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Camellia Japonica, Julianai. 



picturata. 



punctata major. 



ranunculiflora striata. 



tricolor. 



venusta. 



versicolor. 



Weimarii. 



ARTICLE V.— ON THE CULTURE OF ORCHIDEOUS PLANTS. 



BY A COUNTRY FLORIST. 



(Continued from page 36.) 



Epidendrums. — The whole of this genus are singular in form and 

 pretty, and are easy of cultivation. The flowers are, generally, nu- 

 merously produced upon lengthy spikes, and some of them very 

 highly fragrant. 



1. Epjdendrum armeniacum. This species I saw in bloom ex- 

 hibited at the show in the London Horticultural Society's Garden, 

 and since then have procured a plant which has blossomed. The 

 flowers are very diminutive, and are produced npon a bending ra- 

 ceme, about four inches long. They are of a brown yellow colour, 

 and are very neat, particularly when placed in contrast with other 

 colours. It blooms in June and July. I find the plant grows 

 freely in pots filled with turfy peat and potsherds. 



2. E. bicornutum, Two horned. I have bloomed this species 

 several times. The flowers are of a beautiful white, and delightfully 

 fragrant ; produced upon a stem about a foot long, from four to six 

 upon each. It requires the same kind of soil &c. as the former sort. 

 It blooms in July and August. 



3. E. ciliare, Fringed flowered. The petals of this kind are of 

 a greenish yellow colour, and the labellum of a pure white —the la- 

 bellum is much fringed ; it is a very ornamental species ; the flower 

 stem rises about a foot high ; it blooms from March to August. I 

 have found this kind to thrive very luxuriantly. 



4 E. conopseum, The gnat shaped flower. This species i6 of 

 a humble growth, the stem rising about three inches high, and pro- 

 ducing a few small yellow flowers, which are very neat and pretty. 

 It blooms in August and September. The same treatment as with 

 the other sorts answers for this, only being of delicate growth it docs 

 not require so much pot room. 



