THE ORCHIDS OF NEW ENGLAND. 133 
cate Orchids has been cultivated for years in the house and 
blooms every year.” Dr. Walcot had raised Habenartas ciliaris 
and dlepharigtlotizs, also Calypso borealis. Mr. Falconer, of the 
Cambridge Botanic Garden, thought C. spectabzle almost the 
only wild flower very amenable to winter forcing. ‘‘Some 
Orchids, like Calypso, though very pretty are not generally 
satisfactory as out-door plants, but are better for pot culture.” 
I have tried my own hand in a partially shaded corner of a 
stone wall, adding to the leaf mould already collected there, a 
mixture of swamp muck and sphagnum. All the Cypripe- 
diums but acazle have taken kindly to their new home, and so 
have Orchis spectabtlis, Habenarias Hookert, viridis and psycodes, 
Calopogon pulchellus, Liparts Loeselit, the Goodyeras, and Afplec- 
trum hyemale. Calypso bloomed finely this spring (1883), but 
some insect, that must have had purely malicious intentions, 
gnawed off the blossoms and left them lying on the ground. 
Pogonia pendula met with the same fate. There are at least 
thirty species in the bed, and that those unnamed are not do- 
ing well is due solely, I think, to a lack of sufficient moisture. 
The appended List of Stations, though incomplete (bota- 
nists appear to be “rare” in New Hampshire, and eastern Con- 
necticut), is reliable as far as it goes. J have been aided in 
compiling it by none but accurate observers, and out of a large 
number of stations have selected enough to be of use to collect- 
ors and to give a fair idea of the distribution of each species 
through New England, though my pleasure in printing it is 
considerably lessened by the fear that I may be sounding the 
death-knell of some of the rarer kinds. Grant Allen says that 
the Yellow Lady’s Slipper in England now lingers but in two 
places; one of these, “a single estate in Durham, where it is as 
carefully preserved by the owner as if it were pheasants or 
fallow-deer,” and in New England so many wild flowers are, as 
Higginson pathetically puts it, “‘ chased into the recesses of the 
Green Mountains,” that I predict the formation, before many 
