The Calopogon. 



CALOPOGON PULCHELLUS, R. Brown. 



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; 

 He might have made enough — enough 



For every want of ours. 



For luxury, medicine, and toil. 



And yet have made no flowers. 



Mary Hoivitt. 



God made the flowers to beautify 



The earth, and cheer man's careful mood. 



And he is happier who has power 



To gather wisdom from a flower, 



And wake his heart in every hour 



To pleasant gratitude. '' 



Wordsworth. 



The Calopogon is one of our most interesting native Orchids. 

 And of all the plants that grow, none combine more elements of 

 a strange and weird interest than the Orchids. Their habit is 

 extremely various, some being true " air plants," growing epiphytic 

 upon trees; others have a climbing stem, while others, like our 

 native orchids, grow from a bulb in the ground, annual and 



