Cool Orchids, and How to Grow Them; With a Descriptive List of All the Best Species in Cultivation
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you c …… [ 展开全部 ]an read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 4y a glass partition and door, so as to allow of one compartment being kept rather warmer or drier than the other, as might be required. The staging or side benches will be about 4 feet wide and ab...(展开全部)
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 4y a glass partition and door, so as to allow of one compartment being kept rather warmer or drier than the other, as might be required. The staging or side benches will be about 4 feet wide and about 4 feet high, or one compartment might have the benches 3 feet high, so as to give more head room to larger plants. These benches should be either stone or slate slabs placed upon cast-iron supports. Iron is better than wood, which will naturally Span Roofed Cool Orchid House, partly below ground. decay quickly in a humid atmosphere, and might give way suddenly, causing sad damage. This really happened in the case of a celebrated collection near Manchester not long ago, and did very serious damage to some of the finest Phalse- nopsids in this country. In the centre of the house a cistern may be constructed, into which all the rain-water from the roof might be conducted for use inside. As has been already explained, moisture is essential to the well-being of all Orchids, and as bare slate benches speedily become dry afterhaving been watered or damped down, it is a good plan in practice to cover them with a thin layer of cannel coal, broken up small and carefully washed. In addition to this, the benches may also be made to hold water, which, during the hot summer months, will be highly conducive to the health and vigour of the plants. The space bordering on the path beneath the side benches may be planted with Selaginella hortensis, which will soon form a fresh green carpet and Cool Orchid House at Ferniehnrst. materially aid in giving a neat and clean finish to the house; or a few Ferns may be planted, as shown in the illustration. During the hot summer months the plants will require to be carefully protected from the sun's rays, and blinds on rollers should be provided fo... [ 收起 ]
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