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PARTIAL VIEW OF ONE OF OUR ORCHID Houses at RIVERTON. 
ORCHIDS FOR COOL GREENHOUSE. 
These can be grown in any cool greenhouse or pit where the temperature does not fall below 38 or 40°. The tinre 
of flowering is given with each variety. 
Brassia Verucosa. Sepals and petals greenish, blotched 
with blackish purple; lip white; flowers in May 
and June. 75 cts. to $1.00. 
Bletia Tankervillie (Phajus Grandiflora). A well- 
known variety ; producing long spikes of large flow- 
ers during the winter months; sepals and petals} 
brownish red, lip white, purple tip, and greenish 
yellow centre. $1.00 to $1.50. 
Bletia Hyacinthina. A fine species from China, with 
pretty purple flowers; hardy with protection. 50 cts. 
Cattleya Citrina, The flowers are of a bright lemon 
yellow, deliciously fragrant, and are produced singly 
or in pairs; it blooms from May to August, and lasts 
for three or four weeks. 75 ets. to $1.50. 
Ce@logyne Cristata. A magnificent Orchid. The 
flowers are borne in clusters of six or eight on a droop- 
ing raceme. Each flower is three or four inches across. 
Sepals and petals are undulating and of a pure white 
color with prominent blotches of yellow on the crest; 
remain in perfection four or five weeks; February and 
March. $2.00, $3.00 and $5.00. 
Cypripedium Boxalli. Upper sepals of a beautiful 
fresh light green, with a narrow white border, covered 
with blackish brown spots; inferior sepals light green 
with lines of very small reddish brown spots; petals 
light green with dark lines. $2.00. 
Cypripedium Harrisianum. Upper sepals broad, 
shining, dark purple, tipped with white; petals rich 
purple; lip claret, tipped green. $2.00 to $3.00. 
Cypripedium Inmsigne. Flowers during midwinter. 
The blooms will last six weeks; sepals and petals 
yellowish green, petals tipped with white and spotted 
brown; the lip is orange and brown. $1.00 to $5.00. 
Cypripedium Sedeni. Sepals greenish white; petals 
twisted, white edged with purple, lip medium sized, 
rich crimson shaded with purple winter $2.50. 

Cypripedium Venustum. Sepals and petals pink, 
striped with bright green, lip yellowish green ; blooms 
in winter. $1.00 to $1.50. 
Cypripedium Vitlosum. Flowers often measure six 
inches across, and haye a fine glossy appearance over 
their whole surface, which is orange red intermixed 
with light green and dark purple; May. $2.50. 
Dendrobium Jamesianum. A fine species bearing 
pure white flowers with lip stained cinnabar red; 
spring and summer. $3.00. < 
Epidendrum Calochilum. Flowers pale yellow, lip 
striped with purple; remains in good condition a long 
time; flowers small. 50 cts. 
Epidendrum Fragrans. Flowers white, lip striped 
with purple, remains in beauty over two months; a 
pretty, sweet scented species. $2.00 to $3.00. 
Epidendrum Indivisum. $1.00 to $1.50. 
Epidendrum Luridum. $1.00 to $1.50. 
Epidendrum Myrianthum. Flowers bright rosy pur- 
ple, small, in enormous panicles, very sweet scented ; 
flowers during summer or autumn. $2.50. 
Epidendrum Vittalinum Majus. Flowers bright 
orange-scarlet, about 24 inches in diameter; lip bright 
yellow, produced on erect spikes of from 10 to 15 
flowers each; summer. $1.00 to $2.00. 
Lelia Anceps. Flowers fragrant, two to four inches 
across; sepals and petals rosy lilac ; lip deep purple 
shaded with rosy lilac; free flowering, and easily 
grown; December and January. 75 cts. to $2.00. 
Lelia Albida. Flowers 14 to 2 inches across and very 
fragrant; nearly white, with pale pink lip streaked 
yellow in centre; December and January. 
75 ets. to $1.50. 
