THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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Sxbibitions 
THE GREATEST AMERICAN FLOWER SHOW 
This is the name given by those who know to the 
National Flower Show held in Boston during March. So 
great was the success of the exhibition that the manage¬ 
ment has decided to hold a similar one in 1914, and there¬ 
after triennially. 
Plants and flowers from some of the most distant 
sections of the country, as well as from the leading whole¬ 
salers, retailers, and growers of the East, found a place in 
the exhibit, nor was this all; for materials used in building 
greenhouses were displayed, and different types of gardens 
as the Italian and Japanese, could be seen. One feature 
of the exhibition in Mechanics’ Building was the splendid 
collection of bays which bordered some of the wide avenues 
arranged to imitate nature as closely as possible. These 
were exhibited by Bobbink & Atkins of Rutherford, New 
Jersey. The displays of roses and acacias by Thomas 
Roland of Nahant, Massachusetts, and of rambler roses by 
M. H. Walsh of Woods Hole, Massachusetts, were especially 
notable, and the Dutch garden of R. & J. Farquhar and 
Company of Boston caused many exclamations of pleasure. 
Of the sweet pea exhibits, the largest and most attractive 
was made by William Sim of Cliftondale, Massachusetts. 
An exhibit representing a somewhat unusual type was 
the display of forced lilacs grown by Raimbault & Bruz- 
eaud, Buena, N. J. There were forty-five varieties in this 
collection. 
Society meetings as follows were held at the time of 
the exhibition; Special meeting Society of American 
Florists, special meeting American Gladiolus Society, 
twelfth annual meeting American Rose Society, twentieth 
annual meeting American Carnation Society; a brief ses¬ 
sion of the National Sweet Pea Society, the annual conven¬ 
tion to be held June 22 and 23 in Philadelphia. 
j PLAN GREAT FARMING EXHIBITION FOR MADISON 
J‘ SQUARE GARDEN NEXT FALL 
New York City’s first land show will be held at Madison 
. Square Garden, November 3 to November 12, 1911. Pre¬ 
liminary arrangements for this event, which will be known 
as the American Land and Irrigation Exposition, have 
^ been completed and the organizers have obtained the co¬ 
operation of an advisory board consisting of the Governors 
of thirty states, the presidents of many railroads in the 
I United States and Canada and agricultural experts from 
\ every section of the country. It is planned to have the 
exposition made an annual event. 
It is the purpose of the managers of the land show to 
give demonstrations of the possibilities of land culture in 
^ America and to exhibit products of the soil from different 
J sections of the continent. To stimulate the interest of the 
J producers in preparing samples of their best crops for 
exhibition many valuable prizes have been offered for 
the best samples of wheat, barley, hops, sugar beets, apples, 
com and other products. James J. Hill and Louis W. Hill, 
I- of the Great Northern Railroad; Colonel Robert M. Thomp¬ 
son, Gustav Pabst and Horace Havemeyer are among those 
who have donated prizes. 
TO SHOW DEVELOPMENT 
One of the features of the exposition will be a depart¬ 
ment in which will be depicted the history of American 
agriculture from the time of the Colorado cliff dwellers to 
the present day of irrigation valleys in Utah and California 
and the reclamation of the Florida Everglades. In the 
department devoted to the demonstrations of modern 
scientific farming there will be given illustrations of dry 
farming and agriculture under irrigation. 
The organizers of the land show expect that the United 
States government, the Canadian government and the 
Mexican government will provide for exhibits that will 
prove valuable from an educational standpoint. Prepara¬ 
tions have already been made for the sending of exhibits 
by leading railroads, many of the states of the South and 
West, chambers of commerce and agricultural associations. 
These exhibits will consist of maps, pictures of'holdings, 
samples of products and interesting data concerning 
cost of .production. Pamphlets covering most of the ques¬ 
tions regarding the profitable tilling of the soil will be 
distributed by these exhibitors. 
Lectures in which every branch of agriculture will be 
touched on will be given every afternoon and evening in a 
lecture hall seating about twelve hundred persons. This 
lecture room will open directly upon the exposition floor. 
Men prominent in their respective lines of agriculture 
development will give the lectures. Choral, band and 
orchestral music will be given throughout the day and 
evening. 
MANY PRIZES OFFERED 
As an attraction the management of the exposition has 
arranged to give away daily to visitors at the show farms, 
orchards or tracts of irrigated land. The prizes that have 
been offered for the best samples of various products have 
been donated by some of the most prominent men in the 
United States. James J. Hill, president of the Great 
Northern Railroad, has offered a cup valued at $1,000 for 
the best exhibit of wheat grown in the United States and 
Sir Thomas Shaughnessy, of the Canadian Pacific Railroad, 
has given $1,000 in gold for the best one hundred pounds 
of hard, red spring or winter wheat grown anywhere in the 
two Americas. Colonel Robert M. Thompson, of New TYrk 
city, has given a prize cup valued at $1,000 for the best 
cotton, giving the largest yield per acre. 
A $1,000 prize cup for the best corn has been offered by 
Cyrus H. McCormick, president of the International Har¬ 
vester Company' of America, and Horace Havemeyer has 
offered a $1,000 cup for the best sugar beets grown in the 
United States. Gustav Pabst, of Milwaukee, has given a 
$1,000 prize for the best barley grown in the United States, 
and Adolphus Busch, of St. Louis, has donated a similar 
prize for the best hops grown in this country. A. J. Earling, 
president of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, 
has given a prize of $1,000 for the best exhibit of oats. 
