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well Gardens, specializing in this flower, have always been thus 

 represented. They, too, surpassed themselves and their 1922 gar- 

 den in design and planting. The quality of stock was the best 

 yet, eminently practical and a veritable triumph over seasonal ob- 

 stacles. 



The Azalea Garden of Bobbink & Atkins was truly spectacular 

 and registered a magnificent comeback of a flower that has been 

 sadly missed from recent shows since Quarantine 37 went into 

 effect. Here again was an example of constructive forethought 

 and commendable enterprise. This is a big country and such an 

 Azalea garden is a manifest possibility throughout a large southern 

 area. Our visitors come from far and wide and to some of them 

 this garden must have been an inspiration. 



The Roehrs Co. Garden was a daring innovation in a northern 

 show. Its open-air adaptability may be very circumscribed, but 

 it suggested something more than this. Glass houses are built to 

 shelter tropical plants and are usually filled with an heterogeneous 

 collection. Here was a suggestion of how to display a little bit of 

 tropical plant life contiguous to a northern home. It certainly 

 made a strong appeal and was admirably conceived and executed. 



From its first inception the Show has fostered the Rock Gar- 

 den. How the exponents of this tyi)e of gardening have pro- 

 gressed ! First we had heaps of rocks and a few packets of 

 flowers. Both Bobbink & x^tkins' and the Roehrs Co. Rock 

 Gardens of the 1923 Show were worthy of reproduction as a per- 

 manency under appropriate conditions. 



The gardens from the private greenht)uses of Mr. William 

 Boyce Thompson and of Mrs. Payne Whitney were gay and 

 redolent of "the flowers that bloom in the spring," perhaps more 

 decorative than practical, but there is no gainsaying that they were 

 popularly appealing and fully deserved the high meed of praise the 

 public accorded them. 



The Orchid section showed a marked advance over previous 

 years, but only the Roehrs exhibit manifested an attempt to break 

 away from stereotyped methods of display. 



Roses in all their glory and fragrance were truly regal, in num- 

 bers and quality eclipsing all previous displays. It was a com- 

 mendable change for the better to have Roses staged on the open- 



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