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Identifier: gardenerschronic354lond (find matches)
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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ve a dis-tinct day, which they appear to keep with equalregularity. A curious fact is that anotherspecies of Dendrobium (D. criniferum) invari-ably flowers in Singapore on the day precedingthat of D. crumenatum, whenever that happensto be. It might be thought that the weather inthe district in which the plant was growing wasthe influencing agent, but this appears to havebut little effect on the Orchids. On one occasion SAXIFRACA x AMBICUA. Two very distinct Saxifragas. S. media andS. aretioides, which cross naturally and producean interesting series of hybrids, are found in thePyrenees. S. media has rosettes of crustedfoliage and red stems and flowers, whilst thetiny .S. aretioides forms a tuft of small rosettesand bears yellow flowers. Of the numerous off-spring from these two plants there are three dis-tinct forms. These are S. X ambigua (a fineform of which is illustrated in fig. 68), whichcomes nearest to S. media, with similar rosettesand inflorescences, but with more coppery red
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Fia. (Photograph by W. Irvisng. 3.—SAXIFP.\GA AMBIGUA (S. MEDIA X S. ARETIOIDES) : FLOWERS COPPERY-RED. (December 5, 1895), the Pigeon Orchids de-veloped their flowers so far that they were oh-viously ready to open them on that day, but anextraordinarily heavy rain retarded them andthe flowers opened, the next day ; but, except incases like this, the weather previous to theflowering does not seem to make any differenceto the date of the flowering. It can easily beunderstood that it is very important to a plantthat all should open on the same day, in or<lerthat they may be croes-fertilised by the insectsthat visit them, and this is especially the casein plants in which the flowers last but a singleday, as in the case of the Pigeon Orchid,but it is difficult to see how this is broughtabout. /. OB. flowers. Intermediate is S. luteo-purpurea. withsmaller rcs;<ttes and flowers, having red sepalsand yellow petals. Nearest to S. aretioides isthe form known as S. Lapeyrousei, and in w

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  • booksubject:Gardening
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