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Title: The century book of gardening; a comprehensive work for every lover of the garden
Identifier: centurybookofgar00cook (find matches)
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Cook, E. T. (Ernest Thomas), 1867-1915, ed
Subjects: Gardening
Publisher: London, The Offices of "Country life" (etc. )
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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CULTIVATION OF ORCHIDS. BY W. H. WHITE, Orchid Grower to Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., President R.H.S. MANY lovers of these beautiful plants are deterred from attempting their culture through a belief that they are difficult to grow, but this is not so, and 1 will endeavour by a few practical hints to show that Orchid growing is by no means hedged about with insurmountable difficulties. When ordinary care is exercised there is little fear of failure. Orchids, like other plants, will live and thrive when the conditions under which they are placed favour healthy development; the cultivator must strive to learn what these conditions are, and then fulfil them to the best of his ability. It is now generally recognised amongst experienced cultivators that it is not absolutely necessary to have a separate division or house for each section of Orchids, but where a large number of some particular species is grown, cultural requirements are more readily met when the plants are placed in a structure by themselves. Those who have a limited collection should grow the kinds which succeed under one set treatment. Those possessing only an ordinary plant stove or cool greenhouse need not despair of being able to grow Orchids, as in some portion of the house conditions almost identical with those here advised can be given. Where a large representative collection of Orchids is grown the only structures really necessary are the East Indian, or hottest house, Cattleya, or intermediate house, and the cool, or Odontoglossum house. The East Indian House should be somewhat lofty, so as to allow room for suspending a number of plants from the roof. It should contain such species as Aerides, Saccolabiums, Angra^cums, Phala^nopsis (Moth Orchids), Bulbophyllums, Cirrhopetalums, Phaius, Galeandras, Peristeria elata (the Dove Orchid), Grammatophyllums, Cypripediums, Anaecto- chilus, and Eulophiella, all of which should occupy the shadiest part of the house, in fact, none of them should be exposed to strong sunshine at any time. Other species, as

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