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... inches , are very fragrant and of a very striking orange colour . Lycaste ... long . The flowers are large , up to five inches across , white with a ... twelve inches long . The floral shoot sometimes reaches a height of eighteen inches ...
... inches , are very fragrant and of a very striking orange colour . Lycaste ... long . The flowers are large , up to five inches across , white with a ... twelve inches long . The floral shoot sometimes reaches a height of eighteen inches ...
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... inches long . A scape sixteen inches high ends in a loose assemblage of three or four flowers of a lovely pink . The ... twelve inches in length . Paphiopedilum callosum . The home of these slipper - orchids , which are very popular as ...
... inches long . A scape sixteen inches high ends in a loose assemblage of three or four flowers of a lovely pink . The ... twelve inches in length . Paphiopedilum callosum . The home of these slipper - orchids , which are very popular as ...
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... inches wide , appear from November to May on ten to twelve inch stems . The leaves are ribbon - shaped , pointed , about one and a half inches wide and ten to sixteen inches long . Paphiopedilum maudiae . Of the many Paphiopedilum ...
... inches wide , appear from November to May on ten to twelve inch stems . The leaves are ribbon - shaped , pointed , about one and a half inches wide and ten to sixteen inches long . Paphiopedilum maudiae . Of the many Paphiopedilum ...
Contents
Introduction Page | 9 |
Early Attempts | 19 |
How to Treat Orchids | 33 |
Copyright | |
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aerial roots altitudes amateur brown Calanthe carries Cattleya colour comes from Guatemala cool window Cymbidium Cypripedium Dendrobium Dendrobium fimbriatum Dendrobium nobile edge egg-shaped bulbs eight inches long epiphytes Europe fertilisation flower-stem Flowering season flowers appear four inches fungi fungus garden genus germination golden-yellow green greenhouse grow orchids grower grown Guatemala habitat hair roots half inches heat high and produce Himalayas humid hybr hybrids inches high inches in length inches wide insect lady's-slippers Laelia Laeliocattleya leaves Lycaste Mexico miniature greenhouse moist natural habitat oblong Odontoglossum crispum Odontoglossum grande Oncidium kramerianum Ophrys apifera orchid flowers orchid growing orchid hunters orchid seeds Paphiopedilum peat pink plants purple raceme re-potting rhizome root fungus round salep sepals and petals shading shaped shoot sixteen inches species sphagnum spraying temperate window temperature three inches tips trees tropical orchids twelve inches long Vanilla Vanilla planifolia velamen wavy window-sill yellow yellowish-green