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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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Dutch Garden of R. & J. Farquhar & Q)., at the National Flower Show, Boston. 



specimen of cattleyas, Thayeriana car- 

 rying sixty flowers and many other 

 well grown plants in variety. W." C. 

 Rust's and Henry Stewart's specimen 

 dendrobiums were also noteworthy. 



Schizanthus from James Marlborough, 

 J. L. Smith. William Thatcher and 

 others were splendidly grown, as were 

 Daniel Whyte's specimen single gera- 

 niuins. Among H. A. Dreer's exhibits 

 the ITew double marguerite, Mrs. F. 

 Sander, and the new cyrtomium, Roch- 

 fordi, attracted a great deal of notice. 

 William C. Bust, gardener to Dr. C. G. 

 Weld, had beautiful groups of cycla- 

 mens. Primula obconica and bulbous 

 plants. In the bulb classes also, J. L. 

 Smith, gardener to A. W. Preston, came 

 out strongly, as did William Patterson, 

 William Thatcher and other well known 

 growers. , 



Roses, .Valley, Gardenias. 



Among the newer roses which showed 

 up to great advantage were F. R. Pier- 

 son 's new sport from White Killarney, 

 an immense double pink flower, a little 

 paler than the original Killarney; Wa- 

 bau Conservatories' and W. H. Eaiiott's 

 Mrs. Aaron Ward; Myers & Samtman's 

 Hilda; Elliott's William Shean, a mam- 

 moth new pink, with a color, however, 

 less pleasing than Killarney, and 

 Elliott's Mrs. A. C. Waddell. A. N. 

 Pierson showed Red^ Killarney, Prince 

 de Bulgarie, Lady Cromwell and several 

 others. The general quality of the 

 roses was high and competition keen, 

 especially in the Killarney classes. 



Remarkably fine were the exhibits 

 of lily of the valley and gardenias from 

 .Tolm McFarland, 'the. lily o.f the val- 



ley from J. T. Butterworth and an ex- 

 tensive lilae display from Elie Ram- 

 bault, Buena, N. J. 



Some of W. A. Manda 's exhibits were 

 late in getting to the hall. He had 

 many fine specimen plants. Specially 

 noteworthy were Kentias Belmoreana 

 and Forsteriana, Rhapis flabelliformis 

 and humilis, Cycas circinalis, Licuala 

 grandis, Cyathea meduUaris, Davallias 

 Mooreana and Dracaena Victoria. 



Italian and Dutch Gardens. 



Carbone's Italian garden, with statu- 

 ary, pergolas and a tasteful arrange- 

 ment of flowering and foliage plants, 

 was a pleasing feature. Roland's bou- 

 gainvilleas and amaryllis, MacMulkin's 

 group of plants and tl^e Robert Craig 

 Co. 's collection of crotons in over 100 

 varieties were aU star features. The 

 latter included many fine seedlings. 

 They also had a new pandanus, a sport 

 from Sanderse, but much prettier and 

 with more character; also fine cycla- 

 mens, Ficus pandurata and ferns. 



The largest individual exhibit was 

 the Dutch garden of R. & J. Farquhar 

 & Co., which included windmills, tea 

 house, representations of dikes, and 

 beds containing many thousands of tu- 

 lips, narcissi, hyacinths, spiraeas, flower, 

 ing shrubs and a wealth of other mate- 

 rial. The paths were of gravel and 

 hundreds of evergreen shrubs were used 

 to bank up the exhibits. This feature 

 occupied a space 95x120 and entailed a 

 great amount of labor in its prepara- 

 tion. A. N. Pierson had a specially 

 fine lot of Adiantum Farleyense and 

 finely flowered rhododendrons, azaleas 

 and other seasonable stock. 



Gardeners' Exhibits. 



The National Association of Garden- 

 ers had a large number of exhibits in 

 their special classes. William Klein- 

 heinz, the president of the association, 

 was the largest exhibitor and worked 

 hard to have everything in good shape 

 for the judges. His roses were extra 

 fine. Some other exhibitors in these 

 classes included C. B. Newbold, Samuel 

 Batchelor gardener; John Wanamaker, 

 John H. Dodds gardener; Henry Siegel, 

 Thomas Aitchison gardener; W. W. He- 

 roy, Stamford, Conn., Abraham Wynn 

 gardener, and Dr. C. G. Weld, W. C. 

 Rust gardener. 



Paul De Nave, of Fall River, the or- 

 chid specialist, had some extra firle 

 Cattleya Schroederae and dendrobiums. 

 Lager & Hurrell's collection also in- 

 cluded some choice varieties. The big 

 groups of coniferous plants from the 

 Eastern Nurseries, W. A. Manda, Bob- 

 bink & Atkins, Ellwanger & Barry, 

 Farquhar & Co. and others, were note- 

 worthy, as were the specimens of 

 trimmed box from Bobbink & Atkins, 

 Manda, Sidney Hoffman and others. 

 Farquhar & Co.'s collection of new 

 plants from northern China, which re- 

 ceived a silver medal, included some 

 valuable additions to our hardy plant 

 list, such as Clematis montana rubens, 

 spiraeas, deutzias and many other vari- 

 eties. John C. Hatcher's new aspara- 

 gus, Hatcheri, seems lighter and more 

 graceful than A. plumosus nanus and 

 was much admired. The mignonette 

 from William Nicholson was grand, and 

 William Walke's new pink snapdragon 

 had a host of admirers. The F. R. 



