Orchids for everyone . nd study. Odontoglossumsmay well (as in fact they do) form the subject of a most pleasur-able, fascinating, and interesting hobby. Within certain limits these Orchids show a great diversity ofform and colour, as well as of size and habit of growth. Thelargest flowers are those of 0. grande. In the finer forms of0. crispum, and in 0. nebulosum, 0. Rossii, 0. Cervantesii, , and 0. coronarmm, the flowers have a more or lessrounded outline, and approximate most nearly to the florists idealof a flower. On the other hand, such species as 0. cirrhostcm, , 0.
Orchids for everyone . nd study. Odontoglossumsmay well (as in fact they do) form the subject of a most pleasur-able, fascinating, and interesting hobby. Within certain limits these Orchids show a great diversity ofform and colour, as well as of size and habit of growth. Thelargest flowers are those of 0. grande. In the finer forms of0. crispum, and in 0. nebulosum, 0. Rossii, 0. Cervantesii, , and 0. coronarmm, the flowers have a more or lessrounded outline, and approximate most nearly to the florists idealof a flower. On the other hand, such species as 0. cirrhostcm, , 0. odoratum, 0. naevium, and 0. hastilabium, producenarrow-petalled and spidery flowers. The spikes diff^er consider-ably in stature and style; 0. Rossii flowers quite close to thebase of the pseudo-bulb, while 0. Edivardii will produce spikes5 ft. or more in height. 0. crispum is a good example of anarching spike. 0. nobile [0. Pescatorei) and 0. ardentissimumusually have long and branching spikes; 0. bictoniense and zo AO o < -A <D o iz;oQO THE MOST USEFUL ORCHIDS i 25 Uro-Sktnneri each send up an erect inflorescence, and the sweetly-scented 0. citrosmum differs from the rest in having pendulousspikes, and also in producing these simultaneously with the appear-ance of the new pseudo-bulb. Where do these flowers hail from ? They are found on thePacific side of the American Continent, keeping to the vastmountain ranges of the Andees, and ranging from about lat. 20°North to lat. 15° South, or, roughly, from Colima, at the Southernend of the Sierra Madre, in Mexico, down to Cuzco, in the region in which the Odontoglossums seem most to con-gregate is along the Eastern Cordillera of the Andes, from BogotaNorthward and North-eastward. Here, in Colombia and Vene-zuela, but chiefly in the former, are the homes of such splendidspecies as 0. crispum^ 0. nobile {Pescatorei\ 0. iuteo-purpureum,and 0. trtumphans. 0. citrosmum comes from towards theNorthern limit of the g
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