February 13, 1889.] 



Garden and Forest. 



79 



Fig. 94, — The Verplanck Kentucky Coifee Tree. — See page 75. 



with rosy pink. The roundish lip is creamy white stained 

 with yellow. This Orchid \& rather a delicate <jrower, and 

 does best in an open compost of peat and loam in an interme- 

 diate house. F. irroratiis purpureus is tlie result of a reverse 

 cross from the parents named above. It is more plentiful 



antl a far stronger grower, very mucli resembling /l ^awrfz- 

 folius in its growth, antl equally free. It produces a stronger 

 raceme, and the flowers are somewhat larger than those oi P. 

 irroratus. The sepaL and i)etals are white ; the lip is of a 

 dull rose-color with a pale yellow throat. This plant may be 



