First Ladies and Their Orchids: A Century of Namesake Cattleyas

Chadwick, A. A.: - Arthur Andrew "A. A." Chadwick was a feature writer for the American Orchid Society for over fifty years. His passion was cattleyas, having been raised during the corsage era of the 1940's. Art was an accomplished hybridizer who planted his own seed on the kitchen table using a pressure cooker and glass beakers. He tended to his sizable orchid collection every day in two redwood greenhouses that he built by hand. His first book, The Classic Cattleyas, sold out and is now in its second printing.