POPULAR GARDEN BOTANY. 



they prefer peat-earth, with a covering of moss kept in a 

 damp state ; this will imitate their native locality pretty 

 well, and the plants in flower are so handsome and interest- 

 ing that they are worth the pains bestowed on them. They 

 should be very seldom disturbed at the roots. The follow- 

 ing are a few of the species : — album, and caudatum, flowers 

 white ; arietinum, white and red ; hiimile and sjjectabile, 

 white and purple ; ptibescens, yellow and purple-flowered ; 

 these are natives of North America : guttatum, with flowers 

 white and pink, and ventricosum, with purple flowers, are 

 Siberian species. C. Calceolus is the English species, found 

 in woods, its yellow flowers appearing in May. 



SATYRIUM. 



An interesting genus of the Orchis tribe, requiring simi- 

 lar treatment to that of the genus Ophrys ; the pots should 

 be very well drained, and the plants kept dry when not ve- 

 getating ; they may be treated as frame plants though they 

 are natives of the Cape. The species cucullatum, jparviflorum, 

 membranaceum, coriifolium, erectum, and jpustulatum have 

 yellow flowers, slightly varied with pink, green, or orange ; 



