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Title: The world book; (electronic resource) organized knowledge in story and picture
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent), 1866-1932, ed Foster, Ellsworth D., ed Locke, George Herbert, 1870-1937, ed
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: Chicago, New York (etc.) Hanson-Roach-Fowler Co.
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Oboe ,y PiccoloLFlute KettleDrum BassDrum Orchestra Bells n ORCHID 4400 ORDEAL AND COMBAT ORCHID, awrkid, a plant embracing severalspecies of wonderfully complex flowers. Thehothouse specimens of the group are among themost rare and expensive of cut flowers, valuedfor their color, form or fragrance. To thisfamily of over 6,000 species belong not onlythe gorgeous specimens seen in conservatoriesand florists shops, but also those delicate,dainty wild flowers of cool, damp woods andbogs of America—the white, yellow and pur-ple ladys-slippers, the exquisite calopogons,the magenta-pink arethusae, the rare calypsos,and the fragrant pink moccasin flowers, which,as expressed by Sarah F. Davis in SummerSong, With their coy and dainty graces,Lure us to their hiding places. From brown seeds as small as tiniest grainsof dust spring many striking forms of orchids.One bears blossoms which look like butterflies;another looks like an elephant moth. An or-chid found by early Spaniards was held in
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THREE OF THE ORCHIDSreverence because it suggested to them theHoly Dove which descended at the baptism ofChrist. Orchids of tropical countries are air plants.They attach themselves to the bark of treesand send roots into the air, from which theyreceive their nourishment. Orchids of temper-ate regions grow from bulbs in the ground.Cultivated species of the greenhouses arechiefly from tropical America, India and Aus-tralia. Lovers of orchids have made wonderfulcollections of rare specimens brought fromout-of-the-way corners of the globe, and manyof these rare growths are very expensive. All orchid blossoms are of extremely irregularshape, and are constructed for fertilization byinsects. There are three sepals and threepetals, all beautifully colored. One petal isalways developed in a remarkable manner, andis called the lip. In some species it is a long. narrow strip; in others, a broad fringed sur-face, and in still others, a pouch or sac. Thislip is especially marked to guide visiting

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