The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-05-12
|OSTON'S FLOWER SHOW.
Is TO Give It's House Warming in
June.
ODODENDRONS, AzALEAS AND ORCHIDS
Zen New Hall of Massachusetts tlorti-
cultural Society-The Finest Flower
Show Ever Held in United States.

Boston. May Following the remark
Ne success Of the recent horse show, Bos
is to have during the last days of
II month and the first of next an OK.
bitlon of early June flowers orchids,
sargoniums, rhododendrons, standard wis
HAS. azaleas and the other blooms of the
son-whlch ls expected TO prove the lar
N and mist beautiful flower show ever
IN Ia the United States. The occasion
i lie the opening of the new hall of the
Issachusctts Horticultural Society, the
althest organlzat on of its Kind in the
DID, and next to the Pennsylvania socl.
the oldest In this country.
BE Massachusetts, Horticultural society
Ia typical Boston institution. 1t was
nded III lS20. or only a quarter Of Il
tury after the horticultural society OF
don, which wis tbs original of hortIVul-
n societies the world over. 1t has IL
|lnDerslip Of nearly thousand, drawn
inly from the so.calcd metropolitan dis
OF Boston, but Including among its
responding members many distinguished
8anlsts and horticultL1sts from other
is 81 the country and from abroad The
OF the dozen or so honorary members.
includes several men of general emil
Pc whose loyc Of flowers and horiicul-
Z Is less generally know Donall
Mitchell uk Maxwell, for example. ana
Jos'ph Jeflclso Besides its regular
Of officers, the society has appointed,
some OF the foreign academies, It's
iessois OF botany aud vegetable physiol-
Of entomology and horticultural chem
Ia, Asa Gray, perhaps the most cele-
.eu Of American botnnists, was thus for
years the soclety's professor of bot
he wealth of the society has mainly
from It's early investment In Mount
a urn IN Cambridge, the cemetery where
s.thlow, Agassiz. Holmes, Lowell, Sum
anu so many other famous Bostonians
uteh laid to rest, and from the ap.
cHtloh In the value of its real estate.
oiu hall In fremont street, with Its
allehtll facade In the style of the
~ renaissance, and Its granite statues
avhes, tlora, and Pomona, has been,
peloie the great BOSTON fire, land
N the busiest part of Boston. so
Som wn.n the society decided to move its
Iuarleis, the price realized for its
hMn prrlerty was many fold what
Id UsPh originally paid for land anu
ne society has held many exhibitions.
vvusse, IN Its long history, not only of
~, fruits aud vegetables. but. from
isn.. tlme, In the line of such special
I'M as school and children's herha-
ia VI OF examples of window gardening
|ere M htoWHed tenements of the poor,
oftsne gltt Of q nickel for car fare
h. sYhiLa accompanied the return of the
~ ninltors pot of flowers TO enable
n" AIRY It home without too great a
rest W lred hands and arms. Rut the
I'M oI precious exhibition was held. not
&nmon at nail' but under a tent on Boston
|del h r'V ni thlrty years ago. 1t was at
Il q
M a'a y. up chiefly of rhododendrons.
4 Hunnoamn me. famous estate of Mir. III.
Iich fnr ven, IN Wellesley, near Boston,
HInaee ~, eus mas been an object of nil
flowers ~ INV to New Englanders, hut
4 over tba lowers and horticulture from
estata Senhtry, and from the Brook
4 Hs unse Of Mr. Charles i. Sargent Both
4 the preson. and Mr. Sargent, the lat,
&nle ~ ptcSeht Arnold professor of arborl
kohl Athassr ARD and the director of the
lrs to tho me- Will he leading contrib
Mr. coming exhibition, of which,
Potion, sent Is To have the general
IN WelIs. the , rhododendrons, whether
ates a,hey' brookline, or other great
lea w,,hhere the flower has been culti-
restipg fdpae.clal care, will he the most
exhIbt,nsa ture Of the show. AS In
be sunk IN on the, Common, they are
50 IN, N an earth he'd overlaId with
krea, tust the effect will be like thar Of
IutiS,, garden In the omen air Anotber
A whIeba ana remarkable feature. and one
kland a., hortlculturlsts ali over New
Ne ana , ,ooking forward, will be the
SARGENT Ielgn ,azaleas. particularly
Oh il hois collection of Indian azaleas,
pa ana hneVed 10 be the finest in the
perfeetinns oeen brought to Its pres
efnl ana M only after ffty years OF
Ply II SCIENTIFIC cultivation. Until re-
ng nnanas shown regularly every
IL ylsI.e, canvas In Brookllne ana
here All gu ny thousands of people
Brookii are BEAUTIFUL" wrt,te a visitor
e exblhIis Win reference to one Of
descrlhno ~ 1T is scarcely necessary
hne ,une varieties in detail. There
Shahel,Io,m plant OF the fiesh-fInted
ntess other distinct sorts are Inc
A ue Chambord. hlush white. %
yapa e,lellep; Decora' raadIsh mia;
ericn, bifNsFt sheet. Of tinted white;
escriptlon ~. and Exquisite, pink
Ion o q m mat gives but faint sug.
.gatherine varied charm of this su-
the eolInng OF rare exotics' OF late.
erest anSTctlon has greatly Increased In
able t,sU,eauty. and, under the ad-
careful Mons which are assured by
douhiia Planning OF the new hall. IL
flstioo - come as a genuine norai
% see /, y all who may be so fortunate
selection OF orchids, however, /.