4563 x 6184 px | 38,6 x 52,4 cm | 15,2 x 20,6 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
1885
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1885 Text DENDROBIUM AINSWORTHII This variety — represented in Plate No. II. — is a hybrid, a cross between D. nobile and D. heterocarpum, and is considered one of the choicest and most desirable of the family. It was grown by Mr. Mitchell, gardener for Dr. Ainsworth, of Manchester, England, whose name the plant bears. Our drawing could present but a small part of the whole thrifty growth of this variety, or its multiplied buds and blossoms, its stalks being two feet in length. Some of them present a metallic appearance also, not easily represented by colors. At the Boston Horticultural Fair, in 1883, Mr. Robinson, gardener for F. L. Ames, Esq., took the highest prize for the finest specimen of this variety of Dendrobe seen or known in this country. It was indeed a noble specimen; but one needs to see the whole plant to appreciate its real beauty. It is not easy to speak truly and fully of this royal plant family without appearing to use the language of exaggeration. Baron Humboldt, the great naturalist, relates that "such is their number and variety in valleys of the Peruvian Andes, that the entire life of an artist would be too short to delineate all the magnificent forms adorning those deep recesses." Credible travellers in Brazil report that the "monkeys swing, leap, climb, and chatter in the tops of trees, surrounded by thousands of twisting and drooping orchids, breaking out into golden yellows to be dreamed of, into wonderful chocolates and the most delicate lilacs."
