6 PRESENT-DAY GARDENING 
Weir, Blunt, and Schlim went to New Granada in search 
of Odontoglossums, and they were successful in introduc- 
ing plants of Odontoglossum crispum (Alexandre), collected 
above Bogota. These collectors also contributed to our 
knowledge of the proper methods of cultivating cool 
Orchids. 
So things have gone on until our own days. Orchids 
hold one of the most important places in gardens, and 
such genera as Odontoglossums and Cypripediums are 
so popular that they are cultivated on an extensive scale 
even by many who do not care to grow a general collec- 
tion of Orchids. 
CHAPTER II 
STRUCTURE OF ORCHID FLOWERS 
Most people are familiar with the regular arrangement of 
the segments of the flowers of Amaryllids and Lilies, with 
their prominent pistils and anthers. The first stage in the 
advance of the Orchid family is shown in the Apostasiez, 
comprising Apostasia, Neuwiedia and Adactylus, in which 
the perianth segments are more or less regular and the 
anthers in some degree prominent, Neuwiedia, with its free 
stamens and prominent style, appearing at first sight nearer 
to some of the Amaryllids than to the Orchideze commonly 
seen in gardens. 
The Cypripediez, although so widely separated from 
other sections as to suggest that in the operations of nature 
a vast number of connecting types must have become 
