HISTORY OF ORCHID CULTURE IN AMERICA. 133 



tember, the writer's absence from Glen Ridge renders to 

 him Orchids blooming in those months less desirable. 

 The Glen Ridge Orchids are the finest in New England, 

 and embrace plants of the most desirable kinds, though 

 for number of specimens and for some of individual 

 plants, they cannot vie with the magnificent collections 

 of George Such of South Amboy, N. J., and of Erastus 

 Corning and Gen. John F. Rathbone, of Albany. 



Of other collections in the vicinity of Boston, we may 

 mention that of Gardiner G. Hubbard, of Cambridge, in 

 which are fine specimens of Stanhopeas and Cyrtopodium ; 

 a choice collection of Cypripediums of William Gray, Jr., 

 Boston ; a small sale collection of the Messrs. Hovey at 

 Cambridge ; and a very choice collection of rare species 

 of Frederick L. Ames, of Easton. 



In the vicinity of New York, the culture of Orchids 

 was first attempted by Mr. Thomas Hogg, about the year 

 1850, or earlier, who at that time had an extensive col- 

 lection ; it consisted mainly of Stanhopeas, Cattleyas, On- 

 adiums, Cycnoches ventricosum (a rare Orchid at present), 

 and Aerides odoratum, which was its rarest plant then. 

 Many years earlier, however, some few Orchids had been 

 grown, although no collection was in existence. In Sep- 

 tember, 1840, the veteran florist Mr. Isaac Buchanan 

 brought the first Cattleya Mossice. from London, and soon 

 after imported from Brazil a collection of Orchids, a part 

 of which were sent to Messrs. Hugh Low & Son, of Lon- 

 don. For the next fifteen years Mr. Buchanan cultivated 

 a few Orchids, but it was not until the breaking up of 

 Mr. Thomas Hogg's collection, in 1855-6, that he grew a 

 great number. 



The distribution of Mr. Hogg's collection gave an im- 

 petus to Orchid culture. 



