis. 



Calypso This lovely little plant is essentially northern, hav- 

 ing been found, so far as I know, only in Maine, 

 New Hampshire and Vermont, of the New Eng- 

 land States. But early one June I had the good- 

 luck to see it flowering on the lower slopes of the 

 Canadian Rockies, though unfortunately the ma- 

 jority of the blossoms had been plucked from 

 the plants in order to decorate the tables of the 

 hotel dining-room at Banff. Its pouch, purple or 

 pinkish in color, shading below into yellow, and 

 tufted with yellow hairs, suggests a small lady's 

 slipper. 



The great, white, waxlike flower of the May- 

 apple, which blooms at this season, is so beautiful 

 and so common that one hardly knows why it 

 does not hold the place in our imagination to 

 which its good looks would seem to entitle it. 



May-appu The long-stemmed, glossy, umbrella-like leaves 

 which hide it from view till we push them aside 

 are sufficiently striking and handsome to attract 

 our notice without any aid from the blossom. 

 Earlier in the month, before they began fairly to 

 open out, each one of these leaves looked as 

 though a finger were pushing up against it from 



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