. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 708 The American Florist. April 2"/ als bear the mark of good culture being sturdy and clean. A bench of 7000 cannas looks remarkably well, the va- rieties principally grown being Egan- dale. Souvenir de Antoine Crozy, Flor- ence Vaughan, King Hunilx)ldt and Queen Charlotte. Besides the more ordinary greenhouse subjects there are always plants of spe- cial interest here. Panicum plicatum is an excellent green foliaged plant, a good breeder and fine lor the centre of a bed or for lightening up dwarfer and
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 708 The American Florist. April 2"/ als bear the mark of good culture being sturdy and clean. A bench of 7000 cannas looks remarkably well, the va- rieties principally grown being Egan- dale. Souvenir de Antoine Crozy, Flor- ence Vaughan, King Hunilx)ldt and Queen Charlotte. Besides the more ordinary greenhouse subjects there are always plants of spe- cial interest here. Panicum plicatum is an excellent green foliaged plant, a good breeder and fine lor the centre of a bed or for lightening up dwarfer and com- pact habited subjects. Among begonias. B. Moonlight with pretty cut foliage and small pure white flowers. B. Sandersoni bright red and the distinct habited B. fuchsioides were noted as looking very promising. Mr. Frey has obtained stock of some very fine pelargoniums of the show and fancy tribe from Gcbrueder Neubronner, New Ulm, Bavaria, and this year these plants are just coming into line. They are finely grown with ample deep green foliage dwarf and compact and just commencing to flower. For the next two months these will make a very fine show as the varieties are really the very best. The conservatory and show houses arc in excellent order and there is a grand display of flowering plants, azaleas, Lilium longiflorum, amaryllises and all the popular kinds being especial- ly well flowered. Heucheras in variety lighten up the banks of plants and there are nianv fine orchids in flow- er. Prominent is the beautiful hybrid Lselia Latona, a cross between the popu- lar L. purpurata and L. cinnabarina. showing plainly the influence of the lat- ter in the color of the segments, the habit being intermediate between its two parents. Phalaenopsis Luddeman- niana is very prettv and the somewhat difficult Cattleya citrina is well done. There are also fine specimens of Oncid- ium sarcodes, Dendrobium primulinum and a few cattleyas. C. Mossi^ is look- ing remarkably well an
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