E ARE GLAD to present you with this 
\Y/ little book, and trust you will find the 
information contained of practical value. 
That grand old horticulturist, James Vick, Sr., 
founder of James Vick & Son, Rochester, New 
York, once said, '‘"God made a man a being pure 
and simple in all his tastes, but before He 
created man, He made a beautiful garden and 
then He put man in that garden to dress and 
keep it.'' This is our creed, and we believe that 
we can serve you best by supplying nursery- 
grown plants because nursery-grown plants are 
sent to you with their entire root systems intact. ANS | he 
Even our small perennials are transplanted at esi ga Bo \ Le Se 
least six times before they leave Bae eats to $ BS Usa 
insure a compact and complete ball of roots. 
We believe there is a place for everything that grows. Some plants listed in this 
catalogue we have not recommended very highly simply because we do not know 
of many locations where they can be used without endangering nearby plantings. 
May the 1941 era bring you prosperity and all the happiness which good plants 
can produce. 



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The following article appeared in January 1888 in Vick’s Magazine 
NATIVE ORCHIDS 
By E. S. Gilbert 
with any of the gorgeous tropical forms, has nature favored us here, in 
Western New York. She intends us, at the North, to be thankful for 
smaller favors.. Though our species are so small and modest beside the costly 
exotics of their order, they are still rich and strange 
and beautiful; their comparative rarity is an added 
charm. Dandelions and Daisies are cheapened by 
their vast multitudes. 
DS | WITH Sobralias or Oncidiums, with flower-scapes twenty feet long, or 
A woodland ramble is a success if it leads you 
to a clump of Orchids in bloom. You are a true 
familiar friend of the woods if you know of many 
localities of any of the species. The peculiar frag- 
rance of bruised wheat blades is not shared by the 
meadow grasses, neither do all Composites smell 
alike; but the broken stems or roots of all our 
Orchids have the same scent, a strong drug-like 
aroma, showing, perhaps, their close relationship 
amidst their diversity of season, size, structure and 
ORCHIS SPECTABILIS habitat 

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The spring is about to become the summer; the Sugar Maple bells with- 
ered some days ago and every breeze scatters the Apple blossoms. It is time 
to look up the Showy Orchis, Orchis spectabilis, the first of its tribe, or one of 
the first, to bloom. | mostly find it at the foot of steep banks along our 
little streams, not because it is aquatic, but because it likes the soft, rich mold 
formed from the drifts of autumn leaves that collect in such places. How firm 
and clear cut are its dark green leaves, often growing in thick patches; the scape 
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