November 14, 1007. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



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CHICAGO. 



Xbe Review printed In Its Issue of Novem- 

 ber 7 a full description of the arrangements and 

 special features, together with tlie first day's 

 awards, of tbe exbibltlon which opened Novem- 

 ber 6. 



Favored by a week of ideal weather, 

 the sixteenth annual exhibition of the 

 Horticultural Society of Chicago ran its 

 brilliant course and came to a successful 

 close at midnight November 12. It was, 

 all things considered, the best show Chi- 

 cago ever has held ana that means it 

 was the greatest exhibition ever held in 

 America. Indeed, T. Mellstrom, of San- 

 der & Co., London and Bruges, said at 

 the banquet: "For many years it has 

 been my duty and pleasure to attend each 

 year the principal exhibitions held in the 

 principal cities of England, France and 

 Germany, and nowhere in the world have 

 I seen under one roof so great a display 

 of plants and cut flowers, and nowhere 

 so uniformly high quality. The Chicago 

 show is a revelation to the European. ' ' 



The management was especially ef- 

 ficient this year. It is the third time 

 the show has been held in the same 

 place and bandied by the same people. 

 Manager AsmuS was serene for all of 

 the multitudinous calls upon him and 

 pleased everybody. E. A. Kanst, in 

 charge of the secretary 's office, had every 

 detail down and the records up to the 

 minute; P. J. Hauswirth handled the 

 admissions with ease. The paid attend- 

 ance was greater than a year ago, but 

 not quite up to that of the first show in 

 the Coliseum, when it had an element of 

 novelty the best efforts .of the efficient 

 press ag^nt, James Burdett, can not hope 

 to supply short of the national show 

 next veat. 



The Coliseum, which looked so big only 

 a couple [ of years ago, is now too small. 

 Even without the usueJ number of retail 

 booths, the floor space was crowded and 

 the cut flowers did not have as good a 

 position as the management would have 

 liked. Aside from the four retail dis- 

 plays, wjiiich were excellent and attract- 

 ed much attention from the thousands 

 of visitors, retailers were given turns at 

 sections in which they staged table deco- 

 rations not for competition. Wienhoe- 

 ber, Wittbold, Schnapp, Schiller and oth- 

 ers availed themselves of this privilege 

 and the tables are always a popular fea- 

 ture of the show. 



RoK Day. 



The roses were staged Thursday, No- 

 vember 7, and it may safely be said 

 that never has so fine a showing been 

 made in this country, either at th^ date 

 or a later one. The quality of all the 

 roses was superb, not only in advance 

 of the showing made last year, but so 

 good as to bring out comment from 

 those in the trade who know all about 

 the high quality which marks the rose 

 products of the Chicago market. Such 

 splendid Bichmond and Killarney, Maids 

 and Beauties made discrimination dif- 

 ficult for the judges. The awards were 

 as follows: 



Twenty-five Beauty, Poehlmann Bros. 



Co. first, Peter Reinberg second, H. W. 

 Buekbee third. 



Forty Richmond or Liberty, H. W. 

 Buekbee first, Poehlmann Bros. Co. sec- 

 ond. 



Forty Chatenay, Poehlmann Bros. Co. 

 first, Peter Reinberg second. 



Forty Bride, Poehlmann Bros. Co. 

 first, Weiland & dinger, New Castle, 

 Ind., second. 



Forty Maid, Poehlmann Bros. Co. first, 

 Weiland & dinger second. 



Forty Killarney, Poehlmann Bros. Co. 

 first, Peter Reinberg second. 



Forty any other variety, Poehlmann 

 Bros Co. first, with Cardinal; Peter Rein- 

 berg second, with Kate Moulton. 



One hundred Beauty, Poehlmann Bros. 

 Co. first, Peter Reinberg second, Bassett 

 & Washburn third. 



One hundred Richmond or Liberty, 

 Poehlmann Bros. Co. first, Peter Rein- 

 berg second, Wietor Bros, third. 



hibited in this country previous to this 

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

 on Princess. 



Twenty-five blooms any variety not in 

 commerce, E. G. Hill Co. first, on Rhea 

 Reid. 



New Roies. 



Classes 66 and 67 brought out a re- 

 markable competition for new roses. The 

 first class called for twelve blooms of a 

 rose never exhibited in this country pre- 

 vious to the present season. Conspicuous 

 among these was Princess, exhibited by 

 the E. G. Hill Co., which was an easy 

 winner of first premium, a silver cup. It 

 is a seedling of Testout, of Testout color, 

 of enormous size, Killarney shape and 

 splendid substance. In the bud state it 

 is one of the finest things imaginable 

 and Fred Lemon says they expect it to 

 prove a splendid forcing variety. They 

 have had it two years. Mrs. Jardine, by 

 Robt. Scott & Son, Sharon Hill, Pa., was 

 closely examined by the growers, for 

 fine things are said of it by those who 

 have seen it at Scott's. Emil Glauber, 

 of Montclair, Colo., sent Alice Roosevelt, 

 dark pink, and Wm. Laisle, Keokuk, la., 

 staged a vase of a pink named Mme. 

 Laisle. The E. G. Hill Co. also staged 

 its new rose Rhea Reid and No. 83, pink, 

 the former taking first premium in Class 

 67, for varieties not yet in commerce. 



In addition there were about the hall 



Prize Vase of Golien Chadwick Exhibited at Chicago ty Vietor Bros. 



One hundred Killarney, Poehlmann 

 Bros. Co. first, Bassett & Washburn sec- 

 ond, Peter Reinberg third. 



One hundred Bride, Weiland & Olinger 

 first, Wietor Bros, secoud. 



One hundred Maid, Poehlmann Bros. 

 Co, first, Wietor Bros, second. 



One hundred Chatenay, Poehlmann 

 Bros. Co. first, Wietor Bros, second. 



One hundred any other variety, Peter 

 Reinberg first, with Mrs. Marshall Field ; 

 Poehlmann Bros. Co. second, with Mrs. 

 Potter Palmer; Wietor Bros, third. 



In this class a vase of Kaiserin en- 

 tered by Poehlmann Bros. Co. was dis- 

 qualified, but the quality was so superb 

 that the judges awarded it a special 

 premium. 



Twelve blooms of a new rose not ex- 



grand vases for exhibition only of Mrs 

 Field^ Mrs. Palmer, Princess, Mrs. Jar- 

 dine and Cardinal. 



Carnations. 



Carnations were staged November 8 

 and made a particularly fine showing 

 when it is considered that the carnations 

 generally are not as far forward as they 

 usually are at this date. Some splendid 

 vases were shown, not only of the new 

 varieties, but of the standard sorts, but 

 it is worth noting that there was neither 

 a crimson nor a yellow entry and that 

 there was only one entry of variegated. 

 The awards were as follows: 



Fifty White Lawson, Poehlmann Bros. 

 Co. first, Anton Then second. 



