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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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to thank for it Mr.Bull, who h.is usually mercy on such tiny littlecreatures, allowing them light and room for flower-ing. It is no commercial plant of course. H. G,Rchb. f. MR. HARDYS ORCHIDS. There are certain localities in the kingdom thatbecome famed for particular descriptions of plantswhich are there cultivated more extensively than else-where. In this way Manchester has earned a repu- such representatives of the respective genera as pro-duce flowers possessing a combination of colour andform that would commend them to any teal lover offlowers generally, be they Orchids or others. If this latter course had been followed, many whoform collections would not so often find themselvesin possession of plants which, when they cease to benew, have nothing to render them worthy of notice.Forty years ago, when the known species of Orchidsstood in the proportion of not more than one to a scoreof what they are at the present day, there was somesemblance of reason in buying a plant simply on
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Fig. 133.—cypritedium selligerum. (see p. 780.) tation or the numerous and valuable collections ofOrchids that from time to time by so many indi-viduals have been formed in the neighbourhood.Many suppose that bringing together a comprehen-sive assemblage of Orchids is simply a question ofmoney, but although they cost more than most plants,still to possess a really good collection, or, what ismuch more preferable, a selection of the most meri-torious, requires time and judgment. Nothing ismore common with people when first they take aliking to these fascinating plants, than to buy every-thing that is new, rare, and dear, without ever takinga common-sense view of the matter, which wouldsuggest the desirability of confining the selection to account of its being a new species, but it is not so now.Not by any means that singularity of form or habitshould be set down for nothing—the elegant droopingracemes of Dendrochilum filiforme will always makethe plant deserving of a place in even

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