ic6 ORCHIDS. 



Cah'pso horealis. A small showy flower, the solid bulb producing a single 



heart-shaped leaf; scape three to five inches high, bearing a large and show}' 



flower, variegated purple, pink, and yellow. 



Cypripedium piibescens. (Large Yellow Lady's-slipper). Leaves broadly 



ovate ; stem two feet high ; lip one and one half to two inches long, pale yellow. 

 C. spectahik. (Showy Lady's-slipper). Leaves ovate; stem two feet high; 



lip one and one-half inches long, much inflated; white, pink-purple. The 



most beautiful of the hardy 

 Cypripediums. No genus of 

 Orchids is more widely distri- 

 buted than Cypripedium. Our 

 native species are most beauti- 

 ful, particularly this one, they 

 are deserving of more general 

 cultivation, and no better place 

 can be found than the water 

 garden, the natural or wild 

 garden adjacent. They delight 

 in a moist, peaty, or boggy soil, 

 and partial shade. 



Hahenaria blephariglottis. 

 (White Fringed Orchid). Stem 

 one foot long ; leaves lanceolate ; 

 flowers white; lip ovate, with 

 an irregular capillary fringe. 



H. ciliaris. (Yellow Fringed 

 Orchid). Stem one and one-half 

 to two feet high ; leaves oblong 

 or lanceolate; spike oblong, 

 with numerous flowers, which 

 are bright orange yellow; lip 

 oblong, furnished with a very 

 long and copious capillary 

 fringe; our most handsome 

 species. 



CypripeJ.um Spectablle. U psycocles. (Purplc 



Fringed Orchid). A very 

 handsome and fragrant Orchid; one to three feet high; flowers purple, 

 crowded in a spike four to ten inches in length. 



Spiranthes cernua. (Ladies' Tresses). A delicate and beautiful white and 

 very fragrant flower, produced on a stem six to twenty inches high ; spike two 

 to five inches long; more or less spirally twisted; flowers in September and 

 October. 



