J8 



:«?' T^'•^ 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



NOTEMBEB 12, 1008. 



credit should be given. W. A. Manda, 

 South Orange, N. J., brought a double 

 express car of finer decorative plants 

 than ever have been seen in Chicago. 

 The Julius Koehrs Co., Rutherford, N. 

 J., and Henry A. Dreer, Eiverton, N. J., 

 each sent a carload of stock. 



Chrysanthemum cut blooms came from 

 C H. Totty, Harry Turner, A. J. Love- 

 less, Thomas Proctor, R. Vincent, Jr., 

 & Sons Co., and other eastern exhibitors. 

 There were roses from Cromwell, Conn., 

 and Natick, Mass.; ferns from Massa- 

 chusetts and Tarrytown; roses and carna- 

 tions, as well as decorative plants, from 

 Philadelphia and Tarrytown, and one 

 exhibit, a good vase of Appleton chry- 

 santhemums, came from as far west as 

 Herman Bros. Co., Council BluflPs, la. 

 Kansas City, also, was represented. 

 While many eastern exhibits which had 

 been expected failed to materialize, there 

 was probably as great a number, and 

 certainly as large a quantity, as could 

 reasonably have been expected for a 

 first attempt at a national exhibition. 



The quality of the exhibits was never 

 equaled at a Chicago show. The eastern- 

 ers, in every instance, brought perfectly 

 finished stock. The cut blooms were 

 many of them a revelation to western 

 growers, and the specimen plants were 

 beyond question better than anything 

 heretofore seen at Chicago. 



One European Exhibit. 



The exhibit was made international by 

 the presence of one exhibit from Europe, 

 that of M. Calvat, of Grenoble, France, 

 who sent a display of fifteen cut blooms 

 of chrysanthemums, which arrived in ex- 

 cellent condition and attracted a vast 

 amount of public attention. The vari- 

 eties were: Calvat 137, light yellow; 

 Calvat 148, bronzy red; Mme. Louis 

 Dolle, white; Souv. de Vienne, light yel- 

 low; La Capitol, bronzy yellow; Calvat 

 2, pale pink; Commandant Mathiew, yel- 

 low; Calvat 3, white; Calvat 133, bronze; 

 Calvat 4, light yellow; Calvat 189, red; 

 Souv. de Raymond, white; Calvat 1, yel- 

 low; Calvat 169, red. La Capitol ap- 

 peared the best thing in the lot. It 

 was a large, incurved flower of distinct 

 color and had traveled perfectly; in- 

 deed, the entire lot was in fine shape on 

 arrival and stood up well throughout the 

 show. 



The Eastern Cut Mums. 



C. H. Totty brought from Madison, 

 N. J., a set of the season's novelties, 

 which marked another advance in chry- 

 santhemums. Pockett's Crimson is an 



J. H. Burdett. 



(Secretary National Flower Show.) 



enormous flower of a magnificent glowing 

 crimson, about the shade of the old 

 George W. Childs. The tips of the petals 

 incurve just enough to show a golden 

 tint. Yellow Miller is, as the name 



indicates, a yellow sport from Mrs. J. A. 

 Miller, and by many is considered the 

 best novelty of the season. Mrs. O. H. 

 Kahn was another of his flowers which 

 attracted special attention. 



Harry Turner, gardener for Howard 

 Gould, at Port Washington, N. Y., 

 brought some splendid cut blooms, among 

 which was the best vase of 100 William 

 Duekham which ever has been put up in 

 the west; western growers cannot get 

 such results with this variety. A. J. 

 Loveless, president of the Chrysanthe- 

 mum Society, and Thomas Proctor, also 

 ot Lenox, Mass., brought some splendid 

 blooms, and were, in most cases, first 

 in the classes in which they were entered. 



Special interest attached to the ex- 

 hibits of pompon and single chrysan- 

 themums, the display of these being 

 many times larger than in any previous 

 Chicago exhibition. There were ten en- 

 tries in some of the competitive classes, 

 and as many as eight entries in most 

 of them. A number of these exhibits 

 were from the eastern seaboard, among 

 the ones from that section being ex- 

 hibits from Totty, Vincent and the Craig 

 Co. The E. G. Hill Co., Elmer D. Smith 

 and other western growers also were 

 largely represented with these small flow- 

 ers of greatly increasing favor, and 

 these same western growers, Hill, Smith 

 and H. W. Buckbee, were on hand, as 

 usual at Chicago shows, with entries in 

 practically all the classes for cut blooms 

 of chrysanthemums. They never staged 

 better stock. Smith's President Taft 

 was the center of special interest to the 

 public because of the press work done 

 for it the day after election, and the 

 growers thought it a good commercial 

 sort. November 10 Mr. Smith put up 

 an exhibit of 438 varieties, one bloom 

 of each, that was one of the specially 

 interesting features of the show. Local 

 commercial growers of mums also put up 

 fine exhibits, especially Poehlmann Bros. 

 Co. and Bassett & Washburn, with many 

 less numerously represented. 



The pot plants of chrysanthemums 

 were finer than ever seen at Chicago. 

 The principal exhibitors were, as usual, 

 Vaughan's Seed Store and H. W. Buck- 

 bee, but each of the local private gar- 

 deners was represented by one or more 

 plants and all were excellent specimens. 

 Vaughan, Buckbee, and Prank Oechslin 



A Glimpse of the National Flower Show, Chicago, November 6 to 14, 1908. 



