The Woodlands Orchids, Described and Illustrated
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Boyle Frederick. The Woodlands Orchids, Described and Illustrated
HOW THE COLLECTION WAS FORMED
THE CATTLEYA HOUSE
A LEGEND OF ROEZL
THE CATTLEYA HOUSE
A STORY OF CATTELEYA BOWRINGIANA
A STORY OF CATTLEYA MOSSIAE
CYPRIPEDIUM INSIGNE
STORY OF CATTLEYA SKINNERI ALBA
THE PHALAENOPSIS HOUSE
STORY OF VANDA SANDERIANA
STORY OF PHALAENOPSIS SANDERIANA
HYBRID CATTLEYAS AND LAELIAS
A LEGEND OF MADAGASCAR
LAELIA PURPURATA
STORY OF DENDROBIUM SCHRÖDERIANUM
STORY OF DENDROBIUM LOWII
CALANTHE HOUSE
STORY OF COELOGYNE SPECIOSA
CATTLEYA LABIATA HOUSE
A STORY OF BRASSAVOLA DIGBYANA
LYCASTES, SOBRALIAS, AND ANGOULOAS
STORY OF SOBRALIA KIENASTIANA
THE CYPRIPEDIUM HOUSE
STORY OF CYPRIPEDIUM CURTISII
CYPRIPEDIUMS —Continued
STORY OF CYPRIPEDIUM PLATYTAENIUM
STORY OF CYPRIPEDIUM SPICERIANUM
THE COOL HOUSE
STORY OF ODONTOGLOSSUM HARRYANUM
MASDEVALLIAS
ONCIDIUMS
STORY OF ONCIDIUM SPLENDIDUM
LAELIA JONGHEANA
STORY OF BULBOPHYLLUM BARBIGERUM
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Our Cattleya House is 187 feet long, 24 feet wide; glass screens divide it into seven compartments. The roof, of a single span, is 11 feet high in the centre, 4 feet at the sides.
The compartment we enter first is devoted to Laelia elegans mostly. On the big block of tufa in front, blooms of Cattleya and Laelia are displayed nearly all the year in small tubes among the ferns and moss; for we do not exhaust our plants by leaving the flowers on them when fully open. Scarlet Anthuriums crown the block, and among these, on the bare stone, is a Laelia purpurata, growing strongly, worth observation. For this plant was deadly sick last year, beyond hope of recovery; as an experiment Mr. Coles set it on the tufa, wired down, and forthwith it began to pick up strength. But in fact the species loves to fix itself on limestone when at home in Santa Catarina, as does L. elegans.
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Ladymead.– The white sepals and petals have a palest tinge of rose. On the lip are two broad yellow eyes after the fashion of Catt. gigas.
Venus.– Almost white. Petals veined, sepals dotted, with crimson – the underside of both heavily stained. Lip almost fawn-colour at the edges, with veins widening and deepening into crimson at the throat.
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