Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-07
RARE FLOWERS SELECTED
Odd and Beautiful Effects to- Please
the Visitor.
ARIsT0CRATS OF THE GARDEN
Varieties Old and New Will Mingle
Their Colors and Fragrance
in a Riot of Beauty.

a splendidIy built old Dutch mill, with
the finest flowers that can be grown
blooming upon ii and forming a bower of
beauty that will be scarcely surpassed
in any of the flower shows in the great
est cities of the world, will be the main
feature of the big exhibit of Guide Bros.
& Co. at the coming flower show. The
firm is famous for it's unique and inge-
NOUS ideas for decorations and has sur
passed all its previous efforts in the
planning and building OF this special
work of flower art.
1t would sem that the constant asso-
citation with the prizes of greenhouse and
garden has instilled into the members
of this firm a sixth sense. which enables
them to pick the best flowers of the
season and heighten their glorious riot
of color with the aid of such features as
this old mill. A thousand colors will
dazzle the eye around this mill; every
prize rose. chrysanthemum. violet, car
nation and scores of other flowers will
have its proudest representative there
helping to make the exhibit a triumph
of art.
Electric Lights Will Help.
Hundreds of electric lights will CLEAN
among the leaves and plants. and every
ingenious idea that the florists art knows
has been called into play. and only the
very best. the very latest, the most odd
and the most beautiful have been Sc
lected to please the eye of the many
thousands who will throng the halls of
the old Masonic Hall. The old Dutch
mill will. therefore. represent IT can be
said, the apex of floral ingenuity.
But the mill is not the only thing to be
seen in this exhibit. There will be the
aristocratS of the garden on exhibition
the finest flowers in the families of prize
winners. No common or garden variety
will have place in this galaxy of
beauty; each bud and bloom. each leaf.
stalk and root must have q clear escutch-
con. the finest bred and most beautiful
of all.
Flowers to Be Ever Fresh.
To preserve the beauty of the exhibit
to the end the flowers will be watched
with unceasing care. SO that the minute
the watchful eye of the experts on duty
at the old mill detects a curling petal 1t
will be discarded for a fresh bud. The
firm plans to have an exhibit that is per-
fectly fresh every minute of the day. The
deep red of the famous American beauty
rose will not lose its luster from the be-
ginning to the end: the modest purple of
violets and the holder colors of it's gaudy
sister. the pansy, will be preserved intact
and fresh; the great Shock-headed chrys-
anthemums will be as straight and tall
and proud and as much beloved by the
foot ball girl and the horse show girl
at the end of the show as at the begin
ming, and not one OF them will be allowed
to droop or to grow tired of it's long
session of proud review.
Old Favorites and Some New.
There will be many a new variety and
many a new face among the older varie-
ties of all sorts of plants. Among the
chrysanthemums there will be all the old
favorites. or standard prize winners. as
they are called. Among the better known
will be the Colonel Appleton. the SPLEEN
did Eaton, in yellow and white and pink
petals: the gorgeous Golden Wedding.
tn its shower of yellow, and the Collin
fordi. which has won the applause of
flower specialists the world over.
Among the roses will be the Killarney,
a better flower being hard to ind. My
Maryland is the name of another wonder
from the greenhouses of the firm, and the
President Carnot we'll deserves it's name
as a ruler among its kind. All of these
and the hundreds of other flowers are
prize winners, and the specimens to be
shown are all especially grown.
In Business Twenty Years.
Guide Bros. G. Co., started in the flower
business twenty years ago this month. In
that time they have become the largest
growers of flowers in the east. Their
store at 1914 street, filled with the
choicest flowers at all times. has 1000
square feet to devote to exhibition pur-
poses. In Anacostia there are thirty-six
acres, a farm, I'm fact, In point of size,
where the most splendid plants are
grown.