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at the hands of the judges, being de- 

 ficient in form. It is practically a scar- 

 let Lawson. 



There were four magnificent vases of 

 100 Beauties staged arranged for effect. 

 The premiums aggregated $250 and were 

 awarded to P. J. Hauswirth, F. C. 

 Weber, W. L. Eock and Bassett & Wash- 

 burn in the order named. The winning 

 vase, while entered in the name of P. 

 J. Hauswirth, was really the work of his 

 son, Ed, and was his first attempt at 

 competition. Peter Eeinberg furnished 

 the Beauties. Weber's flowers came 

 from Poehlmann and Kock's from Joseph 

 Heacock, Wyncote, Pa. 



There were three fine vases in the 

 class for 100 mums arranged for effect, 

 F. C. Weber winning with White Bon- 

 naflfon from Poehlmann. W. J. & M. 

 S. Vesey were second and W. L. Kock 

 third. In the class for fifty blooms in 

 not less than ten varieties W. J. & M. 

 S. Vesey were second; no first. 



On Friday floral arrangements were 

 in order. Two baskets of roses were 

 shown, F. C. Weber getting first with 

 a basket filled with Poehlmann 's Chate- 

 nay, rather too many flowers but other- 

 wise very good. W. L. Eock was sec- 

 ond with a basket of Sunrise. 



W. L. Eock was first on basket of car- 

 nations, using a low basket with Poehl- 

 mann 's highly colored Lawson and 

 Sprengeri, a splendid effect. Fred H. 

 Eowe, Joliet, 111., was second with a 

 high-handled basket of Fiancee. 



F. H. Eowe was first, W. L. Eock sec- 

 ond and F. C. Weber third for bride's 

 bouquet, each using valley and Eock 

 introducing some white orchids. Mr. 

 Howe's bunch was the only one with a 

 shower. Bertermann Bros., of Indianap- 

 olis, sent a bride's bouquet which ar- 

 rived too late; it quite likely would have 

 made a difference is the awards. 



H. N. Bruna was first and A. Jurgens 

 second on valley. Both are Chicago grow- 

 ers. 



Eli Cross, Grand Eapids, put up a 

 very fine large display of violets, in- 

 cluding Marie Louise, Campbell, Cali- 

 fornia and Swanley White, and was 

 awarded first prize. Wm. Winter, of 

 Kirkwood, was third; no second awarded. 



W. L. Bock was second for vase of 

 longiflorum lilies, Schray & Sons third; 

 no first. 



In class 69, fifty blooms yellow car- 

 nations, which had previously been over- 

 looked, first was awarded to the Chicago 

 Carnation Co., for Herrington's seedling. 



J. A. Peterson, Cincinnati, was highly 

 commended for Pandanus Veitchii. He 

 had a new white * begonia, a sport from 

 Lorraine, entered for a Shaw medal, over 

 which the lady visitors and the judges 

 disagreed. Wriile the latter gave it no 

 recognition the ladies paid it fully as 

 much attention as the pink variety. 



The Missouri Botanical Garden was 

 highly commended for Ehapis flabelifor- 

 mis. 



P. Mauriqne was specially mentioned 

 for collection of cacti and a special 

 award of $25 was recommended for A. 

 C. Grenier^ for cacti. 



A protest was filed in class 18, twenty- 

 five bloodis chrysanthemums in twenty- 

 five varieties and the second and third 

 premium Collections, belonging tp E. G. 

 Hill Co. and Breitmeyer's Sons respec- 

 tively, •vtpre diequalifled, as they con- 

 tained rfiji^seminated varieties. This 

 gave second Jo NAthan Smith & Son and 

 third to wT J. & M. S. Vesey. 



In class 19 a protest was filed and E, 



Rose Richmond (formerly Etna.) of the E. G. Hill Co. 

 (Vase which won the Silver Medal at the World's Fair Flower Show.) 



G. Hill Co. disqualified because their 

 collection of twelve varieties contained 

 seedlings. This advanced H. W. Buckbee 

 to first. Smith & Son withdrew, -as by 

 error they had included two blooms of 

 the same variety, and didn't want to be 

 disqualified. W. A. Chalfant was thus 

 advanced to second and W. J. & M. S. 

 Vesey third. 



In class 58, for 100 light pink car- 

 nations, a protest was made that the 

 judges had disqualified Gibson Beauty 

 as i^ot belonging in that color. The ex- 

 ecutive committee sustained the protest 

 and ordered rejudging, which did not 

 change the awards. 



The exhibits were all scored for 

 World's Fair awards, L. E. Taft, the 

 chairman of the department jury, assist- 

 ing in the work. These awards cannot be 

 announced until after confirmation by 

 the World's Fair authorities. 



V(rious Notes. 



John Bertermann discovered that 

 there were no cyclamens in the show and 

 wired home for a dozen plants. They 

 arrived on Friday and attracted no little 

 attention. 



E. T. Grave, Richmond, Ind., sent ex- 

 hibits in several classes for 100 carna- 

 tions. The boxes were in a wreck on 

 the Vandalia and did not reach the ex- 

 hibition hall in time for staging for com- 

 petition. The quality of the blooms, 

 however, won many compliments. 



An exhibit which received little at- 

 tention at the hands of trade visitors 

 struck the greatest response from the 

 public. It was the grafted chrysanthe- 

 mum, which was the center of a wonder- 

 ing crowd all through the week. The 

 8t. Louis newspapers gave it space and 

 several of them commented on it edito- 

 rially. One paper remarked that "Gov- 

 ernor-elect Folk visited the flower show 

 yesterday and looked with equanimity 

 upon this evidence of graft, the only 

 time in history when he had been known 

 to fail to raise his voice in protest." 



It was a pleasure to many to see good 

 old Viviand-Morel win out in the class 

 for 100 pink mums over two good en- 

 tries of William Duckham. Certainly the 

 Veseys know how to grow that old 

 standby. 



John Breitmeyer's Sons thought they 

 had their share of the honors in first 

 for White Lawson and first on 100 white 

 mums with Majestic, which is to be in- 

 troduced next season, with Adelia, both 

 of which varieties they purchased of H. 

 W. Eieman, of Indianapolis. 



A. J. Guttman came from New York 

 to set up his carnation, Victory, in the 

 seedling classes. It is a very fine scarlet 

 in color and Mr. Guttman will see the 

 benefit of his expedition westward in 

 the orders which will result. 



H. G. Selfridge, of Lake Geneva, Wis., 

 came down to participate in the show, 

 bringing his gardener, C. H. Gebbardt, 



