March 25, 1911 



HORTICULTURE 



431 



OFROMIDS 



Our Importations of Cattleya Trianae, 

 Labiata, Qigas Sanderiana and 

 Schroederae are on the way. 



Later on we will receive Cattleyas 

 riossiae, Gaskelliana, Percivaliana, 

 Warnerii, Dowiana, etc., also Den= 

 drobium Formosum, Laelia Pur= 

 purata, Oncidium Varicosum, and 

 several others. 



We collect and import nothing but the 

 choicest of plants. No greater mistake 

 can be made than to buy cheap Orchids. 

 We specialize in supplying the Trade. 



Write Us 



CARRILLO & BALDWIN 



MAMARONECK, N. Y. 



ORCHIDS 



Visit us at the National 

 Flower Show, Mechanics 

 B'Id'g, Boston, Mass., 

 March 25-April 1, 1911 



We will have on exhibition a lot 

 of Orchid plants that may in- 

 terest you. 



We have on hand at present a 

 few hundred C a I a n t h e 

 Veitchii bulbs which we 

 offer for immediate delivery. 

 Write for prices. 



LAGER & HURRELL 



SUMMIT, NEW JERSEY 



the quality of the goods and the abil- 

 ity of the collector. Two collectors 

 may be working close by each other, 

 and one of them is paying half the 

 price the other is paying for the same 

 plants, and the assertion that at times 

 the fellow who pays the lower price 

 gets the best plants, sounds like a 

 yarn. In the first place, if two collec- 

 tors work in the same district, and 

 one of them gets the cheap plants, the 

 man who pays more gets the pick. In 

 the second place, a collector may be 

 buying rubbish at a high price, while 

 the other fellow discovers a new dis- 

 trict and picks and chooses, for halt 

 or one-third of what the other is pay- 

 ing. So, in orchids, it is not the price 

 paid at the markets what makes qual- 

 ity, but the ability of the collectors. 

 How can it then be possible to fix a 

 market price for orchids? 



Collecting or Buying? 



The firm that employs its own col- 

 lectors risks its money, as there are 

 many enemiesi of orchids. The firms 

 that buy from dealers risk nothing. 

 They pay if the plants reach them in 

 good condition and therefore have to 

 pay for them a much higher price. 

 This explains why plants of the same 

 variety, on the same steamer, are in- 

 voiced at different values. One firm 

 collects them, the other buys them; 

 naturally, they pay different prices. 



Now there is another question. If 

 the firms that buy their plants from 

 dealers invoice them at the standard 

 value, apparently they are beating 

 Uncle Sam, but if they would invoice 

 the plants at the price they pay F. O. 

 B. at the port of shipment, they would 

 be undersold by the firms that have 



their own collectors, or by the collec- 

 tors themselves. 



Again, the collector sells his plants 

 at a much higher price than the one 

 they are invoiced at. If he sells F. O. 

 B. Colombian, Brazilian, or Venezue- 

 lan ports, the invoice is made at the 

 standard value and duty is paid on it. 

 Should it be done otherwise, all the 

 firms would be forced to have their 

 own collectors, and all the collectors 

 would have to establish a place of 

 business in New York, a thing that 

 would put some people out of the busi- 

 ness at once. So, it is self-evident 

 that the standard price is the only 

 solution of the difficulty. 



Of course, all the plants do not cost 

 the same price; besides, some of them 

 come from inaccessible districts, and 

 it is necessary to transport them for 

 long distances on the backs of men or 

 mules; others grow near big naviga- 

 ble rivers, and transportation Is far 

 easier. But, again, the same trouble 

 arises; some people pay less than 

 others for transportation, and the very 

 same plant is collected at different 

 places, which makes this item vary in 

 an appreciable way. 



No doubt a man of great experience 

 can give an approximate value ot 

 transportation, and price of every 

 commercial orchid, but this is not an 

 easy job and some injustice might be 

 done. Very few experts are living who 

 would distinguish the cattleyas when 

 imported, and who could pick them 

 out and give their proper name. Some 

 of them resemble another as a drop of 

 water resembles another drop of water, 

 although they are of different varie- 

 ties. COLLECTOR. 



ORCHIDS 



Guaranteed true type, good itrons plants 



JOHN DE BUCK 



will be back from collecting plants in South 

 America in Spring. 



C. TBIANAE, C. GASKEL,IANA, C. 



.SCHROEDERAE C. SPECJOSISSI- 



Jl.\. C. MENDELLI, UENDRO- 



BIl'M FORMOSUM, C. GI- 



G A S, C. M O S S I A E, 



DENDROBIUM 



PIL-VI^.^ENOPSIS 



For prices write 



JOHN DE BUCK, c/o Maltus & Ware 



14 STONE ST., NIW YORK CITY 



ORCHIDS 



PLANTS and F LOWERS "Iwiyi OB hiad 



ORDONEZ BROS. 



Madison, New Jersey 



ORCHIDS 



Largett Importers, Exporters, Grower* 

 and Hybriditt* in the World 



SANDER, St. Albans, England 



and 2B8 Broadway, Room 721 

 WgW Y OR K CITY 



SPHAGNUM MOSS 



New stock, long and clean. In 5 and 10 bbl. 

 bales burlapped. 



ROTTED and FIBROUS PEAT 



Gathered from a rich deposit ot rotted un- 

 dergrowth. No better grnde in the mar- 

 ket. Packed in sacks containing 2% bn. 

 Write for prices on large or small quantities. 



J. H. SPRAGUE • Barnegat, N. J. 



