. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. bulbs are large and acclimated to this country, having been grown for sev- eral years in the vicinity of Roches- ter, N. Y. The illustration, from a pho- tograph taken last summer, shows the plants in full bloom. This lycoris was imported from Japan a number of years ago, and has been grown by E. Huftelen, of Le Roy, N. Y., who for years has been prominent in horticulture, making the improvement and hybridization of lilies a specialty. The Golden Gleam lily is also one of Mr. Huftelen's intro- ductions. The entire
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. bulbs are large and acclimated to this country, having been grown for sev- eral years in the vicinity of Roches- ter, N. Y. The illustration, from a pho- tograph taken last summer, shows the plants in full bloom. This lycoris was imported from Japan a number of years ago, and has been grown by E. Huftelen, of Le Roy, N. Y., who for years has been prominent in horticulture, making the improvement and hybridization of lilies a specialty. The Golden Gleam lily is also one of Mr. Huftelen's intro- ductions. The entire stock of this lycoris tvas purchased of Mr. Huftelen by James Vick's Sons, Rochester, N. Y., who ex- pect to introduce it in their 1908 "Garden and Floral ; WITH THE GROWERS VIOLET HOUSE, 35x200, OF J. VONDER LINDEN, RHINEBECK, N. Y. J. Vonder Linden, Rhlnebeck, N. Y. Of the men who have achieved promi- nence in the Rhinebeck violet industry, none are more prominent than J. Von- der Linden. Though yet a young man he has made a great success of violet growing and his range is one of the show places of Rhinebeck. He has an- other range at the neighboring town of Staatsburg, the two combined having a total area of 50,000 square feet of glass, all devoted to violet culture. Mr. Von- der Linden is thoroughly up-to-date and all the appointments of his range are ex- cellent. If orchids cannot be admired for their grace and beauty they never will be for anything else. Some growers seem to take a delight in fastening some stupid name upon them and looking for out- landish resemblances to everything under the sun, from an elephant to a King Charles spaniel. It goes down with a gullible public and fills columns of twad- dle under scare heads in the newspapers, but there is no need of it. There are notable instances of mimicry in orchids and very beautiful they are; as, for in- stance, the pure white dove, in the exact pose of the bird when alighting, in Peris- teria elata
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