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represented by C. H. Joosten, of New York. This occupied a 

 conspicuous position on the island (plot 30), and as several 

 varieties were freely duplicated it made a most remarkable 

 blaze of color, which was conspicuous from many points beyond 

 the lagoon. 



Other collections of hardy azaleas in the open ground were 

 those of Ch. Vuylsteke, Belgium, fifteen varieties; about a 

 dozen varieties from J. C. Vaughan, Chicago; a small collec- 

 tion from Ellwanger & Barry; thirteen varieties from Closer, 

 of Versailles, near the Woman's Building, and the American 

 grown plants from Parsons, comprising twenty-five varieties. 



The most unique, and in many respects the most valuable 

 exhibit of deciduous azaleas was a display of seedlings made 

 by Anthony Waterer, of Knap Hill, near London. Theso 

 plants are seedlings of Azalea mollis, A. Sinensis and A. occiden- 

 talism and they are remarkable for the great variety and bril- 

 liancy of color and free habit of growth. It is expectec that 

 these azaleas will prove hardy in the Northern States. Mention 

 must also be made of a good collection of Ghent azaleas from 

 Mr. Vuylsteke, which were forced into bloom in the Horticul- 

 tural Building early in May. These were very effective, 



The Japanese showed some interesting azaleas. The most 

 striking ones were large and free growing bushes, three to four 

 feet high, of dull pink-red, single flowered Azalea Indica. 

 These are used along the walks in the Japanese garden in the 

 Horticultural Building, and again in the Japanese garden on 

 the island. On the island a white flowered bushy azalea was 

 growing, which is a free growing form of A. Indica. Very 

 diminutive, small leaved and small flowered azaleas were freely 

 used in the garden indoors for borders in much the way in 

 which we might use box. These azaleas were said to be A. 

 Indica. Their flowers were usually single and self-colored. 

 One variety attracted attention from its very small, greenish- 

 white flowers. It is called Mitsusomekuruma. About twenty 

 named kinds of these diminutive azaleas, were shown. Several 

 varieties of the Ghent type were also on exhibition. There 

 were two exceedingly curious forms, in which the corolla was 

 reduced to five separate and long strap-shaped divisions. In 

 one instance, of the mollis type, the petals were red and spotted, 

 and the stamens were wanting. In another, of the Indica type, 

 the petals were dull pink-red, and the long red filaments were 

 entirely barren of anthers, giving the flower a strange, spidery 

 look. The Japanese know the deciduous azaleas as Tsutsuji, 

 and the Indian type as Satsuki and Kirishima, the former 

 name denoting a late, and the latter an early class. 



Rhododendrons were the most conspicuous displays on the 

 grounds during the first days of June. Nothing can be more 



