. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. a«*»5S:?SS??'??'*^?'«w^=*'^^^^ Girpet Bedding in Front of Phipps G>n8ervatory» Schenley Park, Pittsburgh. oblong beds at the back are planted with Geranium S. A. Nutt, and the cannas are King Humbert. The building itself forms a part of Phipps Conservatory and is known as the Aquatic House. The central part of the Aquatic House, surmounted by the dome, is devoted to the growing of Vic- toria regia and is usually referred to, therefore, as the Victoria House. To the right of the Victoria House is the department known as the Nymphaea House. The Vi
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. a«*»5S:?SS??'??'*^?'«w^=*'^^^^ Girpet Bedding in Front of Phipps G>n8ervatory» Schenley Park, Pittsburgh. oblong beds at the back are planted with Geranium S. A. Nutt, and the cannas are King Humbert. The building itself forms a part of Phipps Conservatory and is known as the Aquatic House. The central part of the Aquatic House, surmounted by the dome, is devoted to the growing of Vic- toria regia and is usually referred to, therefore, as the Victoria House. To the right of the Victoria House is the department known as the Nymphaea House. The Victoria Boom. So we enter the building and find ourselves at once in the Victoria House, the room shown in the illustration. This room is 52x53 and thirty-four feet high in the center. The concrete tank con- taining the Victoria regia is 36x45 feet and is irregular in shape. On the mar- gin of the tank are various tropical plants, averaging in height from twelve inches to ten feet and so arranged as to present a natural tropical appearance. Prominent among the larger plants are Latania Borbonica, Areca lutescens, Chinese bananas and Colocasia odo- rata. These are planted from fifteen to twenty feet apart, and between them are placed miscellaneous low-growing plants, such as crotons, curculigos, etc., the object in mind being not to obstruct the view of the victorias, which form the main feature of the hou^e. On the side benches are tropical plants in pots, including pandanus and crotons in va- riety. Among the pandanus, Pacificus is the most prominent. There are two plants of Victoria regia in the tank. Thev are growing in boxes eight feet square and one foot deep, with eight inches of water above the crowns of the plants. The compost consists of one part of well decomposed Cow manure to four parts of soil, with fifty pounds of bone flour and one bag of pulverized sheep manure added to the whole, and with two inches of cow manure placed in the bottom of the boxes. The seed w
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