The Culture of Greenhouse Orchids 



Hyacinthina. This species is hardy in some 

 warm districts. It bears many flowers of good 

 size, rosy purple, with a white lip, streaked, spotted, 

 and edged with crimson. The most popular of the 

 genus. China. 1802. 2s. 6d. to 10s. 6d. 



Sherrattiana (Mr. Sherratt, gardener at Knypers- 

 ley). Very pretty, and much taller than the others. 

 The spike is often three feet high, with twelve 

 large flowers, bright rose, the lip darker, its white 

 throat traversed by three orange lines or ribs. 

 New Granada. 1867. 



Verecunda (modest). Not impressive, but always 

 interesting as one of the two orchids first cultivated 

 in this country. Cypripedium spectabile, from the 

 United States, was the other, both recorded in 

 1731. B. verecunda is tall, with branching spikes, 

 many-flowered, reddish purple. Florida. 



BRASSIA. 

 (Named after Mr. Brass, botanist and African 



traveller.) 



Verrucosa (warty) is the single cool species of 

 this genus. It is grown with peat and moss, or 

 Belgian leaf-mould, in a pan, well watered in 

 summer, and well dried in winter, but the bulbs 

 must not be allowed to shrivel. The flowers are 

 many, of large spread, but curiously narrow. 



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