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richly attired figures used in dry 

 goods show windows, had his full wed- 

 ding party on parade, bride, brides- 

 maid and flower girls, each carrying the 

 arrangement appropriate for the occa- 

 sion. Thomas F. Galvin also made a 

 beautiful, though less highly colored 

 picture, with marble lawn furniture in 

 a skillfully arranged setting of plants 

 and flowers. Hoffman worked along the 

 same lines, the excellent taste displayed 

 in each booth holding a crowd at all 

 times, showing that in Boston, as in 

 other cities where the retailers partici- 

 pate in the flower shows, their work 

 has a special interest for the public. 



The Public Besponds. 



The show was opened promptly on 

 time and with due eclat. The governor 

 of Massachusetts was there to make a 

 speech; also the mayor of Boston, and 

 Chairman F. E. Pierson had primed 

 himself for one of the flights of elo- 

 quence at which he is becoming so 

 adept, as was befitting the occasion. 

 The Robert Craig Co., which had a 

 splendi(i lot of seedling crotons, took 

 the opportunity of naming one of the 

 showiest varieties for the governor, 

 which gave the newspapers something 

 to talk about — and the public poured 

 in, to go into ecstasies of admiration 

 and go home to tell their friends of its 

 wonders. If the crush of the opening 

 night is repeated a few times during 

 the run of the show, the guarantors 

 will not only get their money back, 

 but they and the S. A. F. will have a 

 profit, costly as is so great an exhibi- 

 tion. 



SOME SPECIAI. FEATUBES. 



Boston "Makes Good." 



Boston has for over a year been 

 laboring strenuously to make good when 

 the time for the S. A. F. National 

 Show arrived. Pessimists there were in 

 plenty who predicted that it would be 

 a physical impossibility to fill the huge 

 Mechanics building with exhibits, but 

 the committee in charge has worked 

 long and arduously and its labors have 

 been crowned with a glorious success, 

 for never before in America has such 

 a wealth of choice material been 

 brought together at one time under one 

 roof. Not only is the main exhibition 

 hall filled to repletion, but trade ex- 

 hibits fill the balconies and basement, 

 this department far surpassing in mag- 

 nitude all previous conventions. 



Very severe weather prevailed March 

 24 and 25, temperatures of from zero 

 to 16 degrees above being recorded near 

 Boston. This seriously inconvenienced 

 and handicapped exhibitors and some 

 choice plants were injured, but all these 

 obstacles were overcome, and when the 

 time for opening arrived at 8 p. m., 

 March 25, practically every exhibit was 

 in its place and a large proportion of 

 the classes were judged before the thou- 

 sands of visitors began to" pour in. 



The premium lists will tell the story 

 of the awards made and reference here 

 will consequently only be made to some 

 of those of striking merit, and these 

 were so numerous .that it is difficult to 

 single out any individual exhibits, par- 

 ticularly when all were of such superior 

 merit. 



The general lay-out of the show 

 showed most excellent taste. It was 

 an impossibility to see much of the 

 show at a single glance, as, for instance, 

 in Horticultural hall, and there were 

 so many unique features that every 



fresh turn opened up additional charm- 

 ing vistas. The decorations of bunting, 

 southern smila:^^ etc., took away any 

 appearance of bareness and, the many 

 big palms and other folitfge plants 

 broke any possible monotony. 



Pot Plants.^- 



Taking the pot plants, the roses were 

 exhibited in vast quantities, the im- 

 mense and beautifully arranged groups 

 of Thomas Roland and M. H. Walsh 

 being a whole exhibition in themselves. 

 Mr. Roland 's display was arranged in 

 the form of v rose garden, with rustic 

 fences, pergolas, etc, covered with 

 finely flowered plants of Tausendschon, 

 Lady Gay, Crimson Rambler and Hia- 

 watha. Beds of such varieties as Clo- 

 thilde Soupert, Dorothy Gordon, Denni- 

 son, a lovely new pink variety, the 

 glorious new single American Pillar, 

 with its massive heads of beautiful 

 flowers, Hiawatha, Electra, white Doro- 

 thy Perkins ;ind some twenty other va- 

 rieties formed one of the most beautiful 

 spring rose displays I had ever seen. 

