Copyright, 1896, bv 

 rUORISTS' PUDUISHING GO.. 520-535 Gaxton Oulldlng. CHlGftGO. 



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CHICA.GO AND NEW YORK, NOVEMBER JO, J898. 



No. 50. 



THE CHICAGO EXHIBITION. 



Though the chrysanthemum plants 

 seem to be generally a week or ten 

 days too late and are not up to the 

 mark from an exhibition point of 



riety of fine plants, but it is arranged 

 with much taste and is a feature of 

 the show. Among the plants is a 

 specimen of Latania borbonica 14 feet 

 tall and with equal spread, an Areca 

 lutescens 12 feet tall and a remarkable 



A Bit of the Chicago Show. 



view, the display of flowers is fully 

 up to that of any previous year and 

 in some respects superior. 



Decorative plants appear more 

 prominently than ever before, and 

 Mt. Geo. Wittbold makes a very large 

 display, one group alone occupying 

 some 600 square feet of space. This 

 group not only contains a great v3- 



specimen of Chamaerops humilis with 

 a spread of 9 feet and exceedingly well 

 furnished and symmetrical. Mr. Witt- 

 bold also shows several other groups 

 of decorative plants and a collection 

 of terns containing 75 varieties. 



J. Algols, gardener for Geo. M. Pull- 

 man, is also a large exhibitor of deco- 

 rative plants, among them being a 



Sabal umbraculitera, with a height 

 and spread of 15 feet and bearing 

 fruit; a Kentia Belmoreana 10 feet in 

 height, every leaf perfect and Ijeau- 

 tifully arched; a pair of Nephrolepis 

 davallioides turcans in 15-inch pots, 

 each with a spread of 5 feet; a Croton 

 Dayspring. 6 feet tall, 4 feet through, 

 and beautifully colored; a Pandanus 

 Veitchii S feet tall, C foot spread, 

 beautifully furnished and perfect in 

 every way; a Pandanus utilis 10 feet 

 tall and perfect in form; a Cibotium 

 princeps with a 10 foot spread; a 

 Blechnum brasiliense 6 feet tall and 

 in beautiful form; a Polypodium au- 

 reum in a 12-inch pot and with a 

 spread of 6 feet; an Adiantum cune- 

 atum in a 10-inch pot and with a 

 spread of 3 feet. 



Lincoln Park shows a very fine col- 

 lection of decorative plants, including 

 Anthurium crystallinum, eight species 

 of dieffenbachias. Dracaena Victoria 

 Regina. Anthurium Andreanum. a 

 very complete collection of crotons, 

 a beautiful specimen of Pandanus 

 Veitchii and a Boston fern with a 

 spread of 7 feet. 



E. G. Uihlein's collection of orchids 

 was arranged among temporary rock- 

 work with a pool of water in the cen- 

 ter in which gold fish sported among 

 small aquatic plants. A bed of cypri- 

 pediums at one side contained 40 va- 

 rieties, among them a fine specimen of 

 (". Harrisonianum. bearing six flowers. 

 Of other orchids there were fifty 

 plants in thirty-five varieties, among 

 them a plant of Oncidium ornitho- 

 rhynchum album, which is a little 

 gem. Other sorts noted in good bloom 

 were Miltonia vexillaria, Oncidium va- 

 ricosum 'Rogersii. Dendrobium Phal- 

 aenopsis Schroederianum, Oncidium 

 papilio and Stanhopea oculata. One 

 of the specimens of Dendrobium 

 Phaiaenbpsis Schroederianum is at- 

 tached to the ^jawbone of an ox. It ap- 



