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Title: Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954, ed Miller, Wilhelm, 1869- joint ed
Subjects: Gardening -- Dictionaries Plants -- North America encyclopedias
Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Page & Company
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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insome other groups (Cy-pripedium, Phalaenopsis,and Oncidium). Historical Sketch. —Species of Orchids have longbeen known to botanists, butthe flrst plants were introducedinto hothouses scarcely over acentury ago. Plants were sentby missionaries and oflicerswho visited tropical countries.In IT.Sl, Bletia verecunda wasreceived in England from theWest Indies. In 1789, Commo-dore Gardner sent plants of Epi-dendrum fragrans from thewoods of Jamaica. One ofthese flowered two years afterand was the flrst Orchid figuredin the Botanical Magazine,plate 152, as E. cochleatum.Phiiius grandifolins had beenintroduced nine years beforeand the Vanilla was also knownin English conservatories. In1807 Martyns edition of Mil-lers Gardeners Dictionaryenumerated 124 Orchids. At first the wants of theseplants were little understood,and many perished from irra-tional treatment. But as moreand their natural climatic conditions became betterknown the plants were treated in accordance with theirrequirements.
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1564. Anersecum sesquipedale. To show very long spur. (XJi.) were introduced 1162 ORCHID ORCHID The middle part of this century is remarkable for thegreat number of new and striking kinds of Orchids dis-covered. Immense sums were paid for single new plants.The fabulous prices paid for novelties caused collectorsto scour every part of the tropics, risking their lives in

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