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Title: Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants
Year: 1842 (1840s)
Authors: Paxton, Sir Joseph, 1803-1865.
Subjects: Botany--Periodicals Flowers--Periodicals.
Publisher: London: W. S. Orr and Co.
Contributing Library: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, McLean Library
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ouses, there is little to do beyond repelling frost, excluding dampness, and preservingeverything as clean as possible. The thorough extirpation of insects may still be pursued in badweather; and the forcing-house should be early fumigated, should it be infested with the differentspecies of Aphis. In proportion as forced flowers are more tender and valuable, should th^ybe guaided with the greater care from the attacks of insects ; and measures) taken in good timeto check the advance of these pests. Everything within doors should resemble, as nearly as practicable, all without, and be thoroughlytorpid. To this end, water should seldom be administered, and only in small quantities. Fu-esshould be avoided, when they can be dispensed with, and external coverings preferred. Air, like-wise, ought even now to be given on every dry day that the temperature does not fall below thefreezing point. By rendering the plants thus hardy, the effects of the winter will be far lessprejudicially felt. I
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iMAsn-i^i^i^ ^((./Meyya^ ^-^^^e4-^t^ CATTLEYA SUPERBA. Class,GYNANDRIA, (Superb-flowered Cattleya-) Natural Order. ORCHIDACE^. Order. MONANDRIA. Generic Character.—See page 1, of the presentvolume. Specific Character.—Plant epiphytal. Stems ahouta foot long, pretty regularly swollen, and unusuallyroundish. Leaves ovately oblong, obtuse, coriaceous. marginate. Sepals oblong, acute; petals lanceolate,acute, membranaceous, broader than the sepals.Labelltim three-lobed, cucullate: lateral lobes acute;middle lobe plane, toothletted, emarginate, with ele-vated veins at the base. A FIGURE of this truly superb object having been published in Dr. Lindleysnoble Sertum Orchidaceum, we gather from thence that it has been found inBritish Guayana by Mr. Schomburgk,who sent a live plant of it to Messrs. Loddiges.The flowers, if not so large as C. Mossice, are inferior to none in beauty. Accordingto Mr. Schomburgk, the plant appears peculiar to the third and fourth degrees ofnorth latitude; it is

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