THE 



GARDENERS' MAGAZINE. 



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u during the past two years. Mr. Gofton Salmond announced 

 1 Tfl owinfdonations for scholarships : £y> from Lord Amherst 

 ' ll^SSS" ** i*9 and 1900, and «, from Mr. H. Wood, a 

 X *l n f the court, for the scholarship for 1901., 



« ^..Itural Building of the "Hans-Mississippi Exhibition, which 



The Horticu Itural JP ■» ^ rf ^ ^ handsome that 



eoe d at Omaha J A , J den ^ fa described 



5V et been erected for the ar I F „ The buildi j, 



wHcan J a * "a magnificent central feature." 



AO . I _j t „„ fp P f Innff bv one hundred and thirty 



hundred and ten feet long by 



The building is 

 feet wide, and one 



Jred and six feet high, to the belfry. The building is devoted to the floral, 

 • and forestry exhibi 



'e covered with glass, permuting iuc cxunnuuu ^ — — — 

 - In the centre of the dome is placed the crystal cave, in a pyramid of rocks 



This pool is surrounded by a double colonnade 



hibit?, and is admirably adapted for the purpose, the high 

 glass, permitting the exhibition of the tallest ornamental 



vered with mosses and flowers and down the sides of which trickle countless 

 rle streams to the pool below _ 



I vaulted arches, forming a grand circle. Unrestricted as to motive or form and 

 oundings, the architect has succeeded in producing a building singularly striking 

 effective features. The basis of design is the chaste Ionic. **** *** tu 

 xielled from flowers, fruits, and foliage, 

 trance are towers, or rather mosque-like minarets. 



The details are 

 On either side of the stately central 



This feature is reproduced 



Between these 



u all sides, forming an octagon from which springs the dome. 

 Minarets are placed circular colonnades, surrounded by statuary emblematical of 

 the seasons. Above the dome is an open observatory balcony from which can bz 

 obtained a grand view, not only of the exhibition grounds, but of the city and 

 adjacent lakes, the picturesque valley of the mighty Missouri, and the lovely city 

 of Council Bluffs, five miles away. Above this open balcony is the belfry. At the 

 ends of the wings are octagonal-roofed pavilions in harmony with and emphasising 



The wide frieze is beautifully ornamented with cupids, 



general form of design. 



On either side of the main entrance, 



' and 



in riotous revelling amid fruits and flowers. 



00 high stylobate, are placed groups of statuary representing " Night 

 "Morning," festooned, the one with Morning Glory and the other with night 

 blooming cereus. The building is profusely decorated with flower urns, hanging 

 taskets, and ornamental plants of every description from semi-tropic climes. 



Sweet Peas have attained to so high a degree of popularity in the 

 United States that there is a probability of the flower having a society wholly 

 deroted to it. The Rev. W. T. Hutchins says that an attempt will probably be 

 made at Springfield in July next to launch the association under the designation of 

 the American Sweet Pea Society, and he expresses the opinion that there is now 

 mffiaent working force in America on the * sweet pea to make the society 

 thorougly national in character. 



New Roses— We have received from Messrs. Dickson and Sons, New- 

 townards, two coloured plates illustrating the five new roses they are distributing 



this season for the first time. These comprise two teas, two hybrid tea roses, 

 ©done hybrid perpetual. The two hybrid teas are known as Daisy and Killar- 

 ney, two charming varieties of finely formed flowers of different shades of pink. 

 The two teas, named respectively, Beryl and Meta, have rich yellow flowers, 



fan of the former tuffofed with saffron and rose, and thus especially desirable for 



prden decorations and the supply of cut flowers for indoor decorations. Ards 



Row is the name of the hybrid perpetual and it has finely formed flowers of a deep 



crimson colour, and so vigorous a habit as to be specially useful as a climbing and 

 "flkr rose. 



Something Like a Consumer.— The following question is submitted in 



pa^es 



Mil 



wumptive powers of a high order : " Being a consumer of country produce to 

 w extent of about 12 tons of potatoes, 13,00a eggs a-year, and paying about 

 i te. a- week for milk, besides using butter, bacon, fruit and vegetables, rabbits 

 ™ fowls, pork, beef, and mutton, do you think it would be advisable for me to 

 «c * small farm and try and supply my own as far as possible ? " 



^An International Chrysanthemum Exhibition will be held at Lille 



o\ ember 10 to 15. The several chrysanthemum and horticultural societies 

 c north of France have combined their forces in the organisation of the 



LZ n Lommunications regarding the exhibition should * be made to the 

 ^roary General, iq. Rn» A* Pa* A t t? ~ 



The 



Bussorah. 



arid take* nio. r an.— The largest export of dates in the 



b a rivl 'f fr ° m j B , ussorah ^ situate some seventy miles up the River Shutt- 

 ate sZn p y thC combination of the » v ers Tigris and Euphrates. 



New Plants and Flowers. 



L/ELIO-CATTLEYA EUDORA SPLENDENS. 



A magnificent orchid with deep rose-purple sepals and petals and a broad 

 spreading hp that is yellow at the base and intense crimson-purple at the apex. 

 The sepals and petals are almost four inches long, and the latter are over two 

 inches witfe. The tube of the lip is creamy with veins of purple ; inside, the 

 yellow throat is stained at the base with dull purple. The broid apex is fully 

 tvo inches across, and of the finest shade of rich purple, the margin slightly paler. 

