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Title: The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, Ornamental Gardening
Publisher: London : (Gardeners Chronicle)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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sin cultivation, with very few of the worthless varieties.This was fully evident at the last INIanchester Whitsun-tide exhibition, where Mr. Hardy took the 1st prizeeasily in the principal class for fifteen plants—a morethan ordinary performance when it is taken intoaccount that he was competing in a locality wherethere exists such a wealth of Orchids in the possessionof those who are practised hands at both growing andexhibiting. exhibited the variation which this handsome group ofOrchidsaffords—two examples especially, M. Veitchiiand M. Harryana, were in grand condition, bearingsome forty flowers each. There were also one or twonew kinds, not in flower, described as bearing im-mense blooms. Odontoglossums are represented by numbers ofplants of all the best species, many of which were inflower. O. vexillarium, O. cirrosum, with elevenlarge spikes ; O. Cervantcsi, one large example ofwhich, half a yard across, was a complete carpetof flowers: of this beautiful free-flowering genus
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Fig. 134.—CYPKIPEDItlM LAWRENCEANUM. (sEE P. 7S0.) Those kinds which thrive in a cool and inter-mediate temperature constitute the greater portion ofthe collection. The following are a few of themost noticeable plants. Amongst the now numerousrepresentatives of the most intensely coloured of allOrchids, the Masdevallias, is a grand plant of thevery large flowered highly coloured M. sanguinea ; afitting companion to the above is M. violacea, an extraform of M. Lindeni, the singular M. bella and M.Benedicta, a very large-bloomed form ofM. ignea,and an equally large-flowered, highly tinted variety ofM. Harryana. These, m addition to the differentspecies to which they are allied, were in bloom, and there are good specimens of O. Rossii majus,O. Dawsonianum, O. Hallii, O. triumphans, O.nebulosum, O. roseum, O. Roezlii by the score, andseveral hundred O. Alexandra:. Amongst Cattleyas there were some twenty-fivedistinct varieties of C. Mossia3, one in particular, C.Hardyana, which may be d

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