CYPRIPE'DIUM PUBES'CENS. 
PUBESCENT ladies’ SLIPPER. 
Cl ass. 
GYNANDRIA 
Natural Order. 
ORCHIDACE^. 
Order. 
DIANDRIA. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration 
Introduced 
N.America 
1 foot. 
May, June. 
Perennial. 
in 1790. 
No. 901. 
Cypripedium is compounded from the Greek 
words KUPRis, and podion ; the first a title of 
Venus, the latter signifying a slipper. 
That so curious and interesting a genus of 
plants as the Cypripedium, should be difficult of 
increase, and indeed of cultivation, can but be 
regreted. True, however, it is, that few persons 
are successful in their attempts to keep them in 
health, and increase them. Even our own British 
species, the Cypripedium calceolus, found in the 
north of England, is rarely met with in gardens, 
although so perfectly hardy. 
Every admirer of flowers can but desire to pos- 
sess one or other of the several interesting species 
of Cypripedium, and pubescens will be found to 
be of as easy management as any amongst them. 
It is very hardy, and should be planted in a border 
of sandy peat, in a northerly aspect, and there 
remain undisturbed, where it will slowly increase, 
and blossom in perfection every year. It may, by 
some, be thought unnecessary, yet, during winter, 
we prefer bestowing a three-inch coverlet of sawdust 
or moss on its bed. 
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