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Title: The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, Ornamental Gardening
Publisher: London : (Gardeners Chronicle)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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go ; they were certainlyvery large specimens, but, with all due deference tothe gardener who grew the Orchids so well, I thinkthose same Cattleyas would have done even better ifthey had been placed in smaller pots, and had a muchsmaller quantity of organic matter ,-ibout their roots.Many Orchid growers overpot Ihcir plants, especially will be quite full of roots, and a large, very largeportion of them will be firmly attached to the innersurface of the pot. It would be most disastrous toturn the plants out of the pots by tapping the rim onthe edge of the potting bench, as the plant is heldinverted in the hands ; most of the roots would betorn off and broken that way. I take a hammer andcarefully break the pot to pieces, and where the rootsare lirmly attached to the broken portions they arenot removed from them at all. They help to keepthe compost more open. The potting material shouldbe placed very carefully amongst the roots, the greatestcare being taken not to break them more than is
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what we may call the block system. How does Mr.Anderson grow his own ?—or how do all the prin-cipal growers of Cattleyas grow them? When Ivisited the late ^^r. Dawsons collection, when theywere under Mr. Andersons care, I found the largestproportion of the Cattleyas in pots. About the sametime I inspected the collection of Provost Russell atFalkirk, under the care of Mr. Sorley, and found someof the finest Cattleyas and Lselias I ever saw growingin pots. How do you find the best collectionsin the .South—that of Sir Trevor Lawrence as aprivate collection, of Messrs. Veitch, of Chelsea,of Mr. B. S. Williams, of HoUoway, and others ?They are nearly all growing in pots. All thesegentlemen have had long practical experience inthe culture of Orchids, and know well what are FlG. 50.—MASDEVALLIA BELLA. (SEE P. 236.) the Cattleyas. Mr. Dominy, late of the ExoticNursery, Chelsea, who has spent the best part of alifetime amongst them, insists, above all things, uponusing small pots for the

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