The orchid-grower's manual - containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants (1885) (14584110080)

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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation



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1 ^^ ODONTOGLOSSUM. 433 coloured flowers when placed in a cool house ; if they becomedamp they soon get spotted, and so lose their beauty. The form which originally received the name of 0. Alexandrcehad nearly pure white flowers, with a bright golden blotchon the lip. The plant called 0. Bhmtii is a form with white sepalsand petals shaded with rose and richly spotted with purplishcrimson, the lip also being profusely spotted. We may repeat that this is the most useful of all the Odon-toglots, and one cannot have too many of it, so useful isit for every purpose for which flowers are grown.—NeivGrenada: Bogota, at an altitude of 7,000 to 8,000 feet. YlG.—Orchid Album, i. t. 47 ; Jennings, Orch., t. 26 ; Floral Mag., t. 343;Bateman, Mon. OdonU, tt. 14, 19; Flore des Serres, t. 1652 (Bluntii).Syn.—0. Alexandra!, 0. Bluntii, 0. Crispum aureum, Hon.—One of the best yellowvarieties of 0. crispum we have yet seen. The sepals andpetals are of a deep lemon yellow, the sepals spotted wit