Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-17
GOULD'S FLOWER FAD.
He Has Issued Orders for the Finest
Conservatory in tho World.
AN ORANGE GROVE UNDER GLASS,
Panama Plantations and Peach Orchards in
Bloom in January.
A BIG MOSQUE PACKED WITH PALMS
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH,

WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPArcH.I
| All men of note have their hobbies. Jay
Gould's hobby is dowerA He has already
spent many thousands of dollars in the culti-
walton of rare plants and shrubbery at his
magnificent conservatories on the Hudson,
and Mr. F. Mangold, his chief gardener,
says Mr.. Gould has Just given orders for the
expenditure of many mere thousands of dol
lars in adding to his hothousea When his
plans have been fully carried out the
"Wizard of Wall street" will have the
most extensive private conservatory in the
world. New buildings are to be erected
and the rarest and most costly trees, shrubs
and flowers are to be collected from every
quarter of the globe
For 20 years Mr.. Gould has been adding
to his summer home, Lindhurst, at Irving
ton ON the Hudson. His collection of plants
and shrubs is said by experts to be the
finest of any private collection in the world,
but the money king keeps on making ex-
tensive additions each year. The present
structure of glass has been so overcrowded
with its costly tenants that Chief Gardener
Mangold found it necessary to have more
| buildings or else cut off importations So
Mr. Gould ordered 500, 900 addition to the
greenhouses
A Rivalry of the MillIouaires.
Many New York millionaires have had
the same desire that Jay Gould possesses.
First John Hoey started In with the idea of
vanquishing Mr.. Gould in the elegance and
costliness of his congervstories and after
spending half million dollars drew out.
A prominent New York florist says all Of
lowed to run wild and that the finest OF
shrubs and trees we're permitted to die for
want of care. Jay Gould kept on sinking
Mr.. Hoey stepped out Of the race. Next
Cyrus W. Field, the wizards old enemy, be-
gan erecting conservatories at Ardsley
were err Intended ns n to overshadoW Owe Mr.. M Gouid's.
but financial and family trouble came to
that brainy man and the Field conservator-
les are unfinished.
three years ago. MI. Gould has given more
time than ever to his conservatories," said
one of his tntimates in Wall street recently.
botany, but he left the selection of pur-
chases to his chier gardener, Mr. Mangold,
who has been with him many years. Mr..
Gould's intentions now are to enter into the
and choice fruits on grander scale than
ever before attempted outside of the great
though. that after Mr.. Gould has built the
new addition to his conservatory it will
rank with the famous public conservatories
across the Atlantic.
Attract Devoted to Trees and Shrubs.
''There are $50 acres in Mr.. Gould's estate.
and it is we'll adapted to q botanical garden.
The entire collection of trees, the finest in
the country that will exist in this climate,
are growing in Mr.. Goulds park. A glance
eh~ nIafA a. IND
hurst will better enable us to comprehend
the grandeur Of the proposed new garden,
which will, indeed, be a rival of the Kew
Gardens at Richmond, England, or Jardin
des Plantes in Paris.
"The main conservatory, from which the
other hothouses are built out at all angles.
is in the form OF Turkish mos que and is 500
feet in length. The eastern and western
long and 85 feet in depth. Beginning with
the east end the main entrance of the con-
servatory leads to the rose house, with great
siiene. Catharine Mermet, the Bride, Nephe.
tis and Perle des Jardins, with their myriad
of buds. Passing along the red-tiled flooring
Sas s OF
house, 40 feet in length, with over Is varie-
ties in bloom half the year round. The
fernry comes next, with Its vast collection
of the various species that are Indigenous to
tropical climes.
Finest Lot Of Palms in the World,
elm the main circle Of the mosque shaped
conservatory is the palm house, with its
lofty dome, roomy rotunda and spacious
inches, all artistically filled by what is con-
ceded to be the finest private collection in
the world. A fountain in the center of the
palm house, in which aquatic plants lux
uriate, adds much TO the beauty of the fairy
like place. There are $40 varieties Of palms,
that embrace the rarest and choicest speci-
q n
sugar, date, sago, india rubber and arrow
root plants. At cost Of more than 81, 900
Mr.. Mangold recently bought the Cicatea
Emperor William, tree that all the scion
fists had hunted after in Europe, but for
which Mr.. Gould's order was Che first to
reach Berlin by cable BILE m Mr Gould values his
On leaving the farm house in q westerly
direction the grape houses, in four sections,
are disclosed. Mr.. Gould 10 specially fond
Of fruits, and he can secure at any season a
their culture Is so controlled as to permit Of
the supply being spread over the II months
OF the year. In the rear Of the conservatory
OF roses, and skirttng the easterly extension
of the rear wall. is the orchid house filled
with 10, 1000 plants and over 160 varieties.
Rivals tho Public Gardens of Europe.
The collection of crotans, or plants of
variegated foliage, adjoins the orchids and
ia without question the finest private collec-
tion in the world, and is said by many ex-
perts to rival those Of the public gardens of
Europe. In the adjoining house are kept
the nepenthes, or pitcher plants, while upon
the lattice work of the tessellated glass roof
are suspended baskets OF cold air orchids
from the East Indies and China.
The buildings to be built at once will ex-
tend the conservatory east and west so there
will be range of 1000 feet. solid glass
square, 500 teet in each direction, will sepa-
rate these from the main buildings, and is to
be filled with oranges from every CLINE. In
center
arranged miniature plantation of bananas.
All the glass is to be movable, SO when the
weather permits the structure is to be
stripped and a natural peach and orange
grove is to be initiated and the entire floor
Ing through which the heat is to be admitted
is to be sodded over so as to make every
thing as true to nature as possible. This
will involve an elaborate system or under
ground heating. A similar idea is to be car