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A GARDEN SHOP. 



Wiljiam Watsou & Sons, Dublin, 

 have recently opened a new store Avhich 

 is in line with the most advanced ideas 

 of retail store arrangement, but accord- 

 ing to the Irish Times: "Messrs. Wat- 

 sons' new shop is quite unique so far as 

 Dublin is concerned. In fact, 'shop' 

 becomes a misnomer, for in the absence 

 of counters and their usual associations, 

 these premises would better be described 

 as a large floral room^ with artistic 

 garden furniture shadowed by spread- 

 ing palms. They are most aesthetically 

 arranged, with a trellis work screen di- 

 viding the premises into two parts, and 

 the marble fountain which plays in the 

 center of this fragrant place heightens 

 the sensation of constant freshness which 

 pervades it." 



HART'S HANDY HANDLE, 



One of the most attractive novelties at 

 the Philadelphia convention of the S. A. 

 F. last month was a device designated as 

 Hart's Handy Handle. That the judges 

 took the same view of it as did the trade 

 in general was shown by the fact that 

 it received the only certificate of merit 

 granted to an exhibit in the supply de- 

 {)artment, there being only three certifi- 

 cates granted in tlie whole great trade 

 exhibition. The retailers were CHpecially 

 impressed with the device, for it appeals 

 directly to the man who lias to decorate 

 a large number of plants and do it in 

 a short time. The handle is designed for 

 use with an ordinary flower pot, by its 

 mere attachment converting the pot into 

 a basket. The accompanying illustrations 

 show such a transformation. The small- 

 er cut shows a Crimson Kand)ler rose in 

 a i)0t decorated with dark green crepe 

 paper and tied with ribbon. The other 

 illustration shows the same plant with 

 the handle attached to the pot and deco- 

 rated with a spray of Criiu-ion Rambler 

 and a ribbon. The handle closer over the 

 edge of the pot and grasps it below the 

 collar, is quickly adjusted, and the heav- 

 ier the plant the tighter tlu- clutch. 



The device is the inven ion of (Joorge 

 R. Hart, of Rochester, and was used last 

 spring by several of the Rochester re- 

 tailers. Salter Bros, say tlicy used sev- 

 eral hundred of them on azaleas, rose 

 plants, etc., and found t'ley sold well, 

 the expense being much less than in the 

 use of baskets. H. K. Wilson says he 

 found the use of the handle, with a little 

 I'hiff'on or ribbon, increased the value of 

 the jdants from fifty to 100 por cent. Mr. 

 Hart has patented the device and is pre- 

 paring to put it on tlie market through 

 the supj)ly houses. 



THE NEWPORT EXHIBITION. 



The autumn exhibition of the New 

 l»ort Horticultural Society was held in 

 Masonic hall, Newport, R. I., September 

 17 to 19. It was expected that this 

 would have been a good show, but no 

 one had anv idea that it would turn out 



to be such a tremendous success as it 

 proved to be. The classes, which were 

 unusually numerous, were nearly all filled, 

 while in a number there were as many 

 as twelve entries. The exliibits were al- 

 most without exception of unusual excel- 

 lence. This autumn show is still much of 

 a dahlia display, but this year the ex- 

 traordinary interest taken in exhibits of 

 plants and other cut flowers, while de- 

 tracting nothing from the magnificence 

 of the disjday of dahlias, rendered the 

 latter a somewhat less predominating 

 feature than in recent years. 



Dahlia growers of the commercial class 

 from Newport and other localities exhib- 

 ited in large numbers, prominent among 

 them being W. W. Rawson & Co., of Bos- 

 ton; H. F. Burt, Taunton; W. 1). Hatha- 

 way, New Bedford; Mrs. H. A. Jahn, 

 New Bedford; William F. Turner, New- 

 Bedford; the Star Dahlia Gardens, Prov- 

 idence; Arthur B. Wordell, Westport, 

 and William H. Richardson, New Bed- 

 ford. Local commercial men were well 

 represented by the exhibits of K. S. Man- 

 uel and Sisson & Thurston, the latter 

 being successful in winning first pre- 



mium in the class for conmiercial grow- 

 ers. William H. Richardson was award- 

 ed the society 's silver medal for the best 

 seedling cactus dahlia, and James Rob- 

 ertson won the prize offered for the best 

 collection of seedling dahlias. 



Although as far as Newport is con- 

 cerned nothing has as yet shown itself 

 an equal to Katherine Duer as a decora- 

 tive dahlia, the new yellow seedling of 

 this type exhibited by A. H. Wingett, of 

 Lenox, and named by him Charles 

 Lanier, is in many respects the best 

 dahlia of recent introduction. Tt was 

 awarded a certificate of merit. 



James Robertson was again the most 

 successful exhibitor all through, taking 

 nine first prizes. 



Gladioli were never before exhibited in 

 (piantity or quality in any way approach- 

 ing what was seen at this show. B. 

 Hammond Tracy, of Wenham, Mass., 

 made by far the largest and most varied 

 exhibit of these. He was awarded the 

 society 's silver medal. John Lewis Childs 

 was also an exhibitor of gladioli, but 

 not in such large numbers as on former 

 occasions, 



Henry A. Dreer, Philadelphia, exhibit- 

 ed water lilies, caladiums and Nephrol- 

 epis Amerpohlii and N. Todeaoides, re- 

 ceiving a Av ell-merited certificate of mer- 

 it. W. A. Manda showed a miscellaneous 

 collection of j)lants, prominent among 

 them being Draca'ua Arandaiana, award- 

 ed a certificate of merit. Dracaenas Black 

 Beauty and Bronze Beauty were also no\ 

 ticeable novelties in this collection, as 

 also were ])lants of variegated privet. 



The F. G. Conine Nursery Co., of 

 Stratford, Conn., showed a collection of 



Oimton Rambler in Pot Decorated with Crept Paper. 



