ORCHIDS. 



e covered with a glistening drop, like 

 I moist place. 



throug-hout with fine red hairs that 

 dew. Should be planted in groups 



Snrracenia Dnimmondi. Large 

 erect pitchers or leaves; two feet 

 high; light green in color, with 

 the apex or hood, beautifully 

 variegated white, red, and green; 

 flowers white and purple. 



S. Hava. Yellowish green 

 leaves; two to three feet high; 

 having at the apex a large open 

 throat, with a broad lid; large 

 nodding yellow flowers. 



S. psittacina. (Parrot-beaked 

 Pitcher Plant). A very pretty 

 and distinct species, its small 

 pitchers having a curiously curved 

 lid, or apex, of a rich purple and 

 crimson color, handsomely mut 

 tied with white. 



S. purpurea. A prostrate 

 species, having broad winged 

 pitchers three to eight inches long 

 the throat and lid very hairy, and 

 beautifully veined and striped 

 crimson; large purple flowers, 



nodding on a stalk a foot high; perfectly hardy, plant in ful 

 shade, on the margin of the pond or stream 

 S. rubra. Leaves ten to eighteen 



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slender, with purple veins; reddish purple flowers. 



S. variolaris. Leaves trumpet-shaped; six to twelve 

 inches high, spotted with white near the yellowish apex, 

 reticulated with purple veins within ; yellow flowers. 



With exception of S. purpurea, all are tender north 

 of Carolina States, and need protection of leaves in 

 winter, or may be grown in a greenhouse. They 

 delight in boggy soil, and live sphagnum moss. If grown 

 in pots, they should be set in saucers of water. 



Calopogoti pukhcllui^. One of the most beautiful of our native Orchids, and 

 most desirable for the water garden; leaf linear; scape about one foot high; 

 two to six flowers; flower one inch broad, pink-purple; lip beautifully bearded 

 toward the summit with white, yellow, and purple hairs. 



