

November 12, 1908. 



The Weekly Floflsts' Rcviwi^ 



Bassett & Washburn. - Peter Reinberg. '■ Poehlmann Bros. Co. 



Tliree of the Premium 'Wimuog Ezliibits of 100 American Beauties at the National Flower Show. 



Miscellaneous Exhibits. 



H. N. Bruns maintained a table of 

 cut valley throughout the show. 



In the annex Vaughan's Seed Store 

 had a table showing a large variety 

 of vegetables, attractively arranged. 



After having declined a number of 

 exhibits from nurserymen, because of 

 anticipated lack of room, the manage- 

 ment found a place in the annex for one 

 such exhibit, that of Swain Nelson & 

 Sons Co* The E. F. Winterson Co. also 

 put up a group of palms, ferns and nurs- 

 ery stock. 



To the public a special feature was 

 the man making flower pots, and his 

 companion giving a demonstration of 

 potting young stock. 

 / N. C. Moore & Co., Morton Grove, 

 ni., exhibited a new yellow pompon mum 

 named Nellie C. Moore. 



In the days before the competition on 



table decorations, E. Wienhoeber ^nd 

 W. J. Smyth maintained decorated tables 

 in the annex, which were one of the 

 special features, attracting fully as much 

 attention as anything in the show. The 

 retail work always draws the crowd. It 

 is the most interesting feature to the 

 ladies. 



A/ Lange maintained an exhibit of 

 brides' bouquets, corsage bouquets, bas- 

 kets, etc., which was a center of attrac- 

 tion. 



In the annex Vaughan's Seed Store 

 occupied a large space with an exhibit 

 representing a neglected backyard, and 

 the same yard horticulturally embel- 

 lished. The before-taking side* of the 

 picture never failed to provoke a laugh, 

 and the after-taking side was admirably 

 executed. Probably the exhibit will do 

 as much as anything in the show in 

 the way of actually incieasing the de- 

 mand for plants and flowers. 



The flower booth, for the sale of 

 blooms, is conducted for the Chicago 

 Florists' Club, by Mrs. T. E. Waters, 

 -and is doing a prosperous business. 



Thomas Boland, Nahant, Mass., sent an 

 exhibit of cyclamen plants grown frpm. 

 seed in fourteen months, well in flower. 



J. W. Dudley, Parkersburg, W. Va., 

 had a display of Begonia Gloire de 

 Lorraine in good shape. 



E. M. Barton put up a fine table of 

 vegetables. 



The information booth is in charge, of 

 the private gardeners, Emil Bollinger, 

 chairman, and their selection for this 

 duty was a most happy one. 



B. Eschner, of M. Rice & Co., Phila- 

 delphia, is present, but his exhibit is 

 at the Great Northern hotel, where .he 

 has a large line of florists' supplies, 



Kroeschell Bros. Co. rented' a vacant 

 store a few doors south of the Coli- 

 seum for a display of heating apparatus. 



Kaiserin. ' Bridesmaid. ". Richmond. 



Four of the First Prize Rose Exhibits of Poehlmann Bros. Co. at the National Flower Show. 



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