Curtis's Botanical Magazine, or Flower-Garden Displayed, 1818, Vol. 45: In Which the Most Ornamental Foreign Plants, Cultivated in the Open Ground, the Green-House, and the Stove, Are Accurately Repre - Hardcover

John Sims

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ISBN 10: 0331532603 ISBN 13: 9780331532609

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Excerpt from Curtis's Botanical Magazine, or Flower-Garden Displayed, 1818, Vol. 45: In Which the Most Ornamental Foreign Plants, Cultivated in the Open Ground, the Green-House, and the Stove, Are Accurately Represented in Their Natural Colours

The roots of this plant were sent, at the same time with Orchis acuminata, N o. 1932, and Ophrys tenthredim' era, no. 1930, from Sicily, by william swainson, Esq. Ellow of the Linnean Society, to our.friend the President, who committed them to the care of Mr. William anderson, Curator of the Apothecaries Garden at Chelsea. They were treated as directed in the Introduction to Botany (page 110) and came Over in the greatest perfection. We quote the paragraph for the sake of those who wish to cultivate this very curious tribe of plants. Such of the Orchis tribe as have biennial bulbs, are supposed to be very difiicult of cul tivation; but according to the experience of my excellent friend, the late Mr. Crowe, in whose garden I have seen them many successive years, they are best removed when in full flower, the earth being cleared completely away from the roots, which are then to be replanted in their natural soil, previously dried and sifted. Afterwards they must be well watered. The bulb for the following year has not at the flowering period be an to throw out its fibres; for after that he pens it will not ear removal.

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