The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects

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Identifier: gardenerschronic353lond (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
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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CHRONICLE. (May 24, 1913. and most distinct being the variety Primulinum,and C. Gottianum, with erect spikes of clearivory-white flowers tinged with rose, the formnamed bellissimum being the, best. The sidearrangements were mainly of their showy formsand hybrids of Miltonia vexillaria, M. Bleuana(Berancks variety being a charming largewhite), and a grand lot of Odontoglossums, 0.crispum excelsior being a superb large whiteform, and the home-raised 0. crispum finelymarked. Among Cattleyas, C. Mossiae Impera- sese Solum, a very interesting cross with 0.crispum Solum, and showing the dark lip ofthat variety, and the pretty 0. Laelia Sander(see awards). Specially noted were Odonto-glossum crispum Lord Grenfell, a handsomelyblotched form, Brasso-Cattleya Mirabilis (C.Mendelii x B.-C. Mrs. J. Leemann), Dendro-bium Leeanum ampliatum, a new form of thelino natural hybrid of D. Phalaenopsis, CattleyaSusannas Hye de Crom var. citrina, the largestpure white form with citron-yellow centre to the
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THE CHELSEA SHOW.Fig. 150.—odontoglossum eximidm Armstrongs ; flowers dark violet with white margins.(See Orchid Awards p. 351.) tor was a fine dark form : C. Mendelii Lady ofthe Lake, a very large white with amplemagenta-rose lip. Mingled with the brightly-coloured kinds the slender sprays of the trueold Phalsenopsis amabilis showed, its large whiteflowers to advantage, and of new hybrids a clumpof the charming hybridj of Miltonia Warsci-wiczii raised by the firm, and including Odon-toma St. Alban, 0. Roger Sander, 0. Delares- lip ; Miltonia vexillaria Northlight, a large whiteflower with a rosy flush ; Brasso-Cattleya Mrs. J.Loemann var. Diadem, cowslip yellow, with rosemarkings in the lip. For others see^ awards.Among the species were the rare Oncidium San-derse, the yellow form of the Butterfly Orchid. E. H. Davidson, Esq., Twyford, staged a neatgroup of good things, specially fine being some ex-cellent forms of Laelio-Cattleya Aphrodite, some fine Odontoglossum crispum, includi

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