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The Florists' Review 



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Looking Down the Exhibition Hall from the Steps at Front of Sunken Area, with A. N. Pierson's Rose Garden Ahead. 



tons, adiantums, phoenixes, heaths, bou- 

 gainvilleas, spirajas, pandanus, etc., 

 about a center group of genistas. 



Across the aisle is F. R. Pierson 's 

 splendid group of ferns in 10-inch or 

 larger pots. These are of surpassing 

 quality and are admired unceasingly 

 by trade and public alike. Among the 

 varieties of ncphrolepis shown are 

 aurea, Verona, muscosa, Neubertii, Ma- 

 cawii, superbissim.a, superior, elegan- 

 tissima, elegantissima conipacta and 

 others. 



The Kose Gardens. 



Directly before one walking down the 

 center aisle is the rose garden of A. N. 

 Pierson, Inc., which won the $1,000 

 prize. There were three entries in the 

 class for rose gardens .'jOO square feet 

 with appropriate accessories. This gar- 

 den won first. A low white fence is 

 lined, within and without, with climb- 

 ing roses. A gravel walk leads to the cen- 

 ter, where a white arbor, covered with 

 roses, makes a picturesque center. 



Separated from this garden by the 

 group of Roland's acacias is the gar- 

 den that won second place, staged by 

 the State Florists' Association of In- 

 diana. One looks in through, a rose 

 covered gateway on to a gravel walk 

 that leads to a white marble sundial in 

 the center. 



Less striking than these two, yet hav- 

 ing an appeal to those persons who think 

 of roses as some day occupying a cor- 



ner of their home grounds, the rose gar- 

 den of C. Merkel & Sons, West Mentor, 

 0., which took third prize, is to the 

 loft of the Indiana exhibit. Rose bushes 

 form a semicircle about a grass plot, 

 in which are planted three splendid, 

 large specimens. 



The Center of the Show. 



While we are in this spot, the group 

 of acacias brought by Thomas Roland 

 from Nahant, Mass., draws our eyes. 

 There are 102 specimens in the lot, in- 

 cluding twenty-four varieties, from the 

 bushy juniperous to the graceful pube- 

 scens, from light yellow to the deep 

 goldenrod of heterophylla. The larg- 

 est specimens are of pubescens, the 

 most generally grown variety. This 

 iind A. Baileyana furnish the sprays for 

 cutting. There are none of the latter 

 jiresent, since, being an early variety, 

 it is by this time bloomed out. 



These acacias are grouped in circular 

 form about u large brass fountain, lit 

 by colored lights and playing about a 

 slender statue. This was contributed bv 

 the A. L. Randall Co., Chicago. 



Down the Right Aisle. 



To keep our tour of the exhibition in 

 orderly route, let us return to the front 

 of the sunken area and walk down the 

 right aisle. The first exhibit we see, 

 superb hydrangeas from Lars Anderson, 

 Rocky River, O., is quite worthy the 

 sweepstakes prize awarded it. 



Next is the bulb garden of E. E. Tem- 

 perley, Indianapolis. Over a bank of 

 tulips, hyacinths and daffodils fly white 

 doves guided by white ribbon reins from 

 the hands of a large doll at the back. 

 The arrangement was good and the 

 plants excellent. Some of the judges 

 believed the doves interfered with the 

 proper display of the plants. Otherwise 

 the exhibit would have been in on the 

 prize money. 



Craig's Crotons. 



A mound of crotons arranged for ef- 

 fect, covering 100 square feet, forms tho 

 center of the next group down the aisle. 

 It richly deserved the prize awarded it. 

 Surrounding are other foliage plants 

 from the Philadelphia firm, such as pan- 

 danus, dracaMias, cibotiums, phcenix, etc. 

 The plants were skillfully arranged by 

 Bertermann Bros. Co. 



.\ group of flowering begonias cover- 

 ing fifty S(piare feet, adjoining, cap- 

 tured first prize for C. IT. Schwomeyer. 



An extensive planting of bedding 

 ])lants from Garfield gardens, made by 

 the Ttidianapolis park board, is well done, 

 and appeals to public as well as to pro- 

 fessional taste. 



Bulb Gardens. 



The first-prize bulb garden of A. Wie- 

 gand's Sons Co. is alongside. This 

 covers nOO square feet. A low fence is 

 bordered with beds of tulips. In the 

 center stands an urn filled with the 



