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ONCIDIUM VARICOSUM, variety ROGERSI. 
Brazil. Typical graceful spray orchid, 
with many bright yellow flowers on very 
long sprays. Quite similar to Oncidium 
Boissense. Autumn and Winter. 
Pots $5.00. Baskets $10.00. 
PERISTERIA_ELATA- Panama. A strong 
growing, handsome species with stout 
pseudo-bulbs sometimes six inches high. 
Leaves two to three feet high. Flowers 
on long scapes two to three inches 
across, waxy white, fragrant. Lip some- 
times faintly spotted with purple. The 
ONCIDIUM VARICOSUM flower is considered to resemble a dove 
and the Orchid is known as the "Dove 
Orchid". Can be grown in pots, baskets 
or in the ground. Summer and Autumn. 
Baskets $10.00 to $15.00. 

Terrestrial Orchid with leaves one to 
three feet high and flowers three to 
four inches across. Sepals and petals 
yellow-brown and silvery-white, lip rose- 
purple bordered with white. Pale yellow 
crown, marked with purple in the throat. 
Can be grown either in pots or in the 
ground. Likes plenty of water. Spring. 
Pots $10.00 and $12.50. 

SOBRALIA ORCHIDS. Central America. A 
family of Terrestrial Orchids, of easy 
culture and free flowering. The reed- PERISTERIA ELATA 
like stems are evergreen, with plaited 
sheathing leaves. The flowers are large, the sepals often being 
four inches long and the lip even longer. Both in size and beauty 
these Orchids rival Cattleyas, requiring, 
however, more shade than Cattleyas. The 
flowers which recur on stems two to 
three feet and more tall, last for only 
three or four days, but new fiowers keep 
on opening on the same stalk. With age 
a well-established clump will develop as 
many as twenty-five or more stalks. As 
these orchids have no pseudo-bulbs but 
instead are equipped with fleshy, spread- 
ing roots lying near the surface, they 
should never be allowed to become dry. 
They can be grown in pots or in the 
ground, with plenty of leaf mold in the 
compost. Prices on application. 


SOBRALIA ORCHIDS 
