. DENDROBIUM NOBILE. ORCHIDS FOR COOL GREENHOUSE. These can be grown in any cool greenhouse or pit where the temperature does not fall below 38 or 40°. The time of flowering is given with each variety. Bletia Tankervilliae. A well-known variety; pro- ducing long spikes of large flowers during the wimer months; sepals and petals brownish red, lip white, purple tip, and greenish yellow centre. $ to $1-50. Cattleya Citrina. The flowers are of a bright lemon yellow, deliciously fragrant, and are produced singly or in pairs; it blooms from May to August, and lasts for three or four weeks.
. DENDROBIUM NOBILE. ORCHIDS FOR COOL GREENHOUSE. These can be grown in any cool greenhouse or pit where the temperature does not fall below 38 or 40°. The time of flowering is given with each variety. Bletia Tankervilliae. A well-known variety; pro- ducing long spikes of large flowers during the wimer months; sepals and petals brownish red, lip white, purple tip, and greenish yellow centre. $ to $1-50. Cattleya Citrina. The flowers are of a bright lemon yellow, deliciously fragrant, and are produced singly or in pairs; it blooms from May to August, and lasts for three or four weeks. to $ Cypripedium Boxalli. Upper sepals of a beautiful fresh light green, with a narrow white border, covered with blackish brown spots ; inferior sepals light green with lines of very small reddish brown spots; petals light green with dark lines. $ Cypripedium Venustum. Flowers of medium size; petals and sepals greenish white or pink ; the former fringed in a peculiar manner; lip yellowish green. Foliage light green, curiously blotched and mottled with black and green ; flowers during winter. $ Cypripedium Insigne. Flowers during mid-winter. The blooms will last six weeks; sepals and petals yellowish green, petals tipped with white and spotted brown ; the lip is orange and brown. $ to $ Cypripedium Sedeni. Sepals greenish white; petals twisted, white edged with purple, lip medium sized, rich crimson shaded with purple ; winter. $ Cypripedium Villostim. Flowers often measure six inches across, and have a fine glossy appearance over their whole surface, which is orange red intermixed with light green and dark purple; May. $ La?lia Anceps. Flowers fragrant, two to four inches across; sepals and petals rosy lilac; lip deep purple shaded with rosy lilac; very free flowering and an easilv grown species; December and January. $ to $ Laelia Autumnalis. A lovely and showy Orchid. It produces its blooms on spikes of from six to nine flowers; t
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