This handsome spray orchid has lent itself ...

This handsome spray orchid has lent itself ...

This handsome spray orchid has lent itself so well to hybridizing that it has attained a perfection in flower, of size and shape that rivals the Cattleya, and in range of color it is surpassed by no other orchid.

The aim of modern hybridizers has been to produce a flower with a dorsal sepal and petals so round that the hand cannot be seen if held behind the flower- a far cry from the slim-petaled grandparents.

Species of Cymbidium have proved strangely difficult to grow under artificial conditions, probably owing to the difficulty of giving them proper aeration.

For that reason as well as for their superior beauty and size, the hybrids are far better known than the species.

They must be grown in a cool house or outdoors.

Although there are sixty known species, only about ten of them have been used to any extent in making the many lovely hybrids.

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