April 3, 1909 



HORTICU LTU RE 



469 



To the best of our knowl- 

 edge tliis is the first lij'- 

 brid to be exhibited of 

 American origin with Bras- 

 savola Digbyana as a par- 

 ent. This was used as a 

 pollen parent the seed bear- 

 er being the tA^pe plant ol' 

 Cattlej'a x Thayeriana ; 

 thus the Brasso-Cattleya 

 Susannffi contains i/4 '^'• 

 Schroderag, i/4 C. intei-- 

 media, and i/2 Brassavola 

 Digbyana. The color is a 

 uniform pearly pink, and 

 the flowers were fully ex- 

 panded a month before be- 

 ing exhibited before the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society, March 25th, thus 

 showing valuable lasting 

 qualities inherited from I'. 

 Thayeriana. 



Fully expanded, the flow- 

 ers are five inches across, 

 and the plant though small 

 promises to produce even 

 better results when as 

 strong as one yet un- 

 flowered. 



Brasso-Cattleya Susannae 



Horticulture in the Newspapers 



Editor HoETicuLTUBE : 



I notice with much interest the note concerning horti- 

 cultural editors, in your issue of March 20th, and take 

 this opportunity to call attention to the work that is 

 being done by the National Council of Horticulture 

 through its Press Bureau work. It has been the aim 

 of the Council to prepare authentic articles on horticul- 

 tural matters, that would be acceptable to the news- 

 papers, and at the same time give accurate information 

 to the general public. While the work thus far has not 

 been all that might be hoped for, a good beginning 

 has been made, and the general subject of horticulture 

 has been exploited along broad lines, and renewed in- 

 terest in various phases of the subject has been created 

 at very little expense. 



The Council has on its mailing list, leading news- 

 papers in all sections of the countr}-, as well as news- 

 paper syndicates through whom the articles go to some 

 2,000 papers, thus reaching a total of nearly 3,000 dif- 

 ferent publications, with an estimated aggregate weekly 

 circulation of two or three million. The cost of edit- 

 ing and distributing to these papers four short articles 

 has been $30.00 per week, exclusive of the very smrll 

 amount spent in the preparation of articles, as most 



of them have been prepared free of expense to the Coun- 

 cil. With a eomptent person, giving his full time and 

 thoiight to this work, articles of the greatest merit might 

 be furnished the entire year, and should have the back- 

 ing of non-commercial organizations, equally interested 

 in all branches of horticulture and national in its scope. 

 Such organization is embodied in the National Council, 

 and if its endeavor to exploit horticulture could be uni- 

 versally supported, the influence for good could hardly 

 be over-estimated. Moreover, there is a great demand 

 for this kind of information by the newspapers, and the 

 horticultural interests warrant much stronger backing 

 than has thus far been given to further the work. 



It seems to me that if all of the horticultural interests 

 could combine, and secure the services of such a man as 

 Mr. Eobert Cameron of the Harvard Botanical Gardens 

 to prepare and edit such articles, and distribute them 

 to the newspapers throughout the country, as the Coun- 

 cil is now doing, the funds for such work would be well 

 spent and would redound to the profit of the commercial 

 liorticulturist, whether he be a landscape gardener, nur- 

 ser}Tnan, fruitgrower, florist or a seedsman. 



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St. Louis, Mo. 



