Abstract
THE chief developments in horticulture in Great Britain during the past forty years have been the increasing popularity of hardy shrubs and herbaceous plants for growing in the open, and the steady application of scientific knowledge to the cultivation of all kinds of plants. The former tendency due to the introduction of numerous high-altitude Chinese plants, on one hand, and the redistribution of wealth, on the other, has struck a heavy blow at the cultivation of greenhouse and stove plants, of which orchids have always been the most popular. The number of amateurs interested in orchids has greatly diminished, and this, coupled with a disposition to regard orchid growing as a kind of mysterious cult, has retarded to a great degree the application of scientific methods to this branch of horticulture.
Orchids are Easy to Grow
By Harry B. Logan Lloyd C. Cosper. Pp. viii + 312 + 20 plates. (Chicago and New York: Ziff-Davis Publishing Co., 1949.) 6 dollars.
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SUMMERHAYES, V. Scientific Orchid Growing. Nature 164, 636 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164636a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/164636a0