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blush of red as it ages. It comes nearest to Tidal Wave in 

 color, but has a softer tinge of pink. It is likely to be popular, 

 and has already been considerably distributed. Mrs. George 

 M. Bradt was again certificated for Fred. Dorner & Sons, La- 

 fayette, Indiana. It was even brighter in its crimson mark- 

 ings than in the flowers of this variety shown last year, and in 

 other respects holds its own well. I was interested in compar- 

 ing the changes in dimension of stem and calyx of the new 

 and old varieties. As the blooms increase in size both of these 

 must also enlarge. There is a steady gain in both respects, 

 but with some loss in other ways, for the stouter stem lacks 

 the grace of the more slender, old-fashioned garden Pink, and 

 the calyx, increasing in diameter with but little added to its 

 length, swells out and sometimes has a puffy appearance. 



Reinberg Brothers, Chicago, and Poehlman Brothers, Mor- 

 ton Grove, Illinois, were the most successful cultivators of 

 Roses, judged by their display and the awards obtained. They 

 showed the principal market varieties, for growers of Roses 

 are evidently chary of novelties. E. G. Hill & Co. showed 

 the new Rose, President Carnot, a pink flower, shaded lighter 

 than Bridesmaid or La France, but with the pink more pro- 

 nounced than in Golden Gate, to which it is best likened of 

 any that were shown ; the foliage also handsome and quite 

 distinct, unlike that of any variety which stood upon the tables. 

 The leaflets are broad oval, of a lively green above, deeply 

 tinged with pink beneath, and they come well up toward the 

 flower and make a good setting for it. 



Chicago, ill. E. J. H. 



The St. Louis Flower Show. 



THE St. Louis exhibition, held November nth to 15th, was 

 inferior in general effect to that of last year, largely because 

 all the exhibits were on one floor and on nearly the same 

 level. The satisfying perspectives that were the feature of last 

 year's show were missed, and the view from the gallery was 

 less satisfactory. There was, however, a distinct advance in 

 the number and quality of Chrysanthemum plants. This is true 

 of single-stem, pot and standard plants. Queen, white and Vi- 

 viand Morel, pink, led in their colors in the single-stem class, 

 A. Meyer, St. Louis, taking first premium for the best twenty- 

 five of each. The St. Clair Floral Company, Belleville, Illi- 

 nois, took first premium for yellow in the same class with 

 twenty-five flowers of their 1895 seedling, St. Clair, which was 

 not considered promising last year because of its weak color 

 and doubtful shipping qualities. As shown this year the 

 flowers seem firmer, but they have an undecided tint. Some 

 excellent single-stem plants of Harry Sunderbruch were also 

 shown. 



In pot plants, Ivory and Channing, white, Golden Wedding 

 and Major Bonnaffon, yellow, Mrs. Hicks Arnold, deep yellow, 

 Viviand Morel, pink, George W. Childs and The Bard, crim- 

 son, were the leading varieties. A very good plant of Hicks 

 Arnold, with about 145 open flowers, was one of the best in 

 the exhibition and won a blue ribbon for Mr. Vaughan, Chi- 

 cago. Some of the best standards also came from Vaughan. 

 Among them, Mrs. Governor Fifer, white, and Iora, an attractive 

 light pink, with petals tubular their entire length, won first 

 premiums in their class and color. Iora, a loose artistic flower, 

 bore shipping better than some of the more compact flowers, 

 and looked fresh and pleasing to the close of the exhibition. 



In cut Chrysanthemums, white and yellow flowers outnum- 

 bered other colors, as usual. Queen predominated among 

 whites, but good flowers of Niveum, Ivory, Minnie Wana- 

 maker, Mrs. Eagan, Mrs. H. McK. Twombley, F.Pullman and 

 Mayflower were seen in fair numbers, also a few of Philadel- 

 phia and Gretchen Buettner. One vase of a new white seed- 

 ling, Western King, was entered by Nathan Smith & Son, 

 Adrian, Michigan, in competition for the Shaw medal for "a 

 plant of decided merit for cultivation, not previously an article 

 of North American commerce." A plant is called for this 

 medal, so that it was not awarded to these cut blooms. As 

 seen here, Mrs. Eagan appears to keep better than either May- 

 flower or Florence Pullman. 



