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Identifier: orchidgrowersman00inwill (find matches)
Title: The orchid-grower's manual : containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Williams, Benjamin Samuel, 1822-1890
Subjects: Orchids
Publisher: London : Victoria and Paradise Nurseries
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
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ng and pretty species;it has long obtuse bright green leaves, and pale yellowprettily spotted flowers. It is of easy culture, and must bekept in the warm house.—In Ma. B. reticulatum, Bateman.—This is a very singular Orchid,the handsomest of the genus, the leaf being three to five incheslong, and somewhat heart-shaped, with the nerves of a deepergreen than the rest of the surface, giving it a beautifully 156 oechid-groweks manual. reticulated appearance; the flowers, whicli are borne in pairs,,are white, striped inside with purple, and the lip is spottedwith the same colour. It is easy of culture, delighting inthe strong heat of the East Indian house.—Borneo. YiG.—Bot. Mag., t. 5605; Bafem. 2nd Cent. Orch. PL, t. 190. B. Saltatorium, Lindley.—^A curious dwarf Orchid withflowers of a greenish brown colour, produced at differenttimes of the year, and lasting some time in perfection. Theplant should be grown in the East Indiau house.—• WestAfrica. FlG.—Bot. Reg., t. 1970.
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BXILBOPHTLLUM SIAMENSE. B. siamense, Bchh. f.—A very pretty species, and welladapted for those who, having but little space, devote it tothe small-growing kin:)s. The pseudobulbs are ovate, the BURLINGTONIA. 157 leaves longer and stouter than those of B. Lohbii, and theflowers pale nankin yellow striped with purplish brown,the hinged lip being yellow streaked with purplish blacklines, and having a deep yellow disk. It should be grown ina pot, with peat and sphagnum moss.—Siam. ¥lG.—Jie/ug. Bot. ii., t. 116. BURLINGTONIA, Lindleij.(Tribe Vandefe, subtribe OncidieEe.) There are some beautiful species in this genus, all of which,except B. decora, are of a very compact habit of growth.They have pseudobulbs, terminated by one or two evergreenleaves, four to six inches high, and produce their delicately-coloured flowers mostly on drooping spikes from the side oftheir pseudobulbs. They have the dorsal sepals free, and thelateral ones connate, petals resembling the dorsal sepal, and al

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  • bookcentury:1800
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  • booksubject:Orchids
  • bookpublisher:London___Victoria_and_Paradise_Nurseries
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