. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. iSgj. The American Florist. 1279. ALOOASIA WATSONIANA. of tuberous begonias from the Oasis Nur- sery Co. Tbey are excellent, both in bloom and foliage and are admirably grown. The plants occupy the center table of the display house, the side benches being filled with gloxinias. It would be hard to find a more brilliant display than that made by these two plants; they are so covered with bloom and so uniformly well grown. In the little aquatic house several nymphieas are now in bloom, the pink Cape Cod lily, N. Zan
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. iSgj. The American Florist. 1279. ALOOASIA WATSONIANA. of tuberous begonias from the Oasis Nur- sery Co. Tbey are excellent, both in bloom and foliage and are admirably grown. The plants occupy the center table of the display house, the side benches being filled with gloxinias. It would be hard to find a more brilliant display than that made by these two plants; they are so covered with bloom and so uniformly well grown. In the little aquatic house several nymphieas are now in bloom, the pink Cape Cod lily, N. Zanzibarensis, N. alba candidis- sima and N. Marliacea chromatella. The aristolochia is still continuing in bloom. The two large beds in front of the depart- ment green5»uses, pyramidal in shape, are now planted with cannas. Yucca aloifolia, ricinus and other large leaved plants, bordered at the foot with achy- ranthus; they will be very noticeable with a little more growth. North of the Horticultural Building, around the Puck, White Star S. S. Co. and Children's Building, portions of the French exhibit have been utilized in the flower beds. Yilmorin, Andrieux & Co. have some excellent snapdragons, very showy colors, calendulas, helichrysums, etc., very gay indeed at present. At the foot of the terraces north of the Manu- factures and in front of the Electricity Building the rhododendrons have been removed; at the ends are beds filled with small yews, while the other beds are massed with Dracaena indivisa. New Zea- land flax, pampas grass and Metake bamboos. There is one innovation on the island— a carpet bed in the form of an Irish harp, built of Cotyledon secunda glauca, C. sempervivum and Alternanthera parony- choides. As Lincoln used to say, for per- ple who like that sort of thing it is just the sort of thing they would like. The hollyhocks are making a good show—all double—and there are some fine colors among them, especially in a batch said to be of Japanese orig
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