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Orchids grow from Alaska to Argentina in the Western Hemisphere. The best are hardest to find, in the jungled Casanare and San Martin regions of Colombia and Peru. A good man to find them was Swedish-born John Emil Lager, until the U. S. put an embargo on orchids in 1919 because they carry insects. From 1890 until 1908 he ranged South America for the wild strange blooms from which he has grown rare progeny ever since-huge single flowers for debutantes, dowagers and prima donnas; smaller ones for fancy gentlemen; orchids in long sprays, in tiny spidery spikes, some...
...John Lager found the world's rarest orchid in 1908. Of a batch of Cattleya Gigas he had shipped from South America, one astonishingly bloomed Albino. He sold it, the only one ever found, to Baron Firmen Lambeau of Belgium for $10,000. Lambeau managed to propagate it but it is still the world's rarest known orchid...
...equal upper & lower petals unlike most orchids, and attenuated side petals that fell like walrus mustaches. It was Cyprepedium Rothschildianum, rarest orchid at the Show, and it had won the prize as the best specimen orchid plant shown by a commercial grower. The little old man was John Emil Lager, orchid-hunter, aged 72. He had grown the Rarest Orchid in his Lager & Hurrell hothouses in Summit, N. J. where grow nothing but orchids. Last week his Show entry of 133 plants, 60 varieties, won a special award as the finest commercial orchid exhibit...
Rarer still but now unknown was a red Masdevallia orchid powdered with gold. Lager once found a single specimen of it growing high in a South American tree. He searched in vain for more nearby, later found some 500 mi. away. He shipped a lot to the coast where they somehow got sidetracked. In a seaport warehouse they lay until they were dead. No one has yet found any more gold-powdered red orchids like that...
...nothing to be done about the general situation, he realizes, the flood gates of 3.2 per cent beer will doubtless soon be opened upon the whole nation. But in Cambridge, with a faculty and a student body supposedly versed in liquid lore, a complete return to the era of lager beer and sawdust floors can be averted. The Vagabond has a definite ideal as to how things should be around the Square after repeal. In the matter of public drinking he acknowledges his debt to German and English sources: there ought to be at least one Biergarten, right...