20 SIEBRECHT & SON, NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y. 
Oncidium Tigrinum. 
Tiger Orchid. 
This curiously striped Mexican Orchid blossoms profusely for a 
mouth or more during late autumn and winter, filling the houses with 
a rich, violet-like fragrance. The flower-spikes are sometimes 3 feet 
long, branched, and covered with large rich yellow and brown flowers. 
They are beautiful for cutting, and the plants blossom so freely that 
thev are very brilliant when iu full bloom. Of easy culture 
stock is fine. $1.50 to $3.50. j 
Oncidium varicosum. 
Golden Butterfly Orchid. 
In the great Oncidium famil\', which in- 
cludes every conceivable shade of yellow, 
there is no brighter species than this. The 
long, graceful, wavy sprays contain from 
8 to 30 elegant flowers of attractive shape in 
the purest, brightest golden yellow. The 
plant is profuse-flowering, easy to grow, 
and the rich color of its odd flowers makes 
it of especial value. $2.50 to $5. 
For other fine Oncidiums, see General 
Collection. 
Peristeria elata. 
Dove Orchid. 
Holy Ghost Flower. 
A remarkable plant of striking habit and 
most peculiar structure. Its tall flower- 
stems bear fragrant, cupped, waxen flowers 
of shining white. In the center of each 
large flower the inner divisions are so 
shaped as to distinctly resemble in outline 
a white dove poised on outspread wings. 
The lip and wings of the flower are some- 
times spotted with purple. The plant 
flowers from June to September, the long 
flower-spikes continuing to develop flowers 
for 6 or 7 weeks. The "EI Spirito Santo" 
of Spain. $2.50 to .$5. 
Vanda teres. 
Vine Orchid. 
A climbing species of singular habit and 
striking beauty of flower. It is not com- 
mon in collections, although its culture is 
simple. The racemes poiut upward and 
bear from 3 to 6 brilliant flowers, each 3 
inches or more across. The ground-color 
is deep, rich rose, veined with yellow and 
blotched with crimson. Flowers from May 
to September. $2. .50 and upward. 
Peristeria elata, Holy Ghost Flower. 
General Collection of Orchids— Continued. 
DENDROBIUM Phalaenopsls. Nothing 
has been introduced of late can in any way 
surpass this beautiful Dendrobe. Its habit 
of free and abundant flowering and iU 
graceful sprays of very showy yet delicate 
flowers make it of extra value, both for cut 
blooms and exhibition purposes. $.3 up. 
D. Plerardii. Creamy white or pink, with 
primrose lip. $1. 
- - $3..50. 
Large, shell-shaped; pink- 
D. — latlfolium. 
D. primullnum. 
ish white. $2. 
D. — glKanteumi 
D. suavlsslmum. 
D. superblens. 
brown. $.3..')0. 
D. thyrslflorum 
$.3.50. 
Light 
purple, shaded 
Waxen white, with golden 
orange lip, regularly »et upon rich, droop- 
ing spikes. $1. 
D. tortile. Pale yellow, suffused with pur- 
plish rose. $2.!j0. 
DENDROBIUM tortile roseum. $2.50. 
D. Wardianum. A species o£ striking beauty, 
with large flowers, sometimes to the num- 
ber of 30 in twos and threes on a long stem. 
Sepals, petals and lip are white, tipped 
with magenta. The base of the lip is 
bright orange, with deep crimson-spotted 
throat. $2. 
D. — giganteum. $10. 
DENDROCHILUM Cobblana. $1.50. 
D. flMformls. Of graceful habit, with flower- 
spikes 8 to 10 inches in length, covered 
with hundreds of deliciously-scented min- 
iature flowers of a light straw color. 
Blooms in winter, and the flowers remain a 
long time in perfection. $3. 
D. glumaceum. Delicately scented green- 
ish white flowers in long sprays that droop 
gracefully. The plant has a thick crown 
of beautiful leaves; is grown in pots. $2. 
EPIDENDRUM. We offer only the choicest 
species in this extensive genus. They are 
all of very luxuriant, rapid growth and 
easily cultivated. 
E. atropurpureum. Dark brown, white and 
reddish purple. $2. 
Ei — roseum. Lip is rose-colored. $3. 
E. aurantlacum. Cinnabar-red; lip orange, 
penciled with crimson. $2. 
E. bicornutum. Two-horned Orchid. This 
beautiful anil chaste white Orchid produces 
its delightfully scented flowers about 
Christmas. $1.!)0. 
E. cIMare. Highly scented, fringed white 
flowers. $1. 
E. cinnabarlnum. Orange-red. $3.50. 
E. cochleatum. $1.60. 
E. crasslfollum. Rose-colored flowers. $1.50. 
E. fragranSi $2. 
E. imperator. $4. 
E. maculatum. $2.50. 
