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perfectly clean, with foliage of a charming color, a graceful 

 habit, beautiful and abundant flowers and bright autumn col- 

 oring. The liability of its bi?anches to break, owing to their 

 brittleness, is the only weak point of the Virgilia in this cli- 

 mate. Are there many other trees of which so much good 

 can be spoken, or against which so few charges can be sub- 

 stantiated ? 



Boston, Mass. J^- S. 



New Anthuriums. 

 To the Editor of Garden and Forest : 



Sir, — Anthurium Goldringi is a new hybrid which comes 

 from crossing A. Andreanum and A. Scherzerianum. Tlie 

 leaves are from six to eight inches long and two inches wide 

 at the base, acutely cordate, with irregular undulated margins. 

 The spathe is two inches wide by three long, heart-shaped, 

 flat, with a tail-like apex, and bright scarlet in color. The spa- 

 dix is straight, erect, pure white, and changes with age to 

 yellow. The name has been given in compliment to F. 

 Goldring, of Slingerland, New York. A. Hollandi is another 

 hybrid which is intermediate between A. grande and A. Fer- 

 rierense. The cordate leaves are a velvety green, with paler 

 neuration ; spathe, broad, irregular, and reflexing with age ; 

 color, deep rose-pink ; spadix, waxy white and erect. It is 

 named for Rev. Dr. W. J. Holland, Ph.D., of Pittsburgh, Penn- 

 sylvania. 

 Orange, N. J. Robert M. Grey. 



The Columbian Exposition. 

 Green Vegetables. 



■pRESH vegetables are very scarce here, but Canada has a 

 ^ remarkably large and representative exhibit of stored 

 products. New vegetables — those grown in 1893 — are strangely 

 missing from the fair. One reason for this is, perhaps, the 

 comparatively small place and importance attached to vegeta- 

 bles in the original schedules or system of classification, and 

 the fact that the southern states, from which the early vegeta- 

 bles are to be expected, have shown very little interest in the 

 hordcultural displays. Again, there is always a general indif- 

 ference to the nierits of vegetables as exhibitive products. It 

 is a common and unfortunate opinion that kitchen-garden 

 plants are proper for late summer or fall exhibitions only, 

 although no horticultural display is capable of arousing greater 

 interest than a neat and crisp collection of early vegetables, 

 beginning with forced tomatoes, lettuce and radishes. The 

 only attempt which has so far been made at Jackson Park to 

 show these early vegetables was a consignment of forty-one 

 varieties of the choicest Long Island products collected for 

 George T. Powell, who has charge of the horticultural interests 

 of New York, by a dealer in New York city. But these were 

 all lost through unnecessary delays in passing them into the 

 grounds at Chicago, due to the obstructive rules of the Expo- 

 sition, or, more properly, of the Bureau of Transportation. 

 The Exposition has suffered considerably in its displays of 

 early and perishable products from this cause, but assurances 

 have now been given that the obstructions will be removed. 



While many states are planning to make large displays of 

 vegetables later in the year, only New York, so far as I can 

 learn, intends to make any considerable efforts toward a con- 

 tinuous show of perishable vegetables throughout the season. 

 A second consignment of vegetables from New York city is 

 expected soon, and, thereafter, the State Experiment Station at 

 Geneva will supply the tables throughout the season. This 

 station received a special grant from the state legislature for 

 the purpose of growing these vegetables. At the present 

 writing no new vegetables have been shown except a few to- 

 matoes, from Florida — which are now gone — and a very little 

 green stuff from New York state. 



In stored vegetables Canada makes the only noteworthy ex- 

 hibit. This Canadian show is remarkable because of the great 

 territory concerned, contributions coming from Assiniboiaand 

 Manitoba to Prince Edward Island. These exhibits are made 

 under the auspices of the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, Prince 

 Edward Island, the Experiment Station and tiie Department of 

 Indian Affairs. These vegetables have been kept in cold stor- 

 age, and include such things as potatoes, beets, carrots and 

 turnips. The display is really a very large one and is well dis- 

 posed upon a series of rising shelves in the north end of the 

 Horticultural Building. Ontario shows 182 plates and eighty- 

 six varieties of potatoes, twenty-two varieties of turnips, all the 

 leading field and table carrots, table beets in variety, sugar 

 beets, mangels, extra good winter radishes, parsnips and onions. 

 In all the potato exhibits the predominance of varieties of more 

 recent introduction than the Early Rose is noticeable, showing 



that the commercial life of varieties of potatoes is not of long 

 duration. In the opinion of M. C. Swanson, who is in imme- 

 diate charge of the Canadian vegetai)le displays, the leading 

 potatoes in Ontario now are Early Puritan, for early, with the 

 main crops devoted to Beauty of Hebron, White Elephant, 

 Late Rose and Empire State. Prince Edward Island shows 

 but eight varieties of potatoes, sixteen other kinds, which were 

 shipped for exhibition, having been accidentally lost. Here 

 the Empire State seems to be the leading variety. This prov- 

 ince shows of carrots six varieties, of turnips four, of beets 

 three, with mangels, parsnips and kohl-rabi. Quebec lost 

 much of its exhibit, but now has five varieties of potatoes, 

 three of carrots, two of turnips and one of parsnips. 



