August 10, 1907 



HORTICULTURE 



166 



SEEN AT CRAIG'S. 



A House of Crotons and Pandanus Veitchii 



Turnford Hall, the white form of the 

 Lorraine Begonia, did not sell well 

 last year and few of the Philadelphia 

 growers are handling it in any quan- 

 tity this season. The "'Lonsdale pink" 

 form is a favorite on account of its 

 lasting qualities. A fair estimate of 

 the proportion can be realized from the 

 present growing crop of the Craig Co., 

 which consists of five thousand of the 

 Lonsdale, two thousand of the regular 

 Lorraine and five hundred of the Turn- 

 ford Hall. 



Dracaena Lindeni has proved a good 

 house plant but D. Massangeana is 

 still better. Robert Craig tells of a 

 plant at Haddon Hall, at Atlantic City, 

 which has come through the winter in 



perfect condition while many other 

 plants succumbed to the hard condi- 

 tions. This and D. fragrans are real- 

 ly two of the finest house plants we 

 have. U. Goldiana is also a good one 

 and unique in coloring. 



Ficus pandurata. the new rubber 

 plant with the big fiddle-shaped leaves, 

 has made good in every way and gets 

 more popular the longer we know it. 

 Mr. Craig considers this one of the 

 very best and most profitable of his 

 long line of introductions. Over $11.- 

 000 worth was sent out last season 

 and nearly double that quantity is 

 now under way. One house is d'e- 

 voted to plants in 12-ineh tubs. 



Many Philadelphia growers make 



chrysanthemums their catch crop in 

 advance of the Easter plants. A fine 

 noveltj' in the chrysanthemum line 

 this year is President Loubet which 

 is not only very early (flowering in 

 Of'toljer) but is of show form and 

 dimensions. The flower is a bluish 

 white reaching ten inches diameter 

 under ordinary conditions. A num- 

 b'ir of the new single ones that w'ere 

 so popular in London last season are 

 also under way. Kitty Bourne, Lady- 

 smith and Mrs. Roberts, are among 

 the most distinct and valuable. 



.luanita Walsh's sensational new 

 Rambler rose, is a promising %new 

 thing for next year. The stock of it 

 i.s very limited as yet, the Craig Com- 

 pany having the bulk. It is semi- 

 double, carmine with white center. 



A new croton that will be heard 

 from by and by is a brilliant crimson 

 variety as yet unnamed, raised by 

 Edwin Lonsdale. It is a gem of the 

 first wafer. 



Perhaps the most interesting of all 

 the fine things at the Craig place at 

 present is the new fern (Amerpohlii 

 to which five houses are devoted. It 

 is being propagated by the Craig Co. 

 under contract for \V. P. Craig and 

 bookings to the amount of over twenty 

 thousand plants for fall delivery are 

 already recorded. According to R. 

 Craig (the elder) "there is nothing 

 more beautiful in the vegetable king- 

 dom than Nephrolepis Amerpohli," 

 and we are inclined, to echo him. 



G. C. W. 



GHENT QUINQUENNIAL. 



Everybody iu the horticultural world 

 has heard of the fame of the great 

 quinquennial shows organized by the 

 Royal Agricultural and Botanical 

 Society of Ghent. The next one will 

 be held in April, 1908, and coincides 

 with the hundredth anniversary of tha 

 foundation of the society. It is only 

 reasonable therefore to suppose that 

 the show and festivities next year will 

 be on a much more important scale 

 than ever. 



Our Ghent friends are always in good 

 time and we are not surprised to find 

 that the program has been printed and 

 circulated. It is ao interesting bro- 

 chure of 118 pages and contains the 

 regulations relating to the show, and 

 the classes in which exhibits are in- 

 vited. In all there are 760 classes 

 divided into 29 groups of which the fol- 

 lowing are some of the principal, 

 viz.. New plants. Orchids in flower. 

 Stove plants. Palms, Ferns, Shrubs, 

 Hardv plants. Carnations, Bulbous 

 plants. Azaleas, Camellias, Rhododen- 

 drons, Ornamental cool greenhouse 

 plants. Agave, Yucca, Aloeand suc- 

 culents. Conifers, Fruit, Bouquets and 

 floral art, etc. 



As a horticultural gathering this 

 show promises to be one of the most 

 imposing we have had in Europe for 

 a long time past and will be attend'ed 

 liv all the leading horticulturists on 

 this side of the Atlantic. The wel- 

 come is always of the heartiest char- 

 Hcter and Ghent hospitality is known 

 the wide world over. We wish the 

 Miiiety unbounded success in its .great 

 iiirHrnational undertaking. 



C. H. P. 



House of Adiantu.m HTiiRmr^t 



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