Identifier: cu31924003330374 (find matches)
Title: Orchids for everyone
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Curtis, Charles H
Subjects: Orchids
Publisher: London, J.M. Dent New York, E.P. Dutton
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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phia. It is astrong grower, and has large yellowish flowers, carried manytogether on erect spikes, four feet high, E. Elizabeths, fromMadagascar, is a very pretty Orchid, but one that does not takekindly to cultivation. Hundreds of plants were sold ten years orso ago, but very few of these remain alive, and of those thatremain few ever flower satisfactorily. This is unfortunate, asthe horizontal or semi-drooping spikes, a foot long, carry severalwhite flowers of great beauty; each bloom is from two to threeinches across, and its whiteness is enhanced by the yellow markson the lip and by the deep, red-purple of the stems and theexterior of the sepals. It appears to do best at the warmest endof the hottest stove, in a well-drained basket, grown in a mixtureof peat, broken leaves, sphagnum, and sand. GONGORA The Gongoras have a quaintness that is attractive, but thespecies are of little value except as curiosities. They grow verymuch in the same way as Stanhopeas, and should be similarly
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CATTLEVA PITTIAXA. ORCHIDS OF LESSER VALUE 189 treated, but It must be remembered that their flowers are not solarge or fleshy as those of Stanhopeas. Three species may beselected for consideration, and these are—G. atropurpurea, G.BUFONiA, and G. quinquinervis. In the first the flowers arepurple-brown, and in the others yellow, with purple markings.In all cases the flowers are borne in pendulous racemes. GRAMMANGIS One species, Grammangis Ellisii, from Madagascar, is incultivation, but it is not often grown because it occupies consider-able space, and does not flower freely. It has stout, squaredpseudo-bulbs, and leaves that are often two feet long. The flowersare yellow, heavily marked with transverse lines of red-brown onthe broad sepals ; the lip is white, streaked with red-purple. Whenit does flower, Grammangis Ellisii is a striking plant, as it maycarry as many as thirty of its showy flowers on a long archingspike. It should be grown in the stove, in peat and sphagnum,and give

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