HOUSE AND GREENHOUSE PLANTS. 



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DENDROBIUM NOBILE. 



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 



time of flowering is given with each variety. 



Bletia Tankervilliae. A well-known variety; pro- 

 ducing long spikes of large flowers during the wimer 

 months; sepals and petals brownish red, lip white, 

 purple tip, and greenish yellow centre. $1.00 to $1-50. 



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. 82.00 to $3.00. 



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 Venustum. Flowers of medium size; 

 petals and sepals greenish white or pink ; the former 

 fringed in a peculiar manner; lip yellowish green. 

 Foliage light green, curiously blotched and mottled 

 with black and green ; flowers during winter. $1.00. 



Cypripedium Insigne. Flowers during mid-winter. 

 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 Villostim. Flowers often measure six 

 inches across, and have a fine glossy appearance over 

 their whole surface, which is orange red intermixed 

 with light green and dark purple; May. $2.50. 



La?lia Anceps. Flowers fragrant, two to four inches 

 across; sepals and petals rosy lilac; lip deep purple 

 shaded with rosy lilac; very free flowering and an 

 easilv grown species; December and January. $1.50 

 to $3.00. 



Laelia Autumnalis. A lovely and showy Orchid. It 

 produces its blooms on spikes of from six to nine 

 flowers; the sepals and petals are of a beautiful purple 

 . color ; lip rose and white, with yellow in the centre ; 

 the flowers are four inches across; December and 

 January. $1.50 to $3.00. 



LaMia Autumnalis Atrorubens. Flowers rich red- 

 dish or magenta purple, deepest towards the tips of 

 the sepals and petals, especially so oil the upper part, 

 while the lower is almost pure white. $3.00. 



Lycaste Aromatica. Flowers yellow, disposed in 

 spikes; free flowering, blooming during winter and 

 spring, and remaining in beauty for weeks. $2.00. 



Lycaste Skinneri. Flowers from four to six inches 

 across ; sepals and petals white more or less suffused 

 with rose ; lip rosy lilac, frequently very heavily 

 blotched with the deepest rosy crimson ; November 

 to March. $1.50 to $2.00. 



Odontoglossum Anceps. Flowers of a soft deep 

 yellow, beautifully barred or spotted towards the 

 centre with rich brownish crimson, measuring three to- 

 four inches across ; winter. $2.00. 



Odontoglossum Alexandras. Pure white with bright 

 golden spots on the lips; a graceful plant, producing 

 its lovely spikes of bloom very freely when kept quite 

 cool ; winter. $2.00. 



Oncidium Crispum. This species blooms at different 

 times of the year, and lasts in beauty for three or four 

 weeks, producing long spikes of large flowers ; the 

 sepals and petals are of a rich coppery color ; the lip 

 is the same but with lighter spots in the centre. $2.00. 



Stanhopea Oculata. Flowers large, curiously formed, 

 thick and waxy in texture; the color of the flower is 

 pale yellow spotted with purple ; July to September. 

 $2.00. 



ORCHIDS FOR TEMPERATE HOUSE. 



These can be grown in an ordinary greenhouse where 



the temperature does not fall below 55° to 60°. 



Angra?cum Citratum. Flowers creamy white or pale 

 lemon, produced on long racemes from the axils of 

 two year old leaves. It often bears twenty flowers on a 

 stem ; winter. $2.50. 



Angra?cum Ellisii. Flowers pure white, fragrant, 

 about two inches across; sepals and petals narrow, 

 reflexed, borne on long racemes ; winter. $2.50. 



Calanthe Veitchii. Flowers rich bright rose, with a 

 white throat, spikes often attaining a height of three 

 feet, bearing an immense quantity of flowers; win- 

 ter. $2.00 to $3.00. 



Cattleya Amethystina. A lovely orchid from Brazil 

 bearing flowers of a beautiful shade of amethyst. 

 $2.50. 



