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October 15, 1913- 



THE VINCENT DAHLIA SHOW. 



This interpsting annual event, which 

 took place week before last at the nur- 

 series of R. Vincent, Jr. & Sons Co., 

 Cowenton, Md., was briefly mentioned 

 in our last issue. Visitors came from 

 far and near and were treated to a 

 most imposing spectacle. Forty-five 

 acres of dahlias were spread out 

 as a carpet and this magnificent scene 

 was supplemented by 55 acres of can- 

 nas in dazzling array. All the va- 

 rieties were marked with their names 

 on prominent labels and a splendid op- 

 portunity was thus afforded, which 

 many made the most of, to select such 

 kinds as appealed to their fancy for 

 planting next season. One patch in 

 particular seemed to attract all 

 visitors — where certain of the giant- 

 flowering sorts had been given special 

 care in tying them up to stakes, dis- 

 budding to single stems and mulching. 



After the visitors had inspected the 

 outside exhibition and entered the im- 

 mense packing shed, which had been 

 temporarily turned into an exhibition 

 hall, they saw one of the largest exhi- 

 bitions of cut ,dahlias ever put up by 

 an individual firm. 20,000 being used to 

 carry out one scheme of decorations 

 alone, — the south wall, 100 feet In 

 length by 66 inches in height com- 

 pletely covered with short-stem flow- 

 ers in a bed of moss slanting from the 

 front edge of the table to the ceiling 

 This was first covered with pompons 

 or very small dahlias in blocks tour 

 feet wide and reaching to the top, the 

 varieties so arranged that the colors 

 blended. Then in a circle in the cen- 

 ters of these blocks were featured a 

 large flowering variety in contrasting 

 size and color to the ground work. Six- 

 teen of such blocks were worked out 

 and at either end of this bank was an 

 immense cornucopia of a light color 

 arranged on a dark background. 

 Golden West and Delice in one, and 

 Master Carl and Jack Rose in the oth- 

 er. In the center of the bank was 

 worked out a design in small yellow 

 and white dahlias. Along the north 

 wall was a similar bank, 80 feet long, 

 in the center of which was a six-foot 

 block of Wm. Agnew, a bright scarlet, 

 as a relief tor a large wreath filled 

 with white dahlias loosely arranged 

 and encircling a lyre of small pink 

 dahlias. The remaining part of this 

 bank was filled with solid blocks about 

 two feet square of 88 individual varie- 

 ties in all classes, Cactus, Decorative, 

 Show, Pompon, Collerette, Century and 

 Peony-Flowered. 



In the center of the hall covering 

 what is usually wide tables with a 

 shelf above, but what was now com- 

 pletely concealed, were blocks four 



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 Here long-stemmed dahlias were sot 

 up in buckets of water and loosely ar- 

 ranged with oak leaves for a back 

 ground, the buckets being also com- 

 pletely covered with the foliage, thus 

 making a very attractive and striking 

 effect. To the left of the main en- 

 trance was staged, on the steps lead- 

 ing to the upper floor, a bank of about 

 1,000 of the .Mrs. Chas. Seybold dahlia. 

 a variety of the firm's own introduc- 

 tion of a few years ago. 



In the dining room tables were set 

 to accommodate 100 guests, and often 

 they were crowded. A special feature 

 and one worthy of consideration was 

 the neighborhood farm produce ex- 

 hibit, in which the farmers of this vi- 

 cinity joined, making up an exhibit 

 worthy of any community. 



PERSONAL. 



• C. F. Meyer, of Now York, is away 

 on a Southern trip. 



Harry N. Kelley, florist, of Cam- 

 bridge, Mass., and .Miss Mary Curnano 

 were married on October 19. 



Otto Heinecken, horticultural agent 

 and importer of New York city is on 

 a business tour in the West. 



Harry A. Barnard, who is on an 

 American trip in the Interests of 

 Stuart Low & Co., will sail for Eng- 

 land on Nov. 5. His present address 

 is Hotel Albert, New York City. 



A. Kakuda, of Yokahoma Nursery 

 Co., New York, who has been on a 

 visit to Japan is now homeward 

 bound and is due to arrive in New 

 York, via Chicago, about October 30. 



Mr. Louis Vilmorin, a younger 

 brother of Philippe de Vilmorin, head 

 of the French seed house that bears 

 his name, accompanied Mr. Emerich 

 in his annual visit to the United States 

 and is this week calling on the trade 

 in Boston. 



Boston visitors — Alfred Emerich and 

 Louis Vilmorin of Paris, Franco; 

 George C. Watson, Phila., Pa. 



Chicago visitors: Paul M. Palez. 

 Liittle Rock, Ark.; Harry Philpott. 

 Winnipeg. Man.; P. N. Obertin, 

 Kenosha, Wis. 



New York visitors — D. Carmlchael, 

 representing J. M. McCuUough's Sons 

 Co., Cincinnati, O. ; George C. Watson, 

 Philadelphia, Pa.; John Canning. 

 Ardsley, N. Y.; Chas. Holland, repre- 

 senting R. & J. Farquhar & Co., Bos- 

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