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Title: The Woodlands orchids described and illus. with stories of orchid collecting
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Boyle, Frederick, b. 1841
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Publisher: London : Macmillan
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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couldtransport. As time went by, despair possessed him. Afterall, it did not follow that Mr. Curtis had found the prizejust here because he painted it on the wall. To discover anew and fine orchid is a great achievement, and the luckyman might very well commemorate it anywhere whenchoosing a device. Finally, time was up. To wait longer would besacrificing the great heap of treasures secured. After 190 THE WOODLANDS ORCHIDS shipping them he might return. It was a sad disappoint-ment after such reasonable hopes, but things might havebeen worse. So Ericsson gave orders to pack and start assoon as possible. When all was ready, on the very eveningbefore departure, one of the local assistants brought him afiower. This time it was right. In three days severalthousand plants had been collected, and Ericsson went hisway rejoicing. No reader, I hope, will fancy that these coincidences areinvented. The story would be childish as fiction. It isliteral fact, and therefore only is it worth telling.
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CYPRIPEDIUM X ROTHWELLIANUM rnOM NATVMff.ALtO CMROMe •» M»Or»»LA»«t >.>VH.» LetaSON CYPRIFEDIVMS—Cofjunued William Lloyd (bellatulum x Swanianum). — The whitecrest of the dorsal rises from a dull crimson blur withgreenish centre, overrun with crimson lines. The petalshave a dull crimson ground, paler below, densely speckledwith maroon, the ends just tipped with white. Slipper,shining maroon. A de Lair esse (Curtisii x Rothschildianum).—The finedorsal is white, with a greenish centre and faint purpleedges, the lines clear purple. Petals long and drooping, palegreen, edged with white ; all covered with purple spots.Slipper, ochreous brown. Juno (Fairieanum x callosum). — The broad whitedorsal, green at base, tinged with purple, and strongly scoredwith purple Hnes, is actually the widest part of the flower,as in Fairieanum. The narrow petals curl down close uponthe slipper, green in paler and darker shades, with bunchesof purple hair, like those on a caterpillar, a

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