. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. SUTTONS BULBS FOR FORCING. Beautiful Flowers at Christmas MAY DE ENSURED BY PL.^NTING AT ONCEEARLY KOMAN HYACINTHS,EARLY DOUBLE ROMAN NARCISSUSEARLY PAPER WHITE NARCISSUSEARLY SINGLE TULIPS,EARLY DOUBLE TULIPS. For prices and full particulars see SUTTONS AUTUMN CATALOGUE, Gratis post-free on application. VK. ig r n li QUEENS SEEDSMEN, and by Special to THE PRINCE OF VVALE^,READING, THE SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1881. ORCHIDS, PAST AND PRESENT. IT seems a fitting time to take a
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. SUTTONS BULBS FOR FORCING. Beautiful Flowers at Christmas MAY DE ENSURED BY PL.^NTING AT ONCEEARLY KOMAN HYACINTHS,EARLY DOUBLE ROMAN NARCISSUSEARLY PAPER WHITE NARCISSUSEARLY SINGLE TULIPS,EARLY DOUBLE TULIPS. For prices and full particulars see SUTTONS AUTUMN CATALOGUE, Gratis post-free on application. VK. ig r n li QUEENS SEEDSMEN, and by Special to THE PRINCE OF VVALE^,READING, THE SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1881. ORCHIDS, PAST AND PRESENT. IT seems a fitting time to take a retro-spective glance of Orchids, past and pre-sent, on the occasion of your presenting acoloured plate, representing certain favouritespecies, to the readers of the Gardener:^Chronicle. Time was when Orchids were sofew in number, and limited to a few connois-seurs, that such a thing as your presentationplate would have been looked upon, no doubt,as a beautiful picture by the generality of yourreaders without commanding the sort of per-sonal interest that is attached to it now. Sogreat have been the strides in extending thepopularity of this wonderfully interesting familyof plants within the last ten years, that thewhole body of horticulturists have, so to speak,been drawn in to know less or more aboutthem. Scarcely a general collection of plantsexists in this country without a few repre-sentatives of the Orchid family, and the desire,almost amounting to craving, is for more. Howthis has been b
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