Windham County Observer

Garden Of Allies
Will Be Featured
At Flower Show

An All-American Arrangement Also Is To Be Included In Program Already Outlined.

(Special to The Observer)

Boston, Feb. 21—The 1944 Spring Flower Show at Horticultural Hall, March 18 through March 25 will feature the Gardens of our Allies. But by no means will it be confined to this, for there will be an all-American garden with plants from each of the 48 states. And there will be a Pan-American garden, a real "Good Neighbor" offering.

Color, splendor and variety will dominate the show. Will C. Curtis of Garden-in-the-Woods, South Sudbury, famous landscape designer, is responsible for the theme and he is working with Arno Nehrling, director of the show, in the scenic problems thus presented.

The Gardens of our Allies will be staged in the large Exhibition Hall and will include gardens from China, Russia, and England, as well as the all-American garden. And the feature exhibit, the Pan-American garden, will be a Jungle scene with a huge, beautiful waterfall.

Mrs. Irving C. Wright's Garden Clubs' Exhibition Committee will have an Azalea Garden of rare beauty in the large lecture hall. Here, also, will be the Clematis Garden arranged by Albert Hulley of Middleboro. On the stage Adrian Frylink of Babylon, Long Island, will set up one of the largest collections of daffodils ever exhibited anywhere. This room will also contain a number of intimate gardens and a spectacular flower border.

The Spring Flower Show would not be complete without an exhibition of acacias, those famous golden flowered plants from Australia. This year the loggia will be transformed into an acacia grove with plants from the famous collection grown in the greenhouses of Mrs. Galen L. Stone at Marion.

Orchids, too, will again have an important part in the show. The small Exhibition Hall will be given over to them. Sherman Adams of Wellesley, Edwin S. Webster, President of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Mrs. E. B. Dane, and other orchid fanciers, will have their large displays of these alluring flowers. The Butterworths of Framingham and the Rolands of Nahant also will have their exhibits in this hall.

On the second floor the Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts will show within the vaulted room flower arrangements of different types, and in the foyer, a Cactus Grotto from the greenhouses of F. I. Carter and Sons of Tewksbury.

On the third floor, the story, "Food Fights for Freedom," will be told, for here the Massachusetts State College will demonstrate modern methods of food production, preservation, and nutrition. Bring your problems to these specialists. On this floor, also, will be the exhibits of the New England Carnation Growers Association and the New England Farm and Garden Association, and the New England Wild Flower Preservation Society. Besides, there will be bank upon bank of rare and beautiful roses and other cut flowers.

As usual, the seeker after garden accessories, seeds, and the tools with which to carry on the Victory Gardens and the Flower Gardens of 1944 will find everything he desires in the trade section on the lower floor.

On the opening day, Saturday, March 18, and on Sunday, March 19, the hours are from 1 to 10 p. m. For the rest of the week the show will be open from 9 a. m. to 10 p. m.