The Culture of Greenhouse Orchids 



petals banded and lip striped with deep velvety 

 purple ; and S(j forth. I have a bloom of my own 

 before me. It is ivory white, the petals thickly 

 dotted nith minute spe(d\S of crimson and maroon 



COLAX .TL'GOSrS. 



—answering, by-the-by, to the description of Dr. 

 Lindley which has been denounced as inexact — lip 

 broadly striped with purplisli ultramarine. But 

 the authorities are quite correct, and would be if 



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