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"W.O.S. NEWS" November 2009
The Official Newsletter of WANNEROO ORCHID SOCIETY INC. Website: http://members.iinet.net.au/~emntee/ Telephone 0434 334 388 PRESIDENT - Tony -
email:
9342 3799
SECRETARY - Pauline - email 9305 1462 TREASURER - John email REGISTRAR - Sandy - email: 9309 1828 EDITOR - Tony - email: 9342 3799 P.O. Box 236, Kingsway, WA 6065. NEXT MEETING
MEMBERSHIP FEES - Couple/family $34. Single $22. (Includes Badge) COMMITTEE MEETING : November 30th @ Les's place.
Please note that the date for set-up
of display is prior to Show/Display dates in calendar. Garden Clubs Fair @ Cannington Showground. 13th &
14th February 2010 *********************************************************************** October Meeting Results
Bill & Pauline - Ascocenda Peggy Foo 'Pink' X Rhyncostylis gigantea"Alba"
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Our Xmas meeting will see the usual end of year get together with a special raffle for a Xmas hamper (tickets $1) Please bring any donations for the Xmas Hamper to the November meeting . All proceeds to the Travel Fund. ******
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Results of the Wanneroo Central Show ******************************************************************* Ezi-Gro Orchids are now CLOSED on Sundays until further notice. ****************************************************************** PATRON - FAY CONGRATULATE ALL OFFICE BEARERS *************************************************************
************************************************************************ Here is an article by Geoff Hands, author
and holder of the British I'm just back from EOC Dresden - which I will write
about another time. Humidity was raised by having all the plants (the
Odonts anyway) standing on empty inverted clay pots ; of course they
used clay pots for all their plants - plastic ones were coming in and
clay hard to get, but they had a few million lying around . They used
a brass syringe - like a large diameter bicycle pump and a bucket of
water, and then sprayed the plant pots and the ones the plants were
standing on, to allow evaporation and raise humidity. I don't think they were that good as cultivators
either, although they certainly had the best Odonts by far. But when
you bought a plant from them and came to repot it, you would find every
bulb from the very first one made by the seedling, all on the plant
and in the pot, and often there would be a dozen the size of a pea.
In other words they had great difficulty getting plants to start making
larger and larger bulbs up to flowering size. This explained why it
was that the names of their new seedlings flowering for the first time
never changed. I used to think that they must keep remaking the same
cross (which is not normal practice anywhere in orchids) - most hybridisers
keep moving forward - but Charlesworths were still selling plants from
the original cross 20 years after they sold the first - they were selling
plants which had taken that long to reach flowering size. No wonder
the price was so high - £15 in 1965 was a great amount of money
- more than a postman earned in a week. At the time I am talking about - early 1960's - we all used osmunda fibre and sphagnum moss mixtures as compost. The coarse Italian fibre had gone up to about £40 per bale by say 1965, and the finer Japanese brown osmunda to about £200 (which killed it off as a possibility, and we all turned to first peat and then bark mixtures). The Japanese was the stuff recommended for Odont seedlings with their fine roots. It was very difficult to get a community pot of
seedlings from Charlesworths, they mostly only sold flowering plants
(in that genus) - and very few were any more exotic than Odontiodas
- no Odontocidiums, Miltassias, Alicearas, Beallaras, or even Odontonias
. However on one occasion I, when they owed me (for putting up two of
their people for the three days necessary for a show) they did let me
have one compot. I took the little plantlets out of the clay pot and
put them in a polystyrene box - the sort of stuff used to pack delicate
electronics before they are sold) Keith Andrew, who at one time did some good Odont breeding in his nursery, can be quite funny about Charlesworths, saying that you could always buy a plant from them and know you could grow it better, they were that bad; part of this maybe competitiveness or jealousy between old trade rivals, but there is a germ of truth in there somewhere. The reason Charlesworths went out of business is that they didn't make any money, and the reasons McBeans bought them was at that time McBeans were making a lot - Charlesworths grew by 19th century methods, McBeans were using 20th century technology I hope some found my reminiscing of interest. ************************************************************************
Results for October 2009 monthly meeting OPEN Please Note; All names in BOLD type
are NEW REGISTRATIONS
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********************************************************************************** Cymbidium Notes for November
********************************************************************************** Final Points Results for 2008/2009 **********************************************************************************
From the ShanghaiDaily.com Tiepi shihu also strengthens muscle, brain and increases longevity, according to "Bencao Gangmu" ("Compendium of Materia Medica"). It is a famous life-saving folk medicine. Modern research shows that it can improve immunity,
memory, delay signs of aging and help treat diabetes. It is given
to patients receiving chemotherapy and helps in those who drink or
smoke too much.Shihu can be made into capsules or tea, but the herbal
soup is most efficacious, says He. Tea - shihu and maidong (ophiopogon root/mondo
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