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Farr’s Superb Lilacs 
For Fall Planting 
Lilac-time is springtime at its best. One can scarcely con¬ 
ceive of a spring garden without Lilacs; every bush a mass of 
glorious colors, and filling the air with delicate fragrance. 
Seemingly perfect, as were the old purple and w'hite sorts, 
the master hybridizer, Victor Lemoine, touched them with his 
magic hand, and lo, from them a multitude of glorified forms 
and new eolors appeared, with individual flowers and trusses 
more than doubled in size; with varieties early and varieties 
late, thus considerably lengthening the blooming season. 
All these new Lilacs are unusually free bloomers 
—far surpassing the old sorts, and I have over 100 
of the varieties growing on their own roots. If you 
wish these rich blooms in your garden next spring, 
the plants must be set this fall. 
Farr’s Hardy Plant Specialties 
(Sixth Edition, 1917-1918) describes Lemoine’s new 
Lilacs, Deutzias, Philadelphus, Japanese and German Iris, 
more than 500 varieties of Peonies, Evergreens, and Rock- 
If you do not have a copy of tills Sixth Edition, 
send for one today. 
BERTRAND H. FARR 
Wyomissing Nurseries Co • 
106 Garfield Ave. Wyomissing, Penna. 
Orchids of Easy Culture 
( Continued, from page 23) 
More orchids die 
from over-watering 
than from any other 
cause. It is better to 
have them shrivel from 
lack of moisture than 
to decay from excess 
of it. All need a lib¬ 
eral supply during 
their growth. Light 
syringing in bright 
weather, when plenty 
of air can also be 
given, is acceptable to 
them and keeps them 
clean. Syringing in 
dull weather causes 
decay and discolora- 
tion. When the 
growths have matured 
gradually lessen the 
supply of water until 
only a light syringing 
in bright weather 
Lczlia purpurata’s 
flowers are sometimes 
6" to 8" across 
ethereal white flowers. 
Ordinarily they bloom 
in February or March, 
the bloom remaining 
perfect four or five 
weeks, if kept free 
from damp. Although 
so beautiful, this is an 
inexpensive sort and 
one of the easiest to 
grow. It likes the 
cool end of the green¬ 
house when resting in 
winter, is happy under 
the shade of trees in 
summer, and may be 
grown, with Cypri- 
pedium insigtie, in a 
violet house. 
Cypripedium in- 
signe, perhaps the 
easiest of all orchids 
to grow, even without 
a greenhouse, is also 
and enough water at the roots to keep inexpensive, and in good hands seems to 
the bulbs from shriveling is given. It last forever, yielding a larger crop of 
is hard to give them the moist atmos- flowers every year. Its flowers are 
phere they love and at the same time oddly shaped and colored—tawny yel- 
plenty of fresh air. The only way to low, green and white. These are the 
do it is to keep the greenhouse ven- true lady’s-slippers, the large, showy, 
tilators open in pleasant weather and dorsal sepal and saccate lip, or slipper 
sprinkle the walls, walks and under the toe, forming the showier portion of the 
benches. flower. The thick, leathery blooms some- 
Fully expanded blooms are discolored times last three months on. the plant and 
by the general syringing other plants five or six weeks when cut. 
need, and are available at this time in Lycaste Skinneri, the cowled monk 
the living rooms. It is wonderful how orchid, endures living-room temperatures 
long some of them, notably the lycastes almost as well, and is as easily grown, 
and cypripediums, last there. Give them Its thick, waxen petals are ivory-white, 
just enough water at the root to keep with rose and crimson markings on the 
the flowers fresh, and sponge the rich, hP- It loves a cool treatment and plenty 
dark leaves free from dust. Commercial °I water, 
growers have a cool show house in which 
blooming orchids are placed to keep 
them perfect as long as possible. 
An Orchid Roll of Honor 
Bright-Colored and Spray Orchids 
To give long sprays for cutting, the 
oncidiums, odontoglossums and milto- 
nias are needed. Oncidium ornithorhyn- 
cum, loved for its daintiness and fra- 
Cattleyas are the most popular of all g rance , has small flowers of clear rose 
orchids. They have large and superbly a l°ng stems 1 or more in length. O. 
colored flowers which last well; they are uaricosum has similar sprays of glitter- 
easily grown and some species or other ln S yellow. O. papilio is the curious 
can be kept in bloom all the year. Nor- butterfly orchid that often deceives the 
mally the color is light rose, or lilac- insects themselves. The odontoglossums 
rose, throat yellow, lip crimson, with are now the most useful and generally 
frilled edge of white. Cattleya labiata, grown of all orchids. O. grande, with 
C. triana and C. Mossia are three fine sprays of large, chestnut brown and yel- 
sorts that thrive in the warm end of a ^ ov y blossoms, is the popular baby or- 
greenhouse. chid. O. crispum, nearly pure white, 
Laelias are so close akin to the cat- j. ust touched v ith gold on l the lip, spark- 
tleyas that they hybridize with them and ln & an f Un . u a . ln °, rlc | l y 0n r u3 j 1 url0 . u , s i 
their differences run close to the vanish- rl n “ 1S 0 s L ' m > the finest of all. All 
Jike a cool, moist, even temperature 
ing point. Lcslia anceps is a favorite 
throughout the year. Miltonias have 
because of its spicy fragrance, long stems , . B „ 
and free-blooming habit. Laelias are 10r f' r sprays of lovely flowers in van- 
grown like cattleyas and have the same 
lovely colors. 
ous delicate colors. 
One great charm of orchids is their 
-n , . . , . delicacy of coloring, but brilliant dashes 
Perhaps because of their velvety, eye- G f color now and then delight the most 
like spots, the dendrobiums seem like fastidious. Epidendrum vitellinum ma- 
glonfied pansies Dendrobium nobile is jus> although a cool-house orchid, glows 
the best one and not difficult to handle H ke a fire when in bloom. Its brilliant 
satisfactorily. If a number of plants orange-scarlet blossoms shoot upward in 
are secured and treated successionally, crowded, flaming spikes that gleam for 
their blooms can be enjoyed all winter. six weeks or more . This plant is satis- 
The flowers are rather large and quite fie d with the same treatment we give 
showy, rose and white, with velvety cattleyas, but might be kept cooler, 
crimson blotches. They like compare- Blue is a rare color in orchids, and 
tively small pots of fern-root and should Vanda ccerulea is one of the best in- 
be hung near the glass in the warm end stan ces of this color. There is a great 
of the house. . _ _ deal of difference in the. coloring of the 
Ccelogyne cristata and its white vari- flowers in different importations. Some 
ety are the loveliest and most spiritual are pale, almost white, while others are 
of all orchids. They develop into neat, the true cerulean blue. Some specimens 
dwarf, evergreen specimens, over which of this vanda have hundreds of lovely 
droop, in long sprays, the quivering, bright blue blossoms open at one time. 