The experiment station displays for Canada fall under four 

 general heads — the show of the Central Experimental Farm at 

 Ottawa, -and of the branch stations at Nappan, in Nova Scotia ■ 

 Brandon, in Manitoba, and Indian Head, in Assiniboia. The 

 exhibits from the branch stations — at least from Nappan and 

 Indian Head— are collected from various farmers as well as 

 from the experiment farms themselves. The Central Experi- 

 mental Farm now has on exhibition fourteen named varieties 

 of potatoes and seventy-six unnamed seedlings, the latter bemg 

 unusually promising ; also several varieties of carrots, onions, 

 beets, mangels and parsnips. From Brandon, Manitoba, there 

 are twenty-nine sorts of potatoes, with other roots. ' Very 

 striking potatoes in this exhibit are two local seedlings Vil- 

 lage Blacksmith, a medium-sized, white, very scaly tuber, and 

 Rock, a very firm white variety. These are judged to be valu- 

 able potatoes for Manitoba. The displays from the North- 

 west Territory (Assiniboia) are an astonishment to most ob- 

 servers. The products are shown in great variety, and they are 

 usually very large. A tuber of the Man potato on exhibition 

 weighs four and a quarter pounds. This and other varieties 

 exhibit the same tendency to large size which is shown in 

 tubers from Idaho and other parts of our north-west. From 

 the station at Indian Head alone there are seventy varieties of 

 potatoes, while no less than ten other villages are well repre- 

 sented in potatoes and roots. Indian Head has a large collec- 

 tion of turnips, beets, carrots, with kohl-rabi and other veo-eta- 

 bles. It was a happy and most effective thought on the Dart of 

 the Canadians to show these excellent products of its almost 

 boundless north-western territory. 



_ Nova Scotia and New Brunswick are represented by collec- 

 tions made by the Experimental Farm at Nappan. Nova 

 Scotia has eight varieties of potatoes, three each of turnips, 

 beets and carrots, with some mangels. New Brunswick is 

 represented by products obtained from its farmers, in twenty- 

 one varieties of potatoes, with onions and various roots. 



One of the most interesting of the Canadian displays is a col- 

 lection from the Department of Indian Affairs, showino- ten 

 varieties of potatoes, various carrots, turnips, onions ^rom 

 seeds, tops and potato-onions, and mangels grown by Indians 

 in reservations in Ontario. Some of them were grown chiefs. 

 Six hundred pounds of vegetables were contributed by these 

 Indians ; and there are also a dozen varieties of apples of their 

 raising shown in the Ontario fruit-exhibit. 



Altogether, the visitor is impressed with the adaptability of 

 the Canadian provinces to the growing of potatoes and roots 

 both for human food and for the support ot animals. ' ' 



Other vegetables in the Horticultural Building are six varie- 

 ties of potatoes, and a few of sweet-potatoes from New Jersey, 

 and some large potatoes from Idaho and Oregon.' In the k<r~ 

 ricultural Building, at the opposite side of the park, are a good 

 collection of twelve kinds of potatoes from Quebec, Burbank 

 potatoes from Oregon, a small collection of potatoes and roots 

 from W. O. Bush, of Thurston County, Washington, and a 

 few things from California. The California products are shown 

 in greater extent in the California State Building. These Cali- 

 fornian exhibits comprise a few potatoes, beans, sweet-pota- 

 toes, enormous mangels, corn in ear, small dried peppers in 

 cases with glass covers, and various squashes and gourds 

 The Hubbard Squashes, from Orange and Los Angeles Coun- 

 ties, have scarcely a characteristic mark of eastern specimens 

 save the color. They are very irregular and knobbv in shape and 

 weigh from seventy-five to eighty-one pounds. The Lao-enaria 

 gourds are shown in various forms, some of the slender varie- 

 ties reaching over four feet. Washington has a displav in its 

 state building of potatoes, turnips, carrots, parsnips and onions' 

 all remarkable for large size. Palouse Seedling, a local po' 

 tato, which is thought to have unusual merit, averages about 

 one and one-fourth pounds to the tuber. West of the moun- 

 tains. Early Rose is said to be the leading variety in Washing- 

 ton ; but eastward, some of the best sorts are those now on 

 exhibition, Dakota Red Palouse Seedling, Snowflake, Polaris 

 and White Burbank. 

 Chicago, III. L. H. Bailey. 



