March 27, 1920 



HORTICULTUKE 



Boston's Flower Show 



One of the Most Notable Ever Held in America 



The show which opened at Horticul- 

 tural Hall in Boston Wednesday noon 

 and which will continue through Sun- 

 day is the greatest of the Icind ever 

 staged in this country. Never before 

 has so large an exhibit of orchids been 

 made in America as that which filled 

 the lecture hall and which come from 

 the estate of Albert C. Burrage at Bev- 

 erly. More than two hundred genera 

 and fully two thousand varieties are 

 represented in this exhibit. Supplement- 

 ing the Burrage display is another in 

 the main hall staged by Julius Roehrs 

 of Rutherford, N. J. The Burrage collec- 

 tion is unique not only because of its 

 magnitude but also for the remarkable 

 ■way in which it has been arranged. 

 A series of tall, round supports have 

 been covered with bark to make them 

 resemble the trunks of trees, and the 

 orchids which naturally grow on trees 

 have been placed with such skill as to 

 rival nature itself. At the top of each 

 tree trunk is a bird cage containing a 

 sweet singing songster. 



Many other orchids have been ar- 

 ranged around the sides of the hall, 

 one enormous bank of flowers attract- 

 ing special attention. There is no op- 

 portunity for detailed description. 

 Suffice it to say that among the orchids 

 shown are many of the rarest and 

 most costly varieties in cultivation. 



Of course the show is not confined 

 to orchids, by any means. Even with- 

 out the orchids it would be well worth 

 visiting, but in connection with them 



it becomes one to remember as long as 

 the Massachusetts Horticultural Socie- 

 ty shall exist. Among the outstanding 

 features is the display of Kurume 

 Azaleas on a platform in the middle of 

 the main hall. Never again, it is safe 

 to say, will it be possible to view in 

 this country so large a collection of 

 these magnificent plants, a hundred 

 and twenty in number, with more than 

 fifty named varieties, which Mr. E. H. 

 Wilson, assistant director of the Ar- 

 nold Arboretum, brought back from 

 Kurume, Japan, last year. They are 

 being exhibited by the Arnold Arbo- 

 tum, for which institution they were 

 secured after long negotiations. These 

 azaleas are remarkable for their deli- 

 cate , colors and for their uniformity 

 in size and shape. Professor Sargent's 

 skilful gardener, Mr. Sander, re- 

 ceived many congratulations on his 

 success in getting them into flower at 

 exactly the right moment. A careful 

 examination of these azaleas shows 

 that many of them have a petaloid 

 calyx and hose-in-hose flowers. In 

 these flowers the stamens are always 

 five, and like the pistils are always 

 perfect, and there is no malformation 

 as in ordinary double flowers. 



Thomas Roland's magnificent acacias 

 liave frequently been shown at Horti- 

 cultural Hall, but never to better ad- 

 vantage. Banked along one side of the 

 main room, they create an effect which 

 elicits exclamations of rapture from all 

 comers — these expressions not being 



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R. & J. Farquhar Co. have their ex- 

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The William W. Edgar Co., of Wav- 

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