HORTICULTURIL 



medal for one hundred blooms, any 

 f:olor, going to Chicago Carnation 

 Company for Enchantress; the gold 

 medal for one hundred blooms, any 

 color seedlings, to the Thompson Car- 

 nation Co., for Robert Craig; and first 

 for one hundred blooms, any variety 

 not yet in commerce, to Guttman and 

 Weber, for Victory. Other first prizes 

 were won by Thomi>son with the 

 Belle, Guttman with Victory, Rock 

 with Harlowarden, Chicago Carnation 

 Company with Enchantress, SchaefEer 

 with Lawson, Poehlmann with PaAten 

 and Fiancee, and Thompson with seed- 

 lin.g Rachael Marie Thompson. 



The dinner table exhibits were cen- 

 teis of great interest. Samuel Murray 

 won with a graceful centre piece of 

 Madame Chatenay and Adiantum; 

 Rock was second with the new rose, 

 Mrs. Marshall Field, and Schaeffer 

 Floral Company third, with arrange- 

 ment of Liberty. 



The judges were .1. N. May of Sum- 

 mit, N. .1.. and William .J. Stewart, 

 Boston. 



THE CHICAGO SHOWS. 



This was unquestionably one of the 

 most pretentious exhibitions ever ar- 

 ranged in this country. The huge 

 Coliseum must be seen to compre- 

 hend its size and even then one hard- 

 ly realizes its vastness. In such a 

 place everything is dwarfed and 

 groups that would seem enormous in 

 an ordinary hall are pigmies in the 

 Coliseum. The immense num.ber of 

 plants required for adequately filling 

 this lofty hall were supplied, however, 

 and the space overhead was well 

 cared for by about twenty great 

 masses of pine boughs and pendant 

 asparagus suspended in mid-air. The 

 walls and pillars were lavishly 

 adorned with oak boughs and south- 

 ern smilax. All around the hall were 

 arranged booths or alcoves about 

 twenty feet wide each. These -were 

 framed in oak and southern smilax 

 and each was occupied by a local re- 

 tail florist there being nineteen in all. 

 In the . centre an electric fountain 

 played. At each end of the hall the 

 displays of the nurserymen and the 

 exhibits of model back-yards were 

 located. The remainder of the floor 

 space was occupied by the great 

 groups of decorative foliage plants, 

 chrysanthemum cut blooms and 

 plants, orchids, carnations and roses 

 and a large area was reserved tor the 

 table decorations of which there were 

 five. The genera! effect was grand; 

 the quality of the exhibits throughout 

 was excellent; the attendance was 

 enormous, far exceeding the most san- 

 guine hopes, the receipts from sale of 

 tickets averaging for the five days 

 more than $2,0(10 a day. 



The most notable departure from 

 the usual character of such exhibi- 

 tions was the series of floral booths 

 above alluded to. The public crowded 

 around them and wandered among 

 I he richly furnished displays of the 

 retailers' handiwork with an interest 

 far exceeding that accorded to any 

 other department of the show. The 

 list of retail florists participating in 

 this unique demonstration included 

 I,ubliner & Trinz, Wienhoeber. Bo- 

 hannon & Ganger, Hobbs Co.. Sheri- 

 dan Park Floral Co.. Muir. Klunder, 

 A. I. Simmons. Frauenfelder. A. 

 ].an,?H, Rowe. A. .\lc.\dams. Friedman. 



Mangel, W. J. Smyth, Samuelson, 

 Schiller and Kidwell. As these re- 

 tailers are all aspirants for the pat- 

 ronage of the best class of the public 

 it will be readily understood that no 

 wilted flowers or untidiness were to 

 be seen in this department, each vic- 

 ing with the other in producing the 

 most pleasing effect with the choic- 

 est flowers and the richest acces- 

 sories. All were good but especially 

 attractive to the feminine eye was 

 the Klunder booth which displayed a 

 bridal table over which hung a white 

 bell with streamers held up by flying 

 cherubs. It was almost impossible to 

 get any where near this display so 

 great was the crowd around it. The 

 retail people also scored a great suc- 

 cess with their dinner table decora- 

 tions, which were changed from day 

 to day and kept always fresh and 

 neat. 



Among the groups of decorative 

 plants the most conspicuous was one 

 from the South Park greenhouses. A 

 forest of bamboos 30 to 40 feet high 

 was the centre and huge araucarias 

 and palms completed the arrangement 

 which was the work of the veteran 

 .John Thorpe and showed that he had 

 not forgotten his cunning. 



A splendid group of palms and 

 noble ornamental foliaged plants in 

 variety was contributed from Lincoln 

 Park conservatories. Mr. Frey, ' the 

 gardener-in-chiet, was also represent- 

 ed by a group of seedling chrysanthe- 

 mums of the single and pompon type 

 in which were many exquisite little 

 gems. There were large groups of 

 foliage plants from West Parks also. 



