286 GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION, 
The Ladies' Slipper used to be found in tolerable plenty 
about Ingleborough ; the greediness of florists has, however, 
rendered it scarce. The great secret in its cultivation ap- 
pears to be rest. A poor man, in Craven, has made a 
considerable sum annually by the sale of this plant: he 
possesses a small garden surrounded with gooseberry trees ; 
in the centre, he planted some years ago some plants of the 
Cypripedium calceolus ; they were left undisturbed for a 
long period, and have filled the garden, flowering freely^ 
and flourishing under the partial shade of the gooseberry- 
bushes. 
Leeds, 
October 1823. 
