Window gardening - devoted specially to the culture of flowers and ornamental plants for in door use and parlor decoration (1884) (14761469161)

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Title: Window gardening : devoted specially to the culture of flowers and ornamental plants for in door use and parlor decoration

Year: 1884 (1880s)

Authors: Williams, Henry T

Subjects: House plants Window gardening

Publisher: New York : Ladies' Floral Cabinet Co.

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nts, for amateurs, whomay cultivate them in a green house or flower saloon of a moderate temperature.The following species are free bloomers, not very tender, and easily cultivated : Dendrobium nobile; Cattleya Mossioe, labiata, Skinneri, guttata, Perrinii,Laelia majalis, autumnalis, superbiens; Calanthe veratrifolia, vestita rosea;Cypripedium barbatum, insigne, venustum,- Epidendrum ciliare, fragrans ,■Gongora maculata ; Maxillaria tenuifolia, Harrissonice, picta; Oncidium pu-pilio, roseum, piduratum, aynpliatum, flexuosum, luridum; Odontoglossumgrande, pulchellum, Uro-Skinneri, Inslenyi; Lycaste aromatica, Deppii, Skin-neri ; Stanhopea tigrina, saccata, oculata,gtittulata, insignis; Schomburgkiacrispa; Adneta HumJwldtii, longiscarpa; Zygopetalum Mackayi, crinitum,Phaius grandifolius (Bletia TankervillicE, LimodorunC) ; Peristeria alata; Mil-tonia Candida; Ccelogyne cristata, Trichopilia tortilis;Cymbidium aloifolium,ensifolium; Bletia hyacinthina PART II. PLANTS FOR WINDOW GARDENS

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Pig. I.—Oesisa for Ornamental Hangtng BasKet. CI£^r>TlLJEl X. Hanging Baskets. Hanging Baskets form our simplest and also cheapest style of window orna-ment. They need very little care, their demands are not very exacting, andthe chances of failure are very much less than plants of more sensitive nature,fit only for careful pot culture. The Hanging Basket is supposed to be a moderninvention, or, at any rate, not very popularly used until late times; hence, itstrikes us with feelings of curiosity to learn that, in the observance of theJewish rural festivals hundreds of years ago, plants and cut flowers were tastefully arranged, placed in vases, and suspended from the branches forming theroof of the leaf-covered tabernacle. This was made of the branches of theoak, cedar, palm, and willow, so cut as to prevent them from withering forseven days, while the Passover was celebrated. The directions for culture are very simple: Choose as pots or baskets claybowls of porous ware, which ma

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