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THE ORCHID WORLD. 
[January, 1913. 
Catlleya Schrddera, flowering in (he Dale Nurseries. Brampton, Ontario, Canada. 
CATTLEYA SCHRODER/E. 
THE above photograph was taken last 
spring" in the Dale Nurseries, Bramp- 
ton, Ontario, Canada, where from 
35,000 to 40,000 Orchids are grown for 
cut-flower purposes, Cattleya species pre- 
dominate, and are in flower almost the whole 
year through, the forms including Schroderas, 
Mossias, labiata, and Trians. The labiatas 
finish flowering about the first week in 
November, and during the same month 
Trianaes commence to open their buds. 
Cypripediums, including insigrje Sanderae and 
Maudiae, are also grown, and a large importa- 
tion of Odontoglossum crispum has recently 
been received. The Dale Nurseries include 
more than twenty acres of glass, all of which 
are devoted to the production of cut flowers. 
The illustration shows one side of a 100 ft, 
house entirely devoted to Cattleya Schrodera?; 
many of the spikes carry four to seven 
flowers, and several of the plants twenty-two 
to thirty-six blooms. Last spring more than 
5,000 flowers were cut for the Easter trade. 
Mr. W. J. Jones, for many years grower to 
Messrs. Hooley Bros., Southampton, has 
charge of the Orchid department, and in a 
letter recently received from him we learn 
that the house of Cattleya Schrodera? promises 
an even greater abundance of bloom during 
191 3, while an equally spacious house of 
Cattleya Mossias will produce vast quantities 
of flower at a later date. The ingenious 
method of breaking the fierce rays of the sun 
by means of a thin sheet of tiffany suspended 
from the roof of the house may be recom- 
mended to others who find their early spring 
flowers scorched at a time when it is too early 
in the year to adopt the summer shading. 
