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Show Orchids Like Butterflies. A romnntli! pago In tho hlBtory of orchid eiilturo was closed In London a fow (luys ago, when an original jilaut of Mlltoula VextllnrU Mcimirla O. D. Owen aud two slips taken from It realized tho enormous mini ut $0,875. The plant of which only these three specimens exist In any collection, has gained all the highest orchid honors It Is the most woudcrful vnrlety of Mlltanla ever seen, mid the wonder of It does not consist in shape or coloring so much ns in tho fact that in the middle of It is an almost perfect I'uttorfly foi in, appiiienlly painted on tho flower. The curious lesctnblatico of many oichlds to common objects, such as bees, spiders, serows nnd tressus, con fclst in tho shape of tho Ilower; hut in this case the sepals and petals of tho flower hoar nn Imprint, and the effect It) of a velvety pitii lu butterfly settled on the rich ioso giouiid of tho (lowor. |