. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. tion as a whole was most interesting and beautiful. Wietor Bros, were not exhibiting in competition this year but they put up a remarkably fine exhibit of roses, chrysanthe- mums, carnations and other popular flowers that drew a lot of attention from visitors. Their pompon chrys- anthemums were a varied and inter- esting lot and showed the value of these pretty varieties for cutting. PRIVATE GAKDEXERS' DAY. The private gardeners had their turn in the limelight November 5, . and while the number of entries were not
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. tion as a whole was most interesting and beautiful. Wietor Bros, were not exhibiting in competition this year but they put up a remarkably fine exhibit of roses, chrysanthe- mums, carnations and other popular flowers that drew a lot of attention from visitors. Their pompon chrys- anthemums were a varied and inter- esting lot and showed the value of these pretty varieties for cutting. PRIVATE GAKDEXERS' DAY. The private gardeners had their turn in the limelight November 5, . and while the number of entries were not as large as in some previous shows, the quality of the stock shown was, in many cases, above the aver- age. Rol5t. F. Mueller, gardener to A. vS. Trude, Drexel boulevard, Chi- cago, showed 10 well grown and well flowered geraniums in 10-lnch pots in the class that called for these, and they made one of the brightest bits of color on the floor on Friday. Grand Chancellor and S. A. Nuti were the varieties. In the class for specimen chrysanthemums the same exhibitor had clean, well grown pieces of Mrs. Clay Frick and Dr. Enguehard. Cocco- loba uvifera was the plant shown by John Cook of the University of Chi- cago in the class for the new or rare plant. This is not a novelty exactly, but it is certainly a rarity in the sense that it is not much grown, and it puzzled more than one as to its identity. The plant shown had the branches tied down, showing to the fullest advantage the deep glossy green leaves with their pinkish midrib and distinct venations. The same ex- liibitor showed Piper Betle in the class for a decorative plant, not a very good selection for the class per- haps, but an interesting plant, as was the Mexican banyan tree and others in his group. Mr" Cook also showed a very neat specimen of Pandanus Veitchi in the class for this plant, a clean, healthy and well grown piece. The class for a vase of 100 Ameri- can Beauty roses shown with acces- sories was postpone
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