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NOVEMBER, 1923.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 327 
ORCHID CULTURE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 
GREAT surprise awaited my visit to the establishment of Mr. 
Thomas Young, Junr., Bound Brook, New Jersey, for there I saw the 
first trade collection of Orchids grown for cut-flowers only. Some idea of 
this collection may be gathered from the areas of the structures containing 
the plants. There are four houses each 5ooft. x 35ft.; fourteen each 250!t. 
X I2ft.; two each 250ft. X35ft.; and two each r1ooft. x 12ft. As regards 
the number of plants, one is simply bewildered. Imagine, if possible, a 
stock of nearly 30,000 Cattleya Triane, 12,000 C. Mossiz, 6,000 C. 
Warscewiczii, 4,000 C. Gaskelliana, several hundred plants of C. Mendelii 
and a large batch of C. Percivaliana. 
In addition to the above, I noted very large batches of home-raised 
hybrids, such as C. armainvillierensis, 3,000 C. Fabia, 100 C. Fabia alba, 1,000 
C. Hardyana alba, and 500 C. Maggie Raphel alba, the last four being great 
favourites for market work, and commanding good prices. Other useful 
hybrids, but not home-raised, include 500 C. Enid alba; while C. Clotho, 
C. Dupreana, C. Tityus and C. Octave Doin are all numerously 
represented. Ina special house set apart for choice varieties, I noticed a 
magnificent plant of C. Mossiz Reineckiana var. T. Young, a gigantic form 
bearing nine flowers, very choice and handsome. 
Of Leeliocattleyas, Mr. Young has raised large batches of Aphrodite 
and Canhamiana alba, some of which were in flower at the time of my visit, 
as well as several others of the spring-flowering type, as they are in great 
demand for the Easter trade, which is enormous in the large cities of 
America. Of Brassocattleyas, I saw very useful batches of the older types, 
such as Digbyano-Mossiz, Mad. Chas. Maron, heatonensis, and others of 
the same section. But of late years a demand has sprung up for better 
shaped flowers, so such varieties as Bc. Mars, Cliftonii, Jupiter and Ilene 
have been added to the stock. They all appear fo revel in the ‘‘ home” of 
Cattleyas and are making enormous growths. 
One entire house has been set apart for the cultivation of Oncidium 
splendidum, with the companionship of Phalznopsis amabilis and P. 
Schilleriana suspended from the roof. Mr. Young prefers growing 
Phalznopses fairly cool, in order to encourage the production of larger 
flowers. Similar plants are grown in other houses in order that the 
flowering season may be prolonged by slight differences in the temperatures, 
but I noticed that the cooler grown plants were sturdier. 
A portion of a corridor contains about 2,000 very fine plants of Den- 
drobium Phalznopsis Schreederianum, growing in pots on the staging. 
Very large batches of Leliocattleya callistoglossa, Lc. Dominiana, Lc. 
Colmaniana, Lc. Barbarossa and Lc. Britannia are grown for their rich 
