The Woodlands orchids, described and illustrated

At length they reached Lake Magindanao; the day was fine, and they pushed across. But presently small round clouds began to mount over the blue hills. Thicker and thicker they r...

Oversluys guessed that the man was eager to sell but afraid, and fretful accordingly. He raised his price, whilst Don Hilario taunted the Cura with fearing his parishioners. Tha...

Presently the Chamberlain, so to call him, approached with a number of officers, and invited them to attend the Prince. They found that potentate sitting at the end of a long fi...

Orchid stories lack one essential quality of romance. They have little of the 'female interest,' and nothing of love. The defect is beyond remedy, I fear--collectors are men of...

In this house hang Catt. citrina, Odont. citrosmum, and Laelia Jongheana--five rows. Of the first, so charming but so common, it is enough to say that the owner of this collecti...

But one plant has ever been discovered; and that came to Europe unannounced. Messrs. Low sold a quantity of a new Cypripedium from Borneo. Some pieces were bought by Mr. Day, of...

The man was so serious, he explained himself in such a matter-of-fact tone, that Kerbach, laughing, risked two dollars on the chance. With the letter in his pocket the sacristan...

But the thoughtful cannot contemplate these wondrous things with satisfaction unalloyed. Unless some wealthy and intelligent persons in South America undertake to cultivate them...

And Micholitz went. His protest, had he insisted upon it, was unanswerable. Hard enough it would be to return among those anti-human wretches when the delights of home had been...

_Macroloba._--The lobes here are white and enormous. Enormous also is the lip, and singularly beautiful, deepest crimson at the throat, with a broad purple margin netted over wi...

There are startling flowers of divers sort. Some astonish by mere size, as Rafflesia Arnoldii, which is a yard across and weighs fifteen to twenty pounds, or Amorphophallus Tita...

contains about three thousand plants, mostly Odontoglossums. It is a 'lean-to,' of course. Not all the most successful growers use this form of building. Baron Schröder's world-...

_Bellatulum album._--The pure white variety of this striking species, so densely spotted in its normal form. It was discovered by Mr. R. Moore when Assistant-Commissioner of the...

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Noteworthy is a plant which we may suppose a natural hybrid of L. purpurata with L. elegans, resembling the latter in size, comparatively small, as in its narrow sepals and peta...

_Lord Derby_ (Rothschildianum × superbiens).--An immense flower--the grand dorsal rosy white, tinged with pale green in the middle, pale purple on either hand, dark lines circli...

_L.-C. Arnoldiana_ (L. purpurata × Catt. labiata). Large, clear mauve. Petals much attenuated at the ends, which gives them a sort of 'fly-away' appearance. The fine expanded li...

This species is so rare in Europe that I must give a word of description. The genus contains the largest and perhaps the smallest of orchids--B. Beccarii, whose stem is six inch...

Laelia × Beatrice, 13 " × Claptonensis, 88 " elegans, 7 " " Adonis, 10 " " Amphion, 13 " " bella, 15 " " Blenheimensis, 13 " " Boadicea, 10 " " Cleopatra, 15 " " Doctor Ryan, 11...