The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-09-30
Enables WOr|d-FamOus Botanical
Park at St. Louis to Buy
1900 Orchids Cheap.
ON PUBLIC VIEW v. P. WEEK
Missouri Historical Society and City
Art Museum Also to Have Special
Exhibitions October
4 to 10.

OF the five foremost In the world, TO
acquire at low price about 1900
orchids. which will be on public ex-
hibition during the st. Louis Fall
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 uy-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 group Of men
led by A. L. Shapleigh, George w.
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.
DIR. George T. Moore, director of
Shaw's Garden, who negotiated the
purchase Of the 1900 orchids, stated
in announcing 1T, that, as a result of
1t, 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-
planned, increases the orchid collec-
ton to more than 5000 plants, en-
bracing about 500 species. Many of
the snowy 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 Pineapples Neishbors.
A large new green house, now in
the course of construction, is being
arranged especially for the accommo-
dation Of orchids, the pineapple fam
lily and other tropical plants.
The large conservatory will have
especially attractive collections. The
Palm ftouse, 65 feet high and otherwise
measuring 90x110 feet. houses collec-
ton OF palms embracing 600 species, in
cluding such commercially important
forms as the date, cocoanut and sugar
palms. Other tropical plants of in
terest in this house are the bamboo,
screw pine and travellers tree.
To the south of the Palm House is
the Economic House. Here Is assem-
bled heterogeneous collection OF
tropical and subtropical plants, all of
which have some special economic inn
portance. The collection contains val
uable wood, food. drug, perfume,
spice, fiber, ETC., yielding plants, in
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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 agaye 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 cacti,
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 collection Of ferns, en-
hracing two hundred species of ferns
and closely related plants.
West of the Fern House is the
cycad collection, embracing thirty-fve
species Of this interesting group.
Banana Trees Bearing Fruit.
Another interesting collection is the
banana family, OF which eleven species
are shown in 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
large specimen of the vanilla plant,
now In blossom and bearing fruit; the
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 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 cost
OF half 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
portrayed wildly at the Jefferson
Memorial, where win be exhibited
throughout Yelled Prophet Week a
collection OF large, handsomely
framed photographs OF all queens of
the Yelled F.ophet each especially
posed In her queer 1-c-s, and Of the
maids of honor Of most of the queens
Also on exhibition there throughout
the festival week will be a complete
set Of Yelled Prophet souvenirs.
The City Art Museum throughout
the week will be the scene Of two
special displays, a national exhibi-
ton of selected paintings by Ameri-
can artists and a loan exhibition Of
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