JOURNAL 
The New York Botanical Garden 
VoL. XI July, 1910. No. 127. 
THE FLOWER EXHIBITION. 
The Summer Exhibition of The Horticultural Society of New 
York was held on June 4 and 5, in co6peration with the New York 
Botanical Garden, in the Museum Building. The west end of 
the basement hall, in which is located the collection of fossil 
plants, was filled with plants and flowers. Owing to the cool 
weather which prevailed the week before the exhibition, a large 
exhibit was not expected, but the result was contrary to expecta- 
tions, the amount of plants and flowers entered for competition 
being greater than the facilities for their display. The place 
allotted to the exhibition was crowded with material, enough 
in fact to have filled the entire hall. 
The exhibition opened on Saturday at two in the afternoon, 
and continued open the following day from ten until five. Th 
attendance on Saturday was large, greater than at any previous 
flower exhibition held at the Garden. The visitors were largely 
flower-lovers, for they spent much time in examining individual 
flowers and passing intelligent comment on them. At four there 
was a lecture in the lecture-hall by Dr. N. L. Britton on “Summer 
Flowers,” illustrated with colored lantern-slides. At the conclu- 
sion of the lecture an opportunity was afforded to visit the court 
of the conservatories, under guidance, to sev the large American 
pasar plant which was sending up its stout flowering stalk or 
‘pole. 
On Sunday, although the weather was threatening, ending in a 
downpour at closing time, the attendance was still larger than on 
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