The Garden Magazine, July, 1923 
335 
T HE Rose garden planted this year in the grounds of the 
Country Life Press at Garden City has been designed as a 
fairly representative display of the hardy Roses from one end of 
the family to the other including original species, the most mod¬ 
ern hybrids, and (we are glad to include) a number of the 
“old garden’’ kinds which we hope to add to as they are found 
in forgotten gardens. It does not claim to be the complete 
collection, but rather to have the selective quality of exhibiting 
the best of the modern productions in association with the spec¬ 
ies of origin from which they have sprung and other members of 
the family to which attention may yet be turned with profitable 
results for the gardens of the future. 
The planting plan given on this page will be self-explanatory 
as to the aim and scope of this new feature. The arrangement 
is on informal lines in order to facilitate the addition of worth¬ 
while varieties of the future without necessitating a complete 
reconstruction of the entire plan. Ranging from the wild 
species of America and Asia and Europe to the best modern 
selections of bush, climber, and trailer, the Garden City 
Rose garden, it is hoped, will be an interesting and instruc¬ 
tive standard for those of our readers who visit us during 
the season of bloom—needless to say we welcome our friends 
at all times. 
And in addition to the Roses they may find other features of 
interest in the rock garden now in its second year in which the 
plants are becoming comfortably established, and in the formal 
evergreen garden embracing a fairly representative collection 
of dwarf varieties of coniferous evergreens, of all of which we feel 
not a little proud, and are more than a little glad to share the 
pleasure of these gardens with friendly visitors. 
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FLORIDA’S FIRST FLOWER SHOW 
^LORI DA has held its first flower show, and such an 
event marking the onward progress of the garden has a 
I certain interest even though it leans rather more on the 
professional than on amateur interest—for we must 
depend upon these new enterprises and developments for those 
novelties and changes which serve to distinguish the period of 
progress. 
It is surely of interest to note the awakening of a new horti¬ 
cultural activity in a section of our country hitherto rather 
undeveloped from the standpoint of aesthetic gardening and 
take some cognizance of the bountiful promise held out by this 
tropic region of our land. 
The little city of Orlando, Fla.—wonderfully suited for such a 
role—was hostess during a single week in the middle of April to 
a two-day convention 
of the Florist Associa¬ 
tion of the State, a 
state-wide Flower Show, 
and a three-day meet¬ 
ing of the State Horti¬ 
cultural Society—a 
horticultural week in¬ 
deed! It is not ours to 
tell in detail of this 
or that meeting, nor 
even of the Flower 
Show, marvelous as it 
was, despite some dis¬ 
astrous accidents and 
omissions at the last 
moment—a wonderful 
display of Roses, Gladio¬ 
lus, and every conceiv¬ 
able garden flower in 
season in that region, 
indeed many unknown 
to a majority of those 
who read these lines, 
a veritable riot of 
color —in April, with 
most of the North and 
East buried in a howl¬ 
ing snowstorm! 
With foreign importations practically cut off—through the 
bugaboo fear of careless importation of diseases—with the pros¬ 
pect before us of even further restrictions in the immediate 
future, it is cheering indeed to know that in our tropic peninsula 
attempts are being made to produce Polyanthus Narcissus and 
other bulbs now imported from Italy and the south of France. 
Other bulbs came in for their share of attention and were 
staged in profusion at the Flower Show; the Canna almost runs 
wild in this land of only occasional frost; the classic Amaryllis, 
marvelous for its variety of color shadings and grown here in the 
open air so easily that it may soon become familiar in Northern 
gardens; the fancy-leaved Caladium, Gloxinias, Tuberoses, 
Easter Lilies, even that garden favorite, the Gladiolus, seemed 
glorified in this climate where it can easily be flowered out-of- 
doors in time for Easter. 
Cheerful news to 
many is that Azaleas 
and Camellias are be¬ 
ing sown here and in 
the neighboring state 
of Georgia. The whole¬ 
sale growing of decora¬ 
tive Palms as formerly 
carried on in Belgium 
is also demanding at¬ 
tention. The whole¬ 
sale production of Roses 
has been carried on in 
the northern portion of 
the state for some 
time, and experimental 
work is being carried 
on in testing varieties 
and stocks, a fact that 
may later on not be 
without its effect upon 
Northern gardens. 
The Flower Show 
was organized to visu¬ 
ally demonstrate that 
Florida is a land of 
horticultural oppor¬ 
tunity. 
A CORNER OF THE SHOW 
Callas, Snapdragons and Gladiolus against a 
background of woven Moss and Palm leaves 
