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HORTICULTURE 



August 1, 1908 



EXPOSITION AT GAND, HOLLAND. 



Revue Hortlcole gives a very Interesting 

 description of the international Exposition 

 at Gaud, Holland, from which we extract 

 the following notes on novelties shown, the 

 translation being by Mr. G. Uleicken. 



Among the plant novelties of parti- 

 cular interest figuring at the recent 

 International Exposition of Horticul- 

 ture, at Gantl Holland, was a remark- 

 able collection from Sander & Sons. 

 They exhibited: Anthurium Sanderi, a 

 superb plant of Central American ori- 

 gin, where it was recently found by 

 Mr. Forget, who named it Magnificum. 

 The leaves are about a yard long and 

 18 inches broad, on a three-foot petiole 

 deep green color with silver veins, the 

 under side being pale green. An- 

 thurium Laucheanum is a very curious 

 and beautiful variety, native in Colum- 

 bia, and called by some, Splendidum. 

 Cocus nucifera aurea: Leaves golden 

 yellow. Bromelia tricolor: Leaves 

 about two feet long and two to three 

 inches wide, of green color with wide 

 margins of pink in the young foliage, 

 changing to yellow in the older foliage. 

 Caladium Centenaire: This is a na- 

 tive of Brazil, and has very large foli- 

 age; the petals dark purple and the 

 blade pink with deeper red veins. 

 Croton Fred Sander: This Croton has 

 three-lobed leaves, the middle lobe 

 being much larger than the sides. 

 Golden yellow with margins of deep 

 green principally on the extreme ends 

 of the lobes. Encephalartos Woodi: 

 This novelty comes from Zululand. 

 The plant has a trunk about two feet 

 in height and carries about twenty 

 leaves, which measure three to four 

 and a half feet. Pereskia Godseffiana: 

 This plant comes from Queensland, but 

 is no doubt a variety of P. aculpata of 

 the Antilles. It is interesting on ac- 

 count of the foliage, which is equally 

 striped with yellow, with more or less 

 tints of red changing into green as the 

 plant grows older. Philodendron Ilse- 

 mani: A native of Brazil, with oblong 

 foliage, deep green color, and striped 

 with light yellow, tinted pink around 

 the edge. Penanga Micholitae: An 

 elegant little native of Sumatra. 

 Leaves about a yard long, deep green 

 spotted with yellow in the older plants, 

 but in the younger of a more pink 

 tint. Ptychorhapis Sibertiana: A na- 

 tive of the Malay Islands, with pin- 

 nate foliage of a metallic color when 

 young, changing later into deep green. 

 Ficus Australis variegata: With 

 gTeen and white foliage. Nephrodium 

 graeillimum: A variety of N. deconi- 

 positum of Australia. 



M. L. de Vilmorin had a lot of shrubs 

 and herbaceous plants from China, all 

 recent introductions, some of them 

 not yet identified. We cite a few: 

 Berberis sanguinea and Yunnanensis; 

 Allan tus Vilmoriniana; Cornus folio- 

 losa; Corylus tibetica; Cotoneaster 

 adpressa; C. angustifolia; C. Fraucheti; 

 C. Moupinensis; Davidia involucrata; 

 Pecaisnea Fargesii; Deutzia Vilmori- 

 nae, Ligustrum Delavayanum; Loni- 

 cera, several species; Philadelphus seri- 

 canthus: Prunus canescens; Rhododen- 

 dron Annae and Chartophyllum; Ribes 

 Vilmorini; Rosa, several species; Si- 

 phosmanthus Delavayi. Among herba- 

 ceous plants: Aconitum volubile and 

 latisectum; Corydalis Cheilanthifolia 

 and tomentella: Hypericum Lysimachi- 

 oides; Lilium Sutchuenense; Thladi- 

 antha Oliver!, etc. 



11. Correvon, fiom Genoa, presented 

 under the name of Omphalodes flora- 

 riensis, a hybrid obtained by him, a 

 cross out of O. Lucilliae and nitida. 



J. C. Schmidt, Erfurt, Germany, pre- 

 sented gloxinias with reddish foliage 

 and cyclamens with broad fringed 

 petals. 



Mr. Van Tuburgen, of Haarlem, 

 Holland, exhibited Tulipa Fosteriana 

 from Central Asia The flower is a 

 brilliant red, the basis of the divisions 

 being yellow. This tulip resembles 

 very much T. ulus Soils, but it has 

 much larger flowers. 



Jacob Macko\ & Co. showed a very 

 pretty maranta from Brazil, designated 

 by the name of M. Glosoni. The leaves 

 are striped pale yellow and deep green. 



A lot of plants sent out since 1903 

 was exhibited by M. L. De Smet-Duvi- 

 vier. This included a Begonia from 

 Brazil resembling Begonia semper- 

 florens, but with oblong foliage lightly 

 punctated with white and the flowers 

 white; Philodendron Duvivieri with 

 large deep lobes; Phormium atropur- 

 pureum nanum; a hybrid anthuiiurn 

 between A. Veitchi and Andreanum 

 album. Cyrostachys Renda; var. Du- 

 vivieriana; Sanseviera Laurentii; S. 

