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One of ihf nidst handsuiiie exhibits, it seeniet: to me, 

 in the entire show, though far from the largest, was the 

 \Vilham Boyce Thompson group of foliage plants, Air. 

 Strachan's skill as a grower and a garden architect was 

 even better manifested in this than in the flo'Wer garden. 

 Crotons, vvonderfulI\- well colored, banked on three sides 

 were the main featui-es hut scarcely less beautiful were 

 the fancy-leaved v'aladiums, I'andanus, and Dracpenas 

 within the embankments of L'njtons and amidst a setting 

 of Adiantum cuneatum. Plants of I'lialrenopsis gave a 

 floral touch and light to this elegant grou|). 



The splendid cyclamen ])lants, seventy- four ni all, ex- 

 hibited by Mrs, F. A. Constable, Mamaroneck, X. V. 

 (gardener, James Stuart), and by Mrs. Daniel Guggen- 

 heim, Port Washington, ],. I. (gardener, Thomas Ley- 

 den), and felicitously arranged to form one great group 

 throughout the week of the show appeared to claim from 

 visitors scarcely less' well deserved attention tlian the 

 gardens. 



Orchids with the w >jndrous beauty of colors and strange 

 fonns of their tiowers always enthrall a crowd of 'nsitors. 

 Especially notable was the group of twelve plants of Col. 

 H. H. Rogers, Tuxedo Park, X. Y. (gardener, Pasquale 

 Venezia), inade up of Cynibidiums, Phakenopsis, Cattley- 

 as, and Brasso-Cattleyas, shown amidst a setting of 

 Adiantum ferns, and six plants of the same exhibitor 

 comprising Oncidiums, Cynibidiums, Cattleya-'. and 

 Phala'nopsis arranged with greens, and again by the same 

 exhibitor the specimen plant of Laelio-Cattleya, Alabel, 

 and the t»rasso-Cattleya, Maronii. Equally fine in the 

 open class was the group covering one hundred square 

 feet of James B. Duke. Sonierville, X. J. (gardener, A. 

 E. Miles), in tier arrangement, the leading features of 

 which were Oncidiums and Cymbicliums. and the speci- 

 men of Brasso-Cattleya, Fournerii, the winner of a special 



silver medal. \'ery interesting also was the prize winning 

 group of tvvent\-five hybrids of the same exhibitor. The 

 newest orchid, perhaps, in the entire show was the sjjlen- 



Thc c.vhihil of Julius Roehrs Company in the large 



l^ardrn class, representing a Spanish court yard, which 



zcas awarded the gold medal. 



did Brasso-Laz'lio-Cattleya, Snowden, with its white flow- 

 ers of enormous size, shown by William Arthur Cooley 

 of Pittsfield, Mass. (gardener, Oliver Lines), and the 



7 lie e.vhilul of Bohbink and Atkins, representing 



a clui rilling 

 awarded 



rock garden lo ichich a special gold medal zi'as 



