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II o BT I (' T LT U H K 



November 25, 1911 



THE EXHIBITIONS 



FRENCH CHRYSANTHEMUM SO- 

 CIETY. 



On October 26th, the above named 



Society held its 16th Annual Show 

 and Congress at Biarritz, France. The 

 show was practically organized by M. 

 Rodrlgues, President of the Gascony 

 Golf Club, with the assistance of the 

 Bayonne Horticultural Society. Our 

 heartiest thanks as well as those of 

 all the visitors are due to that gen- 

 tleman for his genial and sympathetic 

 reception. The festivities were of the 

 most hospitable character and lasted 

 during four days. 



The show was international in char- 

 acter. M. Martinet and m. Blot, both 

 of Paris, were the Presidents of the 

 Jury. The Vice-Presidents were Senor 

 Alfred de la Pena of San Sebastian 

 who represented Spain and Mr. Hat- 

 man Payne who did the same for Eng- 

 land. The Secretary General of the 

 Jury was M. Philippe Rivnire of the 

 French Chrysanthemum Society. 



The judging being over the Jury 

 repaired to the Grand Hotel fronting 

 the sea and there in a lovely saloon 

 with every pleasant surrounding were 

 entertained to a sumptuous lunch. M. 

 Martinet presided. M. Rodrigues of- 

 fered a cordial welcome. Other speak- 

 ers were M. Kivoire and Mr. Harman 

 Payne. The party then returned to 

 the Casino for the opening ceremony, 

 at which the orchestra out of compli- 

 ment to the foreign visitors played 

 the English and Spanish national an- 

 thems and likewise the Marseillaise. 



The entrance to the Casino is 

 through a gateway in an ornamental 

 railing which encloses a neat little 

 garden. Then the visitor finds him- 

 self at the entrance door and passing 

 through the vestibule gets a splendid 

 view of the show from the top of the 

 grand staircase consisting of a double 

 flight of steps. 



The first grand prize of honor was 

 awarded to Vilmorin Andrieux & Co. 

 for two fine collections of plants in 

 pots and a border on one side of the 

 room. They were both edged with 

 low dwarf pots of pompons in front in 

 two lines. The border contained some 

 prettily trained plants, pyramids, etc. 



The next important lot came from 

 Messrs. Gelos Freres and Mme. Begue 

 who staged a beautifully decorated 

 side hall with the table decorations. 

 We certainly never saw the like. From 

 the centre chandelier there were fes- 

 toons of vine leaves having electric 

 lamps, and these festoons were dis- 

 tributed round the tour corners of the 

 hall. Great attention was paid to the 

 table cloths, lamp shades and glass 

 ware on the tables. Everything, even 

 to the flowers, were of the same 

 shade. There was a large centre 

 table decorated with white roses and 

 around it thirteen circular tables in 

 which each had its feature of 



color designs in lily of the valley. 

 . ageratum, carnations, orchids, 

 violets, etc. The windows of this hall 

 were decorated with bamboos :;nd 

 pots of chrysanthemums on pedestals 

 at intervals. The second grand prix 

 d'honneur was awarded for this truly 

 grand display. 



The third chief prize was awarded 

 to M. Rodrigues who staged a most 

 meritorious group. We noted among 



them sum. \rer\ fine blooms, lie was 



also the exhibitor of several other 



groups Of dahlias, roses, etc., which 



contributed materially to the beauty 



and sin > oi the exhibition. Anoth- 



er excellent exhibit was by M. Bonnet. 



Just off the main corridor in a side 

 passage we saw a collection of trained 

 ■ chrysanthemums In all sorts of quaint 

 forms, a practice much in vogue with 

 French growers just now. Other ex- 

 hibits (tunc from M. A. Roumagnac, 

 who had a fine lot of cut blooms also 

 a tall stand of roses. Some good cut 

 blooms came from M. Pieudrot (gard. 

 to Comte F. de Beam). 



Going casually around the show we 

 should say that big exhibition blooms 

 were not so numerous as would be 

 seen at an English show. But this was 

 no defect for the happy way in which 

 every exhibit was arranged more than 

 compensated lor what would have been 

 mere lumpiness. As is usual in 

 France there were no show boards and 

 no tables. Briefly we may say with- 

 out dealing with individual exhibits 

 that the best flowers from the English 

 point of view were Bryant's Beauty, 

 Lit. Col. Ducroisit, Australie, Maprov- 

 ence, Alfonso XIII.. Mrs. C. H. Totty, 

 Rayonnant, Sapho, Miss Dalton, Mr. R. 

 F. Felton, Lady Hopetoun, Ferd. de 

 Bievre, Paul Randet, Aut. Marmontel, 

 Nathalie Bourseul and a few others. 



Quite a number of exhibitors en- 

 tered in the classes for new seedlings. 

 Tht prizes awarded were: Prix d'hon- 

 neur to the Calvat Establishment (M. 

 Ketiiy. director); prix d'honneur to 

 Alfred Chanbrier; medals and honor- 

 able mention to Messrs. Dolbois. 

