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the tops are likely to be affected, but if the base of the plants is protected, 
they will come back and bloom ina few months. A border of these easily 
grown orchids really has no superior for a glowing color mass and they 
last a long time cut, in the house. CO. Fo abe 
Epidendrum o’brienanum hybrids. In various colors ranging from 
amaroon to brilliant crimson. All of these hybrids can be grown outside 
in the ground in the same way as their parent, E. o’brienanum. 
Plants from $1.00 up. 
Epidendrum radicans species. Mexico, Guatemala, etc. Simi- 
lar in type to the preceding with larger orange colored flowers. It 
is a free bloomer with a rather straggling habit. Ost: 
MEXICAN LAELIAS. Very beautiful and easily managed Orchids. Do 
admirably in patios, under trees, in greenhouses or lath houses. They 
hang outside in our lath houses al! winter. They can be grown in pots, 
on logs, against trunks of trees or in baskets. 
Laelia anceps. Autumn and winter bloomer. Flowers are produced on 
long slender stems and have from three to five flowers on each stem. 
Flowers are three or four inches across, sepals and petals deep rose, lip 
crimson-purple, side lcbes yellow streaked with red, though the colors 
vary and no two are exactly alike. $5.00 up. 
Laelia anceps. var. alba. Pure white except for a shade of yellow in 
the throat. $6.00 up. 
Laelia autumnalis. Late Autumn and Winter bloomer. Flowers borne 
_on long graceful spikes from three to nine flowers on a spike. Segments 
are rose purple and lip with broad portion white with yellow ridge. Very 
sweet scented, extremely beautiful and easily grown. $5.00 up. 
Laelia ancibarina. Hybrid of L. anceps and L. cinnabarina. Very beau- 
_tiful Orchid. Easily grown and a good bloomer. Bears good sprays of 
a beautiful shade of orange. $5.00 up. 
Laelia majalis. syn. L. grandiflora. Summer bloomer. Small round 
pseudo-bulbs. Very large flowers, one or two on a spike. Sepals and 
petals rose lilac, lip white in center, margined and marked with mauve 
purple. Will stand a good deal of.sunshine, in fact should not be grown 
in too much shade. $3.50 up. 
ONCIDIUM bettonense. A very lovely spray Orchid for growing in pots 
or baskets, producing many beautiful yellow flowers on long graceful 
sprays. | $4.50 up. 
Oncidium varicosum. Branching flower spikes sometimes three feet 
long bearing innumerable flowers with green petals and sepals. Yellow 
lip with brownish blotches. $5.00 up. 
Oncidium varicosum. var. rogersii. This Orchid has been known to 
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