April 1, 1916 



HORTICULTURE 



445 



FItotoby Belliy Fischer, Plula, 



First Prize Rose Garden by Robert Craig Company. 



French hybrid named Picciola. It is 

 a decided advance over all others in 

 earllness, as last year it was in bloom 

 outside on April 28th. The other was 

 raised at Riverton and has been named 

 Dreer's True Blue. It is unquestion- 

 ably the deepest purple in color of any 

 variety yet introduced. We under 

 stand that Messrs. Eisele, Clark and 

 Anderson were responsible for the 

 growing and arranging of the Dreer 

 rose exhibit. 



The two rose gardens in competi- 

 tion, arranged by the Robert Craig 

 Company and A. N. Pierson, Inc., were 

 among the sensational attractions of 

 the show and were a center of great 

 interest to visitors. Craig's produc- 

 tion, which won the first prize, was a 

 walled-in Italian garden with a fine 

 piece of lawn bordered with roses in 

 bloom and with a central fountain. A 

 stone seat with hat and sunshade 

 carelessly thrown on it gave a very 

 inviting appearance, and altogether it 

 was a very attractive looking spot. 

 The Pierson exhibit was enclosed with 

 a rustic fence, over which climbing 

 roses were trained and it made a very 

 sweet picture, showing dainty ar- 

 rangement. It was intended to repre- 

 sent an English cottage garden. In 

 the rear there was a cozy looking 

 rustic arbor and seat. In this garden 

 was shown the new bright pink doublo- 

 flowered climbing rose nanied Eliza 

 beth Ziegler, which is to be dissemi- 

 nated in 1918 and which received a 

 special silver medal. 



Julius Roehrs Co. staged some mag- 

 iiificant displays. Their group of or- 

 chids arranged with a mirror imita- 

 tion of a pool of water in which the 

 flowers were reflected and willi a beau- 

 tifully flowered specimen .\Iiltonia 

 shown in an illuminated velvet frame 

 made a very effective showing. Roehrs' 

 rock garden was another very much 

 admired exhibit. It was arranged 

 with much skill and attracted many 

 people who seemed to be particularly 



interested in tlie little rockery plants 

 shown. Messrs. Roehrs were quite 

 elated over the fact that they won a 

 prize in every entry which they made, 

 the rock garden, the orchid group 

 and a number of individual orchid 

 plants having scored first prize. Louis 

 Burk also showed a rockery arrange- 

 ment which was very effective. Orchids 

 were Ijanked up alongside of a water- 

 tall, below which was a rocky pool 

 witli ferns and bog loving plants nat- 

 urally planted. It made a very artis- 

 tic picture. 



M. II W.-il.sli's Rambler roses are 



always a center of much interest and 

 his exhibit on this occasion was no 

 exception. Quite a number of novel- 

 lios were shown in trained jiyramidal 

 form, and here again much interest 

 was evinced by the public in the names 

 of the various varieties found there. 

 W. A. Manda brought one of the larg- 

 est exhibits. He had some very ex- 

 icMsive groups of decorative plants 

 iiifl fiowering bulbs, as well as orchids 

 :in(l other leading classes. 



One of the best displays in the hall 

 :iiiil one which attracted much atten- 

 lion was the big formal Holland bulb 

 garden by Michell's Seed House. This 

 was backed with a typical Holland 

 S( one with moving electrical illumi- 

 nated mill wheel and a grass- lawn 

 and pebbled walks fenced in with a 

 rustic railing. This exhibit was in 

 ll:e trade display class, but its char- 

 actor was such that we cannot well 

 omit mention of it right here. F. R. 

 I'ierson was as usual an unrivalled 

 exhibitor of nephrolepis in all the 

 numy beautiful varieties which have 

 I'iiiinated from his place. There were 

 some very elegant specimens in this 

 ;;roup. 



The large plant groups from the 

 I'biladelphia estates really made the 

 sliow from the standpoint of stately 

 effect. Some of the palms were enor- 

 mous. Among the big contributors of 

 these gigantic specimens was Thomas 

 Long, gardener to G. W. C. Drexel, 

 who in addition to his otlier winnings 

 captured a special silver medal for a 

 beautiful plant of Dracaena tricolor. 

 Another large contributor of stately 

 foliage plants was \Vm. Kleinheinz, 

 gardener to J. E. Widener, and there 

 were also many fine specimens from 

 J. W. Pepper. We might briefly men- 

 tion some of the other exhibits which 

 were admired, as follows: W. Atlee 

 Burpee made a superb showing of 

 sweet peas, artistically arrayed, most 

 of the varieties l)eing Mr. Kerr's new 

 Spencer seedlins's Swoot peas, in- 



ROSE G.VBDEN BY A. 



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N, PiKKSON, Inc. 



