. The century book of gardening; a comprehensive work for every lover of the garden. Gardening. THE ORCHIDS. 321. SBSQ UIPEDA LE. days, the Cypripediums in particular. Collectors arc hunting still for the floral treasures of countries yet untra veiled, and glorious species are introduced occa- sionally to startle the Orchidist, but naturally distinct Kinds a r e less numerous now than in those days when the world of Orchids was untapped. Reliance for great novelties has been placed upon the hybridist who in his own glasshouse manufactures, by crossing, species likely to give a beaut
. The century book of gardening; a comprehensive work for every lover of the garden. Gardening. THE ORCHIDS. 321. SBSQ UIPEDA LE. days, the Cypripediums in particular. Collectors arc hunting still for the floral treasures of countries yet untra veiled, and glorious species are introduced occa- sionally to startle the Orchidist, but naturally distinct Kinds a r e less numerous now than in those days when the world of Orchids was untapped. Reliance for great novelties has been placed upon the hybridist who in his own glasshouse manufactures, by crossing, species likely to give a beautiful progeny. Many Orchid collectors obtained their treasures at the risk' of life itself, and it is interesting to read in Veitch's manual of Orchidaceous plants of the labours of that celebrated traveller, George Ure-Skinneri, " by whose untiring energy and disinterestedness the most beautiful Orchids of Central America became denizens for the first time of the glasshouses of Great ; The following particulars, extracted chiefly from an address delivered before the Royal Horticultural Society in February, 1867, by the famous Mr. Bateman, will be read with interest. Mr. Bateman, one of the greatest of Orchid growers, wrote to Mr. Skinner, who, encouraged by an increasing interest displayed in the flowers of the tropics at home, " laboured incessantly to drag from their hiding-places the forest treasures of Guatemala and transfer them to the shores of bis native land. In pursuit of this object there w as no sacrifice he did not make, or a danger or hardship he did not brave. In sickness or in health, amid the calls of business or the perils of war. whether detained in quarantine on the shores of the Atlantic or shipwrecked on the rocks of the Pacific, he never suffered an opportunity to escape him of adding to the long array of his botanical discoveries . . it is sufficient to mention here Cattleya Skinneri and Lycaste ; It would be a long st
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