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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 Arthurianum. 



treatment. The potting compost should consist of two parts of 

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



