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Around the center beds were borders of hybrid roses, just 
coming into bloom ; behind them and beyond on the raised side 
aisles, standard roses and, here and there at the corners of the 
beds, climbing roses, trained over umbrella-shaped trellises, cov- 
ered with blooms, white and pink and also many of the well- 
known Crimson Rambler, the latter trained in several symmetrical 
and attractive forms. 
Here as generally in the exhibition, the pots were sunk in the 
earth and had every appearance of permanency. 
In the second section of the hall were noted some wonderful 
ellow carnations from the collection of Mme. Ernest Dormenil, 
another collection of huge carnations exhibited by Charles Ber- 
anek, where two especially, Mrs. Martin Smith and Princesse de 
Galles, superb mammoth flowers were especially commented on. 
Beyond were massed a collection of cut ‘‘ Darwin” tulips one 
hundred varieties, exhibited in glasses, also Parrot Tulips, Nar- 
cissus and beds of all kinds of /yis,among them a comparatively 
new one, /vis atrofusca, grayish-purple and dull purple streaked 
with white, a strange, but rather handsome flower. The tuberous 
begonias were a blaze of color and so numerous that it was im- 
possible to more than glance at them. M. Lebaudy sent from his 
private collection a great bank of Begonia ‘“ Gloire de Lorraine”’ 
that filled one side of one of the sections, a rare mass of bright 
pink. Two long halls were filled with rhododendrons and hardy 
azaleas, banked high against the walls, very beautiful, but perhaps 
not as carefully selected individual specimens as those seen in 
some private American collections. Among them were some in- 
teresting novelties. 
In smaller side shows were arrangements of cut flowers for all 
kinds of uses and occasions, from the bridal bouquet to the most 
fantastic of dinner-table decorations, intermixed with bronze 
statues and ribbons. Here the rarely good artistic taste of the 
exposition seemed to fall off and the grouping did not compare 
to those seen in transatlantic regions. Plans and schemes for 
gardens were also shown, collections of dried herbs for kitchen 
and distillery, some herbaria of mosses and lichens, wax flowers, 
a collection of oil and water-color paintings of flowers, designs 
