davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-10-03
GROUP QUICKLY CURED.

Mountain Glen. Ark-Our children
were suffering with Group when we re
ceived IL bottle of Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy. 1t afforded almost instant re-
lief.-F. y. Thornton. This celebrated
remedy is for sale by II. c. Barnes. "He
puts up prescriptions
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-10-03

Our prices are always special, and we
can at any time meet competitors both In
prices and grade of goods. We do
straight, legitimate business and give
good values. j. f.. ROGERS 81 co.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-10-03

DIR. Cady's Condition Powders, are
just what horse needs when in bad
condition. Tonic, blood purifier and
vermifuge. They are not food but
medicine and the best in use to put n
horse in prime condition. Price 81
cents per package.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-10-03
letter. sa,t.Rbeum anf, Eczemo

The intense itching and smartin,, Incl
dent to these diseases, is instantly allayed
by. applying Chamberlain 8 Eye and
Skin Ointment. Many very bad cases
have been permanently cured by it. 1t
IS equally efficient for itching piles and
q favorite remedy for sore nipples,
chapped hands, chilblains, frost bites
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-10-03

Lieutenant Commander Hawley, who
recently visited the lake region to
recruit men for the United States navy,
reports to the Secretary of the Navy that
in thirty-four days he enlisted two hun
dred and thirty four men and boys, all
American citizens and a large percentage
American born. Temporary recruiting
rendezvous we're established in Chicago,
Duluth, Detroit and Milwaukee. Com
mander Iawley retommends that per-
manent recruiting station for seamen be
established at Chicago and temporary
ones at the principal cities in the West
and South. 1T is claimed that the men OBJ
tanned from the lake ports are superior
in physique and intelligence to those re-
cruited on the seaboard
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-10-03

Bradstreet's and Dun's weekly reviews
of trade show steady advancement in
money lines, with a decrease in the num-
Der of failures for the past nine months
Business is. of course, at standstill in
those parts of the South where yellow
fever prevails or where rigid quaran-
tine is enforced. On the whole, the vol
ume of business is larger than for the
same period of 1899, and evidences of re-
viving prosperity are nv re important
because most manufactured products
have advanced in price only moderately,
and are yet much below..the level OF 1892.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-10-03

Address r. H. Gray, General Agent, Roanoke, Va CALI
Tor prospectus at j. f. Wingfeds Office Campbell street en-
trance, Terry Building lower floor
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-10-03
Pim1ples,

which so disfigure the skin, and
make the human face divine
anything but thing of beauty,
but which are Natures adver-
tisement of foul blood.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-10-03
Ca&arrh,

which very often comes from q
chronic affection Of the circula-
ton, is a constant offense to
ones self and all his friends.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-10-03
WHAT DECIDES 1T?

You expect to pay $500 for Shoe be-
cause you can get real good shoe for
$500. BUT you as fully expect to get
the BEST Shoe that $500 Will buy.
Well, we understand.
Now try OUR $500 SHOE and YOU
say if it is not as good rs any So SO
shoe, don't care whose name is on the
strap or who sells it to you. We start
out to save you SOC per pair. If we
don't do it, don't buy from us.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-10-03

most offensive and uncomfort-
able affection of the skin, also
due to impure blood.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-10-03
Salt Rheum,

torment to the flesh, n dis
figurement to the body, and a
drain on the system, also due
to vitiated blood.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-10-03

&TOOd,g piIge, are the best after-dinner
= AAAS pills. ai1 digestion. 25c
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-10-03

which is one of the worst af-
flictions of the human race, and
comes from impure blood.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-10-03
Rheumat isnn,

which all authorities now attri-
butte to various acidities in the
blood, which this great blood
purifier OF the age, Hoods Sar-
saparilla, corrects.
Zgoda = Unity. [volume] (Milwaukee, Wis.) 1881-1901, 1897-11-04
Rajem dlI xieci6w Jest Abb

