December 27, 1913 



HORTICULTUEE 



903 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SHOW AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN. 



A visit to a flower stiow is a perfect 

 holiday to those who cherish their 

 gardens. Yet not often do we see 

 there a true proclamation of beauty; 

 and a still rarer "experience it is to 

 find nobility and charm dominating 

 and pervading such displays of flow- 

 ers. The flower-show in this country 

 Is fortunately a more and more com- 

 mon occurrence; but the flower show 

 which is perfection, one which the 

 most critical may not criticise, this 

 is a sort of seventh wonder of the 

 flowery world. 



And such, to the pride of every 

 flower lover in Michigan who saw it. 

 was the Second Annual Flower Show 

 of the University of Michigan, in 

 Alumni Memorial Hall at Ann Arbor. 

 A perfect formal garden of chrysan- 

 themums tall and dwarf, of chrysan- 

 themums for the most part of white. 

 of faint to strong tones of yellow, and 

 of fine cool pinks and mauves. Set in 

 the court or patio of this noble build- 

 ing, the impression the flowers gave on 

 entering was first one of excellence of 

 design in the garden plan, of able ad- 

 justment of proportions of the garden 

 beds, walks and spaces to each other; 

 a delicate sense of proportion agam 

 where perpendicular lines needed con- 

 sidering; beside all columns stand tall 

 chrysanthemum plants delicately out- 

 lined against the creamy marble. I 

 see I have yielded to Instinct in al- 



ready calling this flower show a gar- 

 den. I violate my feeling as to this 

 lovely arrangement by speaking of it 

 as a flower show and shall perhaps 

 be forgiven if I refer to it as a formal 

 garden of chrysanthemums. 



The color arrangement of this 

 garden was nothing short of delect- 

 able. "An artist hath done this thing." 

 There was charm seldom attained in 

 the management of colors. The hun- 

 dred or more varieties of chrysanthe- 

 mums represented presented a picture 

 ever to be recalled with delight. Bal- 

 ance of form and balance in color 

 were always maintained. So cleverly 

 was all this done that the great 

 statues in the hall seemed to have 

 felt the subtle influence of flowers and 

 become as garden adjuncts — general 

 effect considered. The glorious up- 

 ward-winging Victory at the far end 

 of the garden was not out of keeping 

 with the tall poised flowers below. 

 Even the Laocoon lost its tragic hor- 

 ror here "and seemed a part of the 

 gentler beauty of gardens. And was 

 there not a serpent in Eden? 



The hanging baskets, a half-dozen 

 of them, covered with Mizpah chry- 

 santhemums, were, I first thought, 

 Bougainvillea. A remarkably success- 

 ful feature of the Flower Show was the 

 beautiful arrangement seen on the 

 right as one entered the hall. Here 

 below the fine relief portrait in 

 bronze of the beloved Dr. Angell, 



president emeritus of the University, 

 was a grouping of chrysanthemum.s 

 in tones of rich coppery browns, 

 bronze and tan in most interesting re- 

 lation to each other and to the work 

 of art above them. Admirable use of 

 greenhouse plants was made with the 

 chrysanthemums, the whole suggest- 

 ing that perfectly appropriate thing 

 at this time and tn this place, a votive 

 offering! 



When one finds that here were two 

 thousand plants in over one hundred 

 varieties, all grown in the University 

 greenhouse, which measures sixteen 

 by eighty feet, and that this is man- 

 aged on an income of three thousand 

 a year, one is amazed no less at the 

 skill of Mr. Weiner, who has grown 

 the flowers, than at the perfect beauty 

 of the show itself. 



This indoor garden suggests repro- 

 ductions of itself out of doors. What 

 arrangements could we not have thus 

 with heleniums and Michaelmas 

 daisies to give again the lavenders, 

 cool pinks and yellows; petunias, 

 scabiosas yellow antirrhinums, Aqui- 

 legia chrysantha, the tall Thermopsis 

 Caroliniana, white and rich pink 

 nicotianas, pink and mauve zinnias. 

 Given a white painted wooden peri- 

 style modelled exactly upon the fine 

 one in this hall, the garden to be laid 

 out within its spaces— untold open air 

 beauty might result. 



Mrs. Fbancis King. 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE. 



New Chrysanthemums. 



The following list of new varieties 

 have received awards recently from 

 the National Chrysanthemum Society: 

 Miss Willis, white single; Mrs. H. 

 Bean, white, shaded pink: Maud Lou- 

 sada, silvery mauve exhibition bloom; 

 Mrs. Lawrence, rosy pink single; M. 

 L. Smith, deep rose single; Gladys 

 Jones, terra-cotta single; Bertha La- 

 chaux, Japanese variety, mauve pink 

 with silvery mauve pink reverse; also 

 Mauve Beauty, incurved Japanese, sil- 

 very mauve. 



Perpetual Flowering Carnations. 

 A very successful show of the Per- 



petual Flowering Carnation Society 

 attracted a large attendance at the 

 Royal Horticultural Hall, on Dec. 3rd. 

 The exhibition was distinctly in ad- 

 vance of the previous ones. The chal- 

 lenge cup presented by the American 

 Carnation Society for three vases 

 of American novelties was won by 

 C. Engelman, wlio exhibited Wode- 

 nethe, Northport and Enchantress Su- 

 preme. The second prize was secured 

 by H. T. Mason, who staged Rosette, 

 Enchantress Supreme and White Win- 

 sor. The cup presented by J. S. Brun- 

 ton, the president, was another of the 

 many awards which fell to C. Engel- 

 niann. A. F. Dutton had a fine dis- 

 play of popular varieties. Awards 

 were made to the following novelties: 



Cinderella, mauve and cerise; Lady 

 Fuller, salmon; Queen Alexandra, sal- 

 mon pink; Pioneer, rose pink; Cham- 

 pion, American variety; Enchantress 

 Supreme, and Gorgeous, cerise. 



W. H. Adsett. 



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