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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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imens of Miltmia Phahciopus, Phaius X Cook- album, D. Brymerianum, D. Hildebrandi, D. x Sybil,D. x Juno, D. x Owenianum, D. x melanodiscum,D. x The Pearl, D. fimbriatum oculatum, aud thepretty white and violet Epidendrum Eadresii. Traversing the Peach-houses, which, like the vine-ries, are in excellent order, and made available byMr. Holbrook, the gardener, for resting Orchids onoccasion, we came to the lofty old houses, whichbeing built for ornament, are suitable for PalmsFerns, and foliage-plants, but not for Orchids. Iuthe first one entered were large plants of the stronger-growing species of Cypripedium, and a few of Phalce-nopns. In flower were Cypripedium x Lathamianum,C. x Bartetii, C. x Measure*ianum, C. x Sedeni, C.x cardinale, C. x Adonis, C. hirsutissimum, C. bar-batum Warneri, C. Phalcenopsis Schilleriana, and Cym-bidium eburneum. In other lofty houses wereVandas and other tall-growing species of Orchids,and several well - flowered plants of ADgrcecurusesquipedale. J. 0*B.
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FrO. 9-5.—COTYLEDON RETICULATA, KEW. (SEE P. 281.) soni, a yellow and white form of P. Sanderianus, andCattleya Lawrencaana ; a fine variety of the white,rose-tipped Chysis Limminghii; a pretty white Cat-tleya Triamci, with a slight tinge of lilac on the lip ; C. x Har^yana, and the curious hybrid L&lio-Cat-tleya x Pittiana, illustrated in the Gardeners Chronicle,March 3, 1894, p. 265. In the cool-houses the showier MasdevalHas werebeginning to cxpan 1 their blooms. The varietiesof M. Chimiera showing well, the M. Winniana alreadyin flower being the darkest in colour. Here, too, areSophronitis grandiflora, Ada aurantiaca, OJonto-glossum Rossh majus, andO. Cervantesii, 0. crispum,0. triumphans, O. cirrosum, and several hybrids ofthe O. Andersonianum type, two of them withpeculiar features. In another house numbersof fine Dendrobiums in bloom were remarked,one hybrid, probably ot D. nobile nobilius, beingvery remarkable. Other species and varieties in bloomwere D. Findlayanum, and

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