. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 1907- Th E American Florist. 61 Laello-Cattleya Andromeda- There is a tine colured plate of this beautiful hybrid in 'the Garden of July 6, 1907, with the following note ; "The parentage of the lovely Lselio- Cattleya Andromeda raised by the fa- mous firm of Charlcsworth & Co., Heat- on. Bradford, is Lselia flava x Cattleya aurea. Lrelia flava has proved itself one of the best parents in the Islia section. It is. perhaps, to some tastes a little wanting in size, but what it lacks in this respect is quite
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 1907- Th E American Florist. 61 Laello-Cattleya Andromeda- There is a tine colured plate of this beautiful hybrid in 'the Garden of July 6, 1907, with the following note ; "The parentage of the lovely Lselio- Cattleya Andromeda raised by the fa- mous firm of Charlcsworth & Co., Heat- on. Bradford, is Lselia flava x Cattleya aurea. Lrelia flava has proved itself one of the best parents in the Islia section. It is. perhaps, to some tastes a little wanting in size, but what it lacks in this respect is quite made up in color. "In each case when used as the mother parent with one of the labiata section of cattleya, it has given splendid results. Undoubtedly, Andromeda is the finest of all laslio-cattleyas. Its floriferous habit, too, is another point to recom- mend it to every lover of orchids. The plant is easily cultivated in an inter- mediate house or at the cool end of a cattleya house, with a good circulation of fresh air about it. None of the Laelia flava hybrids like a close, stufify house with a high temperature. "Messrs. Charlesworth write: 'When we are able to stage a sufficient quantity of plants in flower to show the rare ef- fectiveness of it, as we did with Laelio- Cattleya Charlesworthii, we anticipate as big a rush for it as we had for L. C. Charlesworthii.' " The color of the flowers in the plate is a bright golden yellow on the sepals and petals, the latter flushed with red. The lip is rather small, folding at first and opening at the front, where it is a bright red, streaked with yellow. The otuer part of the lip is lighter red. It looks a very promising flower. OBITUARY. Who Was He ? The true econoni}' is to find the man who can do the particular thing you want done, and then leave him to do it unhampered. I have small faith, however, in the man who plans elaborately on paper. I once asked a landscape .gardener to undertake the improvement of 2,000
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