Manch 23, 1895.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
357 
FRIDAY NEXT, MARCH 29. 
BY ORDER or HUGH LOW & CO. 
Messrs. PROTHEROE & MORRIS 
Will SELL by AUCTION, at their Central Sale Rooms, 
67 and 68, Cheapside, E. C., at half-past 12 O'Clock precisely, a wonderful 
importation of 
DENDROBIUM HILDEBRANDI 
(ROLFE). 
Introduced by us in 1893, and figured in the February number of the 
Orchid Review, 1895. 
Only one single specimen plant was then received, which is now in the 
Collection of Baron Schroder. 
Gardeners’ Magazine, spare: ng on this plant when in bloom, says: —“ The flowers, 
individually 23 seid es across, are borne in 5 — and fours, with occasionally five in a cluster, the 
ur of the newly y-open flowers being Pele yee slightly suffused with ct so a yellow throat 
: to the lip, but the flowers age they lose their rosy tint and ~ahits, while the 
yellow in the ions Vadis ú more intensifie 5 the veins in the petals aa. sepals a also at this period 
assume a bright green colour; ; it is an extremely floriferous sod attractive spec 
lants offered are in superb condition, with a sion of young val, and many of 
the old bulbs (which are l stout and a e an ee now pushing flower-spikes, 
DENDROBIUM SUPERBUM GIGANTEUM. 
A grand lot of this rare and showy species from the Philippine Tslands. 
A large proportion will bloom during the coming months. 
Dendrobium speciosissimum 
See hag Cronk March 9. 
These we confidently expect to receive in time to be included in this Sale, when every plant to 
hand will be offered without reserve, together with — phear importation of 
CATTLEYA MOSSIÆ (LOWS FAMOUS STRAIN). 
CYPRIPEDIUM LAWRENCEANUM HYEANUM 
A good plant with three growths, and 
CYPRIPEDIUM INSIGNE- SANDERA (TRUD. 
This is part of the ORIGINAL plant from ne — 
R. H. Measures, Esq., Str 
BY ORDER OF 
HUGH LOW & CO. 
UPPER CLAPTON, N.E. 
THE 
Gardeners’ Chronicle. 
SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1895. 
AMERICAN HORTICULTURE. 
HE report on the French horticultural 
section at the Chicago Exhibition, pre- 
pared by M. Maurice L, de Vilmorin, and pub- 
lished at the Imprimerie Nationale, Paris, con- 
tains much matter of interest to our readers. 
The reasons which conduced to the selection of 
valid, but there is no question that, so far as 
horticulture alone was concerned, the choice 
was not a propitioùs one. Its situation far from 
the coast, at a long distance from the other 
leading cities of the Union, its extreme climate, 
and the general indifference of the inhabitants 
towards horticulture in its higher developments, 
all tended to fetter the progress of the horticul- 
tural department. 
Naturally, much of M. de Vilmorin’s work is 
taken up with the exhibits of his compatriots, 
which were mnch more numerous than those 
of our own . rance occupied a 
space of more aha 1 hectare in the exhibition 
of fruit trees and ornamental plants in the open 
air, not comprising in this estimate various 
as shown 
glass, A long time was occupied with the rer 
of the goods to America, and long delays before 
they arrived at Chicago. evertheless, two 
months after the opening of the exhibition, and 
one month after the planting was finished, the 
French section presented a very satisfactory 
We need not, however, follow M. 
a . de choses. 
more interest to us now are the notices of 
t 
bited by Pitcher and Manda, Elwanger and Barry, 
Vaughan and others, are commented on in 
favourable terms, and the reporter then proceed 
to give a sketch of the progress of 
uring the last quarter ofa a 
and r 
been | 
and it has been marked by the localisation c 
Frui e — 
lected in 1889, yielded in 
Die e value of hor- 
all kinds in the States is 
h 
ted at 3285 millions of Fon wit 
non soup s of further increase, especially in 
oricultural 
aor and cut-flowers is ‘enormous, and con- 
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