Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom . tection in winter; sometimes it actslike the biennials, but, as seeds are produced very freely,young seedlings spring up constantly between the oldplants, and one does not miss the few which may decayduring the second year , the plant forms a very neat,slightly spreading tuft; flower
Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom . tection in winter; sometimes it actslike the biennials, but, as seeds are produced very freely,young seedlings spring up constantly between the oldplants, and one does not miss the few which may decayduring the second year , the plant forms a very neat,slightly spreading tuft; flowers are produced in many-flowered umbels, terminal, numerous, and large, glow-ing crimson-magenta, saucer shaped, very showy. Juneto November. Full exposure to sun, an<l light sandysoil, are needed to bring out the rare beauty of theseplants. The flowers close up when evening comes, likethe annual portulacas, but they reopen on the follow-ing day. In the sunny, sloping part of a rockery, evenwhen quite dry, or among other low plants in a bed orborder, they are highly satisfactory. This is the onlyspecies which we have found to be tolerably hardy withus in the north as a perennial , it may also be treatedlike the annuals, as it flowers the first summer just asfreely as afterwards. Can be prop, by 8 810 -A most p \ular orchid. many forms, ofwhich the followingare the most impor-tant : Var. gigant^a,Larger in all jiarts: fls. wliiliwith red eve. Var. nivalis,Hort. white. VarTiimeri, Hort. (C. Turneri,Keichb. f.). Fls. more numerous. labellum with a crimsblotch ; blooms later in thean the next. Varrilbro-ocuUta, Hort. Labellum with a crimson - purpleblotch. October - FebruarjVar. mteo-oculata, Hort. Yellow-blotched. Var. Regni^Ti,Hort. (C. Beiinieri. C. Stevensidna, Regnier). Pseudobulbs more elongated,with a depression above themiddle,labellum a purple blotch in frontof column, less deeply lobed than in the type. 6: 6
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