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few exceptions all in full bloom and as fresh as if they were on 
their mountain homes. They came from all parts of the world 
and among them were numerous American species which if not 
actually alpine are generally connected in one’s imagination with 
mountainous regions. /rzmulas without number, Dodecatheon 
Media of several forms, Sedums, and numerous small succulents, 
lovely little Saxifragas in full bloom, a curious Anemone nemorosa 
var. flore pleno, Arenaria montana in dense mats, Orchis maculata 
in several forms, Orchis latifolia, Globularia salicina and our two 
familiar Ziarella cordifolia and Houstonia caerulea blooming side 
by side. Zulipa Greiget and the gorgeous /ucarvillea grandifiora, 
Raimondia pyrenaica and Gentianas made a brave showing and 
American Trilums with Cypripedium pubescens were among 
Himalayan Cypripediums with tall delicate ferns towering above 
them. Such low delicate plants as Széthorpia Africana, S. Euro- 
paea vars. variegata and aurea, Fuchsia procumbens, Selaginella 
denticulata and Linnaea borealis, the latter covered with its ex- 
quisite fragrant little bells, Sedwms and other tiny plants were 
growing in square earthernware boxes, all sunk in the sod-bor- 
dered raised sections, the intermediate spaces filled with fresh green 
mosses, so that the whole beds formed compact closely planted 
masses. Every plant was clearly and neatly labeled with its 
Latin name and its native locality. Perhaps one of the most 
interesting and striking groups of the collection was a mass of 
elweiss (Leontopodium alpinum) blooming as cheerfully and 
ooking as much like a beautiful white flannel flower in the heart 
of Paris as it does on its native heights of the upper Engadine 
regions. 
The floor space of the great glass horticultural hall was sunk in 
the center and laid out as a large parterre, where in lozénge-shaped 
beds were some superb exhibits of Vilmorin-Andrieux & Cie, a 
big collection of massed garden annuals, another of cinerarias, 
a strange and interesting collection of herbaceous calceolarias 
and another of Ca/ceolaria rugosa in all possible shades of the 
wonderful dull purples, yellows and browns, so characteristic of 
that curious flower. The herbaceous calceolarias were very gay, 
browns, yellows, reds of all shades, orange, forming a gorgeous 
mass of color. 
