Orchids for everyone . f the lip. M. vexillaria is the most popular member of the family,and it is a fine decorative plant for flowering in the Spring andearly Summer. Two spikes generally proceed from the samepseudo-bulb, and these carry from three to eight or nine large, flatflowers, of a soft rose or rosy lilac shade. In this, as in manyother species, the lip is by far the most prominent organ, and abreadth of three inches is quite common. After they haveflowered the plants should be placed at the warmest end of theOdontoglossum house, or similar position, but when the cool daysof Autumn, a
Orchids for everyone . f the lip. M. vexillaria is the most popular member of the family,and it is a fine decorative plant for flowering in the Spring andearly Summer. Two spikes generally proceed from the samepseudo-bulb, and these carry from three to eight or nine large, flatflowers, of a soft rose or rosy lilac shade. In this, as in manyother species, the lip is by far the most prominent organ, and abreadth of three inches is quite common. After they haveflowered the plants should be placed at the warmest end of theOdontoglossum house, or similar position, but when the cool daysof Autumn, arrive they must be returned to an intermediate may be done about August, when new growth commences,but water must be given sparingly until the new year has broughtan increase of light, and flower spikes begin to form. Somegrowers defer potting until early in the new year, and this prac-tice should be followed where the plants are grown in or nearlarge towns, and where the light is very weak throughout the. MILTONIA ST. ANDRE. THE MOST USEFUL ORCHIDS 121 dull months of the year. M. vexillaria is variable; M. v. albaor M. V. virginalis has white flowers; M. v. Chelsiensis isdeeply coloured, and so is M. v. Crimson King ; M. v. Cobbianais pink, with a white lip; M. v. Daisy Haywood is particularlyfine, lightly rose tinted on the sepals and petals, and with ayellow base to the big white lip; M. v. Leopoldii is deep rose,with a dark maroon blotch at the base of the lip; and M. G. D. Owen is bright rose with a dark rich crimson-purple base to each segment; it is a fine and strikingly distinctvariety. There are numerous other varieties, but these are amongthe finest. M. Bleu AN A is the finest hybrid (M. vexillaria x ); the sepals and petals are white, shaded with rose at thebase, and the broad white lip has a handsome red-brown blotchat the base, extending in front of the yellow disk. M. B. aureahas a conspicuously large yellow disk, and M. B. nobilio
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