ORCHIDS, 45 
PHALAENOPSIS STUARTIANA, 
THIS variety, a native of the Philippine Islands, 
was named 
in honor of Mr. Stu 
art Low, senior partner of a florist firm in 
London. It is represented by Plate No. XI, and the drawing was 
made from a specimen in the greenhouse of F. L, Ames, Esq. 
This is a new and choice variety, as yet quite rare, having 
been introduced into this country scarcely three years since. Of 
course but little is publicly known of it. It blossoms during the 
winter, and the plant seems too small even to Support its long and 
graceful flower-spikes. 
A recent English journal tells of one fine Phalzenopsis of this 
variety that bore a three-branched spike, having twenty open blos- 
soms; another which had twenty-one after some had been removed. 
Look on these flowers! As on an altar shedding, 
O’er Milton’s page, soft light from colored urns; 
They are the links, man’s heart to nature wedding, 
When to her breast the prodigal returns. 
They are from lone, wild places, forest dingles, 
Fresh banks of many a low-voiced hidden stream, 
Where the sweet star of eve looks down and mingles 
Faint lustre with the water-lily’s gleam. 
They are from where the soft winds play in gladness, 
Covering the turf with flowery blossom showers — 
Too richly dower’d, O friend! are we for sadness, 
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Look on an empire, —’mind and nature, — ours: 
