. The Gardener's monthly and horticulturist. t six feet indicated a very dryseason, at eight or nine feet proved the sameseason to be a very wet one! Hybrid Orchids.—Once there prevailed animpression that orchid seeds never, grew. Theyseem to produce seeds freely enough. If weexamine a patch of native orchids, it is rarelythat we do not find abundance of capsules withmany thousands of the dust-like seeds in it is only occasionally that we see evidencesof seedling growth about the old plants. Indeedit a notorious fact that a native locality can soonbe destroyed by the continual digging
. The Gardener's monthly and horticulturist. t six feet indicated a very dryseason, at eight or nine feet proved the sameseason to be a very wet one! Hybrid Orchids.—Once there prevailed animpression that orchid seeds never, grew. Theyseem to produce seeds freely enough. If weexamine a patch of native orchids, it is rarelythat we do not find abundance of capsules withmany thousands of the dust-like seeds in it is only occasionally that we see evidencesof seedling growth about the old plants. Indeedit a notorious fact that a native locality can soonbe destroyed by the continual digging up of theflowering roots. No young ones come on to taketheir places. In the vicinity of PJiiladelphia,and of all populous places, numbers of orchidlocalities have been destroyed through the rootsbeing dug up by plant lovers. 1882. AND HORTICULTURIST. 185 It seems to have been left for a few skillful: ditions do not often occur in a state of natureplant growers to discover, that the orchid re- now, whatever they may have done in ages long. t .^ir
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