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CHICAGO. 



A large part of the credit for what- 

 ever measure of success the annual au- 

 tumn exhibition at Chicago achieves this 

 year must be given to the city's parks, 

 for they responded nobly to the C. Q. D. 

 call of the management. C Q. D., it 

 probably is needless to explain, is the 

 wireless call that is translated "Come 

 Quick, Distress," and it accurately de- 

 scribes the situation which confronted 

 Manager Asmus forty-eight hours before 

 the opening of the show, when he found 

 the entries from trade exhibitors and 

 private gardeners were less than he had 

 expected. Perhaps it was the reaction 

 following the big national show of last 

 year, perhaps the $1 fee required to ac- 

 company each entry, except from private 

 j^ardeners, had something to do with it, 

 (ir perhaps the missing exhibitors each 

 liad a good individual reason, but never- 

 theless the number of exhibits on ■ the 

 opening day was not up to other years, 

 the difference being particularly notice- 

 able in the number of entries in cut 

 chrysanthemum blooms. Of course, where 

 a few dropped out, others did rather bet- 

 ter than usual and their efforts are more 

 apparent and thoroughly appreciated 

 than ever on that account. 



The matter of the entry fee of $1 is of 

 interest. It is possible that it had no 

 effect in reducing the number of entries, 

 but it is the first time, except for the 

 national show of last year, that an entry 

 fee has been charged at Chicago, and 



probably the first time in the United 

 States. The Coliseum, where the Chicago 

 flower show is held, is occupied practi- 

 cally all winter long by business shows. 

 For all except the flower show exhibitors 

 pay a high rental for the space they oc- 

 cupy, as much as $1 per square foot for 

 a week, or $200 for a space 10x20, in 

 addition to which they go to a large ex- 

 pense to make attractive displays on the 

 rented space. There seldom are pre- 

 miums. For the flower show there is no 

 expense save the value^ of the stock, and 

 in each class the money premiums usu- 

 ally are as great as the market value of 

 the stock exhibited. Yet it appears that 

 an entry fee of $1, to say the least, does 

 nothing toward fostering competition. If 

 there were a charge for exhibiting, as in 

 the case of practically every other busi- 

 ness show, there simply would be no 

 flower show at all. 



Public Approves the Show. 



From a public standpoint this year's 

 show is apparently giving rather better 

 satisfaction than it usually has given, 

 because of the excellence of the arrange- 

 ment. Using a portion of the decorations 

 which were found in the Coliseum, the 

 management has added a carload or so of 

 wild smilax and framed the entire pic- 

 ture with a circle of the ever-attractive 

 retail booths. The plan is that of a Japa- 

 nese garden and for its conception credit 

 is due to 11. J. Stockmans of the west 

 parks, who not only conceived the scheme, 

 but did much of its execution with his 



own men. The public considers the ar- 

 rangement the best yet seen at a Chicago 

 flower show and distinctly ahead of that 

 of the big national show last year. 



Lincoln park contributed a large quan- 

 tity of decorative stock and the south 

 parks sent not only a large quantity of 

 palms, ferns and mums, but a long table 

 of orchids in bloom, which are one of 

 the special centers of attraction. John 

 Cook, of the department of botany of 

 the University of Chicago, also sent a fine 

 group of plants. The George Wittbold 

 Co. and Frank Oechslin also exhibited 

 large groups of decorative material. 

 Vaughan 's Greenhouses, Western Springs, 

 had a full line of palms, ferns and other 

 decorative plants and their usual display 

 of chrysanthemum pot plants, the only 

 other exhibitor of mums in pots being 

 Kobert T. Mueller, gardener to A. S. 

 Trude, who had entries in most of the 

 classes. The C. C. Pollworth Co., Mil- 

 waukee, made a large exhibit of ferns 

 in variety. The Schiller Estate had 

 a group of specimen palms and Julius 

 Rosenwald again sent down his big thuya. 

 There was an abundance of stock for 

 decorative effect. 



The Bis Chrysanthemums. 



A large number of entries of big mums 

 of earlier years are missing; there are 

 fewer cut mums in competition than in 

 any recent year. Poehlmann Bros. Co. 

 made several entries, conspicuous among 

 which was a splendid vase of Appleton, 

 the equal of anything ever staged in the 

 class for yellows. Mount Greenwood 

 Cemetery, where W. N. Eudd presides, 

 had an exceptionally fine vase of Vir- 

 ginia Poehlmann, showing not a trace of 

 pink, and Virginia Poehlmann was the 

 most generally shown white variety. E. 

 G. Hill Co., Richmond, Ind., had an ex- 

 cellent vase of Beatrice May, white, and 

 fine vases of Bonnaffon, O. H. Broom- 

 head, Mary Mann, and Loiseau Rousseau, 

 and exhibits in the two classes for single 

 blooms shown both in vases and on 

 mossed boards. The Hill Co. also had a 



Booths of the E. Wienhocber Co. at the Chicago Flower Show This Week. 



