Florists' review (microform) (1912) (16085740623)

Title: Florists' review (microform)
Identifier: 5205536_49_5 (find matches)
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: Floriculture
Publisher: Chicago : Florists' Pub. Co
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Looking Down the Exhibition Hall from the Steps at Front of Sunken Area, with A. N. Pierson's Rose Garden Ahead. tons, adiantums, phoenixes, heaths, bou- gainvilleas, spirajas, pandanus, etc., about a center group of genistas. Across the aisle is F. R. Pierson 's splendid group of ferns in 10-inch or larger pots. These are of surpassing quality and are admired unceasingly by trade and public alike. Among the varieties of ncphrolepis shown are aurea, Verona, muscosa, Neubertii, Ma- cawii, superbissim.a, superior, elegan- tissima, elegantissima conipacta and others. The Kose Gardens. Directly before one walking down the center aisle is the rose garden of A. N. Pierson, Inc., which won the $1,000 prize. There were three entries in the class for rose gardens .'jOO square feet with appropriate accessories. This gar- den won first. A low white fence is lined, within and without, with climb- ing roses. A gravel walk leads to the cen- ter, where a white arbor, covered with roses, makes a picturesque center. Separated from this garden by the group of Roland's acacias is the gar- den that won second place, staged by the State Florists' Association of In- diana. One looks in through, a rose covered gateway on to a gravel walk that leads to a white marble sundial in the center. Less striking than these two, yet hav- ing an appeal to those persons who think of roses as some day occupying a cor- ner of their home grounds, the rose gar- den of C. Merkel & Sons, West Mentor, 0., which took third prize, is to the loft of the Indiana exhibit. Rose bushes form a semicircle about a grass plot, in which are planted three splendid, large specimens. The Center of the Show. While we are in this spot, the group of acacias brought by Thomas Roland from Nahant, Mass., draws our eyes. There are 102 specimens in the lot, in- cluding twenty-four varieties, from the bushy juniperous to the graceful pube- scens, from light yellow to the deep goldenrod of heterophylla. The larg- est specimens are of pubescens, the most generally grown variety. This iind A. Baileyana furnish the sprays for cutting. There are none of the latter jiresent, since, being an early variety, it is by this time bloomed out. These acacias are grouped in circular form about u large brass fountain, lit by colored lights and playing about a slender statue. This was contributed bv the A. L. Randall Co., Chicago. Down the Right Aisle. To keep our tour of the exhibition in orderly route, let us return to the front of the sunken area and walk down the right aisle. The first exhibit we see, superb hydrangeas from Lars Anderson, Rocky River, O., is quite worthy the sweepstakes prize awarded it. Next is the bulb garden of E. E. Tem- perley, Indianapolis. Over a bank of tulips, hyacinths and daffodils fly white doves guided by white ribbon reins from the hands of a large doll at the back. The arrangement was good and the plants excellent. Some of the judges believed the doves interfered with the proper display of the plants. Otherwise the exhibit would have been in on the prize money. Craig's Crotons. A mound of crotons arranged for ef- fect, covering 100 square feet, forms tho center of the next group down the aisle. It richly deserved the prize awarded it. Surrounding are other foliage plants from the Philadelphia firm, such as pan- danus, dracaMias, cibotiums, phcenix, etc. The plants were skillfully arranged by Bertermann Bros. Co. .\ group of flowering begonias cover- ing fifty S(piare feet, adjoining, cap- tured first prize for C. IT. Schwomeyer. An extensive planting of bedding ))lants from Garfield gardens, made by the Ttidianapolis park board, is well done, and appeals to public as well as to pro- fessional taste. Bulb Gardens. The first-prize bulb garden of A. Wie- gand's Sons Co. is alongside. This covers nOO square feet. A low fence is bordered with beds of tulips. In the center stands an urn filled with the

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