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The Rorists' Review 



April 3, 1913. 



General View of the Roses at the Chicago Spring Show, April 1 to 5, 1913. 



(Exhibits of Wletor Bros., Poeblmann Broe. Co., Wendland & Kdmel aod the Geo. Wittbold Co., with the first prize Killarneys of the latter on the right.) 



Orchid Plants. 



E. G. Uihlein was the only exhibitor 

 of orchid plants. He was awarded first 

 prize for collection and a silver medal 

 for a specimen laplia. 



Miscellaneous Plants. 



The miscellaneous plants were not 

 so numerous as usual. In one of the 

 rooms the Geo. Wittbold Co. had a large 

 and handsome group of palms and ferns, 

 with corners of the room lightened 

 with rose plants in bloom. In the com- 

 petitive classes the private gardeners 

 showed some splendid specimens. The 

 awards were as follows: 



Specimen adiantum — Kenneth Barnbart, first; 

 VaugbHD'8 Seed Store, second. 



Clbotluiii Schiedel— Frank OechsUn, both first 

 and second. 



Nephrolepls exaltata — Vaughan's Seed Store, 

 second; no first. 



Nephrolepls Bostonlensis— E. G. Uihlein, first; 

 Vaugnan's Seed Store, second. 



Specimen polypodlum — M. W. Harris, first. 



Specimen stagborn fern — A. B. Dick, first; 



N. W. Harris, second. 



Specimen palm— E. G. Uihlein, first; H. N. 

 Bruns, second. 



Six crotons — N. W. Harris, first. 



Basket of plants— E. G. Uihlein, first. 



Hanging basket — A. B. Dick, first. 



Display of specimen flowering plants — Fritz 

 Bahr, the S. A. F. silver medal; Mount Green- 

 wood Cemetery, the S. A. F. bronze medal. 



Noncompetitive Exhibits. 



Metairie Bidge Nursery, New Orleans, 

 sent fifty pots of Easter lilies, grown 

 from bulbs produced in Louisiana. It 

 was fine, clean stock, well flowered and 

 of good even height. 



Winterson's Seed Store had the posi- 

 tion of honor at the foot of the main 

 stairway for two groups not for com- 

 petition, containing bay trees, boxwood, 

 magnolias, Phoenix R<Ebelenii, etc. The 

 same exhibitor also supplied a nnmber 

 of bay trees for decorative effect about 

 the building. 



Vaughan's Seed Store exhibited a 

 new vivid red canna, labeled Fire Bird, 

 of which Carl Cropp thinks highly. The 

 same exhibitor had a large table of 

 vegetables and a vase of winter-bloom- 



The E. Wienhoeber Co. had this Room at the Chicago Spring Show. 



ing Spencer sweet peas, among exhibits 

 not for competition. 



Miss L. A. Tonner and her sister, 

 Mrs. Thomas Fogerty, had charge of a 

 booth for the sale of flowers. 



An exhibit of the Chicago Fish Fan- 

 ciers' Club was held in connection with 

 the flower show. 



The judges were Emil Buettner, Au- 

 gust Koch. 



BRITISH NOTES. 



Visitors to the National Flower 

 Show, New York, will include Stuart 

 Low, of Stuart Low & Co., Bush Hill 

 Park; W. Wells, Sr., of W. Wells & Co., 

 Merstham, and R. F. Felton, retail flo- 

 rist, London. These gentlemen, all mem- 

 bers of the Perpetual Flowering Carna- 

 tion Society, have been appointed as a 

 delegation from the society. 



In the Carnation Year Book there is 

 published the result of a postal vote 

 on the best twelve varieties to grow 

 for profit. Twenty-seven commercial 

 growers took part in the voting, with 

 the result that ten American and two 

 British varieties find favor, namely: 

 May Day, 26 votes; Enchantress, 25; 

 White Enchantress, 25; British Tri- 

 umph, 25; Winsor, 21; Rose-pink En- 

 chantress, 20; White Wonder, 20; Scar- 

 let Glow, 19; Beacon, 18; Mrs. C. W. 

 Ward, 17; White Perfection, 16; Lady 

 Northcliffe, 14. In the voting for the 

 twelve best varieties for exhibition 

 there are six American and six British, 

 an even distribution of honors; namely: 

 American — Scarlet Glow, White Perfec- 

 tion, Enchantress, Mrs. C. W. Ward, 

 White Wonder and Gloriosa. British — 

 Carola, Baroness de Brienen, Mikado, 

 R. F. Felton, Lady Meyer and Mar- 

 mion. 



H. E. Philpott, of Winnipeg, is over 

 here on a visit to Ashford, Kent, his 

 native town, and is having a good time 

 of it. He was a visitor at the R. H. S. 

 show March 4 and in the evening dined 

 at the Horticultural Club. He sails on 

 the Mauretania, on his return trip, 

 March 22. 



Hugo Koster is the name of a new 

 lilac, which received an award of merit 

 from the R. H. 8. March 4. It was 



