. P RCHIDS 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. Acineta Hnmboldti. Pretty straw-colored flow- ers, dotted form ; blooms in May. $ Bletia Tankervilliae. A well-known variety; producing long spikes of large flowers during the winter months; sepals and petals brownish red, lip white, purple tip, and greenish yellow centre. $ to $ CattJeya Citrina. The flowers are of a bright lemon yellow, deliciously fragrant, and are produced singly or in pairs; it
. P RCHIDS 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. Acineta Hnmboldti. Pretty straw-colored flow- ers, dotted form ; blooms in May. $ Bletia Tankervilliae. A well-known variety; producing long spikes of large flowers during the winter months; sepals and petals brownish red, lip white, purple tip, and greenish yellow centre. $ to $ CattJeya Citrina. The flowers are of a bright lemon yellow, deliciously fragrant, and are produced singly or in pairs; it blooms from Mav to August, and lasts for three or four weeks. $ to $ Cypripedium Boxalli. Upper sepals of a beau- tiful 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 Insi^ne. 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 $
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