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space in the great ballroom on the nine- 

 teenth floor of the hotel. The rates for 

 space were from 40 cents to 60 cents 

 per square foot; the committee sold 

 every inch that was available and 

 might easily have' sold more. It is by 

 far the largest display that ever has 

 been made at a meeting of the vege- 

 table growers and reflects much credit 

 upon the committee in charge, which 

 was: Alfred Dietsch, chairman; Ru- 

 dolph Kurowski, George Sykes, Jr., 

 J. E. PoUworth, Leonard Vaughan, John 

 Leonard, W. E. Wehner, Arnold Ringier. 



Greenhouse Building Materials. 



Larger than any other single feature 

 of the exhibition is the showing by the 

 Chicago manufacturers of greenhouse 

 building material. Those exhibiting in 

 this department are: 



The John C. Moninger Co., Chicago, 

 occupies one end of the hall with an 

 exhibit that includes a model of its all- 

 steel greenhpuse, each part exactly one- 

 eighth actual size. There also is a 

 showing of the principal parts of the 

 greenhouse in full size models. 



Lord & Burnham Co., Chicago and 

 elsewhere, has brought a boiler into the 

 ballroom and staged it in one of its 

 iron-frame houses, complete in all de- 

 tails. There also is a large showing of 

 parts and printed matter. 



The A. Dietsch Co., Chicago, has 

 staged a full size section of its well- 

 known short-span house for vegetables, 

 with cypress gutters on 8-foot pipe 

 posts. 



The American Greenhouse Mfg. Co., 

 Chicago, which this week is completing 

 its first year in business, shows photo- 

 graphs of the ranges it has built and 

 shows parts and fittings to illustrate 

 the special features of its construction. 



The Ickes-Braun Mill Co., Chicago, 

 has a booth in which it displays details 

 of its construction. 



The Foley Greenhouse Mfg. Co., Chi- 

 cago, has erected one of its iron-frame 

 greenhouses, with tables on which to 

 show special features of the con- 

 struction. 



The Garland Mfg. Co., Des Plaines, 

 has erected a section of an iron-frame 

 house, the well known Garland iron 

 gutter. 



The Advance Co., Eiehmond, Ind., 

 shows its ventilating apparatus, pipe 

 carriers aad greenhouse fittings. 



The Southern Cypress Manufacturers ' 

 Association shdws a model bungalow in 

 miniature, also many photographs, sam- 

 ples and booklets, all dealing with the 

 merits of cypress for the special pur- 

 poses that interest florists and gar- 

 deners. 



Oreenhouse Heating. 



Kroeschell Bros. Co., Chicago, widely 

 known as a manufacturer of green- 

 house boilers, shows these by photo- 

 graphs, but* the principal feature of the 

 exhibit is an ice machine in operation. 

 No doubt there have been many cold 

 deals on this ballroom floor, but noth- 

 ing to compare with this. The ap- 

 paratus is a small model of the same 

 outfit that has been installed recently 

 in several Chicago wholesale cut flower 

 establishments, among them the E. C. 

 Amling Co., A. L. Randall Co. and 

 Kyle & Foerster. 



The Superior Machine & Boiler 

 Works, Chicago, has a booth for the ex- 

 ploitation of the Superior hot water 

 boiler. 



M. B. Skinner & Co., Chicago, show 



steam specialties, including the popular 

 pipe repair clamp. 



H. Munson, Chicago, shows boiler 

 flues and clamp pipe fittings. 



The Hansel Grate Co., Chicago, shows 

 a model of its firebox rocking grate, 

 the special feature of which is that 

 there are no fingers to burn off. The 

 bars consist of separate sections for 

 each inch, affording many economies. 



The Crane Co., Chicago, shows a 

 steam trap. . 



Fertilizers and Insecticides. 



The Kentucky Tobacco Product Co., 

 Louisville, shows its line of nicotine 

 insecticides. 



The Hammond Paint & Slug Shot 

 Works, Beacon, N. Y., shows insecti- 

 cides, paint and putty. 



The Farmers' & Florists' Fertilizer 

 Co., Chicago, is making a display of 

 Aetna brand tankage. 



Brownell Improvement Co., Chicago, 

 shows agricultural (pulverized) lime- 

 stone, with literature about its value 

 to the soil. 



The Corona Chemical Co., Milwaukee 

 and Newark, N. J., show arsenical in- 

 secticides. 



Armour & Co., Chicago, show their 

 line of commercial fertilizers. 



The. soil improvement committee of 

 the National Fertilizer Association 

 shows commercial fertilizers and litera- 

 ture regarding their use. 



Seeds and Tools. 



The Leonard Seed Co., Chicago, shows 

 a large line of market gardeners' seeds. 