 This was a big exhibit for one man, 

 but Mr. Roland had others of almost 

 equal magnitude. 



Mr. Walsh's plants were entirely 

 composed of seedlings of his own rais- 

 ing. These Avere in some cases perfect 

 specimens eight to nine feet high, and 

 all were of considerable size and had 

 sufficient room to show off their indi- 

 viduality. Especially noteworthy were 

 Mrs. M. H. Walsh, a beautiful new 

 double white; Lucille, a charming light 

 pink; Winona, Maid Marian and Sum- 

 mer Joy. All these are novelties. 

 Among the older kinds were: Paradise, 

 Milky Way, a lovely single white; Min- 

 nehaha, Lady Gay, Celeste, Delight, 

 Lady Blanche, Kalmia, of true moun- 

 tain laurel color, Excelsa and La 

 Fianima. 



Hard-Wooded Plants. 



Hard-wooded plants are usually seen 

 well done at the Boston shows, but 

 never before were they seen in such 

 numbers or of such quality as at the 

 present exhibition. Thomas Roland 

 richly deserved the special thanks of 

 the judges, as his superb collection of 

 ericas, boronias and acacias represented 



a heavy sacrifice in money in order to 

 help make the show a grand success. 

 He had many beautiful plants of the 

 graceful Acacia pubescens and about a 

 dozen other sorts. Then, in ericas^^oth 

 the small flowered and large, waxy 

 types were shown in quantity, the 

 plants being in every case profusely 

 flowered. 



George Page, gardener to Mrs. Fred- 

 erick Ayer, also put up a grand lot o|f 

 such acacias as Drummondii, armata,, 

 pulchella, hybrida, longifolia and het- 

 erophylla, and splendid specimens of 

 such ericas as Caflfra, melanthera, ur- 

 sularis, arborea and Mediterranea. 

 Knight & Struck, of New York, also 

 had a charming table of ericas, includ- 

 ing cupressina, persoluta alba, perso- 

 luta rosea and Fabriana imbricata. W. 

 W. Edgar Co. had a splendid lot of 

 azaleas, including some new ones, such 

 as Lady Roosevelt, flesh; Star of 

 Somergem, large white; Rudolf Seidel 

 and Souvenir de W. W. Edgar, rosy red, 

 Charles Sander, gardener to Prof. C. S. 

 Sargent, had a batch of a pretty new 

 azalea in the way of Amopna. He also 

 had a beautiful group of clivias and 

 specimen plants of Erica melanthera. 

 A. Leuthy & Co. had plants of a new 

 azalea named A. B, C, a hybrid be- 

 tween a rhododendron and azalea. 



The specimen Chorizema ilicifolium 

 from William Thatcher, gardener to 

 Mrs. J. L. Gardner, attracted much no- 

 tice, being gloriously flowered. Peirce 

 Bros.' azaleas, lilacs and lilies were 

 noteworthy, while the huge azaleas 

 from C. B. Newbold, Jenkintown, Pa., 

 were a whole show in themselves. 



Orchids, Schizanthus, etc. 



Among the orchids, which were shown 

 in large numbers, in spite of the date 

 being rather an off one for cattleyas, 

 were many choice things. In Julius 

 Roehrs' collections were noted the rare 

 and beautiful Brasso-cattleyas, Digby- 

 ana-Warneri, Digbyana-Schroederse, Dig- 

 byana-gigas, Digbyana-Mendellii, Cat- 

 tleya Dusseldorfi, Undine, Cypripedium 

 Maudise, Miltonia Bleuana and others. 

 E. B. Dane, Donald McKenzie gardener, 

 had also a grand lot of choice cypripe- 

 diums, cattleyas and odontoglossums. 

 J. T. Butterworth had a wonderful 



A Glimpse of the National Flower Show. 



