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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Lupinus (Supplement)

Lycaste
Lycaste

To the species described on pp. 302-3, Vol. II., the following variety should now be added:

L. albo-coccineus nanus (dwarf, white and scarlet). fl. sweetly scented; spikes rich rosy-crimson half-way up, thence to the apex pure white, borne well above the foliage. Summer. 1887. This forms handsome, compact bushes about 1ft. in height. (G.C. ser. iii., vol. ii., p. 597.)

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