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fancy lawn shrubs. Here the neat yellow and brown pea-like 

 flowers of Cytisus (or Genista) Andreana were conspicuous until 

 the middle of June. These plants were exhibited by Croux, 

 of Sceaux, and Moser, of Versailles. The former showed only 

 low plants, but Moser had an interesting group of standards 

 worked four or five feet high on laburnum stocks. This plant 

 deserves greater prominence in America. While the individual 

 plants in these French exhibits were excellent, their arrange- 

 ment was very poor. The low plants were often placed behind 

 the higher ones, and the entire planting had a disconnected and 

 scattered effect which had no relation to the building or the 

 landscape. 



In the small private greenhouses in the rear of the Horti- 

 cultural Building, many good plants were shown. The cala- 

 diums and other plants shown in the Pennsylvania display in 

 the house erected by Hitchings and Co., were much admired. 

 One of the best displays of bloom under glass was the Griffin 

 strain of tuberous begonias, shown in the Lord & Burnham 

 greenhouses, by the New York Florists' club. The flowers 

 were uncommonly large and bright, and they comprised a 

 great variety of color. In the same series of houses was a rose 

 compartment, in which were growing the following new varie- 

 ties : Senator McNaughton, exhibited by Robert Craig, a del- 

 icate creamy-white sport of Perle des Jardins ; Kaiserin Augusta 

 Victoria, and Madame Caroline Testout, by Ernst Asmus ; and 

 two benches of Mrs. W. C. Whitney, by John N. May. 

 Another offshoot of the Lord & Burnham houses had an excel- 

 lent small collection of ferns and orchids from Frederick Sholes. 

 The main house of the series had a tank in which various rare 

 nymphseas and Victoria regia were grown. This house had an 

 excellent lot of crotons from the Jay Gould estate and from 

 William Bayard Cutting. There was also a good plant each 

 of Aristolochia ornithocepliala and A. Sturtevantii, the former 

 long in abundant bloom. These various collections were made 

 under the auspices of the New York Florists' club. 



Various plants, aside from the early exhibits of primulas, 

 cinerarias and cyclamens, were shown in the Annex houses 

 behind the Horticultural Building. None of the later collec- 

 tions attracted much attention, however, except a most remark- 

 able lot of fancy caladiums, from Mr. Lizt, of Rio Janeiro, 

 which were shown late in the season. This was undoubtedly 

 the finest display of these plants ever made in the United 

 States, although a collection of unusual merit from George W. 

 Childs was long shown in the Pennsylvania section of the Hor- 

 ticultural Building. The Lizt caladiums were remarkable for 

 the exceeding thinness of their leaves, many of them being so 



