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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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ce there, and how hewent to the Chiswiek Gardens for his firm. Afteran unsuccessful attempt as a wholesale fruit sales-man in Edinburgh, Elliott turned agaiu to garden-ing at Sawley Hall, Ripou, Yorkshire, and later wentto Liverpool to the Skirvings Nurseries. On thepersuasion of his friend, Kerr, he sailed for the UnitedStates in 1851, and was variously gardener, florist,and market gardener near New York. In this lastessay he lost what money ho had, and turned to A Scarcity of Orchids.In the very nature of things, when one considersthe facts that Orchids are of such slow growth, audthat they have been gathered by the ship-load tosatisfy the cravings of the orchidophiles of the tem-perate climes, I say, in the very nature of things, theend must come. The forests which contain the gemsare not unlimited, aud unless new, untried districtsbe opened up, a halt must be called to this greedof collecting. A letter lately received from thecollector, J. 10. Lager, who is at present in the U. S.
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FlO. 24.—MYMOCARrA LONGIPES : WITH rENDULOUS RACEMES OF SMALL GIJEENISU FLOWERS. a direct charge against the tactics of some Europeanfirms, whom lie charges with over-zeal in thiswise:— Men are sent out with instructions to remain inoue place three or four years, or even more, the con-sequence of which is that the owners of the forestssimply, and very naturally, think there are millionsto be made in the business, and prohibit the extrac-tion of the plants unless the collector is willing topay tribute. All this in reference to Odontoglossumcrispum. Cattleya chocoensis is still plentiful, but becomiugrare as the forests are cleared for pasture ; CattleyaMendeli is fast disappearing. Cattleya Schrodenc iscomparatively abundant, but its extraction is expen-sive. The letter which appears in full in AmericanGardening, for January 23, closes with the followingpertinent remark : The day is not far off when thesebeautiful plants will be extinct. I have quotedfreely from the communication r

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