Missouri Botanical 
Garden Bulletin 
Vol. VI St. Louis, Mo., March, 1918 No. 3 
THE INDOOR BULB SHOW 
The advent of spring is to be fittingly emphasized by the 
April indoor show in the floral display house at the Garden. 
The show will consist of the early-blooming bulbous plants 
which have become universally associated in the popular 
mind with the transition from the bleak days of winter to 
the brightness of the Easter season—lilies, hyacinths, tulips, 
and narcissus. 
The flowers have been arranged in a formal garden of 
a simple parterre design unusually well adapted to the pro- 
portions of the floral display house. A new feature is a 
marble figure in the center of a circular bed at the north 
end, which is framed by the arbor beyond. The wall foun- 
tain and pool at the south end form a most important part 
of the effect produced. Hyacinths occupy the triangular 
beds and the small circular beds of the middle panel. The 
beds forming the squares of this part are filled with tulips, 
while the larger circle at the north end contains the nar- 
cissus and the hyacinth collections. At the sides are hya- 
cinths, amaryllis, spiraea, and roses, and several pieces of 
topiary work at regular intervals. Borders of snakegrass, 
palms, and other exotics enclose the garden in a wall of 
green. 
A special feature of the display will be a collection of 
148 bulbs of hippeastrum, valued at $10,000, loaned to the 
Garden last October by John Scheepers Co., New York, to 
be grown and exhibited at the time of the National Flower 
Show which was to have been held in St. Louis in April. 
On account of war conditions the show had to be abandoned, 
but the Garden has made an extra effort to make up, in part 
at least, for the disappointment of those who had been look- 
ing forward to this floral treat. Mr. Scheepers visited 
Europe for the sole purpose of bringing to this country the 
finest of modern hybrids, and he believes that he secured 
the only specimens of the two rarest hippeastrums in ex- 
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