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Show f Backyard fT Gardener w 1 Holland will host flower lovers tables, there will be a 7,000-square-meter (according (ac-cording to my calculations, that works out to be just under 23,000 square feet) flower hall which will be filled with a series of indoor in-door exhibits. The Floriade directors have set up their horticultural horticul-tural exhibition to be a haven of new ideas in gardening gar-dening in potted plants and in the planning of flower, flow-er, fruit and vegetable gardens. gar-dens. After the Floriade '82 exhibition ex-hibition is formally finished, fin-ished, the grounds will become be-come a "learning garden" to be used by students and amateur gardeners as a tool for learning more about how things grow. I'll have some more information in-formation on this international interna-tional horticultural event in next week's column. By PATRICK DENTON Copley News Service My wife, also a garden J writer, was fortunate enough to have participated participat-ed in a journalists' tour to Holland last September, to preview the site of the 1982 ' International Floriade Horticultural Exhibition in . Amsterdam. Floriade 1982 is located on a 130-acre park in the southeast of Amsterdam, just 17 minutes by metro from the city's Central Station Sta-tion or a pleasant drive by car from Amsterdam. Well set up for the tourist, Amsterdam's Am-sterdam's many hotels and tourist offices have good maps available with routes marked to the Floriade. Open April 8 to Oct. 10, the Floriade offers a wealth of visual treats for home gardeners who dream of creating ever more beautiful visual displays dis-plays in their own yards. Garden lovers will be able to choose the timing for a Floriade visit according accord-ing to their favorite horticultural horti-cultural subjects. For instance, in-stance, if bulb flowers are your first love, and you dream of vast seas of tulip bloom, then a spring visit would be most inspiring. At the same time, a visit to the nearby Keukenhof Gardens in Lisse the largest bulb display in the world will be equally enjoyable. en-joyable. At the Floriade park, double tulips will grace the entrance while the big open flower field will be planted with a rich assortment of major tulip species. Another part of the field will display the total range of hyacinth blooms and an adjoining section will feature fea-ture the wide range of daffodil daf-fodil and narcissi varieties. If dahlias are your first horticultural love, then a later visit towards the fall season, would be best. The Dahlia Showgarden at Heemstede is also well worth a visit. There, you are greeted by an extensive exten-sive field of vivid dahlia bloom of every class and color. The Floriade should prove a great learning opportunity op-portunity for the home gardener, gar-dener, there being many demonstration plantings a kitchen garden, herb garden, gar-den, rockery plant garden, vegetable gardens both outdoors and under glass, small fruit garden, model fruit farm and honey plant collection. Other types of plantings that have been given their own garden areas are lilies, lil-ies, roses, iris, dahlias, azaleas and perennials including in-cluding wild, cultivated and drought-adaptable perennials. Some of the gardens can be seen by electric boat on the man-made lake in the Floriade park. There are playgrounds, picnic meadows, mead-ows, restaurants and water recreational activities available and an electric train that tours the park a good way to gain one's first general impressions before walking through and looking at various exhibits ex-hibits in detail. As well as glasshouse exhibits ex-hibits of flowers and vege- |