Local growers almost without ex- 

 ception contributed to the palm 

 groups, the cut flower classes, the 

 chrysanthemum specimen plant 

 classes, etc.. and did their full share 

 towards the success of the affair. 

 Wietor Bros.' Beauties were superb 

 A new rose that attracted much at- 

 tention and brought out m.any predic- 

 tions for future usefulness was shown 

 by the Minneapolis Floral Company 

 under the name of Miss Kate Moul- 

 ton. Among the carnations Guttman 

 & Weber's Victory. C. W. Ward's 

 Robt. Craig, and Witterstaetter's Aris- 

 tocrat were especial favorites. Dor- 

 ner's yellow chrysanthemb^m. Golden 

 Eagle, scored 96 points. It is a deep, 

 golden yellow incurved. Mayor 

 Weaver, an incurved deep pink from 

 Nathan Smith & Sons, scored 93 

 points. Dorner's No. 26 ('03 ), a 

 lemon colored .Japanese, made 94 

 points. H. G. Selfridge, C. H. Geb- 

 hardt. gardener, was represented by 

 a group of fine orchids and E. G. 

 Uihlein, H. L. Skjoldager, gardener, 

 by a rich display of orchid blooms. 



The Dundee Nurseries, which, by 

 the way, will be changed to Porter's 

 Nurseries on January 1. 1906, made a 

 very extensive display of nursery 

 stock as did also Peterson Nurseries, 

 Glen View Nurseries. Vaughan's Seed 

 Store. Klehm's Nurseries and George 

 Witthold. 



The judges were .John T. Temple. 

 Davenport, la.: .1. F. Cowell. Buffalo, 

 N. Y., and Alois Frey, Chicaso. 



NEW YORK FLORISTS' CLUB. 



The regular monthly meeting of the 

 New York Florist Club was held Mon- 

 day evening, November 13. After the 

 rt utine business of the meeting was 

 tran.sacted the remainder of the even- 



November 18, 1905 



ing was given up to the entertainment 

 of the ladies, as it was ladies' night. 

 The program, as arranged by the chair- 

 man of the entertainment committee, 

 Mr. Nugent, was carried out to the evi- 

 dent satisfaction of all present. 



The flowers exhibited were choice, 

 though they were not so numerous as 

 at some previous meetings. The com- 

 mittee o^ awai'd reported as follows;; 



From A. Macdonald, Duke estate. 

 Somerville, N. J. — Five vases speci- 

 men chrysanthemums, including T. Car- 

 rington, Matthew Smith, Guy Hamil- 

 ton, Brighthurst. Mrs. Swinburne, Geo. 

 Hutton, Dr. Enguehard, Mrs. Wtst, 

 Jeanne Nonine, W. R. Church, Mrs. E. 

 Kirkell and four Merza. Awarded a 

 cultural certificate. Louis Dupuy, 

 Whitestone, L. I., one vase each Jeanne 

 Nonine and Bouvardia Humboldtii. 

 Awarded cultural certificate. F. R. 

 Pierson, Tarrytown, N. Y., one vase 

 variegated Enchantress. Cottage gar- 

 dens. Queens, N. Y., one vase Robert 

 Craig. Alex J. Guttman, 43 West 28th 

 street, one vase Victory. R. C. Pye, 

 Nyack, N, Y., three carnations. Senator 

 Crane. Theo. Hengstenberg, Hemp- 

 stead, L. I., one vase each carnation 

 seedling No. 3 and No. 5. Anton C. 

 Zvolanek, Bound Brook, N. J., one vase 

 sweet peas. 



In the case of the last three men- 

 tioned exhil)its the committeesuspended 

 judgment in the event of the exhibitors 

 desiring the committee to visit and in- 

 spect the stock growing in the green- 

 house. 



The nominating committee presented 

 the following names to be voted on at 

 the December meeting; 



For president, John Scott, Charles H. 

 Totty; vice-president, J. H. Pepper, 

 Robert Kuhne; secretary, John Young. 

 S. S. Butterfield; treasurer. Chart is 

 Weathered, Lyman B. Craw, L. W. 

 Wheeler; trustees, Julius Roehrs, Jr. 

 liobert Simpson. John Birnie, J. K. 

 Allen, C. H. Totty, J. B. Nugent, A. H. 

 Langjahr. 



A Georgia correspondept has 

 placed the following in my hands 

 for disposal. 



We sold some for same party last 

 year ; the stock proved extra Jin,- 

 and gave good satisfaction. I am 

 assured they are equally first class 

 this year. 



Also a nice lot of Field giown 

 H. P.'S at $11.00 per lOO, named 

 varieties. 



George C. Watson 



Wholeoalc Seedsman and 

 Commission Merchant, 



1614 Ludlow St., PHIlADELPHU, PA, 



