Extract “GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE,” October 11th, 1902. 
“NURSERY NOTES.” 
HE Orchid Nursery at Heaton, Bradford, is one of the most remarkable, 
complete, and successful horticultural concerns of modern times, and one in 
which the ideas and methods have been worked out with care, observation, and 
experiment by Mr. J. Chaklesworth himself. On several occasions we have noted the 
remarkable vigour and general excellence of the stock of imported species and of hybrids, 
the outcome of the larger part of the efforts at Heaton; and of late years it has been 
stated that a great deal of the success is due to the use of leaves in a decaying state 
in the potting material, together with a prescribed method of using it. The question 
now being of great importance, we paid a visit to the establishment, and full particulars 
respecting the potting material and matters relating to it were kindly given, which we 
hope to recount in a special note on the subject shortly. For the present it will suffice 
to give a brief description of a few of the matters we noted there. 
Although importing orchids, and especially Odontoglossums, through their own 
collectors it was easy to see that the great and increasing industry of raising new 
orchids from cross-fertilized seeds is the more important branch of the business A very 
noticeable feature is that throughout the plant houses their occupants, both species and 
hybrids, are in vigorous health ; hard, clean, and firmly rooted, and (lowering or in a 
condition to flower, even in the smaller sizes, which would scarcely be expected to 
flower. One explanation of the healthy character of the foliage and abundant flowers 
is that they grow rather cooler and with more air than in other orchid nurseries, and 
sunlight is freely admitted, indeed this season little use, it is said, has been made of 
the lath roller blinds. 
At the entrance of • the Nursery new offices have been erected, together with an 
artist’s room for taking pictures of good things and recording them as they flower etc. 
