Brigham City Bugler | 1891-06-20 | Page 2 | A Bare Orchid

A Rar Orcbld, In one of the tropical greenhouses at the Harvard botanic garden in Cambridge Cam-bridge may be seen iu flower a wonderful wonder-ful and noble plant belonging to the orchid or-chid family. This magnificent plant, which is technically nan: 'd Angraecum sesquipedale, is a native of Madagascar, where it is found growing upon trees. In its native country its stem is from three to lour feet high; the leaves, about a foot long, dark, shining green. The 0ower 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 as 1 one of the orchids which Darwin was specially interested in on account of the exceptional length of its spur. The plant at the Cambridge Botanic garden is a particularly good specimen, and has four spikes of flowers, with three blooms on each spike. Boston Journal.