Rajem dlI zieci6w jest Abb
synja. Obyo.aj - pshsswis nsgusa
sabrauis surowo mstoe odviedsaais
~sauetnej oorki pr.es okrsgsy rok 20
slubie. Sauna Menelikova musiaas
sic poddae temu svyosajowi. Ma
stePnie wolno sic w~prswd.is odwis.
d.ae, leo. w~s.elkiego rodr.ju nispo.
rosumisnis pomiedsy sesoiows . sis-
Diem uvaaans 81 "a wysocs nisprsy.
rwoits ! opinja publiezns kiad.is 10
beswsrunkowo na karb t~esoiowei.
Zgon Polaka. Temps" %.
Iyski podsje wisdomost o prsypsd.
kowem utonieciu " Sskwanie pola-
Ia. Ludwiks Dors.ewskiego. Zmsrsy
byf krawcem damskim, . = powodu
eleganok:ch manier otrsymai cd ko-
leg6w przezwisko ,uarkisa". Pc.
~vraoajsc neca brregism Sekwany,
wpsdl " wode ! utonst niedsleko mo-
osu SuofcutOn.
- z drukowanej mowy 20
grzebOwej pred korekta. Zmar.
~ swieoii wssysskismi z ,otami oby-
wsselskiemi ! niera. korrystalismy |.
jego wsi. To tel. kop .lisuy 90
vs.ysoy wisoej AK pr.yjsoielsks mi.
sosois, DO ! on byl ola mas wieoej jak
P~r.yjacielem, byi ola mas gestsm.
Nieststy sdar& q smart .~awozssniei
PRONE dis lby nas.e | pr6any beg.
br.eany VOL. Chooia. wiso suier6
ozarna nam 60 sabrsia, . strata jego
mas goli, Powiedzmy sobie, as taxi
juz nos katdego c.iowieka, DO geo.
chem jest ! " geoch sic obraca. "a
to jemu otwor.yfy sic terra. kramy
niebieskie.
Zgoda = Unity. [volume] (Milwaukee, Wis.) 1881-1901, 1897-11-04
klOndike / pOla zfOte

90 ma ustach kazdsgo. Doniesienia
gs.eoiarskie 50 bsri.o .wodniczemi,
leoa stosunkowo tylko kilku z LOBBY
tysieoy wybierajacych sic dojd.ie do
oelu. Wielu pos.ukuje zdrowia,
wiele oenniejsrego nia .ioto, a ME
mogs 60 znalssc, ola tego, 70 q q.
.fej drodss. Zawartosc jednej wisl.
kiej butelki Ora Piotra Gomozo, q.
ayta Podlug przepis6w, okaae kaade-
mu ohoremu, ze jest p~rawdziws dro-
ga do sdrowia. Me jest lekarstwem
aPtecznem. j est sprsedawane ludziom
~prost pr.ez f.brykanta. DR.. Peter
Fahrnsy, 1l2-ll4 S. Hoyne Ave.,
Chicago, Ill.
Zgoda = Unity. [volume] (Milwaukee, Wis.) 1881-1901, 1897-11-04
Ze Swiata.

