. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. 184 CASSELL'S POPULAR GARDENING. bulbs, and long, sheathing, dark green, coriaceous leaves ; raceme many-flowered; flowers very fragrant, resembling Hawthorn, large and pure white, middle of the lip pale yellow, April and May. Brazil. tivation, but nevertheless very elegant. It is a dwarf and compact grower. Pseudo-bulbs small, bearing several dark green sheathing coriaceous leaves, and pendant racemes of pure white flowers,. BURLINGTONIA DECORA. B. Knoivlesii.—A beautiful dwarf j)lant which suc- ceeds best upon a block of wood. In general ap- pearance
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. 184 CASSELL'S POPULAR GARDENING. bulbs, and long, sheathing, dark green, coriaceous leaves ; raceme many-flowered; flowers very fragrant, resembling Hawthorn, large and pure white, middle of the lip pale yellow, April and May. Brazil. tivation, but nevertheless very elegant. It is a dwarf and compact grower. Pseudo-bulbs small, bearing several dark green sheathing coriaceous leaves, and pendant racemes of pure white flowers,. BURLINGTONIA DECORA. B. Knoivlesii.—A beautiful dwarf j)lant which suc- ceeds best upon a block of wood. In general ap- pearance it resembles B. vemista, but differs from it in having the white sepals and petals suffused with rosy-pink. Autumn and winter. Brazil. B. venusta.—This is the commonest species in cul- slightly fragrant. Sepals and petals pellucid, the lip stained on the disc wdth pale yellow. The racemes of bloom are admirably adapted for deco- rating a lady's hair for ball or evening party. The flowers are produced at short intervals almost all the year round. 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 Fish, David Taylor, 1824-1901; Fish, D. T. (David Taylor), 1824-1901. London ; New York : Cassell
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