November 12, 1910 



HORTICULTURE 



669 



CHICAGO NOTES. 

 Opening of the Flower Show. 



Monday morning the office of the 

 manager of the flower show was moved 

 from its first quarters in the Winter- 

 son store to the Coliseum, where ex- 

 hibits were fast being staged and 

 everything made ready for the big an- 

 nual event. By night the jilant ex- 

 hibits were mostly staged and the vast 

 building was ready for the cut flowers 

 to complete the picture. 



The floor space this year is arranged 

 in garden effect, differently from any 

 previous event. The large plant beds 

 are covered with tan bark and raised, 

 the sloping sides and the level ground 

 covered with sod. This alone greatly 

 adds to the beauty of the scene as a 

 whole. The center walk for visitors is 

 much larger than usual, another good 

 feature. In the center at the north 

 end is the orchestra, instead of in the 

 balcony as formerly, and the music 

 will be heard much better. The south 

 end has a scene on canvas showing an 

 ideal house surrounded with lawn and 

 shrubbery. Much of the material, as 

 screens, etc., in readiness for the Land 

 show which follows next week, has 

 been turned to good account in the 

 Flower show. Large quantities of wild 

 smilax were used in festoons, etc., with 

 the usual graceful effect. The booth 

 where cut flowers will be sold to the 

 public is just inside the main entrance. 



The soutli room of the annex is par- 

 titioned off for lectures on trees, 

 shrubs, plants, etc., illustrated by ster- 

 eopticon. These lectures are listed for 

 each evening at S o'clock and Thurs- 

 day, Friday and Saturday afternoons 

 at 3.30. The program is as follows: 



Tuesday Evening, II. B. Dorner, subject: 

 What Illinois is Doing for the Flor- 

 ists. Wednesday Evening, Jens Jensen, 

 subject: Native Trees and Shrubs tor the 

 Honje Orouuds. Thursday Afternuoii, .Tohn 

 .1. Davis, subject: Insect Pests uf Trees 

 and Shrubs. Thursday Evening, Howard 

 Evarts Weed, subject: The Ornamenta- 

 tion of the City Lot. Friday Afternoon. 

 Mr,?. A. E. McCrea, subject: Landscape 

 Gardening. Friday Evening, Prof. J. C. 

 P.lair, subject: Ornamental Gardening. 

 Saturday Afternoon. ,1. H. Pro.st, City 

 Forester, subject; Tree Planting. Satur- 

 day Evening, Dr. Frank Johnson, subject: 

 How to Care for the Trees, Illustrated with 

 specimes. 



The annex is largely filled with fine 

 exhibits of nursery stock by W. W. 

 Barnard, Geo. "Wittbold Co., F. Kadlec 

 Nursery Co., Klehm's Nurseries and J. 

 C. Vaughan. Lincoln and South Parks 

 make their usual excellent exhibits of 

 palms and decorative plants. South 

 Park also shows a fine collection of 

 orchids. The groups of palms and 

 decorative plants are exhibited by 

 the Wittbold Co., F. Oechslin and 

 Vaughan's Seed Store. Mt. Greenwood 

 Cemetery Association and Vaughan's 

 Seed Store supply the large chi-ysan- 

 themum plants that so delight the 

 visitors. 



The plant exhibitors from the east 

 are .Julius Roehrs Co. of Rutherford, 

 N. J., and H. A. Dreer of Philadelphia, 

 whose representatives, J, A. Muller 

 and J. J. Karins, are here with spe- 

 cialties offered by these firms. 



Several new ideas in the disposition 

 of the cut flower exhibits will be car- 

 ried out, and will be given in detail in 

 next issue. At this writing only the 

 plants and general arangements are in 

 place and these not completed. 

 Token of Esteem. 



The Chicago Florists' Club presented 



a set of gold cuff links to Harry Phil- 

 pott, of Winnipeg, as a token of their 

 appreciation of his faithful attendance. 

 Coming so far as he does he has been 

 at ten of the meetings during the past 

 year and has been the means of great- 

 ly increasing the membership of the 

 club of which he is now vice-president. 

 He has charge of the club's flower 

 booth at the flower show and is an 

 active worker in whatever line seems 

 to need him most. 



Thorn Wounds. 



E. C. Pieser, who has been suffering 

 with blood poisoning as the result of 

 trying to remove a thorn from his 

 finger with a knife, states that the 

 physician in charge says that during 

 the past 90 days five florists have been 

 brought to the County hospital suffer- 

 ing from blood poisoning caused by 

 chemicals used on plants. The physi- 

 cian states that a knife used by flor- 

 ists in their work becomes the means 

 of carrying the poisonous chemical in- 

 to the system, hence a serious case of 

 blood poisoning follows a simple cut. 

 In removing thorns use a needle which 

 has been held in a flame an instant 

 and put all wounds in vinegar placed 

 on a stove and keep there as long as 

 the heat can be endured. 



Business Changes. 



Mrs. Frances Gillen has bought the 

 Geo. Weiland store, operated under 

 the name of the Belmont Floral Co., 

 3210 N. Clark street, Chicago, and will 

 make various improvements. A stock 

 of china for florists' use will also be 

 carried. Mrs. Gillen and her father 

 are both florists. 



The Batavia Greenhouse Co. has 

 taken a large space in the Flower 

 Growers' Market, occupying the entire 

 east end where Vaughan & Sperry 

 formerly were. They have added to 

 their range of houses and increased 

 their capital very materially during 

 the past summer. 



H. F. Halle has moved from his old 

 stand on the North side to the Fuchs' 

 place in the same neighborhood. 



If your business demands 

 a good article in lily bulbs 

 you cannot do better than 

 to buy Horseshoe Brand 

 bulbs. They are produced 

 by the best growers in 

 Japan, and are positively 

 the cream of the crop. 

 Selected carefully, graded 

 and packed by experienced 

 Japanese, registered and 

 sent to this market for 

 those who arc particular 

 what kind they buy. Our 

 prices for November are 

 as follows: 



FORMOSAS 



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 this year, and no insects anywhere, 

 .iphine certainly is the best insect des- 

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