ONCIDIUM WENTWORTHIANUM. Flower 
scapes three to six feet long, branched with many 
flowers, which are nearly two inches across. Sepals 
and petals yellow, blotched with red-brown, lip yel- 
low spotted with red-brown. Summer. Pots $5.00. 
Baskets $10.00. GH. 
PERISTERIA ELATA. Panama. A strong growing, 
handsome species with stout pseudo-bulbs sometimes 
six inches high. Leaves two to three feet high. Flow- 
ers on long scapes two to three inches across, waxy 
white, fragrant. Lip sometimes faintly spotted with 
purple. The flower is considered to resemble a dove 
and the Orchid is known as the “Dove Orchid”. Can 
be grown in pots or baskets. .A terrestrial orchid. 
Summer and Autumn. Pots $7.50. GH. 
PHAIUS GRANDIFOLIUS. Asia and Australia. 
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-pur- 
ple in the throat. Can be grown either in pots or in 
the ground. Likes plenty of water. Spring. Pots 
$10.00 and $12.50. GH. 
SCHOMBURGKIA TIBICINIS. Flower stems three 
to five feet high, petals reddish or purplish-brown, 
lip orange-yellow, streaked with red purple, rosy 
beneath, lip whitish, shading to purple, disc yellow: 
Early Summer. $5.00 and $7.50. GH. 
SOBRALIA ORCHIDS. Central America. A fam- 
ily of Terrestria] Orchids, of easy culture and free 
flowering. The reed-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 Cat- 
tleyas. The flowers which recur on stems two or three 
feet and more tall, last for only three or four days, 
but new flowers 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, spreading 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. LH. 
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