. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 798 The Am eric an Florist. May IS, ORCHID NOTES. Orchids with fine foliase are not com- mon but some of the native sootlycras .?ire well worth Krowins on this account alone while the ana?ctochili are ainon^ the most beautiful foliase plants in ex- istence but tlifiicnlt to grow. The deciduous dendrobiunis such as the well known D. crasslnode. \V. War- (lianuni and D. Bonsonise like smaller pots or baskets than the eversreon, bunch flowered kinds of which D. densiflorum and Y>. thyrsiflorum are well known examp
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 798 The Am eric an Florist. May IS, ORCHID NOTES. Orchids with fine foliase are not com- mon but some of the native sootlycras .?ire well worth Krowins on this account alone while the ana?ctochili are ainon^ the most beautiful foliase plants in ex- istence but tlifiicnlt to grow. The deciduous dendrobiunis such as the well known D. crasslnode. \V. War- (lianuni and D. Bonsonise like smaller pots or baskets than the eversreon, bunch flowered kinds of which D. densiflorum and Y>. thyrsiflorum are well known examples. Cattleya Sklnneri. The free flowering nature of Cattleja Skinneri is well shown in the accom- panying illustration from a photograph taken of a plant that flowered in Dr. Schiflfman"s collection at St. Paul, Minn., some years ago. The plant illustrated was carrying CO flowers on eight growths and was a healthy, vigorous specimen. C. Skinneri differs from the labiata sec- tion in producing more flowers on a spike, but these are smaller. The flow- ers are a pretty rose purple with a deeper colored lip, the coloring being on the outside of this segment, not in the throat, as it usually occurs. It likes less root room than the stronger grow- ing species and rather less heat, but otherwise its treatment does not vary much from that advised for the- labiata kinds. The flowers are a good deal like those of a dendrobium and are often deliciously scented. Colombian Orchids. Consul-General Jay White, of Bo- gota, reports as follows concerning- the orchids of Colombia : "Odontog-lossum crispum. one of the most notable of all orchids, is to be found in Colombia on the temperate-climate mountajin ridges, in the district between Facata- tiva and Velez. For many years past thousands of these plants have been sent out of the country, chiefly to Lon- don. This orchid is also found on the mountain slopes above the town of Fusagasuga, but the plants gathered in that district are no
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