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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



AUGUST 30 1900. 



across, he would have been laughed 

 at, but they are realities to-day. And 

 so it is with all plants, the more they 

 are exhibited and the more we see 

 of them, the more knowledge we get 

 of them, the better we grow them and 

 understand them, and the more at- 

 tractive a private place becomes. 



PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION. 



In the June number of the Pan- 

 American Magazine appears an excel- 

 lent portrait of Mr. William Scott, 

 who is in charge of floriculture at this 

 exposition, to be held in Buffalo next 

 year, together with the following ar- 

 ticle from his pen: 



In no feature of the Exposition will the 

 Pan-American differ more from previous 

 ones than in the Landscape and Horti- 

 cultural Department. Great as was tlie 

 extent of the World's Fair, the adorn- 

 ment of the grounds was more simple 

 and no attempt at landscape garden 

 effects was made. At Omaha the banks 

 and retaining walls of the Grand Court 

 were fully decorated, even prettier than 

 anvthing' at the World's Fair, yet all 

 this will be in Buffalo in 1901 and many 

 times repeated in volume and varied In 

 style. The buildings being of the Spanish 

 Renaissance and highly tinted in color 

 very many flowers of brightest hue will 

 be iised. 



Adjacent to many of the buildings, the 

 style of gardening will be formal both 

 in the flower gardening and in the larger 

 shrubs and trees. Avenues of the stately 

 Lombardv Poplars will be in keeping 

 with the architecture and hundreds of the 

 shapely Sweet Bays will adorn the lawns 

 in front of the Transportation and Manu- 

 facturers' Buildings. The base of many 

 of the buildings will be covered with 

 climbing vines. Nothing adds pleasure to 

 the eve more than these free growing 

 plants" and the coldness and formality of 

 the buildings disappear. They will con- 

 sist of clematis, honeysuckle, bignonla, 

 ampelopsis. aristolochia and all the 

 flowering summer climbers such as cobea. 

 tropaeolum and others. In the center 

 of the Plaza will be a magnificent dis- 

 play of flower gardening in elaborate 

 geometrical designs. 



On each side of the Cascades will be 

 manv displays of flowering and orna- 

 mental leaved plants. To the east and 

 west of the Cascades are the Court of 

 Lilies and Court of Cypresses. The 

 basins are each 200 feet in diameter and 

 will be filled with tropical aciuaties. 

 These gorgeous flowering water lilies are 

 more attractive than any terrestrial 

 plant and one of the basins will be heat- 

 ed throughout the summer to facilitate 

 the growth of the Victoria Regia, the 

 mammoth lily of the Amazon. A child of 

 five or six years of age will be often seen 

 standing on these mammoth floating 

 leaves. A curious fact about the Amazon 

 lily is not generally known. Every third 

 day there is a pure white flower which 

 opens about sunset, closing in the morn- 

 ing, opening again the following evening, 

 when it is a beautiful mottled pink. The 

 next morning it closes, never to rise 

 again, and after an interval of eighteen 

 hours there is another flower to succeed 

 it, and so this goes on regularly for seve- 

 ral months. These magnificent basins 

 will be surrounded by tall Red Cedar 

 trees 20 to 30 feet high and most stately 

 and symmetrical in form. These trees 

 are already on the ground and receiving 

 special care for their appearance next 

 year. 



Between the Horticultural Building and 

 the Government Building are the Sunken 

 Gardens. These gardens are over 800 feet 

 In length and of many fine designs. The 

 larger beds will be occupied with palms 

 and covering the entire surface of the 

 ground will be low growing creeping 

 plants representing what is actually 

 found in the native habitat of the stately 



trees. In addition to these displays 

 wheiever there is an opportimity the 

 grounds are adorned with trees, groups 

 cf siiiubs and flower beds. To the north 

 and south of the Horticultural Building 

 and colonnades connecting the Graphic 

 .-^it and the i' iJiestry and Mires Building 

 there will be many flower beds, which 

 will doubtless be devoted t.) floral exhib- 

 its. To the right and left of the Elmwood 

 Avenue entrance, which will tliiubtless be 

 mostly thronged and which leads straight 

 to the Horticultural Building across the 

 Grand Canal there is to the right and 

 left six or seven acres set aside for the 

 floriculture exhibits. 



Mr. Frederick W. Taylor is the head of 

 the Horticultural Department, which in- 

 cludes Pomology. Arboriculture, Viticul- 

 ture and Floriculture, and William Sc itt 

 is assistant superintendent of Horticul- 

 ture in charge of Floriculture. The de- 

 partment has already received many en- 

 tries for exhibits and is assured of suffi- 

 cient to occupy 500 beds. 



The leading florists and nurserymen of 

 the country realize that the Pan-Ameri- 

 can affords them unequalled opportuni- 

 ties to display and advertise these 

 specialties. There will be no need of 

 accepting every exhibit unless they be of 

 first class excellence, so it can be said of 

 floriculture, as of the exhibits in the vari- 

 ous buildings, that the exhibit will be 

 more selective than collective. 



The Music Garden, in the center of 

 which is a grand fountain, occupies four 

 or five acres on an elevated area to the 

 south of Mirror Lake. A large number 

 of exhibits are already received and 

 planted in large beds surrounding the 

 fountain. Among the exhibits are 6.000 

 hardy roses, several thousand hardy 

 hydrangeas, phlox and other herbaceous 

 plants. In this beautiful spot are many 

 more flower beds that will be kept con- 

 stantly gay. This is one of the finest 

 parts of the grounds. Hundreds of trees 

 have been planted and are thriving and 

 the banks of the Lakes and Lagoons 

 have the appearance of being finished for 

 years. The small picturesque Lagoons 

 which jut out from Mirror Lake among 

 the wooded banks will shortly be planted 

 with the hardy water lilies and nelum- 

 biums. the Egyptian lotus and many 

 other of our handsome water plants. 



