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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Sbptbmbeb 20, 1906. 



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MICHIGAN STATE FAIR. 



The Michigan state fair opened Aug- 

 ust 30 and closed September 7, and was 

 said by all to have been a great success, 

 financially and otherwise. The directors 

 and managers of the fair sent a cordial 

 invitation and a premium list to all the 

 florists of Detroit, for exhibits of flower 

 beds, plants, cut flowers and floral de- 

 signs, to which many responded. Among 

 them were the firms J. Breitmeyer's 

 Sons, with a collection of remarkably 

 fine, well-grown ferns, and S. Taplin, 

 with a large collection of palms. Sev- 

 eral other florists were exhibitors of 

 either plants, flowers or both. As the 

 premium list was headed with the fat- 

 test prize for a collection of stove and 

 gree^hou^e plants of not less than thirty 

 varieties, it was expected that there 

 would be a sharp contest for such a 

 prize. I think it brought out one such 

 collection. 



As the question as to what constitutes 

 a plant to come under the head of stove 

 or greenhouse plant has caused many a 

 spirited controversy, I hope the question 

 is now finally settled by the make-up 

 of this collection. The premium list was 

 as arbitrary as the premium list at a 

 cottage garden exhibition in England, 

 with the exception that there were no 

 prizes for pansies, big gooseberries, new 

 or rare plants, or anytliing under the 

 head of miscellaneous, which classes as 

 a rule cause more guessing and interest 

 than the balance of the premium list. 



The call for beds of the usual run of 

 summer bedding plants did not call out 

 much competition. S. Taplin displayed 

 his new dwarf golden privet in connec- 



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tion with euonymus of various colors. 

 Such plants as stand and retain foliage 

 through the winter were displayed in the 

 different styles for which they are espe- 

 cially adapted, in ribbon borders, carpet 

 beds, vases, porch-boxes, hanging-baskets, 

 wire stands, designs, lettering, etc., using 

 plants taken up from the open ground 

 about a week before the opening of 

 the fair. In connection with his display 

 of hardy border plants, Mr. Taplin 

 showed specimens of coniferous plants, 

 inrluding fine specimens of Picea pun- 

 gens, Colorado blue spruce, both erect 

 and weeping forms, and of remarkably 

 fine color. There were several good col- 

 lections of nursery stock by Michigan 

 nurserymen, not for competition. 



LENOX, MASS. 



The regular meeting of the Lenox 

 Horticultural Society was held Septem- 

 ber 15, President Carlquist in the chair. 

 Letters were received and read from the 

 following firms offering premiums for 

 our chrysanthemum show: Howard & 

 Morrow, Julius Boehrs Co., C. H. Totty, 

 J. H. Harris and Bay State Nurseries. 

 Votes of thanks were given each of the 

 donors, Mrs. Edith E. Wharton was 

 unanimously elected a life member, and 



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D. Hothersall an annual member. 

 Everything promises fair for a good fall 

 exhibition, as the mums in this section 

 are looking particularly good. The show 

 takes place in the town hall October 24 

 and 25. G. F. 



Fort Morgan, Colo. — Mrs. A. V. S. 

 Saunders is building a new greenhouse 

 at her home. She will make a specialty 

 of cut flowers and designs. Her tempo- 

 rary quarters are in a local department 

 store until the new house is finished. 



