The Culture of Greenhouse Orchids 



MESOSPINIDIUM. (Thorn in the middle.) 



Botanists no longer recognize this genus, in- 

 cluding the species it contains among Cochlioda. 

 But for orchid-growers generally that name is 

 confined to Noetzliana, and Mesospinidium still 

 flourishes. 



Rosea. The flowers of this species, though 

 pretty, are so small and slender that a single plant 

 is scarcely worth growing. Three or four in a pan, 

 however, each with its garland of twenty blooms, 

 perhaps, make a charming picture. Eosy, with a 

 snow-white column. Winter. Peru. This is often 

 called Odontoglossum roseum. 10s. 6d. 



Sanguinea. Much like the former, but its rosy 

 hue inclines to scarlet. Ecuador. 7s. 6d. 



Vulcanica. So called from its habitat on Peruvian 

 volcanoes. One of the daintiest flowers that blow, 

 if a good variety that is, large ; but the biggest 

 are only large by comparison. I have had one 

 for several years which throws out two spikes, with 

 an increasing number of blooms, in early autumn. 

 Last season they were fifteen and eighteen. Kosy 

 purple, with a touch of white in the centre. 

 Ecuador. 10s. Gd. 



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