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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE OF AMERICA 
PITTSBURGH'S CHRYSANTHEMUM SHOWS. 
HP HIS year's display at the Schenley Park Phipps 
Conservatory was the twenty-second in the history 
of the institution and included approximately three 
thousand magnificent blooms. Three sections were called 
into requisition for the "mums," two being conventional- 
ly arranged with reference to artistic color effect, while 
another could best be likened to a mammoth Dutch 
bouquet, so massive it was and so gorgeous. The 
main design of one of the more conventional houses 
was in the form of a chain of mounds through the cen- 
ter from end to end, while the sides were massed in the 
corresponding shades of pink, white and yellow. The 
"centerpiece" in the adjoining house was formed of 
specimen blooms graduating from pale yellow to the 
brighter shades, then to light bronze, and again in turn 
to the richer darker bronzes. The same shades were 
repeated on the right, while to the left were pinks, yel- 
lows and whites, all arranged to the best advantage in 
tiers. Among the favorites, which seemed to appeal to 
most of the visitors, were the white and yellow William 
Turner and Rigby, the single red Cardinal, Mrs. J. Gib- 
son, Mrs. Gilbert Drabble, Odessa, James Fraser and 
the pink and white Doty. Foreman John Jones also has 
an exceptionally attractive display of Japanese lilies and 
crotons, while the aquatic houses are in "fine fettle." 
The Phipps Conservatory in West Park, North Side, 
which is also under the regime of Superintendent George 
W. Burke, with James Moore, as foreman, has the dis- 
tinction of entertaining the first annual exhibition of 
the Pittsburgh Aquarium Society in connection with its 
Autumn Flower Show. ( hie of the tropical houses is 
called into requisition for about fifty aquaria occupying 
eighty feet of space, and include an ensemble of rare 
beauty and nterest. One of the chrysanthemum houses 
is arranged in Japanese effect, each end of the wall be- 
ing occupied with a trellised fan of Nerissa, while stand- 
ards of the same marking are placed at regular inter- 
vals along the ground display. A charming effect is 
gained from above, where, at frequent intervals, are large 
hanging baskets of golden-star-like Indicum. Three 
enormous clusters of ripe bananas attracted considerable 
attention from visitors. 
As usual, the H. J. Heinz conservatory in the East 
End, under the management of Antony Aloysius Leach, 
shared honors and visitors with its municipal competi- 
tors. In the center of the show house proper was a 
trained bush, wired and staked, of Wells late Pink, 
about nine feet across, and showing 250 fine blooms. 
Banked in tiers, which showed to the utmost the ex- 
quisite color and form groupings, were Gertrude Peers, 
Flamingo, Mendon, Mrs. Wiggs, Mrs. R. C. Pulling, 
James Fraser and Mason and numerous others of 
the great family of Autumn Queens. In one of the 
smaller connecting houses was a charming display of 
cattleya labiata and oncidium varicosum, while another 
house was devoted to some exquisite begonias. There 
was also a Japanese garden in another house with a most 
fascinating children's corner. Almost all the accessories 
to this, including a miniature Oriental bamboo house^ 
bridge, a garden within and numerous diminutive Orien- 
tal figures were brought from the Orient during a recent 
trip of Mr. Heinz. 
A THOUGHT FOR EVERY DAY. 
If you, ni)- friend, — just you and I, — 
Should smile instead of worry ; 
If, as the days and moments fly 
Amid life's stress and hurry, 
We aim to make our thoughts more kind, 
Our hearts and words more tender, 
To be to others' faults more blind, 
For evil good to render : 
Then what a change would come about 
In all this dark world's story, 
If thus the Christ through us shone 
Revealing there his glorv ! 
— F. M. Steele. 
out. 
The Conservatory on the H. J. Heine Estate, West End, Pittsburgh, as it appeared during the chrysanthemum display. 
