Listing and descriptions of species may be ...

Listing and descriptions of species may be ...

Listing and descriptions of species may be found on page 117.

) Members of the genus Odontoglossum have been found difficult to grow under artificial cultivation, as they require conditions entirely different from those of most greenhouse orchids.

Seldom found at an elevation of less than 5000 feet, they need shade, air, and moisture without being chilled.

They are so showy and lovely, in respect to both plant-pseudobulbous and foliaceous- and to crisply serrated flowers, that it is well worth the effort to study their native environment and supply conditions to make them happy.

The plants are small, compact, evergreen, sympodial, and epiphytic, and the flowers are borne along tall, curving spikes.

The species are many and varied, all beautiful.

They require cool-house culture with shade.

The genus is noted for its many fine natural hybrids.

It crosses readily with Miltonia to form Odontonia, considered by many growers an improvement on the parents because of the larger flowers and greater ease of growth.

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