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 

 coniined to Noctzliana, and Mesospinidium still 

 flourishes. 



Rosea. — The ilowers 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. Rosy, with a 

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

 called Odontof/Iossiim rosfMm. lO.s. 6d. 



Sanguinea. — Much like the former, but its rosy 

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



VuJcanica. — 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. Rosy 

 purple, with a touch of white in the centre. 

 Ecuador, lOx. 6^/. 



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