Title: Cassell's popular gardening
Identifier: cassellspopularg00fish_2 (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
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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181 at the edges, reddish-purple, with a narrow marginal band of tawny-yellow; lip small and inconspicuous, same colour as the petals. Summer months. Moul- mein. B. Lobbii (iSarcopodium).— Pseudo-bulbs ovate, some three inches high, smooth, and light green, bearing a single oblong, thick, and leathery leaf, flower large and spreading, upwards of four inches in diameter; sepals lanceolate, the dorsal one acumi- nate, soft yellow, streaked with lines of purple dots, lateral ones falcate, streaked with purple dots, and shaded with same colour ; petals same as dorsal sepal and the same colour; lip somewhat cordate, recurved, yellow, freckled with orange. Summer months. Java. B. psittacoglossum (Sarcopodium).—Another very handsome dwarf-growing plant, pseudo-bulbs ovate, enveloped in a beautiful fibrous network, and bearing a solitary, broadly-oblong, thick, and fleshy leaf, which is deep green on both surfaces ; scape short, seldom more than two-flowered; sepals and petals ovate, nearly equal in size, yellowish-green, and streaked with red; lip three-lobed, ovate, middle lobe recurved, yellow, mottled with red. Summer months. Moulmein. B. reticulatum.—This species must certainly take first rank in this family, which is not remarkable for the beauty of its members. The pseudo bulbs are small, situated at intervals along a slender stem-like rhizome ; leaves solitary, petiolate, cordate in shape, with a sharp point; the ground-colour pale green; the veins being dark green give the whole a beauti- fully reticulated appearance, from which its name is derived; spike short, bearing about two flowers; sepals and petals white, streaked with broad lines of reddish-purple, dorsal sepals largest; lip curiously recurved, white and yellow, spotted with purple. July and August. Moulmein. Bollea.—A small genus of plants, bearing much afiinity with the older genus Ztjgopetalmn, but yet sufiiciently distinct, from a horticultural stand-point at least, to merit the separation. BoUeas are plants with the habit and appearance of Batemanniafi ai d Fescatorias, and require about the same treatment. Peruvian House. B. Lalindei.—This is an extremely beautiful species. It is, however, apparently very vari- able in colour; leaves oblong - lanceolate, tapering to a point, upwards of a foot long by two inches broad, plaited, and bright green ; peduncle much shorter than the leaves, bear- ing on the summit a single spreading flower, upwards of two inches in diameter, and thick and fleshy in texture; sepals broader than the petals, varying in colour from rose to bright

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