The Woodlands orchids described and illuswith stories of orchid collecting . 0 CATTLEYA »L v^R. Miss MARY MEASURES % P*iwr«o r MOM KAT«i«C. AktO •» M*CrA|^tA»4t * CYPRIPEDIUM INSIGNE Here is a house full of Cypripedium insigne ; nothing elsetherein save a row of big Cymbidiums in vases down themiddle, Odontoglossum citrosmum and Cattleya citrina hang-ing on wires overhead. Every one knows this commonest ofCypripeds, though many may be unacquainted with thename. Once I looked into a show of window-gardening inthe precincts of Westminster Abbey, and among the poorplants there,

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The Woodlands orchids described and illuswith stories of orchid collecting . 0 CATTLEYA »L v^R. Miss MARY MEASURES % P*iwr«o r MOM KAT«i«C. AktO •» M*CrA|^tA»4t * CYPRIPEDIUM INSIGNE Here is a house full of Cypripedium insigne ; nothing elsetherein save a row of big Cymbidiums in vases down themiddle, Odontoglossum citrosmum and Cattleya citrina hang-ing on wires overhead. Every one knows this commonest ofCypripeds, though many may be unacquainted with thename. Once I looked into a show of window-gardening inthe precincts of Westminster Abbey, and among the poorplants there, treasures of the poorest, I found a Cypripediuminsigne—very healthy and well-grown too. But when Icalled the judges attention, they politely refused to believeme, though none of them could say what the mysteriousvegetable was—not the least curious detail of the flower cannot be called beautiful, but undeniably itis quaint, and the honest unsophisticated public loves the bloom appears in November, lasting tillChristmas, if kept quite c

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