only did it look well, but also served tlie very practical pur- 
pose of supplying plenty of fronds for picking from space 
that might easily have been wasted. 
Iris jj^jg Conference in Paris, 1922. — The first seedling garden 
Conference jriges having been raised in France, by M. de Bures, about 
1822, the Societe Nationale d 'Horticulture de France, to mark 
the centenary, is organizing an Iris Conference to be held at 
84, rue de Crenelle, Paris, in the spring of 1922. The chief 
object of the Conference will be the study of the botanical and 
horticultural status of all the species and varieties, and espec- 
ially the correct naming of the garden varieties of German 
Irises, I. pumila, etc. Foreign Iris specialists are invited to give 
to the Conference the help of their experience, and to send 
flowers, plants and notes on Irises. 
Glass 
Garden 
It can't be very easy, and it must be very expensive, to 
capture a June garden and keep it in captivity until mid- 
January. To look out through a wide doorway on a winter 
afternoon and see gleams of yellow sunlight shining on green 
grass — i\Iagnolia, Loquat and Orange trees growing uncon- 
cernedly in ground, not tubs, and little seedling ferns feathering 
up around the legs of a marble bench — gives one a feeling of 
unreality ; but there it is, looking as if it had always been there, 
although Mrs. Henry Lang's "Glass Garden" in Montclair is 
only three years old. 
The Garden is approximately fifty by thirty feet, and is 
entered through a lovely Chinese arched gateway, down three 
or four steps. One looks on this vivid patch of grass through 
fronds of two tall ferns planted on either side of the steps. 
Opposite the entrance is a pool backed by rock work of tufa, 
every cranny filled with ferns which thrive in moisture provided 
them by a net work of cunningly concealed pipes which are led 
in and out amongst the stone work and drip into the pool. Vines 
and creeping plants grow on trellises against the glass walls, and 
a three-foot border surrounds the grass plot in which grow many 
lovely things — Tree Heliotrope, euphorbia effulgens, and great 
masses of Poinsettias which are raised in a greenhouse and 
transplanted into the border. The heating pipes are run under 
a grating between the border and the grass plot, a grating so 
inconspicuous that it seems only a pathway around the border. 
The garden is underlaid by loose- jointed tiled drains which 
carry the over-flow from the pool and excess moisture from the 
hosing of the plants. In summer the top section of the glass 
roof is removed and replaced by screens, as are also sections of 
the side walls, so that it is a summer as well as a winter garden. 
Truly a lovely spot, exotic of course, when one stops to think 
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