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Title: Cassell's popular gardening
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Fish, David Taylor, 1824-1901
Subjects: Gardening
Publisher: London, Paris, New York Melbourne, Cassell & company, limited
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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h by from six totwelve inches in breadth; it is a native of the WestIndian Islands southward to Peru and Brazil.T. spicatum is the only representative mentioned inthese pages of a small section, Feea—regarded as adistinct genus by some authorities—in which thesterile and the fertile fronds are difEerent, the latterconsisting of a narrow distichous spike. The^ darkgreen sterile fronds measure from four to six inchesia length by one to one and a half in breadth, andare pinnatifid nearly to the rachis. THE BLUE BOLLEA (BOLLEA CCELESTIS).A STOVE epiphyte from tropical South America,belonging to the order of orchids. Pot culture willmost likely be best adapted to meet the needs ofthese plants, for although, in common with mostother epiphytal species, they will no doubt grow ona block with sphagnum, still pots, well drained andfilled with good porous material, composed of fibrous^peat, sphagnum, and broken crocks or charcoal, willdoubtless be the best medium for the roots to layhold of.
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