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GENERAL VIEW OF THE NATIONAL FLOWER SHOW, CHICAGO. 
cagoans to countenance, particularly as 
there is room for all to be apportioned 
equally good positions if the design of 
! the show equals the space and oppor- 
tunities at command. 
It must be adequate in a large way 
and then thought out to the smallest 
detail. 
No design meets the situation un- 
less ( 1 ) the view from the balconies 
includes a sweep of the main floor; 
( 2 ) it places all entries so that each 
class may be seen at one time by the 
judges; and (3) makes cut flowers an 
integral part of the decorative 
scheme. 
These three features would seem 
to about cover the needs in a large 
way. Added to them, however, is the 
necessity for care in removing every 
drooping or faded bloom daily before 
the opening hour. One dilapidated 
flower attracts the attention of every 
visitor no matter how many choice 
things may be overlooked. 
Chrysanthemum plants excelled in 
number and in excellence those of 
any former Chicago exhibition, and 
never have finer cut blooms been 
seen. A notable feature of the latter 
was the absence of older varieties 
which have heretofore formed the 
backbone of the displays. 
The Queen, Mrs. Jerome Jones, 
Minne Wannamaker, Lincoln, Sun- 
derbruch, Drexel and a host of other 
old favorites, — where were they? But 
a race of giants has come to reign in 
their place. 
Viviand Morel was there, but dili- 
gent search revealed only one exhibit 
of the once popular Maj. Bonnaffon, 
while there was no end of Col. D. 
.\ppleton — though grown too portly to 
be recognizable unless labeled. 
Seedlings of great merit appeared, 
including President Taft, white, and 
Mrs. W. E. Kelley, a fine yellow 
flower. 
Readers of Park and Cemetery 
should find particular interest in the 
“Before and After” representations 
of a back yard shown in the annex. 
Both showed the rear end of a cot- 
tage. One, unpainted and dilapidated to 
the last degree and with the entire 
space littered with tin cans, broken 
pottery, ashes and debris' of all sorts, 
was reached, at the risk of one’s life, 
over a broken sidewalk from a gate 
hanging by one hinge. Adjoining it 
stood its rejuvenated duplicate, 
freshly painted, every window with 
its box overflowing with greenery 
and bloom, a snowy walk of crushed 
stone, fences repaired and adorned 
with vines, one side showing a bor- 
der of perennials in full flower, shrubs 
massed along tlie other side and 
grouped in the angles next to the 
house and all seen across a well 
kept lawn loudly declared that the 
new tenant belonged to^ tlie Out-door 
Art Society. A most instructive ex- 
hibit, but better calculated to benefit 
the school children of Chicago could 
they have filed by and listened to 
terse, expressive sentences from one 
who knew the necessities, than by a 
crowd of well dressed people who 
had paid 75 cents per to see it. 
Only one nursery e.xhibit existed, 
that of Swain Nelson & Sons, because 
of its having been previously under- 
stood that there were to be no nur- 
sery exhibits. The entire effect in 
the Coliseum would have been far 
better had all of the barren walls and 
corners been screened and filled by 
nursery stock. 
A large number of landscape gard- 
ening designs, forming part of the 
extensive and splendid exhibit of W. 
A. Manda, South Orange, N. J., 
shown in one of the alcoves proved 
interesting to many thoughtful visi- 
tors. 
Magnificent exhibits of orchids, 
both cut and growing, roses, includ- 
ing the new White Killarney, carna- 
tions and other good things must be 
passed over for lack of space. 
Frances Copley Seavey. 
NOTES 
Nothing to equal the variety and 
number of ornamentals has been seen 
in one exhibit as that made by W. A. 
Manda, South Orange, N. J. It oc- 
cupied two cars and the express 
charges exceeded four hundred dol- 
lars. This also included a compre- 
hensive display of orchids, both cut 
and growing. It is delightful to 
know that the plants have all been 
purchased for the South Park Con- 
servatories as have also some of the 
choice ornamentals. Probably noth- 
ing on exhibition equalled in interest 
to plantsmen and florists Mr. Man- 
da’s wonderful new fern shown in 
great perfection in several plants, 
Polypodum Mandaianum. This will 
not be put on the market for several 
years yet, but is certainly a grand ac- 
quisition and should be in every 
greenhouse and conservatory. 
Perhaps the most instructive ex- 
hibit was some 500 chrysanthemums, 
one of a kind, from E. D. Smith, 
Adrian, Mich., illustrating the growth 
and development of this flower from 
the earliest, old fashioned pompon to 
the gigantic blooms of the present 
day. 
The value of massing one kind of 
plant was clearly seen in the collec- 
tion of ornamentals from Robt. Craig 
& Co., Philadelphia, where Ficus 
pandanus outnumbered all others 
and proved very effective. Why do 
not people vary their array of rub- 
ber plants by introducing some of 
this handsome plant. 
