ORCHIDS AS CUT FLOWERS 5; 
Cypriperium Charlesworthii, C. Spicerianum, and C. Leeanum 
should also be added. The larger, heated conservatories 
might well be furnished with the Orchids recommended 
rather than the plants generally used for decorating them, 
for these have to be changed frequently. The Orchids, if 
carefully tended, will grow permanently in the conservatory 
and be a source of never-failing interest. In these large 
conservatories, Stanhopeas in baskets for suspending are 
ornamental plants, and Sobralias on the floor or central 
bed would prove satisfactory. To those enumerated many 
more might be added, but in all cases it is best to get 
only evergreen kinds, which may be grown continuously in 
the same house. 
CHAPTER XV 
ORCHIDS AS CUT FLOWERS 
ORCHIDS having flowers with persistent perianths, in which 
the segments do not drop as in many other flowers, are of 
the highest value for cut flowers, as some or other of 
them can be obtained in every month in the year. Large 
quantities of the large-flowered Cattleyas, especially C. 
labiata, of C. Harrisoniana and its near ally C. Loddigesit, 
Odontoglossum crispum, O. Pescatorei, Dendrobiums, and 
other showy Orchids are grown for cut flowers in nurseries 
where Orchids are not required for other than market pur- 
poses. In many private gardens, also, the same kinds of 
Orchids are grown for decorative purposes, even without 
