Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1893 — The Rarest Plants. [ARTICLE]

The Rarest Plants.

The question which aro the rarest plants on earth admits of two answors —as to rarity in distribution and as to rarity In tho numerical Benso. There aro some plants which grow in one small spot and nowhere elso. Such are tho Kerguelan cabbage, which is found only on Korguentn island, a remote island In 45 degreos south latitude and (15 degreos east longitude in the South Pacific, the species of harebell which grows only on Mt. Parnassus, and a yam which is found only on the Pyrenees. The palm of numerical rarity is divided among two hybrid orchids—artificially produced crosses—laolla bella and laelia sedina, of each of which only one specimen exists, a unique flower called odontogloßsum vecillarium, exhibited at the last exhibition of the Horticultural society in Temple Gardens, and a tiny Japanese plant, overweighted with the pretentious name schizocodon soldanellotdes, which was brought from Japan about two years ago by Capt. Torrens. So far as is known it is the only one in existence. Who would be free from oarthly Ills must buy a box of Beecham’a Pills. 25 cunts a box. Worth a guinea. Some men are poor because there is a shady side to a hedge row in the summer time. You can never win your boy’s love with a big elm switch.