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The Weekly Florists' Review, 



Mat 7. 1008. 



the committee in place of the late P. 

 J. Hauswirth. 



The secretary reported that 1,300 pre- 

 liminary premium lists had been mailed, 

 and more were on hand and ready to 

 be sent to all who addressed a request 

 to Room 1411, First National Bank 

 Building, Chicago. The American Car- 

 •! nation Society, the American Eose So- 

 . ciety, the Chrysanthemum Society of 

 America and the Horticultural Society of 

 Chicago have offered their medals lib- 

 erally as special prizes. W. N. Eudd, 

 chairman of the premium committee, re- 

 ported that $2,336 in special premiums 

 had been offered by various private per- 

 sons and firms, together with about $800 

 in medals and cups. The premium list 

 offers a total of $11,023 in prizes. 



Committees have been appointed by 

 the various chairmen as follows: 



Executive and finance — W. F. Kasting, 

 chairman; Philip Breitmeyer, E. G. Hill, 

 W. N. Eudd, J. C. Vaughan, Otto 

 Koenig, August Poehlmann, J. A. Val- 

 entine. 



American exhibits — Philip Breitmeyer, 

 chairman; Frank Traendly, George As- 

 mus, S. S. Skidelsky, Elmer D. Siiiith, 

 Eobert Craig. 



Special features — Otto Koenig, chair- 

 man; Theodore Wirth, Leonard Kill, S. 

 S. Skidelsky, Harry Papworth, J. F. 

 Sullivan, W. L. Eock, A. J. Guttman, 

 John Bertermann. 



Auditing — J. A. Valentine, chairman; 

 E, B. George, Eoy F. Wilcox, Otto 

 ' Koenig. 



Local management — J. C. Vaughan, 

 chairman; August Poehlmann, J. B. 

 Deamud, W. N. Eudd, C. Cropp, Elmer 

 D. Smith, J. E. Hauswirth. 



Exhibits, foreign — E. G. Hill, chair- 

 man; J. D. Eisele, C. Cropp, E. B. 

 George. 



At a meeting of the executive commit- 

 tee, held the following day, Mr. Kasting 

 appointed George Asmus chairman of 

 the publicity committee. James H. Bur- 

 dett was made permanent secretary and 

 newspaper representative of the commit- 

 tee. The question of manager was dis- 

 cussed and the local management com- 

 mittee was authorized to engage one. 



It was determined, after a lengthy dis- 

 cussion, to give ' visiting florists, not 

 members of the S. A. F., in good stand- 

 ing, the privilege of purchasing a sea- 

 son ticket to the national flower show 

 for $1. Several amendments to the rules 

 were proposed to the premium committee, 

 the most important being that in all 

 classes where it is deemed permissible 

 an entry fee of $1 be exacted from each 

 exhibitor. J. H. Burdett, Sec'y. 



HILL AND THE PARIS ROSES. 



It has been reported that E. G. Hill 

 has been invited to act as judge of a 

 French rose show and the following item 

 has appeared in a number of daily pa- 

 pers in Indiana: 



"E. G. HilJ, the Eichmond florist, 

 has been invited by the city of Paris, 

 France, to act as judge at the trial of 

 roses in 1908, and also to send a col- 

 lection of his new roses for the contest. 

 The contest will take place in the great 

 rose gardens laid out by M. Jules Grav- 

 ereaux, owner of the world-renowned 

 department store, Bon Marche. This 

 garden is said to contain about 11,000 

 varieties of roses." 



Eeferring to the above, the E. G. Hill 

 Co. says: "The clipping was probably 

 copied from the Indianapolis Star of 



We have an enormous 

 crop of 



ROSES 



now on. Quality is fine and 

 we solicit your orders 



1,580,000 feet of Modern Glass 



BEAUTIES FerDoz. 



Long^ stems $4.00 



30-inch stems 3.00 



84>iiich stems 8.60 



20-inch stems S.OO 



16-inch stems 1.60 



12-inch stems 1.00 



Short stems $0.60 to .76 



Per 100 



Richmond $4.00 to $ 8.00 



Liberty 4.00 to 8.00 



Bride 4.00 to 6.00 



Ivory 4.00 to 6.00 



Maid 4.00 to 6.00 



Chatenay 4.00 to 8.00 



Mrs. Marshall Field 6.00 to 16.00 



Killarney 4.00 to 10.00 



Uncle John 4.00 to 6.00 



Perle 4.00 to 8.00 



ROSES, our selection 3.00 



CARNATIONS 1.60 to 2.60 



Easter Lilies 8.00 to 10.00 



Paper Whites, Romans, Daffodils. . 3.00 



Violets 1.00 



Tulips 2.00 to 4.00 



Callas 8.00 to 10.00 



Valley, fancy 2.00 to 4.00 



Extra Fancy Asp. Plumosus, bunch .76 to 1.00 



PETER REINBERG 



51 Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO 



Mention The Beylew when yon write. 



recent date, and is a true statement. M. 

 Jules Gravereaux, the owner of the big 

 department store, Bon Marche, has pre- 

 sented to the city of Paris a wonderful 

 rose garden, and each year the municipal 

 authorities add to his collection of meri- 

 torious novelties from all over the world. 

 Each year, at a specified time, judg- 

 ment is to be made on these new va- 

 rieties by a jury appointed by the muni- 

 cipality, and our Mr. E. G. Hill has the 

 honor of being appointed from America 

 for the contest. He will hardly, however, 

 be in a position to accept, much to his 

 regret." 



Bluffton, Ind. — Wm. Trefinger has 

 resigned the management of the Wieck- 

 ing greenhouses to Herman Wiecking, 

 Jr., and will remove to Lawrence, Kan. 



NAME OF FERN. 



Will you please tell me what variety 

 of fern the enclosed sample is? Small 

 tubers form on the roots; some of them 

 are three-fourths of an inch through. 

 Can they be propagated by these tubers, 

 or what is the best way to propagate 

 them? A. H. 



The fern in question is Nephrolepis 

 cordifolia, also known as N. tuberosa, a 

 species that is quite widely distributed 

 in various parts of the world, being 

 found in a wild condition in Mexico, 

 Japan, New Zealand and possibly some 

 other countries. This fern may either 

 be raised from spores, which germinate 

 quite freely, or may be increased in the 

 same way as the Boston fern, by plant- 



