December 9, 1920 



HORTICULTURE 



359 



share his appreciation of the queenly 

 blooms, he has issued a dainty little 

 pamphlet on the peony which contains 

 pictures of his garden and of several 

 leading varieties, together with a 

 good account of the peony's rise to 

 fame, and a classification of species 

 and varieties. Such men as Mr. Nor- 

 ton are doing much to put the Peony 

 Society in the front rank of horticul- 

 tural organizations in North America. 



I am glad to learn that the New 

 York Botanical Garden is going to 

 have a tulip show next spring which 

 will equal those to be found there be- 

 fore the war. Last year only about 

 9,000 bulbs were flowered. Next spring 

 there will be more than 18,000, all of 

 them Darwins or Breeders. The New 

 York Botanical Garden is doing ex- 

 cellent work in increasing the public's 

 intelligent appreciation of flowers and 

 of gardens in general. Its efforts in 

 this line will be patterned after in 

 other cities. 



Considerable interest has been 

 aroused among orchid growers by the 

 sale which has been carried on by 

 Julius Roehrs Co., and apropos of this 

 matter, I recently ran across a photo- 

 graph of a Cattleya which was given 

 to the world some years ago by the 

 Roehrs people, and which impressed 

 me as remarkably handsome. It is 

 called C. Dowiana memorial, Julius 

 Roehrs, being named in honor of the 

 late Julius Roehrs, of Rutherford, N. 

 J., and being a merited compliment to 

 the memory of a man who did much 

 during his lifetime to promote orchid 

 culture in the United States, and who 

 would, I am sure, have been greatly 

 interested in the present orchid re- 

 vival, if I may use that term. 



This Cattleya appeared in a lot of 

 imported Dowianas, and differs from 

 the type in that the lip is gold and 

 orange veined, without a trace of any 

 other color. It was expected that this 

 plant would prove of much value for 

 hybridization in an effort to get an 

 absolutely pure yellow Cattleya. I 

 shall be interested to learn whether it 

 has been used in this way, and how 

 far it has filled that particular mis- 

 sion. 



While the popularity of the lily as 

 a garden plant is growing, the value 

 of the lily, apart from a few kinds, as 

 greenhouse subjects does not seem to 

 be fully appreciated, at least on this 

 side of the water. There are many 

 lilies which can be forced splendidly, 

 among them Henryii, Auratum and 

 Speciosum in different varieties. Spe- 

 ciosum is perhaps the most valuable 

 for the trade, and is being offered to 



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