. Partial View of one of our Orchid Houses at Riverton. ORCHIDS FOR COOL GREENHOUSE. These can be grown iu any cool greenhouse or pit where the temperature does not fall below 38 or 40°. The time of flowering is given with each variety. Brassia Verucosa. Sepals and petals greenish, blotched with blackish i)uq)le; lip white; flowers in May and June. 75 cts. to $ Bletia Tankervillife {Phajw Grandiflora). A well- known variety; producing long spikes of large flow- ers during the winter months; sepals and petals brownish "red, lip white, purple tip, and greenish vellow centre. .? to
. Partial View of one of our Orchid Houses at Riverton. ORCHIDS FOR COOL GREENHOUSE. These can be grown iu any cool greenhouse or pit where the temperature does not fall below 38 or 40°. The time of flowering is given with each variety. Brassia Verucosa. Sepals and petals greenish, blotched with blackish i)uq)le; lip white; flowers in May and June. 75 cts. to $ Bletia Tankervillife {Phajw Grandiflora). A well- known variety; producing long spikes of large flow- ers during the winter months; sepals and petals brownish "red, lip white, purple tip, and greenish vellow centre. .? to Bletia Hyaciuthina. A fine species from China, with pretty purple flowers; hardy with protection. 50 cts. Cattleya Citrina. The flowers are of a bright lemon yellow, deliciously fragrant, and are produced singly or in pairs; it blooms from May to August, and lasts for three or four weeks. 75 cts. to $ Coelogyne Cristata. A magnificent Orchid. The flowers are borne in clusters of six or eight on a droop- ing raceme. Each flower is three or four inches across. Sepals and petals are undulating and of a pure white color with prominent blotches of yellow on the crest; remain in perfection fouror five weeks; Februarv and March. $, $ and $ Cypripedium Boxalli. Upper sepals of a beautiful fresh light green, with a narrow white border, covered with blackish brown spots; inferior sepals light green with lines of very small reddish brown sjiots; petals light green with dark lines. $ Cypripedium Harrisianum. Upper sepals broad, shining, dark purple, tipped with white; petals rich purple; lip claret, tipped green. to$ Cypripedium Insigne. Flowers during midwinter. The blooms will last six weeks; sepals and petals yellowish green, petals tipped with white and spotted brown ; the lip is orange and brown. $ to .$ Cypripedium Sedeni. Sepals greenish white; petals twisted, white edged with purple, lip medium sized, rich crimson shaded with purpl
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