CHAP. V. 



ORNAMENTAL TREES, SHRUBS, ETC. 



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me is the case with most of the China Orchids), requires full 

 exposure to the sun. 



Fig. 18. 



Fig. 17. 



Fig. 19. 



Phalsenopsis. 



1. P. amabilis QUEEN OF THE ORCHIDS INDIAN BUTTER- 

 FLY PLANT. Native of Amboyna; flowers very large, milk 

 white, leathery ; lip marked with purple lines ; resembling a 

 butterfly with expanded wings, lasting unimpaired for several 

 weeks. This most choice and magnificent plant is always 

 grown fastened with moss and copper wire upon a log. It may 

 be easily propagated, I am told, by binding a piece of moss 

 round one of the joints of the flowering-stalk, which will emit 

 roots, and may then be removed and attached in the usual way 

 to another log. 



2. P. grandiflora. "Very similar to the last, but lip stained 

 yellow. Mr. Warner states that as a rule the specimens from Java 

 have larger flowers and longer spikes than the Borneo form. 



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