Title: Cassell's popular gardening
Identifier: cassellspopularg00fish_0 (find matches)
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Fish, David Taylor, 1824-1901; Fish, D. T. (David Taylor), 1824-1901
Subjects: Gardening
Publisher: London ; New York : Cassell
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ORCHIDS. 379 The plant here described is a strong grower, and enjoys plenty of root-room. The pots should be well drained, and the plants potted in a mixture of equal parts of loam, leaf-mould, and peat, to which add a little sharp sand to keep it porous. Peristerias enjoy strong heat, and a boun- tiful supply of water during the period of growth, but if the plants are strong it each measuring one to two inches across, and deli- ciously fragrant. Svmmer months. Panama. Pescatoria.—This genus was founded to keep alive the memory of that zealous Orchid- ologist, M, Pescatore, of St. Cloud; it is, however, now more correctly included under Ztjfjopetalum. In general appearance
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should be entirel)^ withheld during the cool or resting season. Brazilian House. P. elata.—A bold-growing plant, with pseudo-bulbs as large as a Spanish Onion when well grown, bear- ing several large plicate leaves, some three feet high, upwards of six inches broad, and deep green. The pedimcle is erect, springing from the base of the pseudo-bulbs, and rises to a height of three or four feet, or more, bearing towards the upper part numerous globose waxy flowers of great substance, Pachtstoma Thomsonianum they very much resemble Huntley a, and they re- quire the same treatment. P. Dayana.~A. variable plant; leaves arranged in a two-ranked fashion, eight or ten inches long, about two in breadth. Flowers solitary, on short, stout peduncles, and measuring about two inches and a half across. Sepals larger than the petals, waxy- white, tipped with violet. Lip deep crimson, white in front; at the base is a plaited callosity of a deep violet. Summer and autumn. New Grenada.

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