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The Weekly Florists' Review, 



August 14, 1992 



KANSAS CITY. MO. 



The Flower Show. 



' ' All encouragement so far has come 

 from the management who will spare 

 neither time nor any expense to make 

 this the greatest llower show ever given. ' ' 

 — Uncle John Thorpe. 



Uncle John has spent nearly two w-eeks 

 here in conference with Mr. Taggart and 

 in closing the final details of what is 

 to be the greatest flower show the world 

 has ever seen. This is not idle talk. Kan- 

 sas City has tue greatest place on earth "to 

 hold such an exhibition, the management 

 composed of men who Jo things, and a 

 $7,000.00 premium list to attract the 

 growers. The premium lists will be out 

 and distributed this week. "Wnat do you 

 think of that $7,000 pi-oposition, Mr. 

 Grower? Don't you think it would be 

 a pretty good thing to be in on? 



Tue general plan of the show will be 

 changed considerably from last year. An 

 attendance of 100,000 people is expected 

 this year and last year the room was 

 crowded with 50,000, so to avoid crowd- 

 ing the roof gardens will be utilized for 

 the cut flowers. A board walk will cover 

 the boxes entirely around the arena floor, 

 which will give the promenaders a beau- 

 tiful view of the entire floor. 



On the arena floor will be reproduced 

 the home of Washington at Mount Ver- 

 non with its garden of old fashioned 

 flowers, a facsimile of the place as it 

 stands today. These old-fashioned flow- 

 ers are now being grown especially for 

 this show. A facsimile of the white 

 house will be arranged as a back ground 

 and marble steps will join it to the 

 Washington garden. All will be bril- 

 liantly illuniiua.ted with colored electric 

 lights. 



The cut-flower attraction in the roof 

 garden will consist of a mile of chrys- 

 anthemums, a mile of roses and a mile 

 of carnations. Mr. Taggart says if a 

 "Miss" is as good as a mile there will 

 be at least two hundred miles of pretty 

 flower girls in the booths. To further 

 carry out the idea all society ladies who 

 assist will dress in Colonial style. 

 Prizes are to be again offered for a new 

 musical composition to be dedicated to 

 the flower show. 



Notes. 



Director General Taggart was called 

 to Hillsdale, Mich., early last week, by 

 the sickness of his mother. 



H. J. Barnes has been entirely re- 

 modeling his place this summer. Those 

 of his houses that have hertofore run 

 north and south will be changed and 

 run east and west to correspond to the 

 rest of the plant. His other houses have 

 all been raised to have the gutters six 

 feet from the ground. Mr. Barnes will 

 have a nice place when completed. 



In connection with rooting carnation 

 cuttings I know one"big place where the 

 cutting bed was made of one by six-inch 

 pine with a quarter-inch crack. This 

 crack was stuffed with sphagnum to keep 

 the sand from falling through. As soon 

 as the boards got soaked there was of 

 course no drainage and yet the ' ' old 

 man" hollered pretty hard when the 

 second batch went by fungus. My own 

 cuttings were rooted on a slate-bottomed 

 bench. John H. Veset. 



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