October 29, 1903. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



915 



I CHICAGO CLUB'S EXHIBITION. \ 

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The first of the series of exhibitions 

 planned by the Chicago Florists' Club 

 was held at Handel hall, 40 Randolph 

 street, Saturday afternoon, and taxed the 

 capacity of the room, which was consider- 

 ably larger than any heretofore used for 

 the club 's trade shows. The exhibitors 

 were not numerous, the management 

 being somewhat disappointed at the fail- 

 ure of the local growers to be present 

 with blooms of the standard varieties, 

 but the Indiana and Illinois growers 

 came to town in fine style, making not 

 only large exhibits, but staging flowers 

 which were a revelation as to the quality 

 of the early sorts which have recently 

 appeared in the novelty lists. It was 

 noted that the great majority of the 

 chrysanthemums were of European or 

 Australian origin, and wonderful things 

 some of the new earlies are, but two ex- 

 cellent seedlings were shown by C. W. 

 Johnson, who has named them for his 

 employer 's wife and his town, respective- 

 ly, Mrs. H. W. Buckbee, white, and 

 Rockford, yellow. The judges scored 

 them above the verv good French sorts 

 shown by the E. G. Hill Co. 



The carnations, while not occupying as 

 much room as the chrysanthemums, were 

 of equal quality, the vase of 100 Adonis 

 shown by Hill attracting particular at- 

 tention. Fiancee was shown in good 

 shape and made quite as favorable an 

 impression as when it was first seen here. 

 Crusader and others were also shown in 

 fine shape by the Chicago Carnation Co. 

 W. N. Rudd staged a nice vase of Phyllis 

 and F. Dorner & Sons Co.. Lafavette, 

 showed its two good whites. Lady Boun- 

 tiful and The Belle, .also two seedlinc- 

 under number. The Thompson exhibit 

 was large and included their next sea- 

 son's offerings, all in good order. The 

 B. K. & B. Floral Co., of Richmond, sent 

 Richmond Gem and Gunnar Teilmann, of 

 Marion, Ind., sent Marion Beauty. 



In roses, only two vases were shown, 

 but one of these was the Breitmeyer seed- 

 ling of Bridesmaid and Testout. which 

 although it has been offered in this 

 market pretty regularly for a couple of 

 years, is just now beginning to be ap- 

 preciated at its true worth— which shows 

 the value of advertising. The other rose 

 shown was a vellow seedling from Hill, 

 much like Perle. E. H. Hunt staged twc 

 fine bunches of violets. 



The E. G. Hill Co., Richmond, Ind. 

 entered four chrysanthemums for cer- 

 tificates, Cinna, G. Perraud, Ethel 

 Fitzroy and Lord Hopetoun. In line 

 with Mr. Hill's remarks at the C. S. A. 

 convention last year, a vase of Mile. 

 Cheveraut was staged with the necks 

 under the enormous blooms reinforced by 

 wires. Etienne Bomiefond. buff, was very 

 good, also Mile. Touzet, the early Chad- 

 wick, and Miss Alice Byron, a commercial 

 white. Other sorts in the set were F. S. 

 Vallis, Miss Olive Miller, M. Paul Labbe, 

 Mrs. T. W. Pockett, Mrs. Tranter, Mrs. 

 A. McKinley, Mine. Von Andre, Mrs. T. 

 Longley, Mary Inglis, Rastignac, Mile. E. 

 Chabanne, Mme. Paul Sahut. Choulet and 

 C. J. Salter. 



Aside from those entered for certifi- 

 cates, the H. W. Buckbee exhibit included 

 very fine blooms of the following good 

 sorts: Matthew Smith, Mme. E. Nieo- 

 laud, Brutus, Durban 's Pride, Louis 

 Leroux, Mrs. T. W. Pockett, Mrs. Harry 

 Emmerton, Viviand-Morel, Matchless, 

 Mrs. Coombes. Col. Appleton, Alice 

 Byron, Thos. Humphries, Marie Douillet. 

 Geo. Carpenter and C. J. Salter, the lat- 

 ter being particularly good. They also 

 had a vase of sixteen oddities. 



Gunnar Teilmann, Marion, Ind., sent 

 twelve fine blooms each of Mrs. Coombes, 

 Alice Byron and Col. Appleton, also one 

 bloom each of Marie Liger, Mongolian 

 Prince, Walleroo. Mrs. Robinson, .Teannie 

 Falconer, Villa de Bordeaux, J. K. 

