. The orchid-grower's manual, containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants in cultivation ... Orchids. 344 orchid-growee's manual. barred with reddish-brown; the lip is large, white tinged with rose blotched with crimson and beautifully fringed. This variety produces as many as three or four flowers on a spike, and when grown in a basket makes a very charming object. It was first exhibited by Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., in whose fine collection it flowered.—Mexico. Via.—Orchid Alivm, vi. t. 251 ; The Garden, 1887, xxxii. p. 322, t. 617 ; Journ. of TIoH., 188
. The orchid-grower's manual, containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants in cultivation ... Orchids. 344 orchid-growee's manual. barred with reddish-brown; the lip is large, white tinged with rose blotched with crimson and beautifully fringed. This variety produces as many as three or four flowers on a spike, and when grown in a basket makes a very charming object. It was first exhibited by Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., in whose fine collection it flowered.—Mexico. Via.—Orchid Alivm, vi. t. 251 ; The Garden, 1887, xxxii. p. 322, t. 617 ; Journ. of TIoH., 1887, xiv., p. 107, f. 17 ; Reichcnhachia, 2nd ser., i. t. ODOXTOGLOSSUM CIKKHOSUM (Natural size). (From the Gardeners' Chronicle.') O. CERVANTESII MEMBRANACEUM, Lindl.—A charming small-growing variety of this beautiful species, in which the larger fragi-ant flowers, which smell of almonds, are pure white having concentric broken lines of crimson at the base, and a deeply cordate retuse blunt lip, marked with a few concentric crimson bars. It blooms during the winter months, and continues in bloom four weeks. This will do on a block of wood or in a pot. There are many forms of this variety. One named roseum is a very handsome plant, with the flowers in racemes of five or six together, rose colour, shaded with yellow, and barred with brown, and produced through autumn and winter.—Mexico; Guatemala. Fia.—Sot. Beg., 1846, t. 34 ; Sot. Ifag., t. 4923 ; Annates de Gaud,-1845, t. 10 ; Pescatorea, t. 5 ; jifom-e, III. Oroh. PI. (^Odontoglossum), t. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Williams, Benjamin Samuel, 1822-1890; Williams, Henry. London, Victoria and Paradise nurseries
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