. Dreer's garden calendar for 1888. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs. HOUSE AND GREENHOUSE PLANTS. 121. DENDROBIUM NOBILE. ORCHIDS FOR COOL GREENHOUSE. These can be grown in any cool greenhouse or pit where the temperature does not fall below 38 or 40°. The time of flowering is given with each variety. Bletia Tankervilliae. A well-known variety; pro- ducing long spikes of large flowers during the wimer months; sepals and petals brownish red, lip white, purple tip, and greenish yellow centre. $ to $1-50. Cattleya Citrina. The flowers are of
. Dreer's garden calendar for 1888. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs. HOUSE AND GREENHOUSE PLANTS. 121. DENDROBIUM NOBILE. ORCHIDS FOR COOL GREENHOUSE. These can be grown in any cool greenhouse or pit where the temperature does not fall below 38 or 40°. The time of flowering is given with each variety. Bletia Tankervilliae. A well-known variety; pro- ducing long spikes of large flowers during the wimer months; sepals and petals brownish red, lip white, purple tip, and greenish yellow centre. $ to $1-50. Cattleya Citrina. The flowers are of a bright lemon yellow, deliciously fragrant, and are produced singly or in pairs; it blooms from May to August, and lasts for three or four weeks. to $ Cypripedium Boxalli. Upper sepals of a beautiful fresh light green, with a narrow white border, covered with blackish brown spots ; inferior sepals light green with lines of very small reddish brown spots; petals light green with dark lines. $ Cypripedium Venustum. Flowers of medium size; petals and sepals greenish white or pink ; the former fringed in a peculiar manner; lip yellowish green. Foliage light green, curiously blotched and mottled with black and green ; flowers during winter. $ Cypripedium Insigne. Flowers during mid-winter. The blooms will last six weeks; sepals and petals yellowish green, petals tipped with white and spotted brown ; the lip is orange and brown. $ to $ Cypripedium Sedeni. Sepals greenish white; petals twisted, white edged with purple, lip medium sized, rich crimson shaded with purple ; winter. $ Cypripedium Villostim. Flowers often measure six inches across, and have a fine glossy appearance over their whole surface, which is orange red intermixed with light green and dark purple; May. $ La?lia Anceps. Flowers fragrant, two to four inches across; sepals and petals rosy lilac; lip deep purple shaded with rosy lilac; very free flowering and an easilv grown spec
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