LIST OF COOL OIICIIIDS. 



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about September or October, it lasts a fortnight or three 

 weeks. 



*C, MossicB (Venezuela, La Guayra, 1836). — This species is the 

 sheet anchor of Orchid growers, or rather was previous to 

 the introduction of Odontoglossum Alexaudra3, and deservedly 

 so, for its beauty will bear comparison with that of any other 





Cattleya Mossiae. 



])laut in the vegetable world. The gi-eat charm about thi.s 

 pla^t is that there are scarcely two varieties to be found 

 alike. On this point the Gardeners' Chronicle of June 11th 

 1864, in speaking of the protean characteristics of this species, 

 as illustrated in the magnificent collection of named varieties 



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