The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-04-15

ana DeauJlIul, are SNAPPED ike us
head of a lance or pike-referring no
doubt to the weapon that pierced the
sides of the Savior-while, they are
marked beneath with round spots,
signifying the 80 pieces of silver for
which Judas sold him."
Today this wonderful blossom is
comparatively familiar and is known
as the passion flower. Botanists call
it Passihora incarmata While it's
peculiarities of structure are undeni-
ably interesting. there is nothing
about it that to the sane eye suggests
the miraculous.
Holy Ghost Orchid.
The same observation does not ap-
ply, however to another plant, far
more remarkable, which is even at
the present day so great rarity tha-
| probably there are not dozen speci
mems of 1t in all the United States
Two of these are in the presidents
| greenhouse at Washington 1t vii
not survive unless kept in an ex
tremely hot atmosphere laden will
MOISTURE fact from which 1t may
be correctly inferred that this inter
esting vegetable species Is a native
of the torrid zone. Indeed, 1t grows
nowhere except close to the equator
in wet and marshy places not far
from sea level, where the humid ali
Expresses the traveller like so much
almost unbreathable steam.
Such is the natural habitat of the
Holy Ghost orchid, as the plant Is
called. 1t is true orchid, and, like
many others of its botanical kind,
grows In earth. Its flowers are de.
veloped in little groups of two or
three on vigorous green stem, and
in each of them, when it Is fully open,
appears, sitting within the calyx of
the snowy blossom, little dove with
half-spread wings. So perfectly is it
formed that even the feshy excres
cence at the top of the beak. charac
teristic of pigeons, is represented. II
is, in fact, the most curious and won
derful Of natures limitations.
"LlIIes Of the Field"
1t Is wholly uncertain what flower
Jesus had in mind when he spoke Of
the lilies of the field" which
though they toiled not, neither dit
they spin-were adorned more beau
tifully than Solomon In all his glory
Certainly he was not speaking of any
blossoms of the type now represented
by what is called the Easter lily, be
cause no such lilies were known IL
the Palestine of his day, all Of then
being of exclusively eastern Asiati,
origin. OF these lilies there are man,
varieties, as everybody knows. tn,
finest of them all, and the one gener
ally grown at the present time in tn,
greenhouses of this country, being
native of Japan-the Lilium Harrisil
A similar lily, though of differen
variety, is the Lilium candidum, o
Madonna lily, which is SO called be
cause 1t is the flower that Is suppose,
to have been presented to the virgil
by the angel of the snnunciatior
One finds 1t thus depicted in one O
the most famous paintings of Murillc
But as above suggested, this Lowell
type of blossom was not known Il
Palestine 1900 years ago-a fact, how
ever, which does by no means pre-
clude the possibility that an ange
, might have obtained a bunch.
Resurrection Plant.
One of the most interesting Of tn
vegetable species associated with Ea.
ter Is the so-called resurrection plan
which is a kind of ''tumble-weed," M
| tive to the region of the Dead sea
: Some OF It's relatives, Botanical
r speaking. are found in our own cour
try and have similar habits. Thi
} tumble-weed during part of the yea
dries up and, detaching itself fror
the ground assumes the form OF
} ball, seemingly dead-in which shap
J it rolls before the wind, scattering 1t
seeds as 1t goes, to take root an
} grow into more tumble-weeds.
! or all the many ingenious method
adopted by nature to accomplish tn
distribution of plants none is NOR
/ odd than this. But when the tumbl,
! weed. apparently defunct, is put int
+ water, 10! 1t begins to sprout, an
} presently IL as much alive as evel
. Whence the popular name bestowe
upon 1t.