Kolej upahstwOwiOna. Ra-
da .wis.kowa Sswsjcarji uohwaliia
90 giosami przeoiw 20, aaoby Rad
zwiaskowy nabyl ma wiasnosc glow.
ne linie kolei zela.nej IA suma oko.
10 miljarda frank6w. Ma ten eel 70
stanie .aoiagnieta potyozka.
Podiug wykaz6w urzedowyoh ruoh
kolejowy odbywa sic W S.wajoarji
ma przsstr.sni 1904 mil. w +. 1895
przewiez'ono 10 miljon6w ton iowa
RI j 40 mi,jou6w pasaAer6w. Tytu
lem f:achtu i oplaty IA bilsty zebra
no okolo 100 miljon6w frank6w.
- Obraza cZci. Pred sadem
" Pradze rozegrala sic intsresujaoa
sprawl pomiedzy drem Janem Bos-
ckem, adwokatem z Lusomisrzyo, q
wydawos Pisma czsskiego nHumo
ristycky Listy", J6zefsm Whine
kiem. Boeck ma posied.eniu luto-
mierzyckiego wydziaiu krajowsgo
postawii wniosek, ably ~usunieto z
herbu missta dwuogonowsgo Iva
czsskiego. nHumorlstyoky Listy"
z~auwsayiy, 70 pc usunieoiu Iva wy.
Padnie chybs umiesoic ma jego miej.
see osia . rodzaju tych. jaoy stswia.
ja podoDns wnioski. d.. Boeck wy.
toosyi process o obraze o1oi. Sad
uwolnii Wilimeka, skarujao Bosoka
IA zapiacenis koszt6w sprswy.
- Stagnacja ma KOrei. w
stosunksoh matrymonjaloych Korsi
panuje cd pewnego czasu olbrzymia
stagnacjs. Przypominamy osytslni.
kom, ze " r. z. samordowano krolo-
we k%oreahska, to jest pisrwszs Zone
krols, kt6rej dsieci jedynie maja
prawo do tronu. Prawo miejscows
orzsks, ze z chwils uroczystsgo po-
grrebania swlok krolowej maitonek
winien nstyohmiast wybrac sobie 20.
ne ! to Z Posrod wszystkich dziewic
kraju. w przypussozeniu, to kaads
parma koreahska m o1e bye zas.o.y.
coma godnoscis krolewsks, TOT Same
prawo zabranis surowo d~ziewczetom
wyohodzic IA me-. cd chwili smierci
kr6lowsj do czssu wyboru, uo.ynio.
nego prses kr6la. Obecnie rzeo.y
ssojs tax: zwsOki zmar'ej krolowsj
cd poitora roku pogrrebsns ME % ,
powodu intryg drugiej, wediug listy
mastehskisj, 2ony kr6la, " kt6rsj
interesie lezy prsediuaenis statu.
quo hodie, | cd p6ators roku asdns
dsiewica koresfska ME wstspila v
swisski mai.ehskis. wssystkie ore
ksc nuszs M wyb6r kr6la. Posrod
ssj %ssrassnsj sssgnsoji psnie6skis,
sryumfujs wdowy. Ma oalej Korst
nisms jua ami jednej ostssnis, kt6.
ra licsyis sobis sses6dsississs wiosn,
tycis, : PoSr6d kilkudsiesisciu kon
Zgoda = Unity. [volume] (Milwaukee, Wis.) 1881-1901, 1897-11-04

rowie toanierze. towarsys.s prac
wassyoh ! waszej waleosnosoi, % u
mns, jut organizujs sic bataljony.
Prsychodz, ole, towarzys.e moi
r.ucoie brch, kt6rs was nosi6 .mu.
s'onol walc.my "a wsp6lna spra
We narodow, "a sprawe wolnosOi pod
walec1nym Bonspartem. .~wyoieso,
Wfoch! Trofsa R. P. franouskiei
So naszs jedyns nadzieja, pr.ss mia
tylko ! jej ,pr.ymier.onyoh od.yska
my to drogie ogniska nasze, kt6re re
f'ani opuscilismy!"
Odezwe to przssiano do kraju
przes W towarzystwa tajemne -
%ro.r1ucsno j. pr.ed posterunkami
armji austryjaokiej. w dziesisc dui
pc jej ogios.eniu, jua mial Ds.
browski pod bronze prrss.io tysiso
ludsi. TRANQUIL tymo.asem oblega-
Ii Mantue, najmooniejs.s twierdze
austryjaoks pobili c.tery armjs ida
CO ma odsisos ostateoznie wzieli
forteoe. Ostatnia armje, oststnis oe.
sarst~a obrone, Z w~yborowych ao&.
merry ,ioaona prowsdzil aroyksisae
Karol. Pad} postraoh ma Waochy,
gdyt sad.ono, re os}abioue DO tylu
bitwach wojsko francuskie ulegnie-
leos Bonaparte pobii zupelnie arcy.
ksiecia, kt6ry ledwo us.edl niswoli.
Franou.i .ajeli Karyntje i Tyrol. Ia.
graasli stolioy cesarstwa, Wisdnio
wi. Polski legion liosyl juz 5000
lud1i. D4browskj domagal sic, ably
go wyslano Z Wloch pre-. Turoje /
Moidawje do Galioji W oelu wznis-
csnia powstanis.
Bonaparte pr.yjas ten plan, wi.
dzsc " MIN srodek zmas.enia Au-
strji do zawarcia pokoju.
Jua caiy legion .gromad.il sic ma
Pogranlczu Wfooh l ozekaf tylko
rozkasu do poohodu ku Polsce,
Wtem nades.la wiadomosc, ae wojus
stoho.ona. Jak wielka byia radost
lsgionist6w spod.iewajaoyoh sic, &c
wkr6toe wstapia ma ojo.ysta .iemie
tax gisbokim byi smutsk lob. skorc
ia nadzleja znikne{a.
Dabrowski pojeohai natyohmias,
do Gracu do Bonapartsgo, kt6ry
wsasnis podpisal ugode Austrja
i 1sPytywai 60 w.gledem sprawy
Polskisj - leor wymijsjaca odsbra'
odPowiedz Me straoii jednak ufno
Sol " Pomyslny skutek, .ajai 81,
dals.s organizacjs legion6w.
(Dals.y ciag nastapi).
Zgoda = Unity. [volume] (Milwaukee, Wis.) 1881-1901, 1897-11-04
WOlne POlskie SfOwO

