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The Garden Magazine, May, 1922 



THE NATIONAL FLOWER SHOW RECENTLY HELD AT THE INDIANAPOLIS FAIR GROUNDS. 



The huge hall with its unbroken vistas and facilities for receiving plants (wagons may be driven right into the building along the broad pave- 

 ments shown above and unloaded wherever desired) offers ideal opportunity for effective display and about 75,000 visitors viewed this season's 

 show. The Rose garden, and beyond it the collection of Acacias occupying the centre 



choose from is surely great enough to please everyone. Un- 

 questionably the light orange Mrs. Kerr took the popular fancy 

 of both New York and Indianapolis. In light pink, our choice 

 hangs on Peach Blossom. Among the novelties for later in- 

 troduction to which awards were made are Lady Fair, a paler 

 pink than the one just named; Spokane, bright orange scarlet; 

 Milkmaid, white ever so daintily shadowed with a lilac flash; 

 and the deep bright rose Chevalier. 



The Indianapolis show partook the more of a "florists' exhibi- 

 tion," yet with marked progress in the arrangements for dis- 

 play — to a large degree due to the fact that Arthur Herrington 

 was manager of both shows. The hall offered by the western 

 city was about twice the size of the Grand Central Palace, and 

 had a sunken central area and low roof, an ideal arrangement. 

 Curiously, both shows 

 drew about the same 

 attendance — seventy- 

 five thousand each in 

 the week's duration. 

 Thus is Indianapolis 

 seen as no mean city 

 for the gardener! 



The far famed Aca- 

 cias of Mr. Roland, 

 which a few years ago 



startled New York, dominated the centre of this great area, 

 one hundred plants arranged in two immense half circles, and 

 again carried their lesson to any one with a greenhouse who would 

 have an ideal expression of spring — bright, light, airy shades 

 of yellow. 



But it was a florists' festival in a veritable orgy of Roses and 

 Carnations — 40 entries in the 100 cut Roses and sixty in the 50; 

 and in the Columbia class about ten competitors each staged 

 50 blooms! Roses! and Roses! ! and Roses! ! ! And Carna- 

 tions! nine lots of 100 blooms! So went the homage to Flora! 

 One distinct novelty from California (Wright, Los Angeles) 

 is a greenhouse Maidenhair type of Fern, resembling the much 

 esteemed Farleyense; though somewhat smaller, it is far less 

 delicate and indeed stands hard usage. 



A tribute must 

 needs be added to the 

 Indianapolis Public 

 Library which dis- 

 played meanwhile a 

 rich and up to the 

 minute collection of 

 garden books and mag- 

 azines actively encour- 

 aging the townfolk to 

 read and learn. 



PRIZE-WINNING MINIATURE GARDEN AT THE NEW YORK SHOW 



Designed and executed by Mr. Charles Willing, Chestnut Hill, Pa., whose skill won him one of 

 the Frank Galsworthy flower paintings beloved of gardeners. There were a number of entries 

 in this class and tremendous popular interest in this feature of the show which was sponsored 



by the Garden Club of America 



