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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



February, 1906 



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GROWING ORCHIDS 



T^ROM the common yellow Moccasin found in our woods to the exquisite purple- 

 garbed Cattleyas from the jungles of South America, the Orchid is the most 

 beautiful, mysterious and lasting of all flowers. 



Contrary to general impression, the growing of Orchids is not a difficult task. In fact 

 they can be grown in any of our greenhouses in connection with other plants, the Orchid 

 demanding but little care and comparatively small expense. One plant costs but the 

 price of a single bloom and yields abundant flowers for three months. The cut flowers 

 will remain fresh for two weeks. 



In the interior view shown, the Orchids in their attractive wooden-framed baskets hang 

 from the rafters, while in the beds below are growing ferns, potted plants and other 

 flowers and vegetables. 



The Burnham-Hitchings-Pierson Company's houses are designed to meet every require- 

 ment of the amateur. These houses yield you all the year around joys in flowers for 

 the home and out-of-season vegetables for the table. 



Send for U-A collection of cuts showing a number of these houses. 



BURNHAM-HITCHINGS-PIERSON COMPANY 



Boston Branch: 8 J 9 Tremont Bldg. Greenhouse Designers and Manufacturers. J J 33 BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY 



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Fruit, Forest and Ornamental 

 Trees ma y ^ e ^ one now 



We send out experts whose work will save the 

 trees which are suffering from neglect. 



Write for Estimates 



Catalogue of Shiubs and Herbaceous Plants 

 sent on application. 



Shatemuc Nurseries, DVT ^Y?Z\ v. 



John Xolen offers his services as landscape architect to owners of private 

 places; park commissioners; hotel proprietors; owners of factories; real 

 estate companies and voluntary improvement associations. He will be glad 

 to co-operate with anyone who desires assistance in developing property for 

 use, having due regard to the beauty and appropriateness of its appearance, 

 Mr. Nolen will furnish plans showing the best location for buildings, paths, 

 roads and other constructions ; also planting plans. Correspondence is 

 invited. For further information address 



JOHN NOLEN, Landscape Architect, 



Harvard Square, Cambridge, 



Massachusetts. 



The Agricultural Experts Association 



GEORGE T. POWELL, President 



120 Broadway 



NEW YORK 



EXAMINATION of soils to determine condition and methods 

 for improvement. Laying out of country estates, including 

 architect's services, residences, greenhouses and other buildings. 

 Building and landscape gardening. Problems relating to engineer- 

 ing and sanitation. Selection and puichas" of blooded stock. 

 Consultation on all land problems. Correspondence invited. 



Howl Became an Orchid Grower 



T WAS attracted to the orchids that have 

 -1 now become my hobby by seeing a few 

 miscellaneous blooms displayed, ten years 

 ago, outside Rolker's old auction rooms in 

 Liberty Street, New York. Wandering down 

 past that spot, I was curiously attracted by 

 the fantastic forms and the superb colorings 

 of the flowers. A moment's hesitation and 

 I stepped inside to satisfy my curiosity, for, 

 though I had a natural love of flowers, my 

 experience and acquaintance so far had been 

 with the commoner carnations, roses, and 

 such like — the every-day flowers that every- 

 one knows — but which to-day I must confess 

 appeal to me no longer. 



Once inside the auction rooms I soon en- 

 gaged in conversation with the consignee's 

 representative, who, in answer to the ques- 

 tions as to cultivation, said: "They are as 

 easy to grow as geraniums." You may smile 

 somewhat at that idea, and after I had made 

 only a few fitful attempt's to grow a mixed lot 



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The giant orchid (Cattleya labiata, var. Sanderiana, u. 

 gtgas) which flowers in midsummer. Its gorgeous 

 coloring has shades of purple with two yellow spots. 



of stove, intermediate and cool members of 

 the orchid family, I too was ready to disbelieve. 



To-day, however, I am free to assert that 

 Mr. Dimmock was right — quite right — and 

 in this way. If you would really grow good 

 geraniums — grow them in such a way as to get 

 out of them the best that they are capable 

 of — you must give them special attention, they 

 must be studied. Of course a geranium will 

 grow to a certain degree under almost any 

 condition, but the plant will not be a speci- 

 men — a thing of beauty, growing better year 

 by year. And so it is with orchids. 



You cannot grow orchids as you would 

 grow geraniums; each kind has its peculiar 

 needs, which must be supplied. 



"Try a few," he said to me, and I did. I 

 bought a half-dozen plants, and so absorbed 

 the germs of the orchid fever. 



One learns best by experience. My first 

 plants were consigned to a pit, which was 

 heated by an oil stove. It would not do for 

 orchids. It was impossible to give them a 

 proper supply of*buoyant fresh air. That is 

 the one point in orchid growing on which 

 beginners are usually wrecked at the outset. 

 Orchids must have fresh air and abundant 



