Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestry (1891) (14780932331)

Identifier: gardenforestjour41891sarg (find matches)
Title: Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestry
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Sargent, Charles Sprague, 1841-1927
Subjects: Botany Gardening Forests and forestry
Publisher: New York : The Garden and forest publishing co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library



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at the base, thusforming a remarkable, hollow, pendent spur. When theflower first opens the parts are pale green ; they all turn tocreamy yellow except the spur, which retains the greenishtint; later they assume a waxy whiteness, which is maintainedfor several weeks, and then they turn to rich yellow beforedropping. A specimen grown here presented a magnificentappearance when in bloom last February. The stem of thisplant is but twelve inches in height, and it bears only a single,one-year-old branch. But, notwithstanding its small size,eleven full-sized flowers appeared at once on four peduncles.To develop this free-flowering character A. sesquipedale shouldbe planted in a basket and suspended from the roof, close tothe glass, on the sunny side of a house, which is kept at astove temperature all the year. Growing Sphagnum, withample drainage, will be found most acceptable to the roots.Although free access of light is essential at all seasons, vet, to u6 Garden and Forest. (Number 159.
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Fig. 23.—Thuya gigantea.—See page 109. keep the plant healthy, bright sunshine must be excluded byshading except during the winter months. The plant ad-vances with greater rapidity as it is farther removed from thelight, and the foliage then assumes a much more luxuriantcolor ; but this rankness of growth moderates the productionof flowers to a large extent. Moist roots and a moist atmos- phere are congenial to the plant- at all times, but when theflowers appear the supply of water should be reduced. LjELIA superbiens.—The most famous of the early collec-tors of Orchids, Mr. Skinner, wrote that he discovered thisplant in 1839 m Guatemala. The first specimens he hadseen were cultivated by the Indians, to whom the plant was March ii, 1891.) Garden and Forest. 117 then known as the Red Flower. Mr. Skinner adds, that in1840 he found the plant growing in immense quantities abouttwenty leagues north of the city of Guatemala ; that there washoar-frost upon the ground at the time of his