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Title: The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade
Identifier: americanfloristw28amer (find matches)
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: American Florists Company
Subjects: Floriculture; Florists
Publisher: Chicago : American Florist Company
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1904. The American Florist. 961 delays in transit many of them arrived in bad shape and dropped most of their leaves, but they have now. practically recovered from- the check. The exhibit contains a great variety of palms and citrous fruits, such as oranges, lemons, limes and pomelos. The floral clock has been in operation for a number of days and has attracted its full share of attention. Ag the dial is 112 feet in diameter, the point of the . minute hand has to move something more than five feet each minute. The mechanism of the clock and hour-dial seems to be working perfectly and the floral dial is even more of a success than was anticipated, as the figures of dark- colored coleus can readily be made out a long distance oft" against the background of centaureas and cinerarias. The plants for the dial form a part of the exhibit of the St. Louis Seed Company. D. Moriarty, of New Orleans, has placed eight vases of carved and polished granite on either side of the walk connecting the palaces of Agriculture and Horticulture. They are nearly five feet in height, with basins two feet in diameter. As they are valued at $1,200 a pair the number of orders that will be taken is not likely to be large, although as specimens of the stonecutter's art they are certainly worthy of careful inspection and admira- tion. DenaiSe, of Carignan, Ardennes, France, is making an interesting and extensive exhibit of vegetable seeds, especially of beans and peas. The exhibit also con- tains a number of catalogues and pam- phlets relating to the culture of vege- tables. The steep banks south of the palace of horticulture will soon be a mass of color as they have been planted with several thousand gladiolus bulbs and a variety of showy annuals. EXHIBITION SCHEDULE. Special exhibition of cut flowers by amateurs July 18 to 23 inclusive. Entries close July 15, or Friday previous to the week of exhibition, and should be made to the Chief, Department of Horticulture, World's Fair, St. Louis, Mo. The dif- ferent sections of the country being so varied as to time of blooming, any variety will be eligible for general display in any quantity. The general display can be made up of any variety and any num- ber of varieties. The quality and quantity will be taken as the first consideration. Suitable awards, medals and diplomas will be given for meritorious exhibits. See rules and regulations governing these exhibits. Any person who wishes to make a special display of any kind of cut flowers at any time may do so, rules and regula- tions being adhered to. Full schedule of flower shows will be furnished prospec- tive exhibitors on requisition to Chief, Department of Horticulture. The week July 25 to 30 inclusive will be given over to a special display of peaches. F. W. Taylor, Chief, Department of Horticulture. FLOWER SHOW RULES AND REGULATIONS. All sufficiently meritorious displays will receive a reward. The first will be a diploma, the next a bronze medal, the next a silver medal, and the highest a gold medal. Suitable vases will be furnished by the Exposition management and exhibits will be properly staged where exhibitors do not personally attend. Judges will be chosen from the most eminent specialists for the respective dis- plays.
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ANGR.ffiCUM SANDERIANUM IN FLOWER, JUNE, 1904. All exhibits must be correctly and legi- bly labeled. Exhibits must be prepaid to the Expo- sition grounds. The superintendent will be empowered to remove any exhibition that is no longer attractive. , A business card not to exceed 6x9 inches may be displaved with each ex- hibit. Ans:raecuin Sanderianum. Angraecum Sanderianum (syn. A. modestum), a charming, graceful and free flowering plant with spikes one foot long, bearing two rows of snow white, fragrant flowers, twelve to twenty or more in number, is now flowering in my collection. It was discovered by Leon Humblot in the Comoro Islands and sent to F. Sander & Company, who flowered it in 1888. It should be grown in a warm house and is of easy culture, improving with age. In 1900 a plant was flowered by G. L. Ball in England which bore three racemes of twenty-six and twenty-eight flowers each. R. SCHIFFMANN. American Rose Society. At a meeting of the incoming officers and executive committee of the American Rose Society held July 1 the following special prizes were formally accepted and request is made for publication in the horticultural press so that growers may be informed: For twenty-five pot roses, not climbers, not less than ten varieties, silver cup, value $50, presented by Col. Chas. Pfafi, Boston, Mass. For twenty-five blooms of any Ameri- can seedling rose introduced in or since 1901, President Montgomery's prize, $25. For fifty blooms Killarney rose, $25 offered by Siebrecht & Son. For fifty blooms La Detroit, $100 ofiered by John Breitmeyer's Sons, divided into three prizes—$50, $30, $20. For specimen Wichuraiana hybrid, any variety, $15, presented by Benjamin Hammond, Fishkill-on-Hudson, N. Y. For fifty blooms Liberty, two prizes, presented by J. B. Nugent, New York, $35 and $15. For twenty-five blooms of any new rose not yet disseminated, the flowers to be of

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