B3o—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 3,1984
Experience the World of Rowers
PHILADELPHIA - On March
11-18, it will be possible to leave the
Philadelphia winter behind and
pass through exquisite tile gates to
enter a world of oriental en
chantment as the 1984 Philadelphia
Flower Show takes you on “A Trip
to the Orient” right under the five
acre roof of the Philadelphia Civic
Center.
Here, East will meet West as
flora from both hemispheres
combine to form one exhuberant
display of life and color.
Descending by escalator onto this
heavenly flower bed, visitors will
see before they a courtyard
is exhibit of Philadelphia’s Green Street was a major display by the Pa. Horticultural
Society’s community outreach program during the 1983 Philadelphia Flower Show. This
year's show promises exhibits that are equally creative and interesting.
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celebrating ikebana, the ancient
Japanese art of flower
arrangement. A central platform
hovering over a pool will be the
setting for the dramatic cen
terstage arrangements while more
examples of this spiritual art will
frame the courtyard within walls
set with large round windows. All
the creations here will be made by
ikebana masters of the highest
order, some of whom are jour
neying all the way from Japan to
demonstrate and display their art.
Moving forward into the next
area, visitors will be treated to an
outstanding display of priceless
trees including rare specimens
given to the National Arboretum
by the emperor of Japan during the
U.S. bicentennial and never before
exhibited outside their
Washington, D.C. home. Also on
display will be an incredible bonsai
“forest” and other specimens by a
renowned California master of
bonsai along with exhibits by area
horticulturists.
These two islands of
breathtaking oriental artistry will
be surrounded by 53 major exhibits
by the leading florists and land
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departments and world-famous
gardeners and gardens including
Winterthur Museum and Gardens
and Morris Arboretum of the
University of Pennsylvania.
Winterthur’s exhibit, “Asia,
Mother of Gardens,” recalls how
the opening of trade with the
Orient influenced the decorative
arts and the very composition of
gardens in the West, and will
feature a garden seat modeled
after an actual piece of chinoiserie
in the garden of a Wilmington
trader, surrounded by banks of
oriental trees, shrubs and plants.
Morris Arboretum, long a major
force in popularizing Eastern
plants in this area, will display a
buddhist temple admidst a
collection of woodland plants
native in China, Japan and Korea
to illustrate their adaptability and
ornamental value in American
gardens.
Many of the other exhibits will
likewise echo the theme of the
Show with settings that include an
oriental flower market; a
Japanese rain forest brimming
with orchids; a fanciful look at the
entrance to a Japanese-American
restaurant decorated with Eastern
plants; a pond garden with moon
viewing platform; a study of the
diversity and beauty of Chinese,
Japanese and Korean plants in a
Western garden; and a look at a
party following a trip to the Orient
when new treasures from the East
are combined with mementoes at
home in the West.
All this exotica is just one part of
the dazzling display of flora
awakened early from winter sleep
by flower “forcing” techniques.
The Show will be ablaze with
flowers of fuchsia, purple and red
blooming everywhere. Some of the
flowers will be new specimens with
coloring never before seen in the
species.
The Philadelphia Flower Show,
the largest indoor flower show in
the world, is produced annually by
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Society, a non-profit organization
dedicated to the promotion of
horticulture in the mid-Atlantic
states. The Show is an American
tradition dating back to 1829 and
today welcomes over one quarter
of a million visitors from all over
the country and the world.
In addition to being a visual
delight, the Show is also a com
petitor’s paradise. Competitive
classes in table settings, decorated
rooms, flower arrangements,
miniatures and horticulture at
tract over 1500 individual and
organizational entires which are
judged by 160 national experts.
The Show is also highly
educational and will this year
feature a series of ikebana and
bonsai lectures and demon
strations by the visiting masters.
These seminars have a separate
admission charge, but there will be
several free gardening and flower
arranging demonstrations on the
Show floor and many exhibitors
and staff members of the Penn
sylvania Horticultural Society will
be available to answer gardening
questions.
J. Liddon Pennock, Jr. of
Meadowbrook, is chairman of the
1984 Flower Show. Jane Pepper,
executive director of the Penn
sylvania Horticultural Society, is
Show manager and Ed Lindemann
is the Show designer.
Show hours are Monday through
Saturday, 10 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., and
Sundays, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Adult
tickets are $6 and children under 12
pay $3. Advance group sale tickets
are $5.25 from the Pennsylvania
Horticultural Society, 325 Walnut
Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106.
Tickets are also available at the
door, Ticketron and other leading
ticket agencies. The public is
encouraged to take public tran
sportation to the Flower Show and
to visit on weekdays between 3
p.m. and 6 p.m. when crowds are
smaller.
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