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rear yard, such plants as bleeding heart, iris, shasta 
daisy, and peony in flower in a November setting of al- 
most leafless shrubbery. When these flowers are all 
artificial, and when glass cherries are fastened in clus- 
ters to the tips of bare branches most uncherry-like in 
aspect, the result is nothing less than a travesty of 
nature and an insult to the taste and intelligence of 
the people. It is hoped that next year a competent 
art committee will supervise and control this class of 
exhibits with full authority to refuse space for any 
which fall below artistic standards. There may be 
a place for such grotesque exhibitions of lack of taste, 
but if so, it assuredly is not among those advertised 
as “models” which people are advised to study and 
One feels, however, that great improvement was pos- 
sible in the treatment of minor, yet noticeable, details 
such as the placing of evergreens and of a bed of 
roses. Probably more time for thought would have 
resulted in the elimination of these too patent defects, 
but it is far easier to inculcate a wrong principle in 
planting than it is to eradicate it ; therefore, where 
so much was admirable, it was a pity to see some faults. 
The overabundance of large advertising cards scat- 
tered throughout this exhibit was wholly bad in effect. 
One prominently placed sign and small cards or other 
literature for general distribution should sufficiently 
advertise the exhibitor and might be so managed as 
not to detract from the desired realistic effect. 
GENERAL VIEW OF THE CHICAGO FLOWER SHOW, SHOWING A LITTLE OVER HALF OF THE FLOOR SPACE 
USED. ELECTRIC FOUNTAIN IN CENTER, NOT PLAYING. 
to copy. They are misleading as well as discreditable 
and the Chicago Horticultural Society cannot afford to 
countenance them in future. They are beneath the 
dignity of its members. 
The public seems slow to accept shrubbery as a 
garden ingredient. For that, and possibly other rea- 
sons, the Vaughan Seed Store back yard most nearly 
fllled the general idea of excellence of the garden 
designs. It was a pretty fair representation of a 
rear yard framed by slight shrubberies which were 
generously faced by flowering plants. This part of 
the scheme, the “massed sides,” together with the 
well-suggested “open center” (a nicely turfed lawn), 
and the vine-clad rear porch of a brick cottage were 
the main factors of the design and were all good. 
While the spaces planted with shrubbery failed in' 
a measure to appeal so directly to the people as “gar- 
dens” (numbers of persons standing in the middle of 
them were heard to inquire for the location of the, 
“model gardens”), they were none the less valuable 
in educating visitors and should be effectively brought 
out each year. There will be a gradual acceptance of 
the truth that shrubbery forms the chief dependence 
of all who want permanent, all-the-year-’round gar-' 
dens. This fact was illustrated (especially at the 
south end of the building) by various nurserymen’s 
exhibits. Peterson had a central space which might 
with a little more time, thought and work, have been 
made far more attractive than it was, for the tubs 
and boxes containing the planting stock were too evi- 
