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ings that make these tiny gems feel well at Ikjiiic. Of 

 course here in America, with our hot spell from May until 

 September, it becomes a difficult task to keep them in 

 health and vigor. ]\Iany will die year by year, especially 

 such as hail from the cool uplands, yet our own native 

 flora furnishes a sufficient selection of bright and inter- 

 esting kinds. It is to be hoped that the nurserymen and 

 those who specialize in hardy plants will make collections 

 of thoroughly reliable alpines and others suitable for the 

 rock garden. Xu part nf the garden can be made more 



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OF THE SHOW. 



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completely interesting, especially in the period preceding 



the full floraison on the herbaceous borders. 

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In line with the foregoing, and forming an excellent 

 adjunct to it, is the garden of water plants. Here the 

 water lilies of Dreer and of Tricker. and 

 the other aquatic and bog plans they sell, 

 provide the material. W. Tricker ( Ar- 

 lington. X. J.), had at the show his de- 

 lightful ever-blooming Xymphres (wa- 

 ter Hies ) in several shades. One of these 

 is very nearly white, and another has a 

 decided tinge of deep rosy carmine. They 

 are invaluable also for winter flowering 

 in a warm greenhoi.se in water that is 

 warmed to a temperature of 65 degrees 

 Fahr. Mr. Tricker is to be congratulated 

 on having given us this ever-tilooming 

 race in blues and white. 



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The several lots of Amaryllis on view 

 from Madison (Mrs. Willis James' place) 

 and from E. S. Greswold's (gardener, 

 Arthur J. Loveless), Lenox, Mass., de- 

 lighted all those who love these very 

 handsome western South American bulbs. 

 The story of their uprise by cross-breed- 

 ing must be told another time, but cer- 

 tainly in the Amaryllis the flower lover has a highly satis- 

 factory class of plants, and the price of an up-to-date col- 

 lection is well repaid, for they remain always in our pos- 

 session, and, if well cared for, return an ample crop of 

 their magnificent flowers of a period of several weeks in 

 ]March. April and May and compensate one for all eft'orts 

 to cultivate them. 



AN AMATEUR'S IMPRESSIONS OF THE SHOW. 



Mv Mrs. Francis King, ^Iiciiigan. 



Certainly the recent flower show far surpassed in 

 beauty, interest and general attractiveness both of its 

 predecessors. The show of 1914 I did not see, only that 

 of 1913, and my first impression as I walked about the 

 (jrand Central Palace on \\"ednesday, March 17, was that 

 of .a tremendous advance in taste in the exhibits, both in 

 color planning, arrangement of flowers and in general 

 design and eftectiveness of exhibits. I 

 rcjiiiced tn see the little rose gardens. 

 Here, thought I, we do well indeed to 

 imitate the example of exhibitors at all 

 I.ontlon shows, where for some years 

 iKiw small 'gardens have furnished beau- 

 tiful and educational features. The con- 

 trast in these rose gardens of F. R. 

 I'ierson and A. X. Pierson, Inc.. was very 

 interesting". The styles of the gardens 

 were totally diff^erent, F. R. Pierson's a 

 sophisticated garden, if we might so char- 

 acterize it; A. N. Pierson's more naive; 

 yet each garden in its way a perfect ob- 

 ject lesson to the would-be rose gardener. 

 'Jlie public's delight in these gardens was 

 l)retty to see. I heard many expressions 

 of pleasure from visitors and indeed it 

 was touching, too, to see the occasional 

 wistful gaze as those who saw and re- 

 joiced in them reflected that these were 

 not theirs to reproduce. 



Ihe little spring garden to the left of 

 the grand staircase on the main floor, 

 shown by .A.. Lewisohn, gardener John 

 Canning, was a pretty sight. It recalled at once to my 

 mind the pictures in that excellent book, "Spring Gar- 

 dening at I'.elvoir Castle." The variety of subjects used 

 in this exhibit was amazing. Forced heuchera, both 

 the type and the hybrids, dicentra spectabilis. white J!ud- 



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VIEW OF THE ORCHID UISPLAY, WITH THE ROEIIR C(JLLECTI0.\ IN THE 

 FKA.ME SEEN AT THE RIGHT. 



dleias, annual gypsophila and others, showed the greatest 

 ingenuity upon the part of the gardener. Primula mala- 

 coides alba made an enchanting "ground-work," to use 

 an ugly English word, for Darwin tulips, daftodils and 

 heucheras, all very delicately disposed. The whole com- 

 position was full of charming suggestion for a spring 

 .garden in the open. 



