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Title: The orchid-grower's manual, containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants in cultivation ..
Identifier: cu31924002824286 (find matches)
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Williams, Benjamin Samuel, 1822-1890; Williams, Henry
Subjects: Orchids
Publisher: London, Victoria and Paradise nurseries
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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DENDEOBIUM. 32;J D. AINSWORTHII, Moore.~A beautiful and free-blooming hybrid, between D. noUle and D. aurevm (heteroca/rpwm) ; the stems resemble those of JD. nobile, and the plant is quite as free a grower as that parent, blossoming from the mature stems; the leaves are linear-oblong; the flowers, which are produced
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DENDEOBIUM AINSWOETHII. (From the Gardeners' Chroniele.') from Januar3- to March, are deliciously scented, the sepals and petals pure white, the lip marked with a large central feathered blotch of rich bright amaranth or claret-purple. This plant was raised by Mr. Mitchell, when gardener to the late Dr. Ainsworth, of Manchester.—Oarden hybrid. FiG.— Gard. Cliron., N.s.,i. p. 443,figs. 93, 94 ; ld.,v\n. p. 166, figs. 30.31, 32 (specimen plant) ; Id., xvi. p. 625, f. 125 ; Floral Mag., 2nd ser., 1.196 ; FlorM and Pom., 18/4, p. 114, with figs. ; Lindcnia, vii. t. 297 ; Wanti-r, Sd. Orch. PI., iii. t. 30 ; Veitch's Man. Orch. PZ./iii. p. 186. D. AINSWORTHII ROSEUM, Moore.—A. very handsome deeper coloured variety of the preceding, in which the sepals and petals are of a bright clear rosy magenta, and the lip amaranth crimson with a dark spot, feathered at the edge, and traversed by deeper crimson veins. It flowers in February and March, and was raised, we believe, in the same batch of seedlings as the foregoing.—Garden hybrid. Fig.—Orohid Album, i. t. 20. D. ALBO-SANGUINEUM, Lindley.—A distinct and compact-growing plant, with thick erect knobby stems a foot high, and thicker upwards. The leaves are 21*

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  • bookdecade:1890
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Williams_Benjamin_Samuel_1822_1890
  • bookauthor:Williams_Henry
  • booksubject:Orchids
  • bookpublisher:London_Victoria_and_Paradise_nurseries
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