 Guineensis; Nephrolepis Amerpohli; 

 Maranta insignis; Ficus Dryepondtia- 

 na; etc. 



Mr. R. Pinot exhibited a very inter- 

 esting Begonia from Brazil. It belongs 

 to the Begonia Rex variety and the 

 leaves are peltated pale green in color, 

 the veins showing white and bright. 



LIBRARY NOTES. 



Any of the books mentioned in Mr. 

 Payne's reviews can be supplied at quoted 

 price from the office of HORTICULTURE. 



"London Parks and Gardens," by the 

 Hon. Mrs. Evelyn Cecil (Alicia Am- 

 herst). This very handsome volume 

 deals with a subject that is of infinite 

 interest to many lovers of horticulture 

 and more especially so to those occu- 

 pied with the difficulties of town gar- 

 dening. Many American visitors to 

 London must have admired the flower 

 gardening in the leading London parks 

 where grand displays are often made 

 throughout the year. But the book 

 does not deal wholly with the garden- 

 ing aspects of our London parks, for 

 it includes the historical and other fea- 

 tures of literary interest relating to 

 them. "London Parks and Gardens," is 

 turned out by the publishers in the 

 very choicest style. It is a royal 

 quarto in size, nicely printed, taste- 

 fully bound and gilt lettered, and has 

 a series of 25 full page colored illus- 

 trations after drawings by Lady Vic- 

 toria Manners. There are also other 

 illustrations in black and white. The 

 Hon. Mrs. Evelyn Cecil's book will as- 

 suredly find a place on the shelves of 

 every library, public or private, where 

 books on London are kept. It is a 

 mine of information to which many 

 will have occasion to refer. We have 

 perused it with pleasure and although 

 we have lived for over half a century 

 in the great city we have learnt more 

 from a perusal of its pages in an hour 

 or two than we could have otherwise 

 acquired in a lifelong residence when 

 our daily duties are considered. The 

 price of the bok is $5.25, plus carriage. 



The Summer Garden of Pleasure, 

 by Mrs. Stephen Batson. A large 

 octavo, well printed on old-fashioned 

 paper, with numerous illustrations in 

 color, this new book is well worthy 

 of taking rank by the side of such 

 handsome books as the Parks and 

 Gardens of London. The text is a 

 happy blending of the cultural, the 

 literary and the artistic. There is 

 much that will help the enthusiastic 

 lover of outdoor garden plants to em- 

 bellish his borders with showy and 

 effective subjects, and some of the 

 pictures might well be taken as 

 models of floral art to be copied in 

 their entirety. We like the book very 

 much, and it will be the companion 

 of many a quiet hour when thinking 

 out color schemes for our perennial 

 border. Price, $4.00. 



A Practical Guide to School, Cot- 

 tage and Allotment Gardening, by 

 John Weathers. This is a most com- 

 pendious little handbook, brimful of 

 matter relating to the subjects men- 

 tioned in the title. A neatly gotten 

 up volume, octavo in size of 248 pages, 

 bound in cloth cover, it is at once a 

 cheap and useful volume for the 

 owner of small gardens or plots of 

 ground cultivated or allotments. A 

 useful book and one that will serve 

 its purpose well. A few line engrav- 

 ings illustrate the text. Price, $1.00. 



Le Comte Oswald de Kerchove de 

 Denterghem, by Albert Centerick. A 

 very interesting and well gotten up 

 small quarto devoted to the life and 

 work of the late president of the Royal 

 Agricultural and Botanical Society of 

 Ghent. A distinguished lover of hor- 

 ticulture and a writer of no little re- 

 pute, the Count was one who always 

 offered the greatest hospitality and 

 the warmest of welcomes to like- 

 minded visitors to the famous Ghent 

 shows. M. Centerick, the secretary of 

 the Ghent Society, has evidently done 

 this book as a labor of love and of re- 

 gard for the man whose loss was uni- 

 versally deplored at the time of his 

 decease. There are several interesting 

 pictures that adorn the pages of the 

 book, not the least important of which. 

 Is a portrait of the Count de Kerchove 

 after the painting by M. Lefebvere. 

 Much information concerning the rise 

 and progress of the society and its 

 great exhibitions is given. In the con- 

 clusion we notice a picture of the 

 statue erected to the count's memory 

 by public subscription, a list of the 

 founders of the society, a list of the 

 plants shown at the first exhibition in 

 1S09, lists of various officers and also 

 of the various works written by the 

 Count. Theie is also a list of the In- 

 ternational Committee for raising the 

 funds for the monument and a list of 

 the subscribers. No price is given. 

 The book was presented to members 

 of the jury at the recent Ghent Quin- 

 quennial and to members of the Inter- 

 national Committee. 



Dahlias and Their Cultivation, by 

 J. B. Wroe, The writer deals with the 

 dahlia firstly as an exhibition flower, 

 then as a flower for garden decoration 

 in both branches of culture, the fullest 

 details being given. There are very 

 few recent treatises on dahlia culture- 

 in England, and the book should meet 

 with a ready acceptance by the grow- 

 ers, of whom there are many in this 



