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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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THE AUTUMN 



EXHIBITIONS 



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A large part, of tlie crctlit for what 

 iver measure of success tlic aiimial an 

 iiiimi exhibition at Cliicago adiieves tlii'^ 

 vear must be fijiveii to tiie city's jiarks, 

 I'or they rcspomled nobly to tlie C. (^. D. 

 ■ all of the inaiiaoeiiK'nt. C. (}. 1)., it 

 (irobably is needless to explain, is the 

 wireless call that is translated "Come 

 (^uick, Distress," and it accurately de 

 scribes the situation which confronted 

 Manager Asmus forty-eight hours before 

 the opening of tiie show, when he fouml 

 'he entries from trade exliiliitors and 

 [irivate gardeners were less than he had 

 expected. Perhaps it was the reaction 

 lollowing the big national show of last 

 M'ar, perhaps the $1 fee required to ac- 

 '(luij)any each entry, except froiu ])ri\atc 

 gardeners, had sometliing to do Avith it. 

 1 r |)orhaps the missing exliiliitors each 

 had a good iudivitlnal reason, but never- 

 theless the number of exhibits on the 

 ii|>ening day was not up to other years. 

 1 he dilference being particularly notice- 

 able in the number of entries in cut 

 ■hrysanthemum blooms. Of course, where 

 a few dropped out, others did rather bet- 

 ler than usual and their elTorts 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 

 I'lfect in reducing the number of entries, 

 liut it is the first time, except for the 

 national show of last year, that an entry 

 fee has been charged at Chicago, and 



proliably the (irst time in the United 

 States. The ('(diseum, where the Chicago 

 ilower show is held, is occupied practi- 

 cally all winter long by business shows. 

 l''or all except the flower show exhibitors 

 p.ay a high rental for the space they oc- 

 cupy, as much as $1 per sijuare foot for 

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

 addition to Avliich they go to a large ex- 

 ;iense to make attractive di><plays on the 

 rented space. There seldom are ])re- 

 niiums. For the fiower show there is no 

 expense save the value of the stock, and 

 in eacli class tiie money premiums usu- 

 ally are as great as the market value of 

 the stock exhibited. Vet it appears that 

 an entry fee of $1. to say tiie least, does 

 nothing toward fostering competition. If 

 there were a charge for exhibiting, as in 

 the case of practically every other liusi- 

 ness show, there siiii[)ly would lie no 

 tl(n\er show at all. 



Public Approves the Show. 



From a public standpoint this year's 

 show is a]i[)arently giving rather better 

 sat isf, act ion than it usually has given, 

 because of the excelleiic(! of the arrange- 

 ment. IJ-iing 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 

 turc with a circde of the ever-attractive 

 retail booths. The ]ilan is that of a Jajia- 

 nese garden and for its conception cre<lit 

 is due to ir. .1. Stockmans of the west 

 parks, who not only conceived the scheme, 

 but did inucii ( f its execution witii hi< 



own men. The jiublic considers the ar- 

 rangement the best yet seen at a Chicago 

 Ilower show and distinctly ahead of that 

 iif the big national show last year. 



Lincoln jiark contributed a largo quan- 

 tity of decorative stock and the south 

 pa IKS srnt not only a large (piantity of 

 palms, ferns and mums, but a long table 

 of orchids in blodiii, wiiich are one of 

 the sjiecial centers of attraction. John 

 <(i(ii\, of the department of botany of 

 tiie Fniyersity of <'iiicagii, also sent a fine 

 t^idUfi of plants. The (ieorge Wittbold 

 (Jo. and Frank ncchsiin also exhibited 

 large groups of decoi;itive material. 

 Vauglian's (Greenhouses, Wi^stern Springs, 

 had a full line of jialms. ferns ami other 

 decorati\(! plants and their usual display 

 of chrysanthemum pot plants, the only 

 other exhibitor of mums in [lots being 

 h'obert T. .Mueller, gard(>ner to A. S. 

 T'riide, who had entries in most of the 

 classes. The ( '. ('. I 'oil worth Co., Mil- 

 waukee, made a huge exhibit of ferns 

 in variety. The Schiller Estate iiad 

 a group of specimen jialms and Julius 

 Kosenwald again sent down his big thuya. 

 Tlier(> was an abundance of stock for 

 decorative effect. 



The Big 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. 

 ina<le scncral entries, consj)icuous among 

 which was a splendid vase of Appleton, 

 the equal of anything ever staged in the 

 class for yellows. JMount 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. 

 C. Hill (Jo., Iiichmond, Ind., had an ex- 

 cellent v.ase of liealricc -May, white, ;uul 

 fine vases of Bonnaffon, O. II. Broom- 

 head, JMary Mann, and Loiseau Rousseau, 

 and I'xhiliits in the two classes for singh? 

 blooms siiown both in vases and on 

 mossed boards. Tiie Ifill Co. also had a 



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



