The Prescott daily news., 1915-10-02
Enables WOr'd-F Famous Botanical Park at St. louis 10 Buy
 I,5OO Orchids Cheap.
ON PUBLIC VIEW V. P. WEEK
Missouri Historical Society and City Art Museum Also to Have Special Exhibitions October
 4 to 10.


 | (Shaw's Garden), the foremost botani- cal park in the United States and one of the five foremost in the world, to acquire at a low price about 1,5OO orchids, which will be on public ex- hibition during the St. Louis Fall l Festivities, Oct to 10, when spe- cial guides, for the accommodation of visitors to the city, will be in attend ance. Admission to the gardens is free.
 Orchid growers in the Philippines, Mexico, South American countries and elsewhere have felt the war much the same as have the cotton growers of the United States. In fact, cotton, be- ing more necessary and less perish able than orchids, and strengthened through the "Buy-a- Bale" campaign conducted by business men of St. Louis and other cities and the subse- quent financing of the cotton crop through the efforts of a group of men led by A. l.. Shapleigh. George ". | Simmons and Festus J. Wade all of St. Louis, has borne the handicap of the war more easily than have orchids.
 Orchid Collection Exceeds 5000
 Dr. George T. Moore, director of Shaw's Garden, who negotiated the | purchase of the 1,500 orchids, stated, in announcing it, that, as result of | it, people who visit the gardens dur | ing the Fall Festivities will see the | largest collection of orchids in the | United States. This addition, he eX- plained, increases the orchid collec- ton to more than 5000 plants, em- bracing about 800 species. Many of | the showy commercial orchids-the cattleyas-and numerous novel forms, including the dove orchid, the bucket orchid and the various types of the slipper orchid. will be in bloom dur ing the Yelled Prophet Week.
 Orchids and PineappIes Neighbors.
 A large new green house, now in | the course of construction, is being arranged especially for the accommo- dation of orchids, the pineapple fam fly and other tropical plants.
 The large conservatory will have especially attractive collections. The Palm House. 65 feet high and otherwise measuring 90X110 feet. houses a collec- ton of palms embracing 100 species, in cluding such commercially important l forms as the date, cocOanut and sugar palms. Other tropical plants of in l leT6Sl III lulS uOuSe are tue DdnDOO, screw pine and travellers tree
 To the south of the Palm House is | the Economic House. Here is assem- | bled a heterogeneous collection of tropical and subtropical plants, all of which have some special economic im- portance. The collection contains val uable wood. food, drug, perfume, | spice, fiber, etc, yielding plants, in cluding coffee, tea, coacoa patchouli, ginger, pepper, banana. guava, mango steen, mango, mahogany, jasmine and CinchOna plants
 Desert Conditions for Desert Plants.
 The conservatory west of the EconO- mic House is devoted to the agave and desert plants, embracing represen- tative collection of suCculent euphor- bias-plants native to the arid regions of Africa. Arabia and India-which very strikingly resemble the cact, and a display of American desert plants. Desert conditions as regards water supply are maintained.
 The wing north of the Palm House | is devoted to a collection of ferns, em- tracing two hundred species of ferns and closely related plants.
 West of the Fern House is the | CNtaQ COI6CllOu. eIlDI dtiu5 lulIt , -uNV species of this interesting group.
 Banana Trees Bearing Fruit.
 Another interesting collection is the banana family, of which eleven species are shown in a house devoted eXclu- sively to these trees, at least half of which are in fruit in various stages. Other houses containing collections of more than ordinary interest are the Epiphytic Orchid House, in which is a large specimen of the vanilla plant now in blossom and bearing fruit; the l Nepenthes House, containing a collec- ton of insectivorous plants princi- pally species of pitcher plants, sun dew, venus fly-trap and the goose flower; and the East Indian House. containing a collection consisting prin- cipally of aroids.
 Historical and Art Exhibits.
 Two other notable St. Louis insti tutions at which special displays will be found during the Fall Festivities and to each of which admission is free, are the Jefferson Memorial (home of the Missouri Historical So- | ciety), which was erected at a cost of half a million dollars with part of the surplus of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, and the City Art Museum, which served as the Art Palace of that exposition and contains more than 40 galleries of art work and a beautiful art library that was de dicated but a few months ago. The changes in fashions will be