The Culture of Greenhouse Orchids 



Hijadntliina. — This species is hardy in snme 

 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. Clhina. 1802. 2.s-. QiL to lOs. M. 



Shcrrattiana (3Ir. Sherratt, gardener at Knypers- 

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

 The spike is often tliree feet high, with twelve 

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

 throat traversed by three orange lines or ribs. 

 New Granada. 1807. 



Vci-ccunda (modest). — Not impressive, but always 

 interesting as one of tlie two orchids first cultivated 

 in this country. Cypripcdiinn spcdahile, from the 

 United States, was the other, both recorded in 

 1731. 1!. vcrccunda is tall, with branching spikes, 

 many-ilowered, reddish purple. Florida. 



Erassia. 

 (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 1)0 allowed to shrivel. The flow-ers are 

 many, of large sjsread, but curiously narrow. 



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