... foreman's salary was £l4 a week, ‘“ ORCHID GROWER NO. 1. On Private View day at the Chelsea Flower Show, Sir Jeremiah Colman, Orchid Grower No. 1, was in great form, showing the King and Queen his beloved ooms with the aid of a ruler. At his place at Gatton ...

... showed me the Chamberlain orcliid, so named, not because of Mr. Joseph Chamberlain’s love of the flower, but because it has little spirals symbolic of the screw-making industry in which the Chamberlain family fortune was founded, The Flower Show judges ...