The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . owers with a singularly beautifulyellow-rayed standard, points to this as one of thechief of the colour. It is long since we came acrossM. ignea violacea, which, with a well-developed igneaby its side, showed a striking contrast. In a span-roof-house about 30 by440 feet were some of thespecimen crispums, and grand plants they were, withroundly-ovate plump pseudo-bulbs. One namedAlfred Thomson, with ten great bulbs, was conspi-cuous. Odontoglossum hastilabium was a giant ingrowth and spike, doing fine
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . owers with a singularly beautifulyellow-rayed standard, points to this as one of thechief of the colour. It is long since we came acrossM. ignea violacea, which, with a well-developed igneaby its side, showed a striking contrast. In a span-roof-house about 30 by440 feet were some of thespecimen crispums, and grand plants they were, withroundly-ovate plump pseudo-bulbs. One namedAlfred Thomson, with ten great bulbs, was conspi-cuous. Odontoglossum hastilabium was a giant ingrowth and spike, doing fine along with a superbcollection of L?olia anceps iu all its forms and Cattleyahouse is 60 feet by 16 feet. Thequantities of flowers of C. Schroderi, and the greatvariety of shades, together with their sweet fragrance,command attention; the white and intermediaryshades contrast well, and the brighter labellums ofmany of the forms of C. Triansei cast a glow over thehouse. The Ltelias, too, were in evidence, the plantof the Waltham Grange form of Laelia tenebrosabeing still Fig. 89.—sophronitis Miltonia vexillaria had a good portion of a houseto themselves, not over-heated, and scrupulouslyclean, showing, with their strong growth*, what anabundance of line flowers would in time be beautiful paper-white Ma?devalUa tovarensis isalso in this house, and without a flaw, as well as agroup of Odontoglossum Harryanum. Cypripediunis are grown in a limited overheadclimate, and nothiDg was more striking amongstthem than a giant form of Rothschildianum. Some ofthe rarer lots, such as Lawrenceanum Hyeanum, wasnoted, and others of the yellow insigne finish, thehouse measuring 20 by 10 feet, being filled with anassortment of the best slippers. Dendrobiums are in great variety, generally sus-pended from the lofty roof of the old of the forms of nobile are beautifully coloured,and the best of the more recent hybrids have beensecured
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