. Dreer's garden calendar. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs. 118 THE BEST PLANTS. Partial View of one of our Orchid Houses at Rivekton. ORCHIDS FOR COOL GREENHOUSE. These can be grown in any cool greenhouse or pit wher of flowering is given with each variety. Brassia Verucosa. Sepals and petals greenish, blotched with blackish purple; lip white; flowers in May and June. 75 cts. to $ Bletia Tankervilliae (Phajm Grandiflora). A well- known variety; producing long spikes
. Dreer's garden calendar. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs. 118 THE BEST PLANTS. Partial View of one of our Orchid Houses at Rivekton. ORCHIDS FOR COOL GREENHOUSE. These can be grown in any cool greenhouse or pit wher of flowering is given with each variety. Brassia Verucosa. Sepals and petals greenish, blotched with blackish purple; lip white; flowers in May and June. 75 cts. to $ Bletia Tankervilliae (Phajm Grandiflora). A well- known variety; producing long spikes of large flow- ers during the winter months; sepals and petals brownish red, lip Avhite, purple tip, and greenish yellow centre, to . Bletia Hyaciuthina. A fine sjiecies from China, with pretty jiurple flowers; hardy with protection. .50 cts. Cattleya Citriua. 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. 75 cts. to . Coelogyne Cristata. A magnificent Orchid. The flowers are borne in clusters of six or eight on a droop- ing raceme. Each flower is three or four inches across. Sepals and petals are undulating and of a pure white color with prominent blotches of yellow on the crest; remain in perfection four or five weeks; February and March. .§, .§ and $ Cypripedium Boxaili. Tpper sepals of a beautiful fresh liglit 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 Harrisianum. Upper sepals broad, shining, dark purple, tipped with white; jjetals rich purple; lip claret, tipped green. § to§ •Cypripedium lusigue. Flowers during midwinter. The blooms will last six weeks; sepals and petals yellowish green, petals tipped with white and spotted brown ; tlie lip is orange and
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