HARDY FERNS, FLOWERS, SHRUBS, ROSES, ETC. 
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Cypripedium parviflorum (Small Yellow Lady's-slipper). 
ORCHIDS. 
Among the following will be found a few of our most hardy Orchids, such as 
may be easily grown. These all like shade at least half or two-thirds of the day, 
and by planting in a mixture of peat or leaf-mold, in loamy soil or a clay loam, 
they are easily grown. The mixture of peat or leaf-mold tends to keep them moist. 
After they are planted, an inch of pure leaf-mold placed over them as a mulch will 
be very beneficial. 
APLECTRUM hyemale (Puttyroot). This plant sends up from a bulbous root late in 
summer a pointed green leaf, 2 to 6 inches long, which lasts through the win¬ 
ter, and in spring a stalk about a foot high, bearing a raceme of rather large green¬ 
ish brown flowers. 15 cts. each, $1 per doz. 
CALOPOGON pulchellus. Although this plant is more generally found in swamps and 
peat bogs, it also frequently grows in moist, sandy soil. It is a small bulb about 
the size of a large bean, which sends up in spring a long, grass-like leaf and a stalk 
about a foot high, bearing in June and July 2 to 6 showy pink-purple flowers about 
an inch broad. 10 cts. each, $1 per doz. 
CYPRIPEDIUM acaule (Lady’s-slipper, Moccasin Flower). This is often called the 
Red Lady’s-slipper, but the flower is rose-purple in color. The plant sends up two 
broadish green leaves from the base, and from between them comes a stalk about a 
foot high bearing a single large, showy flower. Plant in a dry shady place ; it does 
nicely under pine trees. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
C. arietinum (Ram’s Head Lady’s-slipper). Stem leafy, 6 to 12 inches high, bear¬ 
ing a small, dainty, red, brown and white flower. Plant in moist shades. A most 
beautiful little gem. Rare. 20 cts. each, $1.50 per doz. 
C. parviflorum (Small Yellow Lady’s-slipper). A fine yellow Lady’s-slipper, fragrant. 
Shady, well-drained soils. 20 cts. 
