The Culture of Greenhouse Orchids 



Elegans. — Darlc rose, lip flat and spoon-shaped, 

 white freckled with purple, towards the end a great 

 square hloteh of crimson. Spring. Mexico, o.s. 



LindlcyaiM (Dr. Lindley, the great botanist). — A 

 much taller plant, with a general resemblance to 

 the aliove ; but the colour is purplish, and the 

 crimson blotch upon the lip has a white centre. 

 Autumn. Mexico and Costa Ilica. 5,i. 



Mchviwcanhni (black stem). — Rosy lilac, the lip 

 reddish purple, with a patch of green in the middle. 

 (Summer. Costa Kica. 



SL'i'uiirri (Mr. Ure-Skinner, who discovered it). — 

 The showiest of the genus. Its spikes may be two 

 feet long, bearing twenty or thirty rose-coloured 

 flowers of good size. The lip is paler rose. Winter. 

 Mexico and Central America. 



Spcctahi/is (handsome). — The plant is small, but 

 its flowers the largest of any, eight to ten on a 

 spike ; rosy lilac, lip white at the throat and down 

 the centre, with red dots, margined and tipped 

 with rose, yumnier. Mexico and Central America. 



BiFEENAEiA. (Double band.) 



Bifrcnfiriu Harrisonkv. — This is the correct name 

 of the familiar Lijcastc Harrisonicc. I mention it 

 under that title. 



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