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Title: The amateur's greenhouse and conservatory : a handy guide to the construction and management of planthouses, and the selection, cultivation, and improvement of ornamental greenhouse and conservatory plants
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Hibberd, Shirley, 1825-1890
Subjects: Greenhouses Greenhouse plants Gardening
Publisher: London : Groombridge and Sons
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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foliage,but at the same time admit all the light possible to promote arobust growth. This is especially necessary after the middleof August to promote the perfect ripening of the growth ofthe summer, for if this is not well matured before winter it isimpossible for the plants to flower satisfactorily or remain ingood health for any length of time. Orchids require very littleair in proportion to many other classes of plants, but thehouse must be ventilated sufficiently to maintain a pure atmo-sphere. In the winter scarcely any ventilation will be re-quired, and the air must only be admitted in calm and genialweather. AND COISSERVATOET. 223 The most useful of all the cool orchids are the Cattleyas,Lycastes, Oncidiums, and Cypripediums. The last genus sup-plies the most famous, because most useful, of all kuowu varie-ties of greenhouse orchids, and the beautiful C. innigne, orladys slipper. This is a most accommodating plant, forit will grow grandly in the stove, and flower there all the
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CYPEIPEDIUM INSiaNE. winter through, but it will also thrive in a snug greenhouse,and may be nicely grown in a fern case in the parlour, and,indeed, in skilful hands, it becoms a first-rate plant. To grow a fine specimen, half fill the pots with large pot-sherds, over these place a layer of moss, and fill up with a mix-ture of mellow turfy loam or tough peat, with a fourth part of 224 THE AMATEUEs GEEEIfHOUSE its bulk of small crocks and a few nodules of charcoal. Inpotting the plant, first loosen the roots carefully, and spreadthem out, and finish the potting in such a manner that thebase of the plant will be elevated two or three inches abovethe rim of the pot. To do this it may be necessary to removesome of the soil from the pot first, but it is impossible to givedirections for every particular. In any case the soil should bepressed about the roots moderately firm, and a coat of the finerpart of the soil should be spead over the top for a finish. If a very nice mellow loam is not o

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