Vaughan 's Seed Store, Chicago, shows 

 bulbs, plants, market gardeners' seeds 

 and Iron Age implements. 



The Beeman Garden Tractor Co., 

 Minneapolis, seems to gain the atten- 

 tion of more growers than any other 

 exhibitor, the display consisting of 

 what is known as the garden tractor 

 and walking machine. It is a mechan- 

 ical power cultivator. Incidentally, 

 the working of the machine was demon- 



strated at the establishment of Poehl- 

 mann Bros. Co., Morton Grove, when 

 the party arrived there on the visiting 

 tour September 27. 



S. L. Allen & Co., Philadelphia, show 

 the well known Planet Jr. line of seed- 

 ers, weeders and cultivators. 



The Skinner Irrigation Co., Troy, O., 

 has a booth in which the merits of its 

 irrigation system are demonstrated. 



MlsceUaneous Exhibits. 



One of the interesting features of the 

 exhibition is the showing made by the 

 state universities; the schools main- 

 tained at the public expense actually 

 are beginning to advertise their service 

 to the public. Four of these gardening 

 instruction institutions are making 

 large exhibits, showing the work they 

 are doing, with the idea of gaining the 

 interest and support of the trade and 

 increasing the enrollment in the schools. 

 These institutions are the Horticultural 

 Department of Purdue University, La 

 Fayette, Ind.; the Ohio State Univer- 

 sity and Experiment Station, Wooster, 

 O.; the Division of Vegetable Garden- 

 ing of the College of Agriculture of 

 the University of Illinois, Urbana; the 

 Division of Vegetable Growing, Depart- 

 ment of Horticulture, Pennsylvania 

 State College, State College, Pa. 



Percy Jones, Chicago wholesale flo- 

 rist, has a booth for the reception of 

 friends. 



The American Mutual Cyclone & Hail 

 Insurance Association is represented 

 and a number of horticultural and agri- 

 cultural publications have booths. 



In the main hall of the nineteenth 

 floor, between the exhibition room and 

 the meeting room, is a large showing of 

 vegetables grown by the school children 

 of Cook county, HI., under the five coun- 

 try life directors employed by the 

 county. 



Fred Holm, vice-president of the Cook 

 County Truck Growers' Association, 

 also makes a large display of vege- 

 tables. 



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AMERICAN DAHLIA j^ 



^ SOCIETY MEETING 



THE ANNTJAI. BUSINESS SESSION. 



Officers Elected. 



The yearly business meeting of the 

 American Dahlia Society was held in 

 New York September 26, President 

 Vincent occupying the chair, with some 

 fifty members and others present. The 

 oflBcers for 1916 were reelected, as 

 follows : 



President — Richard Vincent, Jr., 

 White Marsh, Md. 



Secretary — J. Harrison Dick, Brook- 

 lyn, N. Y. 



Treasurer — ^F. R. Austin, Tuckerton, 

 N. J. 



Vice-presidents — Geo. L. Stillman, 

 Westerly, R. I.; Leonard Barron, Gar- 

 den City, N. Y.; J. B. Norton, College 

 Park, Md.; W. W. Wilmore, Denver, 

 Colo. 



Executive Committee — Geo. W. Kerr, 

 Doylestown, Pa.; I. S. Hendrickson, 

 Flowerfleld, L. I., N. Y.; J. Duthie, 

 Oyster Bay, N. Y.; P. W. Popp, Mama- 

 roneck, N. Y. 



Nomenclature Committee — Prof. F. 



H. Hall, Geneva, N. Y.; L. K. Peacock, 

 Berlin, N. J.; Geo. W. Eraser, Storrs, 

 Conn.; E. S. Brown, East Moriches, L. 

 I., N. Y.; James Kirby, Huntington, 

 N. Y.; A. L. Miller, Jamaica, N. Y.; 

 Joseph Lane, Garden City, N. Y.: Rev. 

 Wm: Wykoff. 



By-laws Amended. 



The annual report of President Vin- 

 cent recommended certain changes in 

 the by-laws, which were adopted. The 

 initiation fee is canceled and dues be- 

 come $2 per year, with $5 for honorary 

 membership. 



Secretary Dick reported a member- 

 ship of 169 active and seventy-five asso- 

 ciate members. He reported on the 

 trials of dahlias at Geneva, N. Y., and 

 St. Paul, Minn., and on the progress of 

 aflaiiation. Short Hills and Oyster Bay 

 having come in. Four issues of the 

 quarterly bulletin have been published 

 and in them have appeared a recom- 

 mended scale of points for judging, a 

 classification of types of dahlias and a 

 definition of an amateur, all of which 

 were adopted and made official. 



