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February, 1913 
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The adventures of orchid collectors are 
fully as interesting as those of hunters, 
explorers and gold prospectors. Much has 
been written of the Klondike, but few 
have heard of the ecstasy of the traveler 
Roezl, on beholding a remote and mud- 
built chapel draped with garlands of Flor 
de Majo, the chancel walls clothed in a 
scarlet and crimson blaze of Masdevallia 
Harryana. A price of $5,000 was once 
refused by Sir Trevor Lawrence for one 
of the last specimens of the lost Lady’s 
Slipper Cypripedium faerianum, which 
was later rediscovered in quantities and by 
accident by Mr. G. C. Searight of the In¬ 
dian service while surveying in the Bhotan 
hills. Struck by its appearance, he sent 
a few specimens to a friend in Calcutta— 
word of its rediscovery was flashed over 
the world and shipments were rushed to 
London, where the florists had offered a 
reward of $5,000 for its reintroduction. 
The story of another Lady’s Slipper, 
the Cypripedium Curtisii, is less widely 
known but fully as interesting. 
A single plant of this species was sent 
to England from Penang by Mr. Curtis 
in 1882. It ranked among the finest, and 
amateurs watched with impatience the 
coming of a further supply. No more 
came, however, and collectors gave up all 
hope of ever again finding it. Finally 
the explorer Ericsson, while collecting 
other species in Sumatra, took shelter 
from a storm in a mountain hut. There 
on the walls amid the scrawled names of 
other travelers who had rested there, was 
a drawing of the lost Curtisii, and under¬ 
neath was written “C. C’s contribution to 
the adornment of the house.” Ericsson at 
once commenced searching the neighbor¬ 
hood, and at last, when he was just about 
to give up in disgust, found the plant in 
a most unlikely place. 
Interesting, too, is the history of the 
Cattleya labiata. As far back as 1818, 
when orchid culture was in its very in¬ 
fancy, the plant was received by Dr. Lind- 
ley as a packing around some lichens sent 
from Brazil. Dr. Lindley described it and 
named it after Mr. Cattley, one of the 
earliest of orchid enthusiasts. From time 
to time other plants were received which 
were taken for the true labiata, until, with 
the increased knowledge of the flower, 
came the disclosure that the true type 
was no longer in cultivation and that its 
home had been forgotten. For years it 
was the one ambition of collectors to find 
this treasure again. At length, in 1889, 
some plants were sent by chance to a 
dealer in Paris. At once collectors were 
sent after it, and before long it was one 
of the most plentifully represented plants 
on the shelves of the growers. Since its 
rediscovery, rather unpleasant to relate, 
gathering has gone on so ruthlessly that 
the plant has been nearly exterminated, 
and the last collector scarcely found 
enough specimens to pay his expenses. 
Perhaps, however, there is still some wild 
where the labiata is blooming in large 
quantities, waiting for the discoverer to 
add to the romance of orchid hunting. 
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