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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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but cutting them out,and unless the plant attacked is valuable it is best toburn it and keep the pest from spreading-. Mealy bug is usually not very troublesome to Or-chids. It is readily seen and destroyed without muchinjury to the plant. Roaches are usually very troublesome, and hard toeradicate, as they feed at night and remain hiddenthrough the daytime. They destroy roots, growingshoots and young flower-buds and scapes. Bran, pow-dered sugar and Paris green, mixed together and placedaround the houses in saucers, will usually keep them insubjection, and they should be hunted down at nightl>y the aid of a lantern. Many can be caught in thismanner. Sow bugs or wood Hce are usually common in everypart of Orchid houses, pots and baskets. They do agreat deal of damae:e to young leaves, roots and the ten-der portions of flower-scapes. The Paris erreen mixtureused for roaches is very effectual in reducing theirnumber, but it is impossible to be entirely freed fromtbem. Robert M. Grey.
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MUtonia Roezlii var. alba CaloKjnie cristataSome genera of Orchids Deudrobium uobile ORCHIS 6RCHIS (Greek word, referring to the shape ofthe tuberous roots of certain species). Orchidiicece.Orchis is the typical genus of the great family of Or-chids. It contains about 70 species, ail terrestrial andnatives of the northern hemisphere, chiefly in Europeand Asia, with 2 species in North America. Plants per-ennial by means of simple or palmate tubers : stemsimple, erect, terminating in a raceme or spike, withfew to many rather small fls., and bearing several Ivs.,with long sheaths; bracts often foliaceous: sepals allsimilar, connivent or spreading: petals often smaller,entire: labelhim 3-!obed, middle lobe entire or parted,base spurred : column very short or none : stigmaplane, not produced (Habenaria). Orchises are not showy, and they have no horticul-tural standing, but lovers of our native Orchids arealways collecting them and trying to cultivate them,usually with little success. F. W.

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