 Shaw, Mrs. E. D. Smith. Major Bonn- 

 affon, G. W. Childs. Robert Ha'lliday and 

 Charles Davis. His carnations were 

 Marion Beauty and G. H. Crane. 



Nathan Smith & Son, Adrian. Mich, 

 sent vases of No. 20, a white seedling of 

 the Mizpah type; No. 26. light pink, and 

 No. 16, pink, both single; also No. 1, a 

 pompon, and blooms of Amorita and 

 Cremo. They also sent a vase of their 

 scarlet eanna. The Express. 



W. N Rudd had some good blooms of 

 Ivory, white and pink. 



Besides Fiancee, the Chicago Carna- 

 tion Co. showed Crusader, Reliance, Har- 

 lowarden. Moonlight and No. 822A. 



The Thompson Co. had Apollo, Pros- 

 perity. Mrs. Patten. Boston Market, 

 Gov. TVolcott, Estelle, Adonis, Lawson, 

 Nelson Fisher, Harry Fenn and En- 

 chantress. The Wole'ott impressed the 

 growers very favorably. 



The Dorner novelties, Lady Bountiful 

 and The Belle, were much admired; they 

 give every promise of being first-class 

 commercial varieties. No. 193, pink, is 

 also a good one. No. 37, variegated 

 light pink, is a large flower of a some- 

 what unusual color. It had not traveled 

 well. 



Bassett & Washburn showed a vase of 

 the California carnation, Hannah Ho- 

 bart, also ten seedlings raised on their 

 place by Joseph Kahout. These include 

 two good reds and a particularly prom- 

 ising white, the latter the result of a 

 cross of Prosperity and Morning Glory. 



Vaughan sent two plants of the Pier- 

 son fern, some solanums and a half- 

 dozen blooms of Mrs. Robinson chrysan- 

 themum. F. A. Bailer, Bloomington, 111., 

 showed six varieties of clematis and the 

 George Wittbold Co. sent down some 

 good palms, draesenas, etc. 



The judges were James S. Wilson, 

 Ernst Wienhoeber and E. A. Kanst. They 

 scored the chrysanthemums as follows: 

 Hill exhibits, Lord Hopetoun, 87; Ethel 

 Fitzroy. 86; Cinna, 85. Buckbee ex- 

 hibits, Mrs. Buckbee. 91; Rockford, 88. 

 The carnations were scored as follows: 

 Chicago Carnation Co. exhibits, Fiancee, 

 91; Reliance, 89; Crusader, 85; No. 

 S22A, 85. W. N. Rudd exhibit, Phyllis. 90. 

 Thompson exhibits. Nelson Fisher. 87; 

 Mrs. M. A. Patten, 85. Dorner exhibits, 

 Lady Bountiful, 87; The Belle. 86; No. 

 193, 82; No. 37, 75. Teilmann exhibit, 

 Marion Beauty. 79. B. K. & B. Floral 

 Co. exhibit, Richmond Gem. 75 points. 



The Folev premiums were given as fol- 

 lows, for best general display: First, 

 E. G. Hill Co.; second, Thompson Car- 

 nation Co. ; third, H. W. Buckbee. Com- 

 mendatory mention was made of each of 

 the other exhibits. 



The only possible fault to be found 

 with the exhibition was with the attend- 

 ance. While the hall was well filled, all 

 of the time, some of the well known faces 

 were missing. Only four retailers pre- 

 sented themselves during the afternoon 

 and a number of those in the wholesale 

 market did not so much as look in. Cer- 

 tainly they would have been well repaid. 



Tbe Supper. 



After the exhibits had been removed 

 about fifty adjourned to Becker & Jack- 

 son's restaurant for dinner. The tables 

 had been tastefully decorated and every- 

 one did justice to as good a dinner as 

 anyone need ever expect for half a dol- 

 lar. Then the judges were called on for 

 their report, after which Mr. Thompson 

 introduced Philip Breitmever. of Detroit, 

 president-elect of the S. A. F., who com- 

 mended the show and said he hoped to 



A Section of the Chrysanthemum Exhibit by the Chicago Florists' Club, Octobet 24, J903. 



