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The Rorists' Review 



41 



SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL 

 FLOWER "SHOW 



BIG NEW YOEK SHOW OPENS. 



ExUbits Crowd HaU. 



The seventh international flower show 

 oper.ed at the Grand Central Palace, 

 New York, Monday, March 15, to con- 

 tinue until the night of Sunday, March 

 21, The show was formally opened by 

 Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, wife of President 

 Wilson, through the operation of an elec- 

 tric button in the White House, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. A large crowd awaited 

 the opening of the gates, and it was not 

 long before the main floor of the big hall 

 was thronged with interested visitors. 

 The gener^ admission price was $1 this 

 year, instead of 50 cents as in former 

 years, but in the opening hours of the 

 show the higher price of tickets was no 

 deterrent. 



The flower show committee throughout 

 the period of preparation for the big 

 event evinced more than ordinary 

 anxiety over the prospect for a sufficient 

 number of exhibits to fill the two floors 

 engaged, and when unusually stormy 

 weather, with low temperatures, set in 

 just prior to the opening date, this 

 anxiety was intense. But all worry 

 ceased when, Saturday, March 13, there 

 was a grand collection of flowers and 

 plants of all kinds, which were to make 

 up the competitive exhibits for the first" 

 day, assembled on the exhibition floor, 

 and many of the commercial exhibits 

 were already staged. Throughout Sun- 

 day the work of staging continued, so 

 that at opening time the show was prac- 

 tically complete. 



The Sose Oardens. 



The plan of the show was materially 

 different from that followed in previous 

 shows. The main aisle and side aisles, 

 which formerly divided the sections, 

 Were abandoned. This year a visitor 

 reaching the head of the grand stairway 

 finds himself confronted with some of 

 the beautiful groups of flowering plants, 

 each covering 400 square feet of floor 

 space. Aisles on each side open up 

 vistas leading to the large rose gardens. 

 Each side of these aisles is bordered by 

 handsome groups. 



Two large rose gardens look upon a 

 '"''liter aisle at the points where the side 

 aisles cross it. A. N. Pierson, Inc., Crom- 

 well, Conn., won first prize in the class 

 tor these gardens. The plan of the gar 

 den was delightfully simple. It was 

 enclosed within a fence of heavy con- 

 struction, designed to represent an open 

 stone wall, over which climbing roses in 

 t'lll bloom appeared to roam at will. 

 The beds were narrow and laid out in 

 plats of real grass turf and contained 

 i"ose8 in miniature varieties, fully flow- 

 *'red and densely foliaged. A gravel 

 l>ath led to a summer house at the rear, 

 m temple form, with pergola extensions 

 ^t each side. The garden of F. R. Pier- 

 •'•'^n Co., Tarrytown, N. Y., won second 



prize. This was practically the same 

 form of garden used at a previous show, 

 an in^tation brown stone open fence wall 

 enclosing a garden laid out in grass beds 

 among gravel walks, with a sundial in 

 a circular bed, back of which was a 

 garden bench, with an extensive pergola 

 at the rear. The roses in the beds were 

 mostly hybrid teas, well flowered, and 

 every plant was named. Another inter- 

 esting rose garden was one laid out by 

 John Canning, superintendent to Adolph 

 Lewisohn, Ardsley, N. Y., really an ex- 

 tension of class 80, which called for a 

 collection of roses in variety covering 

 100 square feet, arranged for effect. At 

 the rear of this garden were some splen- 

 did standard specimens of Tausend- 

 schoen and other roses and in front were 

 many varieties of hybrid teas, fully 

 bloomed. It well merited the award of 

 first prize, which it received. 



Striking Central Exhibit. 



A large space in the center of the 

 main floor was given up to a fountain, 

 furnished through the courtesy of the 

 J. L. Mott Iron Works, New York, which 

 played into a 20-foot basin. Water lilies 

 and other aquatic plants were appro- 

 priately disposed at the base and a num- 

 ber of large goldfish disported them- 



Roses Are Always Popular at Easter. 



selves in the basin. Around the foun- 

 tain was arranged a splendid collection 

 of nephrolepis ferns exhibited by the 

 F. B. Pierson Co., Tarrytown, N. Y. 



There was only one entry in the rock 

 garden class. Detmer Nurseries, of 

 Tarrytown, N. Y., staged the finest gar- 

 den ever seen at any exhibition. It 

 rose to a good height and was exceed- 

 ingly well planted. The assembling of 

 it required many days and the result 

 was well worthy of the first prize, $400. 



John Canning, superintendent for 

 Adolph Lewisohn, Ardsley, N. Y., was 

 the largest exhibitor in the show, mak- 

 ing nearly seventy entries, and, in spite 

 of transportation difficulties, filling 

 them almost completely. His group in 

 the class of flowering plants and bulbs 

 covering 400 square feet, arranged for 

 effect, was marvelous, both in point of 

 variety of plants and excellence of 

 stock. Prominent in the foreground of 

 the exhibit was a block of Begonia 

 Melior. A rich piece of statnary with 

 fountain effect added materially to the 

 charm of this group. Several other 

 groups staged by this exhibitor were 

 also highly interesting, particularly a 

 block of nemesia, with flowers in an 

 extended range of colors, the whole 

 wonderfully well finished. This is the 

 first time such an exhibit has been 

 staged at any show. 



Qood Plant Groups. 



A most handsome group, in garden 

 form, of flowering and foliage plants, 

 in which a number of unusually well 

 flowered plants of bougainvillea were 

 most conspicuous, was staged by A. N. 

 Pierson, Inc., Cromwell, Conn., and was 

 awarded first prize. 



A. L. Miller, Jamaica, N. Y., showed 

 a number of potted Easter lilies, the 

 quality of which was said to be the best 

 ever seen in or around New York. The 

 flowers were even in size, quite large 

 and well formed, with no unproductive 

 buds, and dark green foliage from the 

 base of the pots up to the flower base. 

 Mr. Miller says that these points are 

 characteristic of the strain he forces. 



Thomas Proctor, superintendent for 

 W. E. Coe, Oyster Bay, N. Y., staged a 

 collection of camellia flowers embracing 

 a large number of varieties. This ex- 

 hibit attracted large numbers of vis- 

 itors at all times, especially ladies ma- 

 ture in years, who remembered the 

 camellia in the days when it was a most 

 popular flower and used when orchids 

 were a rarity. 



Bulb Garden. 



The prize for the 500-foot bulb garden 

 was won by J. Scheepers, Inc., New 

 York, the only entrant in the class. The 

 garden was artistically laid out in rec- 

 tangular shape, with a central display of 

 tulips around a stone bird bath on a 

 pedestal. A border on the inside of the 

 picket fence was planted generously 



