| Show oooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooononoccoooooooaoooooooooc I oo < xxxxxxoooxxxxxxxx > 3ogocoooooo9ooooooooc > oooocoo Famous Collection of Orchids OI IIP I I Owned by a Woman II I tXOOOOOOOerOOOOOOOOO < XXXXX > OOOOOO < XXXXXXXXXOCOOOOOOu OQOOOCXJOOOOOOOOOCrOOOOOOOOO IOOOOOOOOOOOOCOOOOOOOOOOOO ItS aldlinr II WILPIN cf MUM lhl I wh o the lar I glt collection 0 n 10 I In the iituntry and who cnnmrvii rim are the Merc nf th horllrimiirlMi ort or-t Continents half recently Wit l a noon ber l of hr choice ipeciminn 1 through the jealousy of rival collector In spite ot the elat rale precaution to guard her Irrepli nhl lv pinorelif two nrthid bulb from Mt > i i nr nn nhm lutily unique species 1 which cannot be I lupllcale1 hnv been itnlen There ran be nv aleolut money value put upon them but they built mil have un bought I fur IMM This heft I mloubled the care taken to watch the vldlon feIn nil parts of the worn who travel to Ihiliteiphla Imply Im-ply lo rKW this collei lion Yet recently A mil il ranger thing hai p nml on that oeoMlcn MM Wilson had limited the ooiieetvalfrry al uiuil 1 and her orchid I Port a Krtnrhmsn who with two lulilinti care for We almost rlcelM ir aiurei Ik l iietlal prld 1 In bowing tier I A magnllk PPAkclmvP or A rare rlity or the lnlli Time uf III II luI wolth II par bud wer about to flower Tomorrow Iho blonom will ap lertr rail 1 the gardener no he I watered tile beautiful plant That nftiinoon In rnn ram Into the holhu and pent an unuetially long Urn among thle flowers on of the assistant gardener wa wllh Hum a short time Find 1 ho aaya the men talked Ilk al florin Saturday night the head I gardener gar-dener cam Into the house and old I Mn Mlcon that lomithlng wai the matter with tile plant she had wen It wad drooping and elckly rvrrythlnl was don to iavr it but on Kunday It Pretty fld up and died Three thousand doUr do-Ur I was a c nivrvatlv price an orchid reflector would have Put upon tile punt The lease of the dead plant were MM to Thomas M Nenhnld A chemist who found that on the hope of the Kave there was a strong preparation if name alkali probably chloral uf Potash Mn 1 Wilson n I lire that this U the work of com Jealoui collector or agent of a collector frond another city They were not after that lalla I am Outts she mid but another of almost trw I anm appearance I ot which I have th only ipiclmin In exporters 1 and which nothing could buy It WAN e > hlbited at lloitlcultural hall moot 1 the Plant acquired ronalderahte notoriety at Hint lime Homo collector piqued at not bring able to arqulr a dissociation I I i tried In rum II II wa iplto work Qtjot Ry tealnuiy I am iure Many Ore hid oolltn have lead the ami os ferli oce11 I Hhr has had new lock put on all the I roollervotary dnom nine Nil violin II I lt out of night of the gardener and Ih 0 nu mil of I lio I who tome in pro I he < lleellnn 1 are easeful y taken wllh the tint ifihelr lill 1 r the pail ten years this gorgeona or hill norr has hem Mn Wllion hereby Alithyst an Admirer of orchids about 1014 Ph d to tried to ao Into orchids Ihnuahly I Roil 1 began A lIudy 01 thin Initilatualtralo emblem sending all over I lit world for operimpop 01 pill hlIid arletle Puro > e Alia North still I Kiulh America and the lale of the lea Wire elploml each fur Its par lie I I ulnr induction At Important orchid nn 1 era agemlea 1 for Mm Wilson wen iltmbliallard which from time to lln I furbished her so fill rare and val tmhir rlanta together with Information I I i mr ling their cullliallm In this way mar than 10 ow orchid hat been brought together at the Wit min Provision In Philadelphia In I IK lint this assemblage la I anto nf the lniit famous and moil ilemlve In i pxlitcnc A few yeari ago Ih colleo lion II It 1 then iluod wan greatly Hn I ruked by the addition of that belongIng belong-Ing I lo I the lraitui Corning opiate it All ony which It had taken M years to gather That A more Plant wllh A not par Utulally altrattln bl > eom idioul I Command tlioumiit of dollar In open mark eeem Incredible but It 1 la I neerllirleai true Horn of the rarest Varieties are the least Ixautlful and by tho eye alone no one can Mtlmal the value ot a collection All of tire great florin firm tiny profflooklonal itihlt collector They brave I the rise l nv of tire forests of the mon and Orinoco rivers 1 and ar opposed to the deadly fevers and indefinite of developers where the anaconda atilt boa Camille Ion are the lean of Ord Mil lo be encountered en-countered Th mol InarceMlbl mproache to the Illmalayaa and Andes are thread In every dlrettliMi by their hardy and fearleu 1 caterer 1 lo a fad and Ih to I land 11 Jaa and llorneu with all their dinitulllei have been Mntch l from shot lo thro In I the lnllabl hunt Tito lluwr must In I hal al my price I 1 and have Orion been field for at the lairtflii of human lit lit 1 WIIon 1411on I assembled In M < en great ahnou 1 h iuoi that wer ereitid In Ihe nor if the Wilson man I Ion al I Ih roil thouianda of dollar ITpo I entering the main conservatory In Ih center of which is I a arrive of tho palm the Knit Indian home la fount I Hi the loft Passing 1 In this houn th FdngI1vvr I that of cyprltnlluma containing con-taining 1 over MO specimen lleyond U I the Mralcan houee which la I literally A memo of bloom Many ot the plants carry from two lo Mi 1 split of brilliantly Marked Idoiiomi Con stilcuous I among them li I the rare I4illa dawninl hearing several flower ol n moat exquisite type Another prominent prom-inent and U I the Ijeln ancpi Alba 1 meaurlng over four feet aquar The Oltlo a house men a HIM hawIng haw-Ing of bluMoma and provide a dlllnr live charm In Ha Imports ipeclmeni Taken In its entirety the collection nil Mn houci and it la I conceded to t bon b-on of the molt valuable In America Many of the smelter plants coat from UOO to Itoo each and other of Ih unique Mrlllr would fetch thousand un al 1 forted ate rbI Ihe mot Inlerellng feature of Mr Wilookins rollettlon II the ai mhlagi ot varieties that com from the Philippine Islands The Hpanlardi mad the collector pay A license for hunting orchid then but despite that method 01 loosing 4uI from AmerIcan Amer-Ican Packets many unique plants cam from Ihe group Under Ihe new textile on hen Avumaldo net I his fiUlown hall lime ceanl lo struggle the Influx of plant from Ilml Parties new domain will without doubt boo greatly Increased Mn Wilson li now In Mexico directly overcelng the work ut her agents there I who Are Marching for Mexican orchid wonder Her Superintendence li I not a alnecur nor Is I It the work of an amateur ama-teur The owner of Hill giant otchld collection 10 I fully convenant with the habll of her pet plant ami 1 of the law which aOVln theta Kb 1 hall made a Scholarly study of Ib flower and believe In lulling the knowledge eh has acquired Into prao tlcal application N lien at home everything every-thing la I under her own personal iupr vision |
