SEPTEMBKR S, 189S. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



403 



TORONTO. 



The Exhibition. 



"Have you been to the exhibition?' 

 is the first question one is greeted 

 with on meeting an acquaintance these 

 liays. Of course, everyone has been 

 or is going next week (the big weelt) ; 

 not to have been is to be like the man 

 on the hearse. The ugly old horticul- 

 tural hall is as full of plants as ever, 

 perhaps a little fuller, and the general 

 quality is superior. The seventy-five 

 Btove and greenhouse plants and 

 the large table of decorative plants, 

 for which there are four entries each, 

 are themselves a big show, and bring 

 out some magnificent plants, a treat to 

 gaze on. 



The two best seventy - fives, those 

 from Reservoir park (Mr. George 

 Reeves) and Exhibition park (Mr. J. 

 Chambers), were tied, Mr. Scott being 

 unable to give any other decision. I 

 don't know whether he went over 

 them plant by plant, but even if he 

 had, I doubt whether he could have 

 come to any other conclusion. Both 

 certainly contained some magnificent 

 specimens. Mr. Reeves' dietfenbachias, 

 crotons, Ficus Parcelli, and Davallia 

 Mooreana were especially noticeable. 

 Central prison (Mr. Wm. Houston), 

 which lost all its best plants by fire 

 last fall, was third with a very credit- 

 able lot of plants, considering the 

 short time it has had to grow them. 

 and Manton Bros., fourth, with a 

 smaller lot of more commercial size. 



For the best table of decorative 

 plants, Manton Bros, took Captain 

 McMaster's silver medal and the first 

 prize with a bright, clean and healthy 

 looking lot of plants very tastefully 

 and prettily arranged, and well de- 

 serving the honor done them. Horti- 

 cultural gardens (Mr. Watkins), sec- 

 ond, also with a very pretty table, but 

 with plants rather too large for the 

 style attempted, and the general effect 

 a little stiff. Mr. B. Collins (who set 

 them up) will, however, no doubt rem- 

 edy this next year; the style is very 

 effective when properly done, but 

 takes lot of study and plants grown 

 for the purpose. Grainger Bros, were 

 third with a very pretty table, but 

 also too stiff. Reservoir park, fourth. 



The usual amount of palms and 

 ferns were staged and make a fine 

 display. In the 12 specimen ferns, G. 

 Reeves took first with a very fine lot, 

 a large Platycerium grande being 

 amongst them. J. Chambers' 12 were 

 only a neck behind, if any. Exhibits 

 of plants in flower are improving every 

 year; this year they brighten up the 

 old hall considerably. A grand speci- 

 men is Mr. Reeves' plant on trellis, 

 Allamanda Henderson!. Fancy cal- 

 adiums are very good plants, not quite 

 so large as have been shown in for- 

 mer years, but the varieties are im- 

 proving. Tuberous begonias, good. 

 but better have been shown before. 

 Cut flowers come in this week. The 

 other attractions of the exhibition are 

 better than ever, both exhibits and 



amusements. The Siege of Santiago, 

 including Hobson's exploit, is a greai 

 attraction to our American brethren, 

 of whom there are a great number in 

 the city. 



Horticultural Association. 



The members attending the Cana- 

 dian Horticultural Association con- 

 vention will have plenty of entertain- 

 ment, although that is to be consid- 

 ered strictly as a minor part of the 

 meeting. I see from a newspaper re- 

 port that the city will give a street 

 car ride, with a luncheon at the finish 

 in Hyde Park, and that the Exhibition 

 Association will give them free ad- 

 mission to the grandstand. It is re- 

 ported that a delegation of the trade 

 from New York will also be present. 

 The more the merrier. The trade ex- 

 hibit will probably be a little scat- 

 tered; a large one is not expected. J. 

 A. Simmers has already put up a fins 

 show of florists' requisites in the Hor- 

 ticultural building. 



Various Notes. 



The weather has been very hot and 

 dry again all last week, and vegetation 

 was literally scorched; 98 degrees in 

 the shade was registered, the hottest 

 at this time of year since 1854. A nice 

 rain, however, has fallen this morn- 

 ing, and we are promised more. 



Mr. A. Ewing is about to join the 

 grand army of florists in Canada, he 

 having bought out a running business 

 in Berlin, Ont. There are no Kaiser- 

 hofs or any other kind of hofs in this 

 Berlin, but it is the liveliest and solid- 

 est kind of little town (10,000 popu- 

 lation) in Canada, and Mr. E. thinks 

 he can be happier and make more 

 money there than in a government 

 "sit." He has been superintending the 

 Normal School gardens eleven years. 

 E. 



GRAND RAPIDS, MICH, 



The fore part of last week, the heat 

 was as if the winds of Sahara had 

 struck the town. Carnation planting 

 had to 'be temporarily suspended. It 

 is resumed, now that the weather has 

 turned cooler and is threatening rain. 

 It is, "Hurry up and get those carna- 

 tions in." 



Trade still out of sight. We are go- 

 ing to send one of the volunteer com- 

 panies to try and locate it. There are 

 some good roses, even to fine Beauties, 

 coming in. Carnations scarce and 

 poor. Asters, what are left from the 

 ravages of disease, are fair. 



The Florist Club holds its first 

 meeting of the season tonight at the 

 Eagle Hotel. GEO. F. CRABB. 



COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. 



The sixth annual Carnival of Flow- 

 ers was the grandest affair of the sort 

 ever held in this city. The parade 

 contained an immense number of ve- 

 hicles elaborately decorated with 

 flowers and floats of a suitable charac- 

 ter. The whole city was handsomely 

 decorated and great crowds of visitors 

 were present from other cities. 



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