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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
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278 okchid-geowek's manual. C. LUCIENIANUM, Hort. Belg.—This new hybrid is said to be the result of a cross of C. villosum and C. oenanthwm. There appears to be some doubt as to the parentage being as stated; it is, however, according to the plate in the Lindenia, a showy thing. The petals and lip resemble those of C. villosvmi, but the dorsal sepal is quite distinct, nearly round, heavily blotched with blackish- purple, green at the base, broadly margined with white.—Oarden hybrid. Fig.—Lindenia, viii. t. 362.
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OyPKIPEDIUM LOWII. (From the Gardeners' Chronicle.') C. NIACFARLANEI, Krdnzlin.—" This very beautiful new hybrid was raised in the nursery of Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. Albans, and flowered in the month of August in the well-known collection of Cypripediums of R. H. Measures, Esq., The Woodlands, Streatham. It is the off- spring of 0. calophyllum and C. Spicerianum,, the latter being the pollen plant. The new plant has the size and the beautiful upper sepal of the male, but more flat, and not so revolute on the edges. The labellnm, and to some extent the staminodium, look perfectly like the corresponding parts in

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