0l'd)is special) illS. Natural Order: Orchidacece — Orchis Family. 
'E have many varieties of this plant growing throughout the 
United States, on our prairies or in shady, rocky places. 
►They usually produce very handsome and various colored 
oflowers. The most beautiful, however, are the Tropical 
Orchids, found in the South Sea Islands, growing on branches 
of trees and other substances, and depending so much on the 
air for their sustenance, and so little on root nourishment, that they are 
called air plants. They are more gorgeous in bloom than any terrestrial 
plant. In England there are extensive houses for their culture alone, and 
we believe some few in this country. They are mostly grown in small 
cork boxes, or on pieces of wood, in a warm, moist atmosphere. Some 
few grow in rooms successfully, but no water must touch the foliage 
or flowers, only enough to moisten the substance containing the roots. 
% Ulln. 
WET graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, 
* Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide; 
If to her share some female errors fall, 
Look on her face, and you ’ll forget ’em all. 
\ ROSEBUD in its first green coat, 
TV You wrapped your shawl about your throat, 
And crossed the lawn, when we went boating; 
I touched the fragrance of your hand; 
The fog came down and hid the land, 
As white as snow, and we were floating. 
— Will Wallace Harney. 
T N her cheeks the vermil red did shew, 
1 Like roses in a bed of lilies shed; 
The which ambrosial odors from them threw, 
And gazer’s sense with double pleasure fed. 
— Spenser. 
— Pope. 
ECAUSE thou wear’st, via belle , 
A strong, pure, silent spell, 
Safely from all dark ways my feet retrieving; 
Because thou wert to me 
As lulled air to wild sea, [ing- 
Storm-furrowed, fiercely free, and strongly griev- 
— Edgar Fawcett. 
Q HE was a form of life and light, 
T' That, seen, became a part of sight; 
And rose, where’er I turned mine eye, 
The morning star of memory. 
— Byron. 
