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THE BOOK OF GARDENING. 



Cymbidium. — This is one of the most interesting and useful 

 genera of cultivated Orchids, and requires cool intermediate house 



Fig. 379.— Cypripedium Arthxjkianum. 



treatment. The potting compost should consist of two parts of 

 good fibrous peat and one part of loam, to which may be added 



