. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. tgn. The American Florist. 666 cidedly larger than those from which the spikes had been cut and the bulb- lets very much more numerous. E. Y. Teas & Son. The Future of Orchid Culture. Few plants have been more roundly abused by those ignorant of their cul- ture, or more highly commended by those conversant with it, than the or- chids. The "decline of the orchid" has been prophesied time and again, the "orchid craze" has been burlesqued and caricatured and those who, for the love of these be
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. tgn. The American Florist. 666 cidedly larger than those from which the spikes had been cut and the bulb- lets very much more numerous. E. Y. Teas & Son. The Future of Orchid Culture. Few plants have been more roundly abused by those ignorant of their cul- ture, or more highly commended by those conversant with it, than the or- chids. The "decline of the orchid" has been prophesied time and again, the "orchid craze" has been burlesqued and caricatured and those who, for the love of these beautiful and distinct flowers, have spent time and money for years and years, have been described as fit inmates for lunatic asylums by writers who have been able by some cajolery or other to get their jeremiads before the horticultural public through the medium of the press. Yet with all this one may well ask the question: "What is the future of orchid growing in America?" and it would be an in- teresting feature if those who are in a position to do so would give readers the benefit of their opinions on the subject in a paper that has always been so freely open to discussion of live points as The American Florist. For it is a live point, friends. Al- though the statement may meet with opposition, we are prepared to make it without qualification: "There is no cleaner profit-making proposition avail- able to the cut flower grower with capital today than that of growing or- ; It is true they have to be handled properly and the old-time or- chid grower who spends half a day potting a plant and all day watering a house of plants simply is not wanted m a commercial orchid growing es- tablishment. "Who with one grain of commercial sense would think of grow- ing roses, chrysanthemums or carna- tions under the same conditions that obtained thirty years ago? Yet this is just what some large growers of orchids are trying to do. They do not know orchids and h
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