The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-11-23

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though keeping religiously to their own
territory of orchids, which likewise
throve and grew and bloomed.
Many Orchid Expeditions AfeId.
Orchid hunters are still afield and
likely to be for years to come. Slopes
of the Mexican cordillera, dark deeps
in the valleys of the Amazon and the
Rio de la Plata, Philippine Businesses,
jungles of Borneo and Siam, and the
Businesses of Madagascar are rich
in new and beautiful forms. Africa
is likewise a happy hunting ground.
The hunters, strong and adventurous
fellows of many nationalities, some
times go out at venture on their own
account but oftener as agents for the
great commercial orchid houses. 1t
takes money no less than courage and
address to organize a proper native
expedition and keep it we'll in hand
through three or six months in the
very widest wilds. And it takes some
thing of skill as well, for after the
orchids are found they must be de-
tached and packed with care, so that
they will come through the journey in
at least fair condition. Many of the
choicer sorts have been brought a
thousand miles on the heads of men,
or slung across half-wild bullocks,
coming thus out of a trackless interior
to the great highways of the ocean.
No matter how plenty orchids may
become they will always be costly, say
the florists. 1t is in the nature of
things. The care of them is expensive
and the return uncertain. Each sort
must have temperature and degree
of moisture recalling it's native seat.
Thus in adjoining houses at a great
establishment there is often a differ
enee of twenty degrees. Proper look
ing after such very little floral cattle
requires something more than skilled
labor. 1t demands a knowledge and
patience almost approaching genius
The orchid-tender must be endowed
with a special sixth sense to discern
the whims and vagaries of his I'M
canny charges.
American Beauties Always Favored
The most wondrous thing about
American Beauties is their persistence
1t is now quite thirty years since a
firm of Washington florists introduced
under that name a French rose called
by the name of its originator, Madame
Ferdinand Jamain. 1t astonished
everybody, its sponsors included, by
taking instant hold of fashions tickle
fancy. The hold is as firm as ever
CNClS SutCGSSlNe sea-
son has seen at least one new rose
heralded as the Beauty's successor up
on the throne. All these new roses
have done well. One finds them upon
the florists counters and in the street
stalls. Good flowers and true. they
have added largely to the delights Of
life, but they have not dethroned the
lusty long-legged Beauty. Nor, say the
florists, are they likely to do it.
Tho Of foIo
rather than wanes. So does the price
This is due partly TO fashion and
more TO the depredations of certain
creeping and crawling pests which
make of violet growing criti-
cal business. One had better say
they help 10 make II parlous. ANY
way one looks at it the odds are
against success, unless the grower has
the wisdom OF Solomon and something
more than the patience of Job. Where
fore, among those who know, the fairy
tales OF reduced gentlewomen all al
once retrieving fortune and achieving
Independence BY help Of their violet