. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. Fig. 646 —Vanilla. Fig. 647.—Cselogyne cristata. Everybody is acquainted with the powerful odour and intense, penetrating flavour of the Vanilla {Vanilla aromatica, fig. 646), but everyone does not know that it is the produce of a climbing orchid. It sends down roots six or eight feet long, from the roof of the house to the ground. The fruit, which is a long pod, is used for flavouring purposes. I received my plant from Mr. Terry, who has fine specimens. It rarely fruit
. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. Fig. 646 —Vanilla. Fig. 647.—Cselogyne cristata. Everybody is acquainted with the powerful odour and intense, penetrating flavour of the Vanilla {Vanilla aromatica, fig. 646), but everyone does not know that it is the produce of a climbing orchid. It sends down roots six or eight feet long, from the roof of the house to the ground. The fruit, which is a long pod, is used for flavouring purposes. I received my plant from Mr. Terry, who has fine specimens. It rarely fruits in this country, though fine pods from Sion House have been shown. The plant itself requires full exposure to the sun to mature it, and I have .seen it in fruit at the Horticultural Gardens in Florence, where no doubt the powerful Italian sun con- tributes to perfect the fruit in the hot-houses there. There is a very beautiful orchid, the Cczlogyne cristata (fig. 647), from Nepaul, which thrives well in my fernery. It forms its bulbs during the summer, and soon after Christmas sends up its flower-spikes, that hang gracefully over the sides of the pot in which it is planted. It is a very charming plant. The Pitcher-plants are the universal concomitants of an orchid- house. The oldest and best-known one, the Nepenthes distillatoria, was nearly lost, and had become very scarce a year or two since. I have had this variety, and now possess N. levis, which forms its pitchers well. The N. ampullacea is the most noble, having pitchers of pro-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smee, Alfred, 1818-1877. London, Bell and Daldy
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