152 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 
to December the Garden will be open each Sunday after- 
noon from two o’clock until sunset. As in the past, the 
Garden will be open on week days from eight o’clock until 
one-half hour after sunset. With the exception of the four 
holidays, New Year’s, Fourth of July, Labor Day, and 
Christmas, visitors may now be admitted to the Garden every 
day in the year between the hours specified. 
FLORAL DISPLAY FOR DECEMBER 
The new floral display house which was opened to the 
public with the Chrysanthemum Show on the last Sunday 
In October has been a blaze of color during the month 
of November. It is not generally known, however, that this 
same house is to be devoted to floral displays during the en- 
tire winter, and that the shows will be quite as attractive, 
and in some instances, more so, than that of the chrysanthe- 
mums. Furthermore, a large portion of the flowers shown 
are not to be seen elsewhere in St. Louis, and both in the 
variety of foliage and flowers and in the arrangement of 
colors, many new and pleasing combinations will be found. 
Most florists grow only those plants for which there is a de- 
mand, but it is the aim of the Garden to create an interest 
in, and a demand for, plants with which the average person 
is not familiar. 
The December display will be decidedly a Christmas 
show, the prevailing colors being red, green, pink, and white. 
Thousands of poet’s narcissus and the Chinese sacred lily 
(also a narcissus), will be used as a setting to display the 
potted plants of begonia, “Gloire de Lorraine,” and the pans 
of dwarf poinsettia. Giant plants of poinsettia will ist) 
the outline here and there, while the usual-sized plants will 
be used as the main background; over a thousand poin- 
settias being shown in all. Banks of variegated stevia and 
white-flowered eupatoriums will be used to set off the red 
flowers. Throughout the entire house and binding together 
the groupings of plants will be some 2,000 plants of Begonia 
Erfordii, in shades of red, pink, and white. A small group 
or ripe tag es some of the best varieties of Erica or heather 
will also be shown, some of the plants in this group being 
5 feet high and 8 to 4 feet broad. The entire display will 
be bordered with hundreds of plants of Solanwm pseudo- 
capsicum or the Jerusalem cherry. 
In the — house during the month, and especially 
near Christmas, there will be probably the largest num- 
ber of blooming orchids that has ever been shown at the 
Garden. The hades will consist in the main of several 