The Horticultural Building is situated 

 opposite the United States Government 

 Building and is about 220 feet square. 

 Leading from its eastern corners and 

 spreading outwards are the Colonnades. 

 200 feet long, which connect on the north 

 with the Graphic Arts Building and on 

 the south with the Forestry and Mines. 

 These Colonnades will be glazed and 

 heated and in every way will be suitable 

 for use as conservatories and will be kept 

 gay with flowers and ornamental plants, 

 on many occasions being used for special 

 displays of plants and cut flowers. The 

 Horticultural Building will be attractive 

 at all times. The center will be occupied 

 with a group of stately palms which will 

 be planted permanently for the season. 

 The extensive floor area will undergo 

 many and rapid changes. 



There will scarcely be a week from the 

 opening in May until the closing day in 

 November without a special exhibition of 

 some kind. Sometimes much of the space 

 will be needed for a special fruit exhibit 

 and the next week for a floral exhibit. 

 Carnations and orchids will be given a 

 week in May, roses in June, sweet peas 

 in July, gladioli and asters in August, 

 dahlias and cannas in September and 

 chrysanthemums in October. For the 

 decoration of the Horticultural Building 

 and Conservatories large exhibits of the 

 choicest palms, dracaenas, crotons, be- 

 gonias, anthuriums, and many others will 

 be made by our leading plant men of the 

 country, ft is encouraging to know and 

 it gives you an idea of the interest taken 

 in the Pan-American by horticultural en- 

 thusiasts, that one large firm will make 

 an exhibit of over one hundred flower 

 beds varying in size from 200 to 1,000 

 sqtiare feet. 



Another instance is a gladioli specialist. 

 a banker of Simcoe. Ontario, who says. 

 "I will grow you 50,000 flowers so that 

 I can select from them to give you a six 



v.'eeks show." In all special exhibitions 

 ijoth in flowers and fruit there will be 

 many cla.sses and collections, for each 

 of which medals and diplomas will be 

 awarded to the best of each class. 



The grand Canals and Lakes which are 

 niw done and the planting already finish- 

 td where possible will give one an idea of 

 the beauty of the whole grounds when 

 complete. From an almost flat plain the 

 grounds will be changed to great differ- 

 ences of elevation and in landscape 

 beauty and rich adornment will far sur- 

 pass any previous effort of a similar kind 

 on this continent. We are delighted to 

 hear from men who watched the pro- 

 gress of the World's Fair that the Pan- 

 American is up to date more advanced 

 in preparation of the grounds than was 

 that mammoth fair at a corresponding 

 date and thus is largely to the credit of 

 the push and energy of the Department 

 of Works. Any description of the land- 

 scape beauty of the Pan-American 

 grounds would be entirely incomplete 

 without mention of the magnificent Buf- 

 falo Park which lies at the whole south- 

 ern boundary, and which for the six 

 months of the Fair will be part of the 

 Pan-American Grounds. It includes 100 

 acres of the finest part of the park, 

 known as "Gala Water." This park was 

 begun in 1870 and was the crowning mas- 

 ter-piece of that great genius in land- 

 scape architecture, Frederick Law Olm- 

 stead of Boston. It is for true natural 

 landscape beauty scarcely equalled on 

 this continent. It was the pride and lov- 

 ing care of that most accomplished and 

 efficient man. the lamented William Mc- 

 Millan, and to all lovers of the beautiful 

 in nature (and who is not?) it is worth 

 many miles' journey to view. 



WILLIAM SCOTT, 



Dep't of Floriculture, 



Pan-American Exposition. 



CONVENTION NOTES. 



The watch presented to President 

 Wood by his friends in the society 

 was a beauty and he was very proud 

 of the remembrance. 



At Glen Island beds of such sub- 

 jects as Pandanus Veitchii, fanc.v- 

 leaved caladiums. etc., were rather a 

 surprise. But it was afterward seen 

 that many of the plants were in their 

 pots and merely plunged in the beds. 

 The effect, however, was most excel- 

 lent, and the gardener in charge is 

 entitled to much credit for the many 

 handsome things displayed. 



The excursion to Glen Island was 

 enjoyable all around. The weather 

 was ideal, the boat all right, the isl- 

 and a place worth a journey to see 

 and the dinner of sea food was strict- 

 ly first-class. What magnificent facili- 

 ties New York has for caring for im- 

 mense crowds! 



The weather-man must have had a 

 grudge against the bowlers. He 

 served out an excellent quality up to 

 Friday and then he turned loose all 

 the accumulated heat of the week. 



CANADIAN HORT. ASS'N. 



The new officers of the Canadian 

 Horticultural Association are as fol- 

 lows: Pres.. J. H. Dunlop, Toronto; 

 1st Vice-Pres.. Jos. Bennett, Mon- 

 treal; 2nd Vice-Pres.. Geo. Rennie, 

 London: Sec'y, A. H. Ewing. Berlin; 

 Treas., H. Simmers, Toronto. Execu- 

 tive Committee: 3 years, Geo. Robin- 

 son. C. Knott. W. Gammage: 2 years, 

 J. Wilshire, C. Scrim, J. Graham; 1 

 year, W. Huston, A. Johnston, P. C. 

 Miller. 



