About orchids

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Pleasant also it is, by the way, to vindicate the character of green frogs. I never heard them spoken of by gardeners but with contempt. Not only do they persist in escaping; mo...

Of another class, but not less renowned in its way, was the sale of March 11th last year. It had been heavily advertised. A leading continental importer announced the discovery...

At least, many keep the record of their history in form unmistakable. Here is a Cattleya which I purchased last autumn, suspecting it to be rare and valuable, though nameless; I...

Odontoglossums, as I said, belong to America--to the mountainous parts of the continent in general. Though it would be wildly rash to pronounce which is the loveliest of orchids...

Nature forestalled the dreams of æsthetic colourists when she designed _Oncidium macranthum_. Thus, and not otherwise, would the thoughtful of them arrange a "harmony" in gold a...

The Frontino _vexillarium_ grows "cooler," has a much larger bloom, varies in hue from purest white to deepest red, and flowers in May or June. The most glorious of these things...

_Dendrobium Wardianum_, at the present day, comes almost exclusively from Burmah--the neighbourhood of the Ruby Mines is its favourite habitat. But it was first brought to Engla...

_V. teres_ is not such a common object that description would be superfluous. It belongs to the small class of climbing orchids, delighting to sun itself upon the rafters of the...

Of Oncidiums there are many that demand stove treatment. The story of _Onc. splendidum_ is curious. It first turned up in France some thirty years ago. A ship's captain sailing...

In 1889 a collector employed by M. Moreau, of Paris, to explore Central and North Brazil in search of insects, sent home fifty plants--for M. Moreau is an enthusiast in orchidol...

In this third greenhouse is a large importation of _Cattleya Trianæ_, which arrived so late last year that their sheaths have opened contemporaneously with _C. Mossiæ_. I should...

Seden has made two crosses of Chysis, both from the exquisite _Ch. bractescens_, one of the loveliest flowers that heaven has granted to this world, but sadly fleeting. Nobody,...

It becomes yet stronger by reason of the delightful uncertainty which attends one's efforts. So far as I have heard or read, no one has yet been able to offer a suggestion of an...