The Gardens Story for Pleasures And Trials of An Amateur Gardener
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The white-fringed orchis should be planted in leaf-mold, with a ball of sphagnum about the roots, in full or nearly en- tire shade. Arethusa bulbosa, also a lover of wet places, and one of our most beautiful spe- cies, may be cultivated with success if good plants are secured to start with. Spiranthes cernua, or ladies-tresses, and S. Gracilis, are neither of them difficult to manage in partial shade and sandy loam, and should be cultivated 130 2TI)e attien's Storj). for their pretty, late-appe...aring flowers. Removal of most orchids may be made while the plants are in flower, and thus most easily found, by lifting them with a ball ; great care must be ex- ercised at any period, however, that the fleshy tubers sustain no injury. Of British species O. Maculata is the most satisfactory, the others being capricious, or find- ing something unconformable in our climate. The dark-purple blotches on the leaves of mac- ulata are striking ; and while the plant grows less strongly than at home, it nevertheless does well, its flower resembling a smaller fitnbriata, but more variable in its shades.
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