Identifier: gardenerschronic333lond (find matches)
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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culture of Araucarias, and which now have an,immense stock of beautiful specimens in it. The Orchidsare represented by large ranges of houses filledchiefly with Cattleyas, Laslias, and Odontoglos- * Rubus moluccanus, Linmcus, Hook. f„ Flora ofBritilhIndia., il. (1S78), p. 330. MAT 1G, 1903.) TEE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 309 sums, together with a large number of hybrids.Terre de bruyere, or leaf-soil as it is called, isentirely used for all Orchids here, and with thevery best results. The pots are simply crockedas for any other plant, and the plants fixed by months ago can scarcely be turnel out of thepots, so firmly are they rooted. Here, as else-where, the only cuition given about leaf-soil forOrchids is to be careful and not to afford water in excess. four large span-roofed houses filled entirely withCattleya labiata; a house of C. Triana; and C.Schrodera;, the former having a very fine purewhite variety in b!oom, and the latter a variedcollection in flower ; a houseful of Dendrobium
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Fig. 123—eubus moluccantjs. (see r. 338.) filling in with leaf-soil to within an inch of therim of the pot. Freshly-imported plants are leftin this way, just roughly filled in until they arewell rooted, and then a surface of sphagnum-mossis given. So well do the plants take to this leaf-soil, and so quickly do they root into it, thatCattleyas and other Orchids imported but a few In one house was a good show consisting ofMiltonia vexillaria, M. Roezli, Epidendrum xEndresio-Wallisii, and some fine Cypripediums,including C. callosum SanderaB, C. insigne San-derifi, C. x Madelaine, and C. Mastersianum.Next came a houseful of a wonderful newimportation of Vanda ccerulea, then a range of Wardianum, a number of magnificent specimensof Cattleya Warscewiczii Sanderiana, the potof one of which had to be broken to show theprofusion of root9 ; a range of Odontoglossums,chiefly of the Pacho form of O. crispum, withsome very fine varieties, both white and spotted,in flower. Here, it may be remark

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