26 HUMMEL S-EXOTIC31GARDEN'S 

VISIT MEXICO: 1. Old Men in their native home. You can almost see their kindly faces. 2. A rare crested 
plant producing flowers and fruit from the felted top of the plant. 3. Oaks near the Old Man’s home in which 
orchids, Coral Cacti, and Bromeliads were growing. 4. Limbs were thick with plants which derived their food 
from moisture and decaying matter lodged in the branches. 5. Close-up of Laelia majalis orchids. 6. A near-by 
clump of Pincushions (Mam. Parkinsonii). 7. Pincushions growing on limb of a tree. 8. Orchids for the Old 
Man. 9. Orchids and Old Men collected within 5 miles of each other. Photos by Wm. G. Brooks in BULLETIN. 
