. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. i-,-:^7-» mauch ao, 1»22 The Florists' Review 45. 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
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. i-,-:^7-» mauch ao, 1»22 The Florists' Review 45. 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, , 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 gracef
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