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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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ife as I had seldom done, thinking itwas a great boon to sec such a marvel, that hadlurked for thousands and thousands of years un-seen in solitude. I would scarcely liave believed insuch a thing from a mere description. Thus, Inamed it Chimera. I had but one poor flower.When Mr. (lustav Wallis came home he broughtsomething very like it,—of course, once more very Uenito was making meteorological observations, think-ing of the fate of the drops of rain or dew—howthey might be separated forever, running on oneside to the grand ocean, on the other int(j the Car-ribbean Sea. This musing was interrupted by thesudden sight of an immense Masdevallia. Domlienito sprang from his poor horse (no horse everliked this rider, who is said to have been a hard riderof both horses and mules), took the plant onhorseback, and, turning to his companion (I thinkMr. Edward Klaboch), exclaimed, What a pitythat this Masdevallia does not flower ! * But it doesflower, answered his companion. Uom Benito, who
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Fig. 87.—dendrobium thyrsiflorum. flowers white with yellow lip. It flowered in May of the following year, in Mr Daysfamous collection ; and again, in March, 1S67, withWentworth BuUer, Esq., at Strete-Raleigh, Devon,from whose plant the plate, t. 57S0, in the BotanicalMagazine was prepared. Here it is named D. densi-florum var. albo-Iuteum, but it is bestknownasD. thyr-siflorum in gardens. The flowers are transparentwhite, with yellow lip, and the habit like D. densi-florum. pulbo tereti monoptiyllo: folio camoso scntitereti subulate canaU*^\?^° stricto ; racemo paucUIoro ; bracteis linearilanceis ovariapedicellau subajquanlibus ; ovariis sepalisqiie extus hispidulis ;f?^® oblquo. sepalis triangulo lanceis ; lepalis linearibus acutis,iabello basi adnato cordiformi aciito basi ecalloso ; androcliiilosimplici inteEerrimo amice utrinque angulato. Ex Panamamla. d. Stange Qui dicalum. H. G. RM.J. poor materials— travellers materials. Vou mightcall such wretched collections of ill-con

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