NOTES ON THE FALL SHOW 
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, OLYMPIA HALL 
The English are very business-like with their shows. Most of the people 
attending, and the show was crowded continuously, were definitely on a hunt of new 
and different things for their gardens and the tradesmen booked many orders for fall 
and spring deliveries. 
The main floor was ablaze with a great assortment of shrubs in the full glory 
of their autumn coloring. Our British cousins do appreciate the vivid coloring of 
foliage and berry as illustrated at the show, with many of our own Viburnums, some 
Crataegus, Nyssa, Euonymous and many others. Incidentally, the fall coloring in 
England is much like that of our own Northeastern United States. 
Hardy Asters, or Michaelmas Daisies as they are generally called by the 
Britons, were displayed in striking masses. The size of some new varieties will be 
a revelation to us when they cross the Atlantic - and the range of colors, also. 
It is very heartening to see staid business men carrying open bunches of 
Michaelmas Daisies in the streets of London. Flowers are a more intimate part of 
the life of the English, who are, fortunately, not so self-conscious as we in 
expressing their appreciation of them. 
Delphiniums at the show were indifferent because of the lateness of the season, 
but Tritomas, which are too little appreciated in this country, but which the 
English assiduously cultivate under the formal name of Kniphophia, were a mass of 
striking color on all sides. These brilliant "red hot pokers" in combinations of 
orange, pure gold yellow and red, were staccato accents wherever displayed. 
I spent two days at the show and even then felt I might have spent more time 
to advantage. 
I visited the horticultural exhibit of the Paris Exposition, 
where espalierd trees were used interestingly as a dominant 
note in the outdoor plantings. Unfortunately most of the 
trees had shed their leaves early, and in this connection, I 
remember being advised that all plantings for the World's 
Fair in New York City in 1939 will be completed a year in 
advance so that woody material will be well established, and 
I hope will avoid such unfortunate occurrence. The formal 
gardens and cut flowers, inside the building at Paris where 
the material was frequently changed, were shown at a high 
standard of design and quality of material. 
FLORIBUNDA CLASS OF ROSES POPULAR IN GERMANY 
In Germany, while visiting Wilhelm Hordes, leading German hybridizer, and his 
fellow hybridizer. Mat. Tantau, I was most impressed by the great extent to which 
the new class of Floribundas is being used. Municipalities planted as many as ten 
thousand of one variety to make a lavish display of massed color. Private 
individuals are using them not only in their rose beds but in foundation plantings, 
perennial borders and shrub borders. This suggests to me that we Americans would do 
well to liberalize our views regarding the use of roses. Why not incorporate them 
with other plantings about the home premises, rather than restricting them to the 
rose garden? 
