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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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in sphagnum and clean potsherds,and pl.iced in the Pine-house. It was ultimatelyplaced in the Orchid-house over a tank of waterheated by hot-water pipes. The house is a span-roofedone, and at the lime was glazed with very small panes glass, under a ventilator that was frequently open.From the time it was placed in that position itmade vigorous and healthy growth, and is now alarge and valuable specimen, producing large spikesof its beautiful ()alc lilue flowers every autumn. Lastseason there were four spikes on the plant, which pro-duced in the aggregate sixty-four flowers. This plantis grown in the same house as the Aerides, and hasthe same material to grow in. There is yet anothernoteworthy plant in tliis Orchid-house of which Mr.Nunn may feel justly proud. It is a plant of Vandateres, which has also taken a quarter of a century togrow from a small plant. This species has a tendencyto run up with a very sleniler stem to a great height.It will grow 2 feet in twelve months. Mr. Nunns
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©/•/ I Fig. 36.—OD«NTOGLOSSUM HEBRAICUM : FLOWERS YELLOW AND BROWN. exhibition he wisely selects those that, though of■; small size, are of the highest quality. Some of thenormal forms of Aerides odoratum cannot be con-sidered very choice or showy plants, but there aresome varieties of it which are well adapted for exhi-bition. Perhaps the best form of the species is thevariety purpurascens. It is remarkable for the lengthof its spikes, which are thickly set with beautifulwaxy-white flowers tipped with red. There is agrand plant of this variety in the gardens of John T.D. Llewellyn, Esq., Penllergare, Swansea, which hasa history of its own. In the year 185S it was a verystnall plant indeed, less than a foot high, and in badhealth owing to the plant having been lost for aboutsix months behind some pots, when it became muchshrivelled, and on being examined was found infestedwith white-scale. Mr. Nunn, who was gardener at of glass, usual in many houses. The plant formedroots spee

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