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GARDENING. 



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VIEW IN HANSCOM PARK. OMAHA. NEB. 



prown by cannas and bronzy ricinus. 

 The air is sweet as pansies and violets 

 can only make it. The impish faces have 

 turned into bells of silver upon the moon- 

 flower's climbing vines, and the place is 

 one of wondrous beauty. 



NOTES ON EXHIBITS. 



Horticultural Hall is one of the largest 

 and grandest buildings upon the exposi- 

 tion grounds. The ornamentation, in a 

 frieze extending along the front and sides 

 of the building, is especially attractive 

 and, in connection with the statuary and 

 grand entrance, has an unusually pleas- 

 ing effect, aside from the plant and fruit 

 decorations, which harmonize so well with 

 the general plan of the building. The 

 vaulted dome, supported by its many- 

 fluted Corinthian columns, holds a pecu- 

 liar charm for the Trans-Mississippi vis- 

 itor. Herr Hesser, of Plattsmouth, has 

 arranged a fine display from his famous 

 palm gardens. His Cycas circinalis is the 

 grandest plant in the building, and there 

 are many fine specimens on exhibition. 



Hadkinson's seedling canna, The Shell, 

 is attracting more than ordinary atten- 

 tion from visiting floriculturists; bright 

 green foliage, erect habit, vigorous 

 growth, spreading heads of light straw- 

 colored florets, resisting the fierce rays of 

 the noon-day sun, which they seem to 

 actually enjoy, it is just the thing for hot 

 climates. 



A.' r Erwin.a former graduate of Shaw 

 Gardens, St. Louis, has taken notes and 

 a number of snap shots of the various 

 exhibits this week. He pronounces The 

 Shell a triumph in mass planted effect. 

 Upon his return he will beconnected with 

 the Arkansas University and Experiment 

 Station, Favetteville, Ark. 



Cactus King Davey is also the proud 

 possessor of three new seedling cannas, 

 one a rich velvety deep cardinal, a free 



bloomer, and the largest blossomed plant 

 on the grounds. It has been christened 

 the Austin. The second is a leopard some- 

 what like Florence Vaughan, only 

 brighter and of deeper orange ground, 

 while the third is a gold edged bright red. 

 He shows a fine collection of cacti in a 

 bed south of the Nebraska building. 



W. Atlee Burpee & Co., Philadelphia's 

 energetic seedsmen, have just come into 

 the hall and show a grand assortment of 

 their choicest sweet peas grown especially 

 for the Exposition at Waterloo, Neb., 

 by J. C. Robinson. They have fifty-two 

 varieties on view. B. F. Bell is in charge 

 and renews the bouquets every otherday. 



Should you become entangled in the 

 windinglabyrinthsof the fernery beware 

 of the alligator, the ward of the Iowa ex- 

 hibit. The monster had a lively frolic the 

 other day and chased "Dad" Erfling all 

 over Dreer's lily basin. He only saved him- 

 self by jumping upon one of theenormous 

 leaves of the Victoria regia and was res- 

 cued by the horticultural force after a 

 hard fight. The alligator is now caged 

 and winks the other eye, while "Dad" 

 passes by afar off. 



W. R. Roach, representing Jerome B. 

 Rice& Co., wholesale seeds, of Cambridge, 

 N. Y., is visiting the exposition. 



Landscape Architect Ulrich spent a few 

 days upon the grounds while enroute to' 

 New York from the Yellowstone Park. 

 '_ J- H. II. 



fl NEW REMEDY FOR APHIDES. 



Kraft's Plant Tonic has been tested on 

 fruit trees and chrysanthemums infested 

 with aphides at the Cornell University 

 Experiment Station, and proved effective. 

 The black aphis is such a troublesome 

 pest to chrysanthemum growers that 

 they will be glad to learn of anything 

 likely to banish it from their premises. 



The Flower Garden. 



SWEET PEfl NOVELTIES Op 1898. 



We are now able to report on sweet pea 

 novelties in this section. But the hot 

 wave, which reached 100° in the shade 

 last Sunday, has forced our vines into 

 bloom beyond their strength, so that on 

 light soil all the varieties have fallen 

 below their normal size, both of stem and 

 blossom. But we have everything as 

 true to color as this climate allows. We 

 represent a latitude from which a very 

 large sweet pea patronage comes, andmy 

 report must be somewhat severely just 

 lor this reason. And from frequent con- 

 ferences with our most skillful growers I 

 must say that with each succeeding year 

 our patience and preseverence are being 

 more and more sorely tried. By what- 

 ever method I plant I wish before I get 

 half through the month of July I had tried 

 some other. Still God's world is the same 

 old world, and the fault must be ours, if 

 we do not succeed. 



Everything is in bloom now. As I look 

 over the last Eckford list of novelties— 

 his 1898 set— I see that three of them 

 received first-class certificates, and two 

 others awards of merit, at various Eng- 

 lish shows. Having seen Mr. Eckford's 

 place in full bloom, and retaining still in 

 mind a delightful picture of his vases of 

 novelties at two of the English shows, I 

 can well understand how he has received 

 the above certificates and awards of 

 merit, and that they were justly given. 

 But it is a simple fact that all we can do 

 the first year with these expensive 

 packets is to get an idea of their color. 

 And never have we had clearer proof than 