 This orchid is the result of crossing Cattleya Mendeli and Lxlia purpurata. 

 F.C.C., R.H.S., June 14. Messrs. J. Veitch and Sons. 



Odontoglossum crispum Prince of Wales. 



The most beautiful and handsome form of O. crispum that has for a long tima 

 praced the R.II.S. tables. Its beauty does not consist in its spotting, but its purity. 

 The sepals and petals are pure white, save for a faint tinge of rose in some of the 

 sep ils. The lip is extra large, white, with golden disk, and three or four rich 

 red-brown spots where the disk ceases. Each flower is four inches and a quarter 

 across, the segments being pointed at the apex, though very broad at base and 

 centre ; margins waved in all segments. A magnificent variety, with a spike 

 curying twelve flowers. F.C.C., R.H.S., June 14, and silver Bmksian medal, 

 Msssrs. Hugh, Low, and Co., Bush Hill Park, Enfield. 



Epicattleya radiato-Bowringiana. 



This is a novel and interesting hybrid obtained by crossing Epidendrum 

 radiatum with Cattleya Bowringiana. It has dwarf growths, with slender pseudo- 

 bulbs, surmounted by two or three linear leaves about six inches long. Two 

 fl jwers were borne on the spike. Each bloom is an inch and a -half across ; sepals 

 w ; lateral ones, curved outwards, and then downwards ; deep rofe with veins 

 of a darker tint ; petals just over half an inch wide and an inch long, elliptic, 

 coloured as in the sepals, but with the veining less marked. Lip an inch long ; 



Epicattleya radiato-Bowringiana, 



side loWs o/erlapping at the base, deep rose, whitish in the throat, but witn deep 

 osy 1 SSmSSi veins that extend over side lobes a^ata^e ap:cal 



A.M., R.H.S., June 14. Messrs. J. Veitch and Sons, Cnelsea. 



margin 



L/tclio- cattleya Duke of York. 



P°»en > ttdCS f °u ^ Cking ab ° Ut the midd,e of Se Ptember. At a meeting of 

 ^ J the first D ' h f lwhen the dates are ready for packing, the prices are 



The lip is fiddle shaped, owing to the con- 

 This hybrid was raised by crossing a fine 

 F.C.C., R.H.S., June 14, Messrs. F. 



in the earl , ,T * " — ss <* '^ness o. the A distinct and strong^rowing hybrid, with very deep ^g^^g^f 



£2rt2 an \ ,asts six or eight weeks - r^oK^^ 



, s ' m a communication relating to the crop of i8q> savs that lhe Slde ,obes p:iIe • . v ^. :- ™;„,t 7^ th» r™. 



-T» was r«rf„ t , • _ , s . _ up ot 109, , says mat intense purple with crims0 n veins. 



traction between side lobes and apex 

 Lalia elegans with Cattleya Ikymeriana 

 Sander and Co., St. Albans. 



MlKANIA San DERI. 



A tall -growing stove foliage plant, having slender purple stems and opposite 

 leaves in pairs : the latter are six to eight inches long by four or five inches broad, 

 ovate bright green down the centre and deep bronzy or purplish-green towards 



ShTSaSlf-^pale green or wtoish veins nm in all directions, and make the 



foliage very P reUy P F?GC, fULS., June 14. Messrs. F. Sander and Co. 



Calochortus Purdyi. 



A most interesting species, with white flowers that are covered on the inner 

 surface of the segments with silky hairs, a quarter of an inch long. These are 

 white exceot at the base of the stJments, where they arc of a deep claret- 

 DurDle colour There are also claret-purple stains at the base of the flower, 

 including a crescent-shaped blotch of this colour. The phmtj grows about ten 

 inches high, and carries long linear, bright green, and burnished leafage. E^h 

 growth is branched, and carries an aggregate of six to twelve flowers. F.C.C. 

 K. U.S., June 14. Messrs. R. Wallace and Co., Colchester. 



10 '2s. per eo c«,t ( .u T w '"F^uveiy ^20, £ib 9;., and 



brawls " u ?! ree ( J ualities of fruit kn °wn as " Hellawis " (best), 

 nwB (seconds), and « Savers (inferior^. Th**. ^u. ia L_ . ' 



100 h ''£h contvT™" T SdyCrS (inferior )- These P"ces would appear to 

 ^om, and a ? g decline in c° ns « m P»on of dates in the United 



1 few weeeslSr ™ tl ° D in L ° Ddon t0 COntro1 the P" ces and importations 

 k ' c iWex^n? P n VCnt Seri ° US l0SSCS - The ^ Ualit y of the l8 97 crop seems 

 * «Mon, owin? , 7 ? ' alth ° Ugh thC qUantUy Was somewhat less than 

 ""^ «age whi h eXCe$Slve heat about ths ,ime the «op was entering into the 



fe blight thC fruU t0 dry up and ralK Some gardens were also 



*«1 that .^?-7 UCn caused much fr " ; t to diop off before being matured. 



OOO Cases nf IZ ^mf .o/.k r.u: j r 



It 



"cw York a u amppcu irom uussoran ror 



e qnaoUty i s ' . r plaCes ' Besides the shipment of dates in boxes a 



S^teally of the^r baSketS to India and its de P en dencies. These dates 



interior qualities, and are transported in native sailing craft. 



