ORCHIDS. 73 
VANDA SUAVIS. 
THIs variety, — represented by Plate No. XX.,—is described 
as Suavis, that is, sweet-scented. It is a native of Java, blos- 
soming late in the winter, and sometimes at other seasons. 
The specimen from which this drawing was made could be 
but partially reproduced, it was so large. This variety much 
resembles the Afrides; is of free growth and easy culture; 
has dark evergreen foliage, with long ropelike roots. The 
blossom is very fragrant and of rare beauty. 
An English florist speaks of one specimen of the Suavis 
as having a spike with fifteen flowers; and five spikes bearing 
sixty-five blossoms,—an unusual number. This plant was four 
and a half feet high, and had forty leaves running down to the 
pot. | 
God might have bade the earth bring forth 
Enough for great and small, 
The oak-tree and the cedar-tree, 
Without a flower at all. 
We might have had enough, enough, 
For every want of ours, 
For luxury, medicine, and toil, 
And yet have had no flowers. 
Then wherefore, wherefore, were they made, 
All dyed with rainbow light? 
All fashioned with supremest grace, 
Upspringing day and night? 
Springing in valleys, green and low, 
And on the mountains high, 
And in the silent wilderness 
Where no man passes by? 
