18T6.] 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



28T 



looks well. The critics as they come on gener- 

 ally want to know what that pile of building stone 

 does to improve the landscape, forgetting, as we 

 have said before, that this piece of land is for 

 special exhibits, and not to show off a grand 

 illustration of perfect landscape gardening. It 

 is indeed astonishing that so very little to offend 

 critical taste in landscape gardening occurs in 

 the management of so many special exhibitors' 

 tastes, and the result speaks highly for the talent 

 which secured so much unity. Mr. Seibrecht's rock- 

 work is a very good piece of mechanism, and when 

 in that part of a garden landscape where rock-work 

 tells well, would have a good effect. 



Mr. Geo. Such has a collection of plants illus- 

 trative of tropical gardening, a branch too much 

 neglected with us where our hot summers suit 

 these plants so well. Here are rare Palms, lago, 

 Bananas, Agaves, and other things, all in absolute 

 perfection. 



The Pacific Guano Company have a very large 

 exhibit of plants, large numbers very rare and 

 valuable. They have not been planted with any 

 view to make gardenesque effects, but rather to 

 show the results of the article they deal in. But 

 still the many luxuriant blooming plants make 

 the exhibition grounds in that part very at- 

 tractive. 



Mr. A. Felton and Mr. Maginly, of Philadel- 

 phia, and Mahlon Moon & Son, of Morrisville, 

 have beds of various articles which attract vis- 

 itors. 



Mr. H. A. Dreer has Gladiolus, Verbenas, 

 Petunias, and other standard plants for which 

 this firm has long been celebrated; and Mr. W. 

 K. Harris, the Geranium raiser, has a bed of his 

 most approved seedlings. 



Mr. Thos. Robertson, of Philadelphia, makes 

 a very good exhibition of many varieties of 

 Coleus. 



The German and French exhibitors make 

 very fine shows in their several departments. 

 The Gladiolus of Eugene Verdier, of Paris, was 

 undoubtedly the finest thing of the kind ever 

 seen in this country ; and the Eoses of M. Sou- 

 pert and Notting, of Luxembourg, elicited high 

 praise. Charles Verdier also shared his brother's 

 honors in the Gladiolus line. 



Krelage, of Harlem, Holland, contributed 

 many beautiful collections of bulbs, and amongst 

 other things shamed Americans by sending back 

 for exhibition here a very large bed of Asdepias 

 tuberosa. Thousands who saw it no doubt sup- 

 pose it is from China or Japan, or some other 



far-away place, and no doubt orders will flow to 

 Holland for the roots. Mr. Krelage deserves all 

 the orders he will get. 



Mr. Lachaume, of Havana, carries off all the 

 honors for Agaves, Succulents, &c., but these we 

 have already noted. 



The amount of space devoted to the out-door 

 horticultural department is about 40 acres; the 

 amount of space available for exhibitors, exclu- 

 sive of walks, borders, buildings, and reserve 

 space for ornamental gardening, is a little over 

 eight acres, or 282,673 square feet. The amount 

 of space occupied by American exhibitors is 

 239,173 square feet; by foreign exhibitors, 43,- 

 500 square feet. Of these England occupies 

 8,000 ; Spain, 8,500 ; France, 15,000 ; the Nether- 

 lands, 6,700; Germany, 4,500, and Austria, 800 

 square feet. There are 56 exhibitors in the 

 American section (not including those in-doors), 

 and 27 in the foreign section. The number of 

 plants or other objects exhibited in the American 

 section is 59,500, and in the foreign section, 

 10,233, divided as follows: England, 1,801; 

 Spain, 2,088; France, 4,164; The Netherlands, 

 1,000 ; Germany. 1,200, and Austria, 80. 



New York Horticultural Association. — 

 This Society seems entering on a successful 

 career. The last exhibition is reported as having 

 been well attended. Among the exhibitors were 

 W. L. Fisher, John Thornhill, Isaac Buchanan, 

 S. B. Parsons & Sons, James Riddle, Charles Zel- 

 ler, Henry Bird, Wm. Ball, Peter Henderson, 

 Ekirsh & Wilson, A. M. Council, F. Gordon^ 

 Walter Eeid, S. Henshaw, Robert Casey and 

 W. Walsh. The only item 6f general interest 

 that we can gather from the newspaper report 

 before us, is that the premium for the best 

 strawberry of any kind was awarded to Wm. 

 Burgess, for La Constante. 



The Nurserymen and Tree Growers.— The 

 regular semi-annual meeting of the Nursery- 

 men's and Tree Planters' Association of Chicago 

 and vicinity was held July 11th in the office of 

 the Western Farm Journal, at Chicago. The 

 President, Mr. Jonathan Periam, occupied the 

 chair. 



The association indulged in a long discussion 

 regarding fruit and fruit prospects, the conclu- 

 sion of which was that in general the fruit crop 

 promises to be good. 



A resolution was adopted that the association 

 ! exhibit as an organization, and that there be a 



