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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



NOVlilMBBB 14, 1907. 



dish bronze, Japanese, exhibited by ^Ja- 

 than Smith & Son, Adrian, Mich., scored 

 79 points exhibition scale. 



Cincinnati, Nov. 2. — Mary Donnellan, 

 yellow, exhibited by Nathan Smith & 

 Son, scored 83 points commercial and 87 

 points exhibition scale. 



New York, -Nov. 6. — W. Moir, Japa- 

 nese incurved, exhibited by C. H. Totty, 

 Madison, N. J., scored 92 points com- 

 mercial and 94 points exhibition scale. 



New York, Nov. 6. — Lynnwood Hall, 



Japanese incurved, exhibited by Wm. 

 Kleinheinz, Ogontz, Pa., scored 86 points 

 commercial scale. 



Chicago, Nov. 9. — Sadie May Strem- 

 ler, lemon yellow, sport of Queen, ex- 

 hibited by Metcalfe's Greenhouses, Hop- 

 kinsville, Ky., scored 64 points commer- 

 cial scale. 



The variety No. 4 exhibited by Frank 

 E. Witney before the New York commit- 

 tee has been named Grace Witney. 



David Kraser, Sec'y. 



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SOME SEASONABLE ORCHIDS. 



Laelia Gouldiaoa. 



That handsome winter-bloominjj Iffilia, 

 Gouldiana, is a natural hybrid between 

 L. anceps and L. autuninalis. The flow- 

 ers rather more closely resemble the lat- 

 ter than the former, being of a rich rose 

 color and having a pleasing odor. The 

 scapes are one to two feet high and 

 carry, as a rule, four to six flowers each. 

 With the other Mexican la;lias, this va- 

 riety needs abundant light in summer. 

 If grown in a heavily shaded house it 

 will flower poorly. It requires a good 

 deal of sun, as do each of its parents. 

 It succeeds well in baskets or pans hung 

 well up to the light. For compost, pure 

 osmunda fern fiber is the best potting 

 medium. The flowering period is De- 

 cember and January. 



Odontoglotcum Crispum Ameioe. 



Odontoglossums are the most difficult 

 of all orchids to grow satisfactorily in 

 America. Coming, as they do, from 

 mountain highlands, where the shade 

 temperature rarely exceeds 60 degrees 

 and not infrequently falls to near freez- 

 ing, they deteriorate rapidly during our 

 tropical summers. In Europe cut odon- 

 toglossums have a great sale in all the 

 leading flower markets, but they are 

 hardly ever seen in America. One or 

 two commercial firms are at present 

 making an effort to grow and flower 

 them, but 1 question if they will make 

 a financial success of it. On some few 

 private estates they are now grown tnttd 

 erately well and if we could only be as- 

 sured of an absence of summer humidit\ 

 they could be done finely. 



O. crispum is the most popular of the 

 genus and highly spotted forms have for 

 years commanded almost fabulous prices 

 in Great Britain. The illustration is of 

 a small spike on one of our plants last 

 season. The sepals and petals, while 

 lacking somewhat in breadth, are pret- 

 tily spotted. A sunken north house is 

 needed for summering these Alpine 

 orchids, but they benefit from exposure 

 to our winter sun, from December until 

 the middle of March. Fern fiber with 

 a little sphagnum is a good growing 

 medium.' 



Gittleya Bowringeana. 



That beautiful fall-flowering cattleya, 

 Bowringeana, introduce<l in 1886, from 

 Central America, makes a glorious show 

 in the orchid houses during October and 

 November. The flowers vary consider- 

 ably in color, but are usually rosy pur- 

 ple, with a maroon baud, and two and 

 one-half to three inches in diameter, al- 

 though even larger on vigorous speci- 

 mens. As a rule the corymbose racemes 

 carry from six to fifteen flowers, but in 

 many cases more. The illustration shows 

 one with twenty-eight flowers. Even this 

 number is occasionally exceeded. One 

 raceme bore forty-seveu flowers two 

 years ago. 



C. Bowringeana is allied to the popu- 

 lar summer-blooming C. Skinneri, which 



it somewhat resembles in color. The 

 latter, however, never throws such superb 

 scapes of blooms. C." Bowringeana is a 

 robust-growing sort. It does well 

 treated similarly to C. labiata a^d grown 

 in either pots or pans in a compost or 

 fern fib^r. It is not by any means a 

 plentiful . cattleya and few imported 

 plants are offered. 



Oncidium Ornithorhynchum Album. 



OAcidium ornithorhynchum is one of 

 the most popular of the genus, being 

 free flowering, of a pleasing color, with 

 a delightful odor and flowering in No- 

 vember and December. The form shown 

 in the illustration has pure white flowers 

 and is much more beautiful than the 

 colored type. 



This oncidium is of easy culture, do- 

 ing well in pans or baskets, which should 

 be hung well up to the light and grown 

 in a north house during the summer. 

 Snails have a particular partiality for 

 the tender flowen spikes and it may be 

 necessary to protect them with wrap- 

 pings of cotton wool. The use of sphag- 

 num moss is liable to bring in these 

 destructive pests and it is better to use 

 pure fern fiber and thus keep them 

 away from the plants. W. N. C. 



ORNAMENTAL PLANTS. 



[A paper by Wm. H. Taplin, of FlatbuuU. 

 Brooklyn, N. Y., read before the Congress of 

 Horticulture at the Jamestown exposition, Sep- 

 tember 23. 1907.] 



The last decade has witnessed great 

 advances in the production of ornamental 

 plants for commercial purposes in the 

 United States, the trade having in some 

 instances attained to the dignity of be- 

 ing specialized. It is true that there are 

 but few specialists in this department of 

 the trade as yet, the majority of plant- 

 growing establishments being divided in- 

 to various sections, rather than confined 

 to a single specialty. However, there 

 are a few such jilacos, and tliese are al- 



Laelia Gouldiana. 



