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The Garden Magazine, May, 1923 
engaged the two Piersons in the past has led to 
greater things and into the highly original and 
dominating garden of the Julius Roehrs Co. this 
season. Reminiscent of Spain, suggestive of Florida 
or California, this creation easily accumulated gold 
medals offered for “the exhibit of hardy plants of the 
same general blooming period which, through beauty 
of arrangement and color harmony, best promotes 
simple and practical garden planting in America.” 
Many there were who adjudged the F. R. Pierson 
garden as at least equally entitled to the honors. 
This was a garden laid out in naturalistic landscape 
manner such as has been seen at earlier shows with 
lawn, pool, shrubbery, herbaceous border, etc. The 
Roehrs exhibit had scale, quality, and perfection of 
detail and material to a remarkable degree, and bore 
a lesson of “fitness” and of restraint in design that 
is well worth considering. Be it noted for the larger 
benefit, too, that the schedule wording deliberately 
compassed all America, perhaps in that very way 
however completely discounting the point of hardi- 
A GARDEN IN THE SPANISH STYLE 
Striking an entirely novel note in exhibitions of this sort 
the patio garden of Julius Roehrs Co. arrested attention 
instantly. Conceived in perfect scale and executed in 
perfection of detail it had a distinct individuality and 
wholesomely taught the fact that gardens are not of 
necessity to be modeled to fit the Atlantic seaboard or 
northern regions alone. Stag’s-horn Fern, Fiddle-leaf 
Rubber, Clivias, Crotons, Dracenas, Begonias in variety, 
Amaryllis, some Orchids, with towering Palms 
ness. The award was the unanimous decision 
of a group of competent landscape architects. 
John Scheepers again made a Tulip garden in 
strictly formal lines, and of an immense size. 
Others of these gardens featured the old 
time Belgian Azalea of which a stock is 
gradually becoming established despite the 
A GARDEN IN THE NATURALISTIC MANNER 
Utilizing plants in season and forced, a perfectly scaled landscape was shown in 
the F. R. Pierson exhibit to which the exhibition had happily set the words: 
“ It was a happy thought to bring 
Into this season’s frost and rime 
This lovely harbinger of Spring, 
This dream of summertime.” 
restrictions of quarantine. These were shown in quantity, in¬ 
deed, here and elsewhere by Bobbink & Atkins. Of rock gardens 
there were two, both on a practical scale and built of tuffa, 
giving a very good impression. The Bobbink & Atkins exhibit 
is further to be commended in having every plant used, almost 
a hundred different species, fully named. Omissions to name 
exhibits are noticeable in many cases—a practice that must 
be severely repressed bv the management if the shows are to 
continue to serve an educational purpose. 
T WO noteworthy novelties were shown, the most striking 
individual display in the show being a curiously luminous 
pink-scarlet Hippeastrum from John Lewis Childs, Inc., set 
UP THE ROCKY 
STEPS 
Boldly leaving the con¬ 
ventional design of mean¬ 
dering walks we were led 
up the rustic stairs to a 
tea house, whence a look 
was had on to the garden 
of flowers spread out be¬ 
low. Andromeda and Aza¬ 
lias in full bloom gave a 
gay note, and Crocuses 
with other lovely hardy 
plants—Funkia, Phlox 
Vivid, dwarf Iris, Solo¬ 
mon’s Seal, Primroses, etc. 
—were set about the rocks 
and in the lawn below 
(Bobbink & Atkins) 
