KURUME AZALEAS IN 
NATIVE SETTING 
From the collections of 
John S. Ames, original 
plants of the first introduc- 
tions of Kurume Azaleas 
staged in artistic rockery 
with dwarf Japanese Ever- 
greens in harmonious com- 
panionship 
HERBACEOUS CALCEO- 
LARIA 
An old favorite for greenhouse 
decoration. It presents diffi- 
culties in cultivation in the 
warmer sections. This speci- 
men is gold with chestnut 
brown spotting 
PINK PEARL RHODO- 
DENDRON 
The blooms of this most 
magnificent large-flowered 
hybrid are of a delicate, 
shaded rosy pink 
BOSTON’S 
FLOWER 
FETE 
FTER New York, Boston! 
“ ' With only a few days be- 
tween the closing of the 
one exhibition and the 
opening of the other. To a large 
extent, so far as personnel goes, the 
Boston Spring Flower and Rose Fete 
of April 6th-ioth was almost the 
same as the meeting in the great 
metropolis during the closing days 
of March; but in material the two 
meetings assumed totally different 
aspects. 
Marvellous specimens of unusual 
plants of great intrinsic interest 
captivated attention, and the set 
garden displays which have always 
been the leading attraction in New 
York became a secondary interest 
in Boston, although this year they 
attained a greater degree of perfec- 
tion than usual. It is for the plants 
as individuals that we go to Boston: 
a pink Korean Azalea from the 
Proctor Estate at Topsfield, five to 
six feet high, one of the biggest in 
the country; a mass of the wonder- 
ful hybrid hardy Azalea Louisa 
Hunnewell raised at Wellesley; 
Orchids of exceptional quality and 
rarity led, of course, by the presi- 
dent of the Society, Mr. A. C. 
Burrage, who has maintained every 
week of the year a free exhibition of 
Orchids in Horticultural Hall from 
his collections at Beverly. From 
Professor Sargent, the White 
Kurume Azalea (Rhododendron 
abtusum album), introduced by For- 
tune and then lost for forty years, 
AFRICAN VIOLET SA1NTPAULIA 
As a matter of fact it is not a Violet at all but a relative of 
the Gloxinia, flowers rich violet, yellow centre. Named 
after Baron von St. Paul and nothing to do with the apostle 
although sometimes miscalled the Apostle’s Violet 
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