. Dreer's garden calendar : 1891. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. rOR GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE. m. Lycaste Skinneri. COOL GREENHOUSE ORCHIDS. Continued. liSelia Autumiialis, A lovely and showy Orchid. It produces on spikes its blooms of from six to nine ; the sepals and petals are of a beautiful purple color; lip rose and white, with yellow in the centre; the flowers are four inches across; December and January. $ to Xiselia Autumiialis Atrorubens. Flowers rich red- dish or magenta purple, deepest towards the tip
. Dreer's garden calendar : 1891. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. rOR GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE. m. Lycaste Skinneri. COOL GREENHOUSE ORCHIDS. Continued. liSelia Autumiialis, A lovely and showy Orchid. It produces on spikes its blooms of from six to nine ; the sepals and petals are of a beautiful purple color; lip rose and white, with yellow in the centre; the flowers are four inches across; December and January. $ to Xiselia Autumiialis Atrorubens. Flowers rich red- dish or magenta purple, deepest towards the tips of the sepals and petals, especially so on the upper part, while the lower is almost pure white. $ Xiselia Crawshayana. An interesting plant, supposed to be a natural hybrid, similar in color to L. Anceps; flowers in December and January. $ to $ Xselia Majalis. Flowers bright silvery rose, lip blotched crimson purple, and margined rosy lilac; June and July. $ Xycaste Aromatica. Flowers yellow, disposed in spikes ; free flowering, blooming during winter and spring, and remaining in beauty for weeks. $ Xycaste Deppei. Flowers pale greenish yellow, blotched with brown ; lip white, spotted with crimson having a golden crest; flowers in spring. 75 cts. to $ Lycaste Skinneri., Flowers from four to inches across; sepals and petals white, more or less suffused with rose; lip rosy lilac, frequently very heavily blotched with tlie deepest rosy crimson; November to March; $ to .$ Odontoglossum Anceps. Flowers of a soft deep yel- low, beautifully barred or spotted towards the centre with rich brownish crimson, measuring three to four inches across ; winter. Odontoglossum Alexandrae, Pure white with bright golden spots on the lips; a graceful plant, producing its lovely spikes of bloom very freely when kept quite cool; winter. .$ to $ Odontoglossum Bictonense. Flowers about one inch across, yellowish green, transversely barred wit
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