10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CYPRIPEDIA»
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1
Proceedings of the Royal Horticultural Society
Mr. Bateman then directed attention to the Cypripedia exhibited. The word
Cypripedium had been turned into English by some poejic classic, who rendered
it Venus' Slipper. He trusted, however, that Venus was more tidy in her person,
and ...
Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain), 1865
2
Tilton's Journal of Horticulture and Florist's Companion
CYPRIPEDIA. Flowers are valued by me very much as my pictures are. I have no
picture-gallery, and I have no conservatory ; but I have pictures and flowers to
furnish my house, and to give an atmosphere which upholsterers and ...
3
The American Naturalist
Gray soon after, from an examination of some American Cypripedia concluded
that fecundation was effected by small insects entering the flower by the large
opening, and leaving it covered with pollen by the small ones. In 1806 I
examined ...
4
Tilton's Journal of Horticulture
Of the cultivation of tropical Cypripedia, the Messrs. Veitch write as follows : — "
We devote a compartment in our extensive range of orchid-houses to the
exclusive cultivation of Cypripedia ; and in their management we have been most
...
5
Tilton's Journal of Horticulture and Florist's Companion
Our native Cypripedia will bear forcing very well if judiciously applied. Mr.
Menand has frequently had C. acaule in flower about this season : and he now
has a pot of C. parviflorum in bloom, with a dozen flowers ; and a pot of C.
spectabile so ...
6
Gardeners Chronicle & New Horticulturist
Cypripedia, in ta varieties llendrobes, Lalias, Mesospinidium sanguineum,
Miltonias Odontoglnts Orchids, Phalamopsis, Renanthera, Saccolabiums,
Sobralias, and Eli-1e plants of Vanda coerulea, Vanda tricolor, and Vanda suavis
ettc II.
Sir Joseph D. Hooker writing about it says “It seems to grow and flower as freely,
and to be managed with as little difficulty as the other Indian Cypripedia.”
Doubtless this was written after a year or two years' experience only, for it was
soon ...
8
The Garden: An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Gardening in ...
L ILIUM SZOVITZIANUM, L. Hansoni, and others from Japan, all In magnificent
condition ; L. Martagon slburn, very large ; N. American Lilies, calnchorii In variety
, Cypripedia, Ac, to hand; Iris, Narcissi, Gla dol', Orchids, bulbs lor spring planting,
...
9
The Botanic Garden; a Poem, in Two Parts. Part I. Containing ...
... hairy caterpiilar, with their prickles bristling outwards, and may thus deter some
birds or infects from preying upon them. Salicomia also assumcs an animal
similitude. Phil. Bot. p. 87. See note on Iris in additional notes; and Cypripedia in
Vol.
10
The Botanic Garden: A Poem in Two Parts
... with their prickles bristling outwards, and may thus deter some birds or insects
from preying upon them. Salicornia also assumes an animal similitude. Phil. Bot.
p. 87. See note on Iris in additional notes; and Cypripedia, in Part I. :< _,._-=_.._.
Erasmus Darwin, Elihu Hubbard Smith, 1798
