The Gardeners' chronicle - a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects (1905) (14597826629)

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Title: The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, Ornamental Gardening
Publisher: London : (Gardeners Chronicle)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries



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; cup J inch deep, richyellow broadly edged with orange. Nectarine would be classed in the Leedssection. The flowers are 3-J-inches across, ivory-white ; the cup is ;;-inch in depth, and of thecolour of a Tangierine Orange; the reddishcolour is probably an endowment derived from a hybrid Orchids, the production of which Mr. JCharlesworth has made his chief study. But although most of the houses are filledwith well - grown hybrid Cattleyas, Laslio-Cattleyas, and Odontoglossums, interest in thespecies and in importing new and rare Orchids isstill maintained. Considerable space is devotedto Cattleya Mendeli, C. Schroderie, C. TriantE,and other large-flowering Cattleyas and Laelias,of which there are great quantities of fine plantsin sheath and bud; also to Oncidium macran-thuLU (of which a quanti^y of vigorous plantshive strong flower-spikes), O. varicosum, andthe rest of the cool-house Oncidiums, and,generally speaking, to selections of all thebest of the showy species. Some time ago a
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