 Prioux. Galinier. Brondel, Heraud, An- 

 dol. Lacroix, Lafitte and Raillon. 



Floral art entries were well done. 

 They nearly all came from the florist 

 firm of Gelos Freres of Biarritz. Sev- 

 eral of their exhibits were really 

 choice. There were several interest- 

 ing collections in the miscellaneous 

 classes. M. A. Roumagnac showed 

 Nephrolepis in variety; M. Earsus 

 staged Begonia Rex and B. pictaven- 

 sis. There was also a good lot of 

 carnations staged by Labaste Broth- 

 ers. 



Exhibitors of dahlias made a rich 

 contribution to the show. We must 

 refer to the large and varied collec- 

 tion of Messrs. Labaste Freres, mostly 

 cactus varieties. M. Rodrigues had a 

 long collection arranged on the 

 ground level of cut blooms that prac- 

 tically carpeted the floor. 



Fruit and vegetables were shown in 

 moderate quantity. 



C. HARMAN PAYNE. 



S. W. Strickland, gardener for Miss 



Caroline Hazard, Oakwood green- 

 houses, was awarded the first prize in 

 the prof i.il class for the collec- 

 tion i r cl t irsantl emums at the annu- 

 al chrysanthemum show of the Silent 

 Circle of King's Daughters, held at 

 Peace Dale, R. I., Nov. 9. The second 

 award wt made to Arthur Dixon. 

 ;. Hazard, t ro- 

 prietor of the Halley House gi 

 houses. A fine si owing was made in 

 all classes. The exhibition of plants 

 and ci rs was in charge of Miss 



Florence Northup and Charles Yost. 

 The judges of the professional classes 

 were Mrs. W. G. Gould, Mrs. Arthur 

 Dixon and Miss Florence Northup. 



ELBERON HORTICULTURAL SO- 

 CIETY. 



Editor HORTICULTURE: 



Attention having been called to the 

 report on the Third Annual Chrysan- 

 themum Exhibition of the Elberon 

 Horticultural Society held at the Cas- 

 ino. Asbury Park. N. J., Nov. 7th and 

 sth, 1911, which appears in your issue 

 of Nov. 11th, and covers the subject 

 up to the opening of the Exhibition at 

 7 o'clock P. M., Nov. 7th, it is sur- 

 mised that supplemental comment 

 may be of interest. 



The exhibition was opened by a 

 short address by the Mayor at the 

 conclusion of which checks were pre- 

 sented to the winners of the Asbury 

 Park Special prizes. $100.00 1st, $50.00 

 2nd and $25.00 3rd, the excellent judg- 

 ing from which there was no dissent 

 enabling the Society to do this. 



To the mild criticism of the closed 

 classes there can be no serious objec- 

 tion, but the schedule was prepared 

 early in the season for the customary 

 local show and we have found the 

 closed classes to be a sensible ar- 

 rangement based on a fairly good 

 judgment of human nature. Our con- 

 nection with the Municipal Bureau of 

 Asbury Park, and the addition of the 

 fifty bloom class was not arranged 

 until a very short time previous to 

 the exhibition. But a young and vig- 

 orous society having attained one suc- 

 cess and feeling the throb of virility, 

 have concluded to make larger and 

 more attractive classes, all of which 

 will be open. 



As a matter of course, outsiders 

 won in the open classes. It is to be 

 hoped that your correspondent does 

 not think us capable of enticing ex- 

 hibitors to our show by offers of lib- 

 eral prizes only to speed our parting 

 guests with empty purses. And your 

 correspondent should know that his 

 hope for our success has been real- 

 ized, for from that scattered popula- 

 tion of a dead city upward of four 

 thousand— to be precise, 4,074 — people 

 helped to make the Casino one bright 

 "asis. attendance the first day being 

 1,128, and the second day 2,946. 



The Society feels elated because of 

 an impression that they have contrib- 

 uted to the accomplishment of one of 

 the purposes generally set forth in the 

 preamble of horticultural organiza- 

 tions, even though it is a modest be- 

 ginning. 



Very truly, 



BENJAMIN WYCKOFF, Sec. 



THE MILWAUKEE SHOW. 



This exhibition, which has been 

 widely advertised as something which 

 would be exceptional in quality and 

 lay-out, opened in the Auditorium on 

 the evening of November 15, a sum- 

 mer-land picture in a very wintry en- 

 vironment. The planning and arrange- 

 ment was under the management 

 of a committee composed of H. 

 V. Hunkel, chairman: C. C. Pollworth. 

 T. O. Heitman.W. C. Zimmerman, A. 

 Leidiger, C. Dallwig, A. F. Kc liner and 

 N. Zweifel. and they are deserving of 

 much credit for the excellent scheme 

 which they carried out with taste and 

 fine finish. Pergolas, arbors, foun- 

 tains and novel lighting effects were 

 among the attractions and the throngs 

 of visitors were well pleased with it 



