little friends Rosa Hugonis and Lillium Regale. This little rose was a 
great favorite and I saw them taking many orders for it. 
The Stump and Walters bulbs seemed better than ever. La 
Fiancee, Psyche and Ariadne, all Darwin tuHps in shades of pink, 
were particularly admired. 
Rare Upstairs, among the special plants, were noted a pinkish grey 
Plants Heather plant of exquisite, irregular shape — about six feet in height, 
a standard pale salmon pink Geranium, almost as tall, which made 
one think of the lovely Geraniums in the London shows; a standard 
Fuchsia of the pale white and pink variety; and a host of pink and 
blue Cinararias, which certainly have come into their own at last. 
Especially interesting was a specimen plant of that fine little white 
Jasmine-like vine, Rhynchospermum Jasminoides, Parechites Thun- 
berg, grown on a wire frame. It is intensely sweet-scented and very 
Lillium floriferous. It received first prize. A pot of Lillium Rubellum was 
RuBELLUM ne^ iQ most of us — it is an adorable Httle pink Lily, 
It was a very diflScult task to award the Garden Club of 
America medal, which was to be given to the best thing in the 
SHOW. Had the wording been different it would have been much 
easier. 
Mrs. Payne Whitney's pale pink and white Rhododendrons and 
the planting around them; Mr. Scheeper's Formal Garden; the pool 
on the Pierson Exhibit; the heavenly combination of Mrs. Constable's 
collection of Mimosas (acacia) and Clivia (Imantophyllum) so beauti- 
fully banked at the rear of the arched Rose walk; the Bobbink and 
Atkins Rock Garden; Mr. Guggenheim's central bed of dark blue 
Cinerarias and Horsfeldi Narcissus edged with Primula Malacoides; 
Mr. Lewisohn's "Elysian Fields," as one admirer called it ("A 
group of plants in variety, covering one hundred square feet, ar- 
ranged for effect" is what the catalogue names it) and Tillett's Wild 
Flowers; all seven of which seemed the "best thing in the show," 
as one looked at each alone. The judging is done by points — for 
Cultural Perfection, Arrangement, Color Harmony, and Accessories, 
G. C. OF A. etc., and at last our first medal for Flower Shows was awarded to 
Medal Mr. Adoph Lewisohn: Gardener, Mr. John Canning. The perfection 
of the planting, the great skill employed in the different heights of 
plants used in the foreground, the rarity and variety of plants em- 
ployed, and the impossibility of dupHcation anywhere but in an 
indoor flower show, all fitted it to the eyes of the judges to be 
called the best thing in the Show. Mr. Canning is past master in 
this type of exhibit and has shown something of the kind in the last 
two shows. It was the most poetic and ethereal picture in the exhi- 
bition, and as I was drinking it in for the last time, a working woman 
beside me said — "I saw this last night and I couldn't sleep for think- 
ing of it, so I just had to come again ! " 
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