Golden Wedding is decidedly the leading late yellow Chrys- 

 anthemum in St. Louis, Eugene Dailledouze being the favorite 

 early variety. There was, however, a very good showing of 

 flowers of Eugene Dailledouze, and, perhaps, more of the 

 flowers of Major Bonnaffon, but the latter were somewhat 

 smaller than heretofore. A few of the variety, H. G. Sunder- 

 bruch, appeared among the cut flowers, and I saw one bloom 

 of Pitcher & Manda, while no flowers of Challenge were no- 

 ticed in the hall. W. E. Guy, Belleville, Illinois, took first 

 premium for best twelve blooms of Niveum, white. Florence 

 Pullman gained the blue ribbon for best twelve of any one 

 variety. The Michel Plant and Bulb Company, St. Louis, took 



first premium for best twelve flowers of Golden Wedding, and 

 E. G. Hill for best twenty-four yellow flowers in three varieties, 

 with Golden Wedding, Eugene Dailledouze and Modesta. 

 Viviand Morel was again the only pink in point of numbers, 

 but a dozen enormous blooms of Indiana won the first Shaw 

 prize for best twelve of any variety introduced in 1894, 1895 or 

 1896, for E. G. Hill, Richmond, Indiana, who also took first 

 premium for best twenty-four pink in three varieties with 

 flowers of Viviand Morel, Murdock and Mrs. Perrin, as well 

 as for an interesting collection of twenty-four assorted flowers, 

 no two alike and all labeled. 



As no premiums are offered for seedlings at this show, 

 interest in Chrysanthemums centres in the entries for the Bent 

 prize for "best vase of fifty, quality and arrangement to be 

 equally considered." There were five entries, the two taking 

 first and second premiums being composed of white and yel- 

 low flowers. First premium was won by William Schray, St. 

 Louis, with a handsome arrangement of flowers of unequal 

 merit, of Queen, Niveum, Golden Wedding, Eugene Daille- 

 douze and three or four blooms of Philadelphia. The last 

 were not an improvement, but marred the purity of coloring 

 which, without them, was clean and clear. A vase of assorted 

 flowers from W. J. & M. S. Vesey, Fort Wayne, Indiana, that 

 took first premium in its section, contained the only speci- 

 mens of Violescent seen at the show, no entries being made for 

 the two premiums offered for the best twelve of that variety. 



Some excellent Roses were shown. Ellison & Tesson, Mr. 

 Fillmore and Mr. Trillow, all of St. Louis, won first pre- 

 miums. Only single Violets were shown, mostly California. 

 In Carnations, Alaska won in the white section, with Lizzie 

 McGowan barred ; Albertina was first among pink sorts, with 

 William Scott barred, while Corsair stood first among red 

 kinds. On the closing day Vesey Brothers, of Fort Wayne, 

 Indiana, exhibited a fine vase of the variety Uncle John, in 

 competition for a special premium offered by the Planters' 

 Hotel. Several seedling Carnations were shown by the same 

 firm, none of them named as yet. A red one, lighter in shade 

 than Portia, seems decidedly promising. It is of medium 

 fragrance, full, pleasing in color, and has, what most red Car- 

 nations lack, a good strong calyx. An attractive display of cut 

 Orchids made by Eugene Wurst, gardener to Dr. S. Brown, 

 Brownhurst, Missouri, comprised nearly sixty kinds ; among 

 twenty-six varieties of Cypripediums was C. Leeanum Masar- 

 cleanum, the best of the many hybrids between Insigne and 

 Spicerianum. This is the first time the Brownhurst collection 

 has been directly represented at any show. 



Brighton, 111. F. C. S. 



Recent Publications. 



Die nordamerikanische Holzarlen und Hire Gegner. Von 

 John Booth, Berlin, 1896. 



In this vigorously written brochure the author renews 

 his well-known advocacy of the naturalization of North 

 American trees in Europe. He laments the fact that, not- 

 withstanding the importance of experimenting with their 

 culture was pointed out by Wangenheim and others 

 more than a century ago, and though the existence of noble 

 specimens introduced by them and scattered over Europe 

 bears witness to their adaptability to climatic conditions 

 there, no real effect on the science of forestry in the 

 Old World has yet resulted therefrom. He attributes this 

 largely to the bureaucratic opposition that all efforts in this 

 direction have met with in such countries as German)-, 

 where prejudice and, as he believes, downright ignorance 

 are frequently conspicuous in forestry management. This 

 opposition has lately found expression in an article by 

 Oberforstmeister Weise in the Miindener Hcflen, 1894, 

 which serves our author as ground for a general review of 

 the matter. In his criticism of Herr Weise's position he 

 displays a knowledge of the subject and its literature that 

 attracts attention, though his enthusiasm sometimes leads 

 him to unnecessary severity. But he pleads his case with 

 ability, and his enthusiasm seems often warranted. The 

 relegation of many of the most valuable trees of the United 

 States to the service of mere park ornamentation in Europe, 

 when they have stood the lest of soil and climate for a cen- 

 tury, is, in his view, a serious mistake, and has resulted in 

 a real loss to Germany, where the natural poverty of the 

 forest elements might be relieved by the use of much 

 valuable material from North America. 



