| Fashion - 740 pages
...C<EHCLEA. — Near the village of Lernai (Khasia Mountains) oakwoods are passed, in which Vanda ccerulea grows in profusion, waving its panicles of azure flowers...present attracting great attention, from its high price, teauty, and difficulty of culture, I shall point out bow totally at variance with its native habit*... | |
| Joseph Dalton Hooker - Asia, Central - 1854 - 536 pages
...east and west, and dip north). Near the village of Lernaioak woods are passed, in which Vanda coerulea grows in profusion, waving its panicles of azure flowers...habits, is the cultivation thought necessary for it in England.f The • Notes on the Khasia mountains and people; by Lieutenant H. Yule, Bengal Engineers.... | |
| Country life - 1854 - 652 pages
...in the damp, unhealthy, steamy Orchid houses of our English gardens. Vol. ii, 294. "Vanda cabrillea grows in profusion, waving its panicles of azure flowers...point out how totally at variance with its native habite is the cultivation thought necessary for it in England.* The dry grassy hills which it inhabits... | |
| Horticulture - 1857 - 792 pages
...Near the village of Larnai, oak woods are passed, in which Vanda cccruloa grows iu profusion, waviug its panicles of azure flowers in the wind. As this...price, beauty, and difficulty of culture, I shall poiut out how totally at variance with its native habits is the cultivation thought necessary for it... | |
| Joseph Dalton Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker - Himalaya Mountains - 1905 - 664 pages
...east and west, and dip north). Near the village of Lernai oak woods are passed, in which Vanda OKrulea grows in profusion, waving its panicles of azure flowers...habits is the cultivation thought necessary for it in England.2 The dry ' Notes on the Khasia mountains and people ; by Lieutenant IL Yule, Bengal Engineers.... | |
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