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HORTICULTURE 



June 27. I'JvlS 



THE ALASKA YUKON PACIFIC 



EXPOSITION. 



lu au interesting Ulter I'loiu 

 Seattle under date of May 2J, 

 Mr J Fred. Dawson, of Olm- 

 sted Bros., describes the progress 

 beini? made in the buildings and land- 

 scape work for the Alaska-Yukon 

 Pacific Exposition. Several ol the 

 lars:e buildings are already finished. 

 Most of Ihe rough grading has been 

 completed. "We are just starting the 

 finish grading in the vicinity ot the 

 Gevser Basin and south along Rai- 

 nier Vista, Washington Vista and Un- 

 ion Vista. These vistas vary Iroui 

 two to four hundred feet wide and 

 were cut through thick growths of 

 Douglas firs, many of the trees bein.g 

 over three hundred feet high and i 

 to 10 feet In diameter. The entire 

 lavout is centered on Mt. Rainier 

 wiiioh is over 14.000 feet high and 

 is covered with snow the year round. 

 Along the Washington Vista you can 

 look out across many miles of Lake 

 Washington with the great range ot 

 Cascade Mounains whose caps are 

 covered with snow, back of it. 



"Along the Union Vista you look 

 across the waters of Lake Union to 

 heights of the city beyond. We ex- 

 pect to fringe the base ot all the 

 buildings in the central Court of 

 Honor with thousands of large native 

 rhododendrons, together with fox- 

 gloves, lilies, peonies, etc., mixed 

 through them. The formal gardens, 

 which 81 e almost ready to be planted, 

 are just South of the great Geyser Ba- 

 sin on the line of Rainier Vista. 



"I expect to remain heie lor a few 

 weeks vet with Mr. Olmsted and then 

 go to Spokane and Portland. We have 

 just submited our report to the Park 

 Commissioners of Spokane, Wash., tor 

 a svstem of parl.s lor the entire city. 

 We are now preparing plans for the 

 development of some of the parks 

 alreadv owned by the city. We have 

 several private pla/:es there, the larg- 

 est of which is owned by L. M. Daven- 

 port who keeps the finest restaurant 

 in the Northwest. William Donald is 

 carrying out our plans for us there 

 and is getting along finely." 



GHENT QUINQUENNIAL SHOW. 



AU llie reports ot this great .gather- 

 ing in Europe unite in pronouncing it 

 to be one ot the finest horticultural 

 shows ever held. Most of the loading 

 horticultural journals have contained 

 reports, some of them well illustrated. 

 witJi very full details of the exhibits 

 and festivities. . Lord Redesdale pre- 

 sided, M. Viger being the next in the 

 post of honor. Our bright little Bel- 

 gian coutemporary, "La Tribune Hor- 

 ticole," of Brussels in several of its 

 recent numbtrs gives full particulars, 

 many portraits ot those concerned in 

 organizing the shew, some views of 

 the show, and a double paged group of 

 the members of the jury. Among 

 them we recognize many of our old 

 friends on the other side of the chan- 

 nel Bravo! little Tribune Horticole. 



C. H. P. 



CATTLEYA GIGAS SANDERIANA. 



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Our illustration shows a plant of 

 this beautiful cattleya exhibited by 

 Joseph A. Manda at a recent meeting 

 of the New Jersey Floricultural So- 

 ciety whei-e it caused quite a sensation 



among the orchid fraternity. H was 

 in a "six-inch pan, with eight bulbs 

 and carried ten well developed flowers. 

 The plant came in last year's importa- 

 tion. 



NEWS NOTES. 



A file in the building occupied by 

 H. Corvi, florist, San Francisco. Cal., 

 June 8, was discovered before it had 

 done great damage in bis store. 



flo\.-er show scheduled for November 

 'J, C and 6. 



A big file in the up-town section 

 of New Orleans. La., destroyed the 

 florist establishment of Justin St. Mard, 

 who is reported to have lost $10,000. 



Plans for extensive alterations and 

 improvements are under way in the 

 florist stor3 of A. M. York at Calumet, 

 Jlich. Mrs. Nordquist will be in charge 

 as heretofore. 



Howard Stone has closed his branch 

 store above Hotel Fulmer, Strouds- 

 burg, Pa., for the summer, and trans- 

 ferred that business to the green- 

 hou.se';, 38S Scott street. 



The will of Mrs. Jerome Jones, 

 whose death we recorded in a recent 

 issue, bequeaths $7.'). 000 to various 

 hospitals and charitable institutions 

 in Boston and Brookline. Mass. 



The plans submitted by W. H. 

 Ritchie, Boston, were accepted by the 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College, 

 Amherst, Mass., for the new greenhouse 



and accompanying buildings. 



The Civic Improvement League of 

 Denison, Texas, finds the interest in 

 the school garden work unabated, there 

 having been man\ claimants for the 

 awards at the end of the school yea'-. 

 All are eagerly anlicipating the annua! 



Frank Beu, Chicago. 111., is just com- 

 pleting three large new greenhouses, 

 the widest of which accommodates 

 seven benches. This one is now- 

 planted with chrj^sanlheraums to be 

 followed by Kaiserin. 



Mrs. James McMillan has presented 

 the North Shore (IVIass.) Society with 

 a silver oup to be known as the Eagle 

 Head cup. This is to be offered in a 

 rose competition to be competed for 

 in an exhibition nf 10 varieties of gar- 

 den grown roses, four blooms each, and 

 is to bo won three times in succession 

 before becoming the absolute property 

 of the exhibitor. The above conditions 

 have been changed from those as ori- 

 ginally intended and as they appear in 

 the printed schedule which specifies 

 that there be 'three blooms, each va- 

 riety to be correctly named, and to be 

 won twice before becoming the ab- 

 scdute property of the exhibitor.' .At the 

 last meeting of the society the subject 

 of incorporation was brought up by 

 the president and after a little discus- 

 sion the matter was referred to a com- 

 mittee who will make their report at 

 the next meeting. Philemon R. San- 

 born exhibited a fine table ot rhodo- 

 dendrons. 



