. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. Our Doors Are Now Shut Against Foreign Orchid Plants. and other all-;iround ies. sucfi species as iabiata, , Mossite, Mendelii, gigas, Caskelliinia, Schroederar and Percivalianit still hold tiie center of the .stage. There is this to be said for hybrids, that manv ot' them bloom when there is a marked si-;,rcity of tht: forest species, that some will give two crops of flowers a year and tiiat they seem to thrive better without the rest- ing jieriod usually considered necessary for the im[iorte(l species. Orchid hybridization commen
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. Our Doors Are Now Shut Against Foreign Orchid Plants. and other all-;iround ies. sucfi species as iabiata, , Mossite, Mendelii, gigas, Caskelliinia, Schroederar and Percivalianit still hold tiie center of the .stage. There is this to be said for hybrids, that manv ot' them bloom when there is a marked si-;,rcity of tht: forest species, that some will give two crops of flowers a year and tiiat they seem to thrive better without the rest- ing jieriod usually considered necessary for the im[iorte(l species. Orchid hybridization commenced some seventy years ago, wlien .1. Dominy. with the noted liritish firm of .Fames Veitch \- Sons, introduced it. His first hvbrid, <'a!ant!ie Doniiuyi, flowered in IS.'G. This pioneer hybridist gave us in all twenty- live hybrids, his last and best. c;ittley;i Domiiiiana, flowering in 1S7S. He was followed by .bdin Sedeii and a small army of amateur and commercial hybridizers in Great Britain, on the Kurope;iu continent and in America. l»eterr<'Mts to (iri-hi(i hybrid i/'llidll li;n-e been tillli' lietweell ^ced sowin<'' and llouering. it used to t,-il<e I we|\-e to I u ,. II t y yi;irs, but I ills IS now mucb ledllced. I li:i\e MoWered c-:it tley,-i si-,.,||iii_i^ ill ilir(.e to I'olir \e;irs. .-iliii while sonic may not Mdoiii i'dr eieht or ten years, a large |i|op(-rt i(]ii r-., and thi^ pla II will li,'i\ e Id In' ;Hiopte({ t'l allow the raisers to re;i- li/e some! li iiig oil t lieir long- time ill/est nielit s. Selecting Seed-Bearers. I n s,.li.,-t iii^' seed Ilea I iiid; pi; Ills, rejei-t those i,\' weak idiisl il III ion or feeble loaltli. The of liiir- t i tii-at ion is ,a se\ ere one :i nd e\ iMi st iird\' s sntTer t'lom it ;ni.| need i-aret'ul Ireatlllellt t lierea I'tel'. Also ,i;i\e rarel'ul foret lonigli I to I lie select idll dl' \ a I iet les. 1 n A nierica tlie ra isiii;; of cat t leyasseemsot greatest com- mer
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