December i, 1897. J 



Garden and Forest. 



473 



Incurved section numbered less than five hundred, while The crowd was always thickest in front of the stages where 

 all the other sections together would not exceed the latter the Japanese flowers were, and the conversation of the thou- 

 number. When it is borne in mind that the flowers of the sands who visited the exhibition was generally directed to 



F'g- 59- — Atnus tinctoria. — See page 472. 



Japanese section are from eight inches to a foot in diame- the enormous size, colors and other attractions of the 



ter, the display a thousand blooms would make can readily flowers of this section. 



be imagined. And these figures do not include the large While many of the old favorite varieties held prominent 



collections of blooms shown in groups by trade growers. positions among the most successful exhibits, there were 



