Show fantastic tropical orchids the tropical orchids are brilliant in in coloring fantastic in shape and often of delicious perfume especially in the morning while the night dews are upon them many of them lose all perfume after midday till the following morning so excessively droll are many of them in shape that they seem sentient and of all blossoms the most like human beings there is trio frog orchid the baby orchid the holy ghost orchid those re resembling 9 bugs and beetles birds and butterflies butterf li ea many varieties are so exquisite in color and form that eliat it would seem as though fairies n might hide in their pockets or pouches as they are called or that the bees might store their sweets in such dainty velvet lined cells the leaves are rarely pretty or gruce graceful ful in m form the whole beauty of the plant culminating in the flower AU all orchids have a season of resting or recuperation of three months this unlovely period briod of their existence vi responds ponds to the ille rainy season in tropical limes jimes when if in blossom the rain torrents would destroy the flower brooklyn eagle |