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THE FLOWER GROWER'S GUIDE. 



or fourteen weeks in our liot-liouscs is because tlie^' are not fertilised. In IJorneo, 

 India, Java, and in tropical South America there are plenty of insects as well adapted 

 for fertilising orchids as our native bees are for fertilising clover and other of our native 

 flowers, and so they do not remain so long in beauty there as they do in our gardens ; 

 Avhat really happens to orchids in our glass-houses, where insects are kept at bay and 



Fig. 22. L.T.UA A^■c^;^b " Stella." 



Ill, Sepals, or 3 outer sc.^'merits of tlie periaiitli ; 2 2 2, petals = .3 inner perianth segment?, tlie lower cliangcJ 

 in form and called the lip or laLellum. 



The hnmljle Lee groping after nectar in the lip hiiles the column and anthers aud spoils the flower. 



no fertilisation takes place, is this — the flou'ers go on patiently waiting for a marriage 

 priest that never comes. 



Here is an illtistratiun of a flower of the great moth orchid (Phala?nopsls grandiflora) 

 of Eorueo, shoAving the scpai-ate portions of the flower and the pollen masses, together 

 with the stigmatic surface, just b .low the anther-case in the bottom corner to the right 

 of Fig. 23, next pnge. 



On the left (example 3) of the illustration you will see the shield- shaped stamiuode 



