The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



NOVEMBBB 7, 1907. 



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THE AUTUMN 



EXHIBITIONS 



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CHICAGO. 



Promptly at noon on Wednesday, No- 

 vember 6, the doors of the Coliseum 

 were thrown open for the sixteenth an- 

 nual autumn exhibition of the Horti- 

 cultural Society of Chicago, and the 

 early visitors found the show id a state 

 of completion rarely seen in any of the 

 larger exhibitions. The management 

 responsible for the present success is 

 so thoroughly experienced in its work 

 that all arrangements seem perfect and 

 the big task of installing the exhibition 

 moved like clock work. 



The show is notaole, especially for 

 Chicago, for the large number and re- 

 markauie excellence of the chrysanthe- 

 mum pot plants. In number they far 

 exceed any previous exhibition and for 

 quality they surpass anything hereto- 

 fore exhibited by western growers. 

 The example set last year by A. Her- 

 rington, with his enormous specimen 

 from Madison, in. J., has inspired the 

 local gardeners to surpass themselves. 

 Also, the rules were so changed this 

 year as to provide classes in which a 

 number of growths could be carried up, 

 previous schedules having called for 

 plants with at least an inch of single 

 stem above the soil. The principal ex- 

 hibitors of pot plants are H. "W. Buck- 

 bee, Eockford, 111., and Vaughan's 

 Greenhouses, Western Springs, 111., but 

 the gardeners of the wealthy members 

 of the Horticultural Society are splen- 

 didly represented, Lake Geneva and 

 Lake Forest having also sent many en- 

 tries. 



The arrangement of the show is after 

 the excellent park pian of Jens Jensen. 

 The floor is carpeted with sod, save for 

 the walks, and the central space is re- 

 served to the chrysantiicmum pot plants. 

 The arrangement is unanimously voted 

 the best ever. The parks are all rep- 

 resented by big groups of palms, ferns 

 and other decorative plants, and Mrs. 

 Pullman and other private growers have 

 sent their choicest. The Geo. Wittbold 

 Co. also has several fine groups. 



The decorations are not as elaborate 

 as last year, when the great arch of the 

 Coliseum was festooned with laurel rop- 

 ing, but many consider the effect fully 

 as good. The steel structure is covered 

 with a sky-blue, starred canopy, through 

 which the brilliant electrics depend, 

 each group of lights in the center of a 

 great wreath of wild smilax. The edge 

 of the balcony is covered with autumn 

 foliage, bringing the decorations down 

 to the line of the booths underneath 

 the balcony. 



In the retailers' exhibits lies the 

 one detail in which the show is not up 

 to the preceding ones in the Coliseum. 

 The retailers have not responded as it 

 was thought they would do when a sil- 

 ver medal and $750 in cash were offered 

 to stimulate their enterprise. Those 

 who are represented are C. Frauen- 

 felder & Co., the Geo. Wittbold Co., 

 Julius Schnapp and Schiller the Florist. 

 Frauenfelder has an elaborate booth of 

 birch-bark, with wild smilax drapery, 



and a display of cut flowers and plants 

 which will be changed daily. The 

 Wittbold Co. has a solid bank of green 

 in which there are vases of fine yellow 

 mums, creating an excellent effect. The 

 Schnapp booth also has a solid green 

 background, with cut flowers attrac- 

 tively displayed. Manager George As- 

 mus is respoHsible for the Schiller booth 

 and has executed this with the same 

 efficiency he has displayed in all the 

 show arrangements. It is a garden 

 scene, with a picture for a background, 

 presenting a vista in harmony with the 

 plant display. 



In the corners at the south end are 

 miniature greenhouses erected by the 

 Foley Mfg. Co. and the John C. Mon- 

 inger Co. In the Foley house garden- 

 ers are at work potting cuttings and 

 shifting the pot plants. The Moninger 

 hoTise is filled with orchids and deco- 

 rative plants and next to the wall is a 

 hotbed filled with stock. 



The E. Wienhoeber Co. maintains a 

 table decoration in anoti.er section and 

 A. H. Revell & Co. use one section for 

 a dining-room scene. Another section 

 is occupied by the benefit flower booth 

 in charge of W. P. Kyle. Another is 

 occupied by the Maywood Nurseries 

 and Mount Auburn Cemetery. One sec- 

 tion is given to a display of house 

 plants which are to be given to the 

 school receiving the most votes. Peter 

 Eeinberg has a section for a display of 

 roses, one or two varieties at a time, 

 which will be changed each day. 



The annex is given to the nursery- 

 men and they all have winter scenes, 

 with cotton snow. The effect is fine. 

 The Douglas nursery at Waukegan is 

 especially to be commended for its 

 group of evergreens. The Peterson 

 Nursery has a fine showing of shrubs 

 with autumn foliage effects and a path 

 through the shrubbery leads to B. S. 

