SEPTEMBER, 1923.| THE ORCHID REVIEW. 275 
‘October. Ours, from a fifteen-guinea piece, grew to be a large-sized plant, 
and the last year we had it it produced seventy-two flowers. I was so 
anxious to prolong its season of flower, that I kept it in a Cool house—too 
‘cool, as the sequel showed, because it took distemper, got discoloured in the 
bulbs, and its constitution completely broke down. It was sold at Stevens’ 
at about one-fourth of what it would have brought had it been perfectly 
healthy. These facts will show what a valuable plant this might have been 
to Messrs. Veitch had they retained the stock for ten years longer. 
According to the prices realised last week, such a plant as the one at 
Meadowbank, which had over twenty breaks and I forget how many break- 
buds, had it been broken up and kept in health, would have been most 
valuable. Such competition also shows the growing taste for good Orchids, 
and the certainty of anyone realising good prices for them if they keep rare 
and beautiful species, or varieties of species, in good growing order.” 
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ORCHID CULTURE IN THE UNITED STATES 
OF AMERICA. 
NE of the oldest and best known collections in the United States is 
undoubtedly that formed by Clement Moore, Esq., of Hackensack, New 
Jersey. This amateur is well known personally to many Orchid lovers-on 
this side of the Atlantic, and his enquiry as to their well-being proved the 
ties of friendship he made when visiting England. Mr. Moore is always in 
close contact with his Orchids, and the-history of each and every plant was 
telated from memory when-I«visited his renowned ‘collection. 
The range of glasshouses has been planned with forethought and care, 
and where the houses are not connected by corridor, a cellar-way has been 
constructed so that the plants can be moved from one house to another 
without coming into the open air during the cold weather. Mr. Moore is 
an enthusiastic raiser of plants from seed. I noticed many thousands in 
various stages of growth. Some of the earlier crosses have already 
flowered and been recorded, but of later years many much finer varieties of 
species and hybrids have been used as parents, and it is from these that 
"greater things are expected. On account of the promising nature of these 
seedlings keen interest is taken in their progress towards the flowering stage. 
This collection has long had a reputation for fine varieties of Cattleya 
Trianz, and many plants of this species were pointed out to me = being 
€xceptionally fine. There are grand plants of Trianze alba, Moore s Vari, 
and of the varieties known as Grand Monarch, Edgar Knight, President, 
Perfecta, Mooreana, as well as some others of even finer merit. Another 
Species largely cultivated is C. Warscewiczii, of which many plants have 
been selected and purchased when in flower. I noticed a healthy plant of 
