. The Book of gardening; a handbook of horticulture. Gardening; Horticulture. 6i8 THE BOOK OF GARDENING. purpose are Cypripedium acaule, C. Cakeolus, and C. spectabile, many species of Ophrys, and a number of interesting Orchis, of which O. foliosa and O. latifolia are two of the easiest grown and the most beautiful. Culture.—Hardy Orchids require a position somewhat sheltered from the bright rays of the sun in summer, and from excessive cold and wet in winter. The material best suited for their requirements is a mixture of fibrous loam, peat, and leaf- mould, with a liberal sprinkling of coar
. The Book of gardening; a handbook of horticulture. Gardening; Horticulture. 6i8 THE BOOK OF GARDENING. purpose are Cypripedium acaule, C. Cakeolus, and C. spectabile, many species of Ophrys, and a number of interesting Orchis, of which O. foliosa and O. latifolia are two of the easiest grown and the most beautiful. Culture.—Hardy Orchids require a position somewhat sheltered from the bright rays of the sun in summer, and from excessive cold and wet in winter. The material best suited for their requirements is a mixture of fibrous loam, peat, and leaf- mould, with a liberal sprinkling of coarse sand. If planted in the rockery particular attention should be given to the matter of drainage to prevent, as far as possible, excessive accumulations of water about the roots. The least stagnation is liable to have disastrous effects on any ;v" kind of hardy Orchids. ' Hybridisation. s *^i This interesting branch j^ in the culture of Orchids K is practically only in its ^^^^^ 1&. infancy, although thirty- seven years have elapsed since the first artificially- raised hybrid flowered in this country. It was obtained by the late Mr. J. Dominy in the Exeter nurseries of Messrs. J. Veitch and Sons, by the inter- crossing of Calanthe Masuca and , and was named C. Dominii. Mr. Dominy continued raising seed- lings at Exeter with success. When the firm removed to the Royal Exotic Nurseries, in King's Road, Chelsea, a few years later, encouraged by the success he had achieved, and with fresh material constantly coming to hand, Mr. Dominy was enabled to considerably extend his operations, with the result that many of the most beautiful hybrids raised by that pioneer of Orchid hybridisation are still among the choicest and most valuable in up-to-date collections. Mr. Dominy was succeeded in the-middle of the sixties by Mr. J. Seden, who has continued crossing and intercrossing both hybrids and species uninterruptedly up to the present, with the result that scarcely
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