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Show A Rare Orchid. In one of the tropical greenhciises at the Harvard .botanic garden in Cambridge Cam-bridge may bo seen in flower a wonderful wonder-ful and noblo plant belonging to the orchid or-chid family. This magnificent plant, which is technically named Angraecum pesquipedale, is a native of Madagascar, where it is found growing upon trees. In its native country its stem is from three to four feet high; the hiaves, about a foot long, dark, shining green, The flower is about six inches in diameter, ivory white, with a spur from twelve to eighteen inches long, and it has a powerful power-ful fragrance, particularly at night. It was discovered about seventy years ago, but was not introduced in a living state until 1857. It has become famous aa one of the orchids which Darwin was ppwially interested in on account of the exceptional length of its spur. The plant at tbe Cambridge Botanic garden is a particularly good specimen, ami has four Hpikes of flowers, with three bloouia oil each spike. Boston Journal. |