New-York tribune., 1906-06-03
TIE Paris FIoeUer .Sbose'.
tive Plant.

new plant' which has gained for its producer a
silver medal II bears the unmusical name of
Kalancha Kewensis so it may be presumed to
be at least related TO some plant in Kew Car
dens. It is a decorative and handsome flower,
resembling the pretty little century of own
New England fields. but with a very high, stiff
stalk and spiky foliage growing in a thick
from the roots. leaving the flower stalk
exposed for most of its length. Not far from this
is bed of the unholy Nicotinia, or tobacco
plant. of the livid. pinllishpurple variety. It is
too early in the afternoon for it to be exhaling
its sweet voluptuous scent, so the azaeas here
have IT all their own way. In a recess on one
side is large Iookingglass. and against this are
superb arum lilies. some white and some of
fine. clear lemon yellow. very striking and very
lovely. The long. curving blooms lean wearily
forward in front Of the mirror and over the lit
tie pool of water at their roots and are reflected
twice over.
A thing of beauty too is the damp bed,
large one this year. and filled with beautiful
and endless varieties of irises. The Portuguese
make a good show. and the colorings are more
varied in their delicate gradations than ever.
The same may be said of the gloxinias Next
to the geraniums these are, in fact the finest
plants in the show Besides the richly and solidly
colored kinds, there a number OF curiously
specked plants. looking as If they had been
first covered with cobwebs and then exposed to
a heavy Rhode Island mist.
SUGGESTIONS ON GARDEN BORDERS
In herbaceous bordering the show offers vaIu-
able suggestions to the fortunate possessors Of
gardens. a fine effect has been obtained with a
thickly massed groundwork in the foreground of
nemesas, OF the dwarf African variety. The
tiny bright blossoms in all colors not mixed
but succeeding each other In equal patches form
q poetic preface TO the antiTThnums, Canterbury
belIs, stocks and poppies Of the perennial kinds
and the bed eliminates in some sensational fox
gloves which bear on the summit Of their beauti-
1ul reds OF bloom widely opened fiat flower
looking rather Ikea Cattleya orchid.
CHANGING around the show to get one last COL
lecuve view, one is struck by the introduction
into one family OF plants Of the cooring of an
other- For instance, there is in the bed OF new
giant geraniums plant OF wonderful pink
which is almost lilac mauve Who ever
saw mauVe geranium before? Then here IS
small standard rose OF the brier variety whose
thing like that Of the escholtzia. A sweet scent
ed stock is Of the livid purple OF the deadly
nightshade of the hedges. Then there is a fine
hydrangea or, az the French call IL latter the
queen who loved ~ the Hortensia of the same
Opaque metallic blue the plumbago One
might multiply instances, and in so doing tes-
tify 10 the perseverance and enterprise of gar
deners
One pretty feature Of the Paris flower show
homely cottage garden borderings which have
been IN other years all along the terrace hang
Ing over the Seine. To-day their place is occu-
pied by little summer houses of a light and
portable kind, made of bast or raphia, as the
French call it, CIR