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Updated: June 25, 2025
He is like the showy orchis, or the lady's-slipper, or the shooting star among plants, a stranger to all but the few; and when an American poet says cuckoo, he must say it with such specifications as to leave no doubt what cuckoo he means, as Lowell does in his "Nightingale in the Study:" "And, hark, the cuckoo, weatherwise, Still hiding farther onward, wooes you."
It makes a pet of one of our oddest, brightest, and showiest flowers, the pink lady's-slipper, and by some means or other has enticed it away from the peat bog, where it surely should be growing, along with the calopogon, the pogonia, and the arethusa, and here it is, like some rare exotic, thriving in a bed of sand and on a mat of brown needles.
Only the forenoon walker sees them in all their beauty, as later in the day their eyes are closed, and their pretty heads drooped in slumber. In only one locality do I find the lady's-slipper, a yellow variety. The flowers that overleap all bounds in this section are the houstonias.
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