DECEMBER, 1923.| THE ORCHID REVIEW. 367 
ORCHIDS AT JARVISBROOK, SUSSEX. 
OR generations past the name of Low has held an important position in 
f the annals of Horticulture. Our grandparents visited Messrs. Low’s 
when their Nursery was at Clapton, and our fathers when a much larger 
establishment was built by this firm at Bush Hill Park. The present 
generation of Orchid enthusiasts know Messrs. Stuart Low & Co., as of 
Jarvisbrook, Sussex; where an immense area of glasshouses has been 
constructed within the last twelve years. Thus, for almost a century this 
firm has been in the front rank of horticulture, not only in the discovery 
of new species, but in the growing and exhibiting of superb plants and 
meritorious varieties. 
Cymbidium Lowianum is of sufficient importance to record for all time 
the name of this firm, for but few Orchids have been, and are so widely 
cultivated, not only by amateurs with recognised collections, but also by 
many possessing but a small greenhouse, and this often filled witha miscel- 
laneous collection of plants. Even to-day, awards are being granted to 
hybrids obtained from this well known Cymbidium. Another famous intro- 
duction is Dendrobium Wardianum Lowianum, which flowered in 1875 
and has since been imported in tens of thousands. 
The Jarvisbrook establishment, devoted to the raising and growing of 
Orchids, is under the special control of Mr. Edward Tack, who for many 
years has been closely associated with the producing and growing side of 
the business. He is ably seconded by a staff, who, for the most part, have 
grown up with the ‘business from boyhood. Miss Eileen Low uses this 
establishment for her headquarters when home from her travels in other 
countries where the Orchid is loved and valued. To all of these I am 
indebted for the trouble that was taken to ensure my seeing all that was 
possible of the extensive and comprehensive stock in the comparatively 
short time at my disposal. 
The glasshouses are arranged in two distinct blocks. In one of them, 
at the North-end, there is a corridor two hundred feet in length, out of 
which open eleven houses, for the most part 120ft. in length, forming in 
itself a complete nursery; grading upward from the seedling-house at one 
end to the large specimen flowering plants at the other, the packing and 
work-room being at the extreme end. This north corridor is a most useful 
place for retarding and regulating the flowering period of certain of the 
plants. 
On entering the first large house, measuring 2oft. in width, a splendid 
lot of Lc. luminosa aurea makes an imposing show on the centre stage. 
This is a popular hybrid that here makes bulbs above the average length, 
and is of an exceptionally free-flowering nature. One plant carried a spike 
