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Title: The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, Ornamental Gardening
Publisher: London : (Gardeners Chronicle)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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t spot would be 38. At such a figure Odonto-glossum roseum was killed. Well at the lower tem-perature stood the popularM.asdevallias Marryana, Lin-deni, \eitchiana, and ignca ; but amongst these weregongora, Trochilus, corniculata, Houtteana, peristeria,Benedicta, ionocharis, militaris, coccinea, Chimcera,bella, tovarensis, and some others—all quite unscathed,and growing now vigorously. While this happened,I should not like to make a practice of it, but itpointed out clearly to me th.at Masdevallias are bettertreated cooler than any other Orchid of a popularcharacter, Disa grandiflora excepted, and that ifgrowers would give them cooler treatment in winterthere would be less complaint of spotting of leaves,and a better general health maintained. As to other classes of Orchids, such as Phate-nopsids, Saccolabiums, and some of the tropicalLadys Slippers, there must be considerable heatmaintained else root rotting and general debility willsoon become apparent. Vandas, on the other hand.
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Fig. 94.—sapo.naria c.i;siitosa : flowers rose-coloured. provided, and to the assiduity of the gardener, whodoubtless has had many an anxious night inbattling against the very sudden depressions of cold—quite unexampled in my experience in that respect.In truth so powerful was the cold during the nightsand mornings of January 15, 16, and 17, that while ■ the thermometer 2 feet from the glass was stand-ing at 40° Fahr., the icicles at the top 2 feet abovewere distinctly observable, and where there were noside lights—in other words when the astragals wereresting on the wall—the glass at the base was onesheet of ice in the interior. This only happens 1 under very severe pressure of cold, and at such a ttime it requires very powerful stoking to keepup temperatures for the various groups of plants,classified as they ought to be—cool, temperate and I tropical. Fortunately for the successful growth of coolOrchids, we have found out by experience that a little ness and duration o

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