CYPRIPEDIUM INSIGNE is an evergreen plant with 
light green foliage, producing its flowers from the center of 
its growth, the flower stalks being about 10 inches high. 
The flowers have very good lasting qualities. Insigne is a 
most popular Cypripedium with amateurs as it is so easily 
grown and is so easy to flower. The plants bloom during 
the fall and winter months. They can be potted in Cymbidium 
compost. In fact, they may even be grown with the Cym- 
bidiums, requiring a position where the pots can be well 
aerated and grown with generally a little more shade than 
Cymbidiums but cannot be dried out as much. From $3.50 up. 
LYCASTE SKINNERI is by far the most popular of the 
Lycast family. The height of the plant will vary from 15 
to 24 inches. The flowers are large and handsome and, too, 
are variable: sepals white, more or less suffused with rose; 
petals smaller, usually marked with deep rose, and the lip 
is whitish, thickly spotted with rose and crimson. The 
plants bloom during the months of late autumn and 
early winter. From $3.50. up. 
VANDA ORCHIDS 
With the increasing interest in Vanda orchids, caused 
no doubt by numerous blooms of this genera being flown 
in from Hawaii, where one form, the terete and semi-terete 
form, is grown out of doors in full sun, the question is 
raised again and again concerning these very fine and much 
misunderstood orchids. We would like to acquaint you 
with some of the most worth-while of the Vandas, which 
we will list with a brief description of each. 
VANDA COERULEA grows on an erect stem up to 
four feet tall. It is truly the most magnificent of them all. 
The flowers range in color from white to deep blue and are 
three to four inches across, with six or more flowers on the 
spike. We grow ours near the glass, and feed by using 
well-rotted chicken manure. We also keep them somewhat 
drier in winter. From $5.00 bare root. 
VANDA HERZIANA is the resulting hybrid of V. 
coerulea crossed with V. suavis. It seems to take on the 
vigor and ease of flowering of V. suavis and the color of 
V. coerulea. We know of plants that had three spikes in 
September of last year, and the first of December were again 
making bud. This plant seems to thrive near the glass, 
where we splash it with water on bright, warm days and 
feed once a month when the days are warm and bright 
and the humidity high. 
VANDA LUZONICA resembles V. suavis and V. tri- 
color in habit, although the roots are somewhat larger. 
There are usually up to 12 flowers to the spike, each flower 
measuring up to 3” across. They are very lovely, being pure 
white with crimson dots on the tips of the petals and minute 
red dots on the sepals. The lip is almost entirely crimson. 
VANDA SANDERIANA is the “king” of them all. It 
grows from one to three feet tall, with leaves from 12 to 15 
inches long, and has seven to 15 flowers to the spike. The 
flowers are large, nearly 5” across, and almost flat. The 
