ORCHIDS. 61 
ODONTOGLOSSUM ROEZLII ALBUM. 
THIS variety — represented on Plate No. XVI. —is named for 
M. Roezl, a Belgian, whose labors have discovered and given to 
florists many rare orchids. Its mingled Greek and Latin title may 
be put into botanic English, as Roezl’s White Tooth-to 
ngued plant. 
It is a native of New Granada; 
it blossoms in Winter, and is espe- 
cially desirable as being delightfully fragrant. 
The specimen here drawn was found in the greenhouse of 
Major Davis, of Syracuse, N. Y. 
Sweet nurslings of the vernal skies, 
Bathed in soft airs and fed with dew, 
What more than magic in you lies 
To fill the heart’s fond view? 
Relics ye are of Eden’s bowers, 
As pure, as fragrant, and as fair, 
As when ye crowned the sunshine hours 
Of happy wanderers there. 
Fall’n all beside — the world of life, 
How it is stained with fear and strife! 
In reason’s world what storms are rife, 
What passions range and glare! 
But cheerful and unchanged the while 
Your first and perfect form ye show, 
The same that won Eve’s matron smile 
In the world’s opening glow. 
The stars of heaven a course are taught, 
Too high above our human thought; 
Ye may be found if ye are sought, 
And as we gaze, we know. 
KEBLE. 
