Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-05
A CEILING OF ROSES.
Pittsburg Florists Arranging for an
Exhibition in November.
GREAT CHRySANTHEMUM DISPLAY
Details of the Wonderful Show to Be Given
in Central Rink.
MILLIONAIRES OFFER BIG PREMIUMS

Pittshurg is to be treated to the greatest
flower show ever held in the country. 1t is
TO be given in Grand Central Rink, COM
meucing November TO- and lasting until the
18th The richest and Iarest plants known
TO the florists art will be on exhibition. Al
though 1he plants and flowers will all be
contributed, the affair is TO be conducted on
a scale so magnificent that at least $500
will be expended in decorations and in ar
ranging the exhibit, while thousands of dol
lars will be offered in premiums.
For this wondrous display of beauty West
ern Pennsylvania will be indebted to the
Pittsburg and Allegheny Florists and Gar
denerS' Club. At its regular meeting yester-
day it was finally decided to give the exhi-
bition. Another meeting will be held next
Tuesday, when all the arrangements will be
completed. As the club includes in Its
membership $50 of tho leading florists and
gardeners of Allegheny county and is
backed by the most wealthy citizen there
can be no doubt of its success. Although
there will be premiums ranging from $40 up
TO the hundreds for fine exhibits still larger
ones will be offered by PittsDurgers on spe-
cial plants. Henry Phipps will offer big
reward for the finest collection of
chiysanthcmums Charles ]. Clark, whose
adunration for orchids is nearly as great as
his love for baseball and fast horses, Will
give big premium for the lucky florist who
can bring out the greatest combinations of
form and color in these strange plants
OTHER BIG PREMIUMS OFFERED.
It also understood that Paul Hacke will
mt mn a sum of money for which florists can
compete. The same thing will be done by H.
q. Frick Mr. Armstrong, the coke manu-
facturer. and others who are enthusiastic
flower funciers. The leading clothiers will
also offer a prize.
As the club believes chrySenthemums to
he the mos: fashionable flower at present, q
great deal of space will be given up to them.
These flowers have certainly reached q
greater perfection tEan ever did any other
plant in so short a time. At some of the
recent flower shows chrysanthemums IL
inches in diameter werc displayed, and 1t is
believed that even this record will be sur
passed.
Not all OF the great show, however, will be
taken up by the crysanthemums. The
whole of Central Rink will be laid off in two
spacious gardeners, with fountains playing
on all sides. They will be under the super
vision of two of the most famous landscape
gardens in the world. who vie with each
other in the beauty of their various arrange
ments. There will be forests of waving
palms and immense banana trees. Every
window and the stage will be banked with
flowers, ferns and palms.
UNDER A GREAT CANOPY OF ROSES
The greatest feature will be the ceiling
decoration which will be made up entirely |
OF roses with the various shades blended in |
the most beautiful combination of color. 1t |
will be literally a sky of roses. The florists |
say they can keep the flowers fresh for ten |
days and all their perfect beauty can easily |
be retained during the four days of the ex- |
hibit
An idea OF the grandeur of the show can |
be understood when we realize that che |
richest and rarest plants from all the hot
houses OF the florists and gardeners in the |
VI besides f
tiest from the conservatories of Pittsburg
will be placed on exhibition.
Then, to complete it ALL every flower and
plant of any importance in the Phipps con-
servatoTies in Allegheny Parks will be trans
planted in Central Rink. Yet even all that
imposing display will not form a tenth part
Of the great flower show.
The only trouble that the projectors of |
this display are encoun terinR is from the
Exposition Society. The officials of that or
ganizntion want the flower exhibit to form
part of that enormous combination this
fall The florists, however, want more space
[ han the Exposition Society will give, and
thev also claim it would not give them suit
6cient time to get their plants in shape. The
expense incumbent upon the production is
intended to be made up by charging an ad-
mission fee.
WORK ON THE EXHIBITION.
Not much real work will be done on the
exhibition until the end of the month, as
the international meeting of the Society of
American Florists takes place in Toronto,
Canada, August Is, 10, 20 and 81 The
OF the society will be
1t the Queens Hotel. About 100 men,
bers of the club Will go from Pittsburg,
but by the time the exhibition comes
Df in November, it is expected that there
will be 200 members in the club.
The programme of the exercises is gotten
up in neat pamphlet, with a clever com.
0inaton of the coat of arms of United
states and Canada on the first page. The
lime will be taken mp i'm discussions of trade
subjects and in investigating horticultural |
matters One of the speakers will be H. B.
Beatty, OF Oil City. ]. W. Ludwig, of Allie
yheny, is one OF the vice presidents of the
,OcietT, and is the founder of the local club.