Wetterburn's Orchid

The plant was placed on a low bench near the thermometer, and close by was a simple arrangement at which a tap dripped on the hot water pipes. He spent his afternoons now with some regularity, meditating on the approaching flowering of his strange plant. And alas the great thing happened. Directly he entered the little glass house he knew the spike had burst out. Although it was great, paleon office, low eye, hid the corner or as new darling stood. There was a new odor in the air, a rich, intensely sweet scent,. that overpowered every other in that crowded, steaming little greenhouse.