wyohodzi pierwszego I pietnastego
kazdego miesiaoa, " Paryzu. Podsjs
wiadomosci ] poglady z pierwszej re-
ki, tax z kraju jaka tez Z emigracyi
polskiej. - Pogladami swemi w.
iwiadoza wielka przys{uge o.ytela..
kom " rozwoju umyslowym. Upo
wszeohnienie tego pisma jest bard.o
Pozadanem " Ameryoe q taniosc ula
twia nabyoie ka1demu. Abonament
roozny k~osztuje dollar jeden I POI,
pieniad1e posyla6 przez Post Office
order adresujac: NJ. Adolphs Rsiff,
3Rue de Four. Paris.
Zgoda = Unity. [volume] (Milwaukee, Wis.) 1881-1901, 1897-11-04
~STULETNIA ROCZNICA
legjon6w ijeneraf Jan Henryk
DabrOwski.
(Dalszy oisg).
l. q iOny.

Utworsyio sic " ParyAu tows.
rsystwo polskich wychodzcow " oe.
lu popisranis sprsvy ojosyssej. -
Drugie podobne istniaio " wsnsoji,
l usrsymywaso tajemny .wisssk mic
dsy krsjem, . smigrsojs. Starano
sic saklonic rssd frsnouski, ably se.
swolia M formowsnis polskioh cd.
Zgoda = Unity. [volume] (Milwaukee, Wis.) 1881-1901, 1897-11-04
DOktOr J. IfOwiecki.
Lekarz re stafego kraju.

Udziela iistownie sumiennej rady lekarskiet.
Leozy ohoroby dzieoi, kobiet I
mesozyzn, ma "a soba praktyke bli.
sko 2Oletnia. Ma zyczenie wysyla
takte lekarstwa. Porada listowns, =
dokiadnem opisem zsohowania sic /
reoeptsmi kosztuJe jednego dols.
ra. Prosze o obszerne opisanie cho.
roby. DIR J6zEF IEowIEcK1,
1920 Chene Str. Detroit, Mich.
Zgoda = Unity. [volume] (Milwaukee, Wis.) 1881-1901, 1897-11-04

Kaady me.czy.na powinisn o.ytaS
ogfossenie Tomasza Slatera " tel "a.
zeoie ma stronnioy 2.
Zgoda = Unity. [volume] (Milwaukee, Wis.) 1881-1901, 1897-11-04

.apisanych sluchaozek wyglosil
mowos rsde, ably nisnagannem pc
stepowsniem staraiy sic swaloss6 te
przesady ! uprzed.enis, jake ma
drodse do sdobyoia wiedsy spotyka.
j.. Pc ogioszeniu roku s.kolnego
IA otwsrty, wyglosii ks. rektor Cd
osyt o vPiecioksiegu Moj.eszs".
Przerazajacy obraz obecne-
go poloAeoia ludnosoi rolniozej "
Gslioji, spowodowany szsrsgism
prrer6anycb kiosk slementarnych,
nskreslii " tych dnisoh " parlsmsn-
ole wiedehskim posei wiodsimier.
Gniewosz, usassdniajso nissbedns
potr.ebe pomocy pahstwowsj ola
stojscej u wrot giodu ludnosoi wiej.
stiej. A poniewsa nssi nsjssrdsos.
niejsi usiiujs s&owem ! pismsn utrsy.
mao " OisgiOsoi lsgsode, jskoby
skarb pahstwowy poswiecsi ooroo..
ME miljony ma 9 Gslioji l pohal
" ME besustannis jakby " d.iurawy
worek, wiec mowoa wykssai jakby
na dsoni bezsassdnosc / slosliwosc
tego rodssju bsjek. l tax, Z "a nv
POI miljons ssr, wy~snaosonej " r.
1870 ola ludnotci " oaisj monarohji
Zgoda = Unity. [volume] (Milwaukee, Wis.) 1881-1901, 1897-11-04

Michai Sklrmunt, kspitan wojsk
polskich z roku 1881 p~ozostawii W papie-
rach swoich jeden egzemplsrz W orygi-
male p~owyzszej odezwy, kt6ra dosiownie
umieszczamy. Przyp. Red).
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-05-26
Vol. XIV, No 2l Whole No. 568.
Orchids.

