tural Society The annual Spring Flower Show by the Shanghai Horticultural Society at the Majestic Hotel on May 30 was in every] way-a splendid display. From the entrance lobby, which was flanked by Japanese junipers presented for the occasion by the Japanese Nur-serv Company, throughout the batlroom, the Winter Garden and the Italian Garden there was a solid mass of beautiful flowers and luxarious foliage. Judges declared the exhibition to be larger and finer than ever before.
In the centre of the ballroom the fountain was filled with purple and white irises, banked by ferns and mosses. This display was arranged by the Council and formed the lovely decoration for the tea dansant. and the dinner-dance last night. There were two large groups Council garden flowers in the Italian Garden, made up of geraniums, marguerites, lobelia, pansies, petunia:, and begonias. "The wall opposite the entrance to the Winter Garden was flanked with hardy annual and perennial blooms from the Council Gardens, The remainder of the Winter Garden was devoted to the table displays, nine in all, the prizes for which were decided by public votes drawn from the ballot boxes on each table.
Flowering bushes in tubs of whits marguerites and tiny button chtysanthemums formed the chaste and effective background for the other wise pastel and radiant blooms. The flaming dahlias were large ani beautiful, marching in a straight row down one aisle of the ballroom. Intermingled with the rigid Euphorbia (Crown of Th the crisp organdiesti was Jasmine, frilly and fragrant. Bougfan villa, like three cornered purple bhats stock with golden plums, nodded quaintly in another corner of the room. Creamy bells of Yueca clung closely to their stalks. Spicily fragrant, the nasturtiums gathered casually in red and orange groups bout the Italian Garden and along the walls of the ballroom. Begonias, geraniums, carnations, fuchsias ike delicate earrings, and Canterbury bells, were scattered everywhere. The purple Streptocarpus was royally beautiful "in spite of its formidable name. Nun orchids, fragile and demure, stood a half dozen pots silently pray-of evansiana made a lovely row of fantastical earnati in delicate amber and salmon res, stood in the Italian Garden, Dianthus and amaryllis, roses ant sweet-peas, and chrysanthemum!
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As the inevitable accessories of the flower kingdom, and beautiful for themselves alone, there were sny ferns and four leaf plants, rouped about the door to the Italian Garden and intermingled with flower groups. The maiden! ferns are exceptionally this year and the bird's nest ferns most impressive. There were dwartfed pines and Phoenix and Kentia palms. Intermingled with croups wat The vegetables displayed this year were up to the average and looked very appetizing with their newly scrubbed radiance. There were large stalks of asparagus, nice bokes, beets, beans, cabbages which proved the truth of Edna Ferber's quaint remark "cabbages beautiful," enormous cauliflower: cucumbers, leeks, and a nice col lection of herbs.' The onions made cone weep in passing, and the strawberries, while not as large usual made one hungry. There was, a lovely display of rhubarb, swiss chard (if you like it), and the potatoes beamed with all the eves in their shining heads. In the midst of the vegetable exhibition the Imperial Chemical Industri had an arch of sweet-williams anc roses, a good stock of fort sr, and a display of insect destroyer.
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