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HARDY ORCHIDS 
Cypripedium pubescens (Large Yellow Lady’s-Slipper). Very much like Parviflorum, 
only the flowers are larger. This should be planted in a rich bed in which leaf- 
mold should be a part, in some moist, yet well-drained, shady spot. It should 
grow stronger for several years if left 
undisturbed. May and June. 20 cts. 
each, $1.50 per doz. (See cut, page 35.) 
C. spectabile (Showy Lady’s-Slipper). The 
finest and most showy of all our Orchids. 
It grows about 2 feet high, bearing along 
the stalk several rather large, roundish 
leaves, and on top one or tv\o quite 
large rose-purple or nearly white flow¬ 
ers. It is a bog-loving plant, yet does 
exceedingly well in a moist and partly 
shaded bed of peat or leaf-mold. It is 
also a good pot-plant for the cool green¬ 
house, or where the air is not too warm 
or dry. Nothing can be more charming 
than masses of this plant seen in a great 
cedar swamp, its natural home, when in 
its full beauty, where hundreds of blos¬ 
soms could be seen at once. 25 cts. 
each, $2.50 per doz.; strong clumps (too 
heavy to mail), 50 cts. each, $5 per doz. 
A few large clumps, $1. 
GOODYERA pubescens (Rattlesnake Plan¬ 
tain). Eight to 15 inches high; leaves 
clustered at the bottom, white, reticu¬ 
lated. Stem leafless, about a foot high, 
bearing a short spike of white flowers. 
Plant in a shady place, with leaf-mold. 
It does quite well under evergreens, 
where there is good drainage, also in the 
rock-garden. 10 cts. each, fi per doz. 
G. Menziesii. A plant larger than Pubescens 
and with leaves strongly marked with 
broad white bands, very attractive. It 
does quite well in a sheltered bed of 
leaf-mold, and also in a cool greenhouse 
planted in leaf-mold and moss. 20 cts. 
each, $2 per doz. 
G. repens. Flowers white, leaves smaller 
and markings not as bright. A shel¬ 
tered leaf-mold bed is a proper place to 
plant. 15 cts. each, $1.50 per doz. 
G. repens var. Smaller than Repens, and the 
fine hair-like markings of the leaf are 
quite distinct. Flowers white, 3 to 4 Goodyera pubescens 
inches high. Plant with other sorts. 
All the Goodyeras seem to like a sprinkling of white pine needles. 15 cts. each, 
$1.50 per doz. 
HABENARIA blephariglottis (White Fringed Orchis). A rare and beautiful species 
found growing in sphagnum moss. One to 2 feet high, bearing at the top a 
spike of pure white fringed flowers. Rare. At home in the bog. 25 cts. each, 
$2 per doz. 
H. bracteata. Plant about 8 to 12 inches high, found in rich, moist shades, usually 
on mountain side ; flowers greenish, small, several ; leaf-mold soil. 15 cts. each, 
#1.50 per doz. 
H. dilatata. Plant 1 foot. Stalk leafy ; flowers small, white, thickly covering 6 or S 
inches of upper part of stalk. Found in rich, moist places in high mountains or 
bogs northward. Plant in moss in wet places. 15 cts. each, $1.50 per doz. 