Orchids.
Read before the Florida State Horticul
tural Society by r. L. Meade, of Oviedo.
I have selected the natural order of
orchids for my talk today and hope to
make YOU share in the fascination
which these plants exert upon those
who study them closely. They are Of
small merely material use to man
kind-the fragrant vanilla and one or
two medicinal products of small i'm
portance are their only contributions
to our physical wants, but by their
strange and wonderful beauty of flow
er they have won the regard not only
of civilized man but are highly priced
and cherished by many so-called saw
ages, who so appreciate the beauty OF
wild orchids growing near their huts
that they refuse to part with them
tho offered the most tempting bribes
by European collectors.
While we may find as great diver
sity of habit and ways of growth
among the orchids as among most 9TH
er plants, yet as a whole they form
very natural group, that is, one whose
members may be distinguished almost
at a glance from members of other
orders; and our first attempt in get
ting an idea of this group will be to
locate them, so to speak, among their
nearest allies To begin with they
are endogens-the section across a
stem shows woody threads scattered
irregularly through a pithy substance
and no distinction between bark and
wood. This of course makes it i'm
possible to multiply orchids by graft
ing and budding as is so easily done
in the exogens where the life and
growth of the stem is concentrated
and localized in the inner bark. The
highest endogens are the palms and
the lowest the grasses. Midway be-
tween these extremes we find large
group of natural orders including the
pineapple family, the amaryllis, the
iris, the banana, the Gamma and the
orchid family. The cannas in partic-
ular will give us hint as to how the
orchids have come by their peculiar
structure of flower, which at first
sight seems to be five parted and
so quite at variance with the
rule of threes and skies which
one comes to expect as a matter
of course among all the en-
dogens The fact is than the sets Of
three are really present in the five
parted orchid flower but so trans
formed that it requires dissection and
the microscope to trace the changes
and combinations that have taken
place. If you will examine a canna
flower you will find that the stamen
has apparently become petal, bear
ing pollen on one edge. In the orchid
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two stamens have not only become
petals and lost their pollen altogether
but have combined with third real
petal to form the so-called lip of the
flower. Perhaps you will wonder how
anybody can tell that this is what has
happened, and this is the way the
matter has been reasoned out Each
separate part of a flower has to have
a special conduit for it's nourishment
very much as an arm or leg needs
it's special artery for it's support;
these conduits in flowers are charac-
terized by groups of spiral vessels
which are easily recognized and or
child flowers have fifteen o. them, cor
responding to five whorls of three.
The characteristic so-called column of
the orchid flower which bears not
only the stigma and hence is the
pistil, but also the stamen or stamens,
has no less than seven of these ducts
and is considered to be all that re-
mains of three pistils and four of the
six stamens which the remOtest an
cestor of the orchid tribe is believed
to have possessed. Occasionally sin
gle plants are found in whose flowers
partial reversion to the ancestral type
has taken place and the two sides OF
the lip appear as separate petal-like
organs or three stamens are present
at the extremity of the column in
stead of one, and these monstrosities
confirm the ideas that botanists had
gained by dissection and comparison.
There are two great groups of or
chids, the members of the first, in
Guiding all the cypriediums or lady
slipper orchids, have two stamens,
the latter only. The ladyslipper
orchids are widely distributed
over all lands and climates yet
the most of the species are
local and rare and give the i'm
preston that this great group of or
chids is in the gradual process of ex-
tinction; indeed it is quite probable
that one or two species already sur
vive only in greenhouses and others
may disappear from their native coun-
tries where they barely held their own
until the advent of the ruthless orchid
collector. On the other hand the hy-
bridizers of the genus have gone at
| their work so enthusiastically and Sue
cessfully that the number OF distinct
hybrid forms now grown in green
houses about 1,OOO-far exceeds the
| number of known species of the genus
inhabitating the earth, and new varie-
| ties containing the mixed blood OF
three, four and even five species are
constantly being produced.
Hybrid orchids are so highly valued
and their production requires such
! close attention and intelligent work,
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81 per Annum, in Advance

