The Quest and Culture of Orehids 
PHAIAENOPSIS SCKII.I.ERIANA 
DENDROBIUM PHALAENOPSIS SCHROEDERIANUM 
were dried to get the sap out and were packed 
in bags or boxes so constructed as to form 
pack saddles for the 
mules. 
In my time wewould 
find the seaports full 
of orchid hunters. 
There were many Ger¬ 
mans then in the busi¬ 
ness and every tap- 
room would he filled 
with these men and 
with Indians who had 
brought down the 
O d o n t o g 1 o s s Li m s for 
sale. 
“Now came the 
work of exporting. 
1 he plants were in 
crates about two feet 
six inches by three feet 
m size, holding from 
forty to fifty. If for¬ 
tunate, we might have 
from four to five thou¬ 
sand plants, which if 
they reached their des¬ 
tination in good con¬ 
dition, would net us 
about seventy-five cents each. ^’et, out of this we 
must pay a fifteen per cent export duty, and later, an 
import duty. But constant fevers and overdoses of 
quinine, the only available remedy, affected m)' head, 
and I’ll let younger men kill themselves if they want to.” 
COLLECTION OF CYPRIPEDIUMS 
9.1 