 Gage's private office. Klehm's Nursery 

 has one side of the annex and Swain 

 Nelson & Sons another, each with a 

 good display. Vaughan's Greenhouses 

 has the side next the main building 

 and the exhibit is staged on both sides 

 of the wall, the principal portion being 

 in the Coliseum itself, where there is a 

 splendidly executed landscape scene, the 

 path leading the visitor through the 

 archway to the other side of the ex- 

 hibit in the annex. 



Among the trade displays on the 

 opening day, and not for competition, 

 were a table of orchids from Lager & 

 Hurrell, staged by C. W. McKellar; a 

 fine bed of valley in pots from H. N. 

 Bruns; a group of begonias, Farleyense 

 and ferns from J. A, Peterson; some 

 fine Ficus pandurata, crotons, dracaenas, 

 etc., from the Eobt. Craig Co., Phila- 

 delphia; two fine exhibits of Nephro- 

 lepis Amerpohlii, one from Wm. P. 

 Craig, iruiladelphia, the other from Ed- 

 ward Amerpohl, Janesville, Wis. Other 

 trade displays will be added from day 

 to day, with the carnations, roses and 

 floral work that are to be later fea- 

 tures. 



Chrysanthemum Cut Blooms. 



The chrysanthemum cut blooms were 

 not. as numerous as in some years and 

 they no longer were the chief feature 

 of the show, as in times of old. As a 

 matter of fact, all save the vases of 

 fifty, were relegated to a corner of the 

 building under the balcony. The judges 

 are, W. W. Coles, Kokomo, Ind. ; J. 

 H. Dunlop, Toronto; J. T. Temple, Dav- 

 port, la., and they have their hands full, 

 and judging a slow process because of 

 the uniform high quality of the stock. 

 Up to 6 o'clock, on Wednesday, they 

 had covered nothing but chrysanthemum 

 cut blooms, the awards being as follows: 



Fifty blooms white, D. C. Noble, Co- 

 lumbia City, Ind., first, with Mrs. Rob- 

 inson ; Poehlmann Bros. Co., Chicago, sec- 

 ond, with Eaton; Wietor Bros., Chicago, 

 third, with Eaton. 



Fifty blooms pink, H. W. Buckbee, 

 Eockford, 111., first, with A. J, Balfour; 

 E. G. Hill Co., Richmond, Ind., second, 

 with Amile David; Poehlmann Bros. Co., 

 third, with Enguehard. 



Fifty blooms yellow, Poehlmann Bros. 

 Co., first; D. C. Noble, second; H. W. 

 Buckbee, third, all with Appleton. 



Fifty blooms any other color, Poehl- 

 mann Bros. Co., first, with Sehrimpton; 

 Wietor Bros., second, with Intensity; 

 Gunnar Teilraann, Marion, Ind., third, 

 with Julian Vuillerpet. 



Twelve blooms white, Nathan Smith & 

 Son, Adrian, Mich., first, with Beatrice 

 May; H. W. Buckbee, second, with Alice 

 Byron; Poehlmann Bros. Co., third, with 

 Eaton. 



Twelve blooms yellow, not darker than 

 Bonnaffon, Smith & Son, first, with Cro- 

 cus; Poehlmann Bros. Co., second, with 

 Yellow Eaton; J. A. Salzer Seed Co., 

 La Crosse, Wis., third, with Yellow 

 Eaton. 



Twelve blooms yellow, darker than 

 Bonnaffon, Poehlmann Bros. Co., first, 

 with Appleton; H. W. Buckbee, second; 

 E. M. Barton, Charles Eeardon, gar- 

 dener, third, with Appleton. 



Twelve pink, lighter than Viviand- 

 Morel, H. W. Buckbee, first, with Eob- 

 ertson; Poehlmann Bros. Co., second, 

 with Enguehard; Wietor Bros., third, 

 with Detroyat. 



Twelve blooms pink, not lighter than 

 Viviand-Morel, H. W. Buckbee, first, 

 with Enguehard; D. C. Noble, second, 

 with Viviand-Morel; Nathan Smith & 

 Son, third, with Balfour. 



Twelve blooms red, J. A. Salzer Seed 

 Co., first, with Intensity; Poehlmann 

 Bros. Co., second, with Sehrimpton; E. 

 M. Barton, third, with Intensity. 



Twelve blooms bronze, H. W. Buck- 

 bee, first, with Mary Ann Pockett; E. 

 G. Hill Co., second, with Dubuisson 

 Foubert. 



Twelve blooms any other color, E. 

 G. H. Hill Co., first, with M. Louseau 

 Eousseau; H. W. Buckbee, second, with 

 Charles Longly; E. M. Barton, third, 

 with Harrison Dick. 



Collection of twenty-five varieties, one 

 bloom each, H. W. Buckbee, first; E. 

 G. Hill Co., second; Nathan Smith & 

 Son, third. 



Collection of twenty-five varieties, one 

 bloom each, shown on mossed boards, 

 H. W. Buckbee, first; E. G. Hill Co., 

 second; Nathan Smith & Son, third. 



Display of pompons, E. G. Hill Co., 

 first; Nathan Smith & Son, second/ 



Visitors. 



Among the visitors who had registered 