lions succeeds once in every ten or
twenty years in becoming an adult
plant, for if the successful seedlings
were more than enough in number to
replace the old plants that die from
various causes, their total number
would increase in geometrical ratio
until the equilibrium was again re-
stored.
An average orchid seed is shaped
something like a grain of oats. 1t is
about 1-8O of an inch long and 1850 of
an inch thick and it takes 10000 of
them to weigh a grain. Under the
microscope the kernel is seen to be
surrounded by thin, nearly trans
parent husk. Being so small and
light the breezes carry them almost
like notes in the sunbeam, and on ac-
count of their numbers it would seem
as though they must be carried to
every possible situation for long dis
| tances from the parent plants, and
doubtless this is the case. The seed,
however, consists of an embryo only,
with no laid up store of food for the
of development are extremely slow
and tedious. When a seed has alighted
in some suitable place, which must be
damp, the kernel absorbs moisture
from the surface on which it lies and
slowly swells, after week or two
changing to greenish color and in
the course of time assuming the shape
of boys peg top. The upper blunt
end then shows tiny point in it's CEN
| ter where ultimately leaf will arise.
At this stage the seed is about as
broad as it is long, say $50 of an inch
or less. Sometimes a whole year is
consumed in reaching even this min
ute size, hardly visible to the naked
eye At other times other seeds ap-
parently under exactly the same con-
ditions as their neighbors will attain
this peg top stage in two or three
the thalloid state in which our peg
top has spread out to a fattened disk
perhaps 1-16 of an inch across, with a
few microscopic foot hairs on the un-
der side, and after this tiny leaf
pushing upward from the center of
the disk. Another leaf then appears
in the axil of the first; when these
two leaves are full grown and maybe
a quarter of an inch high, the first
feshy root appears from below the
disk and our orchid has passed the
perils of it's infancy and has an ex-
cellent chance of continuing on to
maturity. BY this time year at least
has elapsed since the planting of the
seed. In another year our aspiring
plant will perhaps be an inch high
and ready to push second shoot or
lead. So it goes on until perhaps in
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-05-26
DeLand, Fla, Wednesday, May 26, 1897.

that careful memoranda have been
kept in almost every instance so that
the pedigree of most of these hybrids
is as much a matter of record as that
of celebrated race horses Indeed
only last year a catalogue was issued
giving the names and synonyms and
exact parentage of all the known
orchids-some two thousand in num-
ber-and including the natural hy-
birds, of which a few examples have
been found growing wild along with
the parent species.
The number of seeds produced by
orchids is prodigious, but this shows
rather an inferior organization than
superior one and as Darwin points
out, indicates not only low organiza-
ton, but poverty of contrivance, in
great contrast to the wonderful adap-
tations which ensure The crossing of
the flowers by insect agency, which 1
shall discuss later on.
The terrestrial orchids of northern
regions, like the pogonias and yellow
fringed orchids, common in our flat
woods, have five or six thousand seeds
to the pod but the tropical tree-in-
bitating species have far more.
From an examination of several hun
dred pods which [ have myself raised,
I should estimate the average number
at half million seeds to the pod and
| in a species of maXillaria, from South
America, the pods have been estimat-
ed to contain a million and three
quarters, which, owing to the extreme
smallness of the seeds, would be in
bulk about tablespoonful. A single
plant of this prolific species often
| bears half dozen pods at once, so
that the children of one plant of this
maxillaria, from the seeds produced
in single year, if they all reached
maturity, would cover as with con-
tinuous carpet 10000 acres, allowing
| one So UdE0 lOOU W CNCIy LIN
grandchildren of this one plant, again
| supposing all the seeds produced in
one wear to come to maturity, would
| crowd two plants into every square
foot of the surface of the globe, land
and sea alike, and leave enough over
to similarly cover the moon and the
planet Mars. It is perhaps hardly
worth while to carry the computation
on to the third generation, but if we
imagine all the great grandchildren of
our single plant to survive, they
would be enough in bulk to crush out
every vestige of other life upon all
three worlds under a solid mass of
this maxillaria a thousand miles in
thickness.
AS on the contrary the number OF
plants of the species in any given dis
trict, seems to be about stationary, it
follows that only one seed in ten mil
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