The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Delphinium (This genus comprises about)

Dendrobium
Dendrobium

This genus comprises about forty species, distributed over the North temperate zone. To the species and varieties described on pp. 450-1, Vol. I., the following should now be added:

D. azureum album (white). fl. creamy-white, in long, wand-like racemes. l. large, deeply three to five-parted, the divisions cleft into narrow lobes. Stems 2ft. to 3ft. high. North America, 1882.

D. cashmirianum Walkeri (Walker's). fl. 1in. or more in diameter; sepals pale blue, striped with darker blue; petals dull yellowish, tipped with brown; peduncles 3in. to 4in. long, one-flowered. l. orbicular, three to five-lobed; lobes lobulate. Kashmir, 1885. A dwarf, rockwork plant. (B. M. 6830.) D. hybridum sulphureum (sulphur). A synonym of D. Zalil. D. Zalil (Zalil). fl. pale yellow, rather larger than a shilling, disposed in long racemes. May to August. l. dark green, finely cut. Stem branching; branches 8in. to 16in. long. Afghanistan, 1887. An attractive annual. SYN. D. hybridum sulphureum.

Dendrobium
Dendrobium

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