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The Weekly Florists' Review, 



Orient. Where the Italian rose garden 

 was we failed to discover. The only 

 thing apparent was a great display of 

 ignorance, dearly paid for by the Amer- 

 ican Rose Society. 



The real exhibition was held in the con- 

 servatory, the Astor gallery and the 

 Myrtle room. The carnation display was 

 an exceedingly good one, _nc>^4)etter 

 blooms were ever shown. All tKe great 

 new ones were there : Prosperity, not for 

 competition but 'defiafit iii grandeur; 

 Governor Roosevelt, a magnet of attrac- 

 tion, and Morning Glory covered itself 

 with glory. Mr. Ward's several new 

 seedlings, Dorothy Whitney, Viola Allen, 

 Harry Fenn, Golden Beauty and others, 

 received praise from the most critical. 

 The carnations were in a cool place and 

 kept in good condition for the four days. 



The rose exhibit was arranged in a 

 long bed on the floor in the center of the 

 Astor gallery. There might have been 

 20,000 cut roses staged. Very few of the 

 old varieties were seen, just one vase of 

 iear old Bon Silene, about six poor speci- 

 mens of Marechal Niel, two jars of Papa 

 Gontier, one or two of De Watteville, 

 some of Hoste, Perle, Sunset and Moss; 

 the rest, with the exception of the very 

 new claimants, were of the sorts to be 

 seen in every wholesale house. The quan- 

 tity and quality of the American Beau- 

 ties shown here, though, has never been 

 equaled anywhere. They were grand be- 

 yond description and gave the judges 

 lots of trouble. There were no hybrid 

 perpetuals shown. It seems strange that 

 many of our largest growers who are de- 

 voting time and money tx) these events 

 cannot spare a small section of their im- 

 mense establishment to the growing of a 

 few special varieties of roses for these 

 shows. One thing was forcibly demon- 

 strated, that the best roses shown were 

 grown outside the 150-mile radius of 

 New York. Those from the Dale Estate, 

 Brampton. Ontario, were finely interest- 

 ing, and Utica did nobly. The Penn. 

 boys can always succeed in winning if 

 they set about to do it. 



No definite awards were made until 

 the second day, which occasioned consid- 

 erable advcr^p fritifisni. The tootii was 

 warm. Mm fr..iii :i Ji-I:iihc w-inlrd tn 



get honir lllr ~A,ur lli-llt, ;illM MlilllN M.srS 



far ahciul ..ii tli.' lir-t .hiy «v,r, ll,r...igh 

 no fault of the exhibitors, away behind 

 on the second day. 



The retail section was poorly repre- 

 sented, and the work they offered was 

 worthy of some village. Kxhibits from 

 private gardeners were almost exclu- 

 sively confined to a few good men at 

 Seabright, N. J. All honor to Messrs. 

 Butterbach. Hale, Wengerter, Dowlen and 

 Kettel from that section ; it is not the 

 first time they have distinguished them- 

 selves. There were several protests 

 against the judging recorded. Mr. 

 Warendorf's wedding and mantel decora- 

 tions were deservedly considered un- 

 worthy, though the only ones put up : the 

 best steamer basket was ruled out be- 

 cause the flowers were in water, and so 

 on. There will always be kicking. The 

 retailers are iu>t altogether in the 

 wrong: leave them to make their own 

 classes and select whom they consider 

 competent judges and things might be 

 more creditable. 



The greatest amount of praise is due 

 the officers who worked day and night 

 in order to make the affair a success. 

 Admission the first day was $5 and $1 

 each succeeding day. .J. P. Cleary auc- 

 tioned off a considerable lot of plants on 



Thursday night and the cut (lowers on 

 Friday night. The Beauties, after being 

 four days in the place, were sold for ten 

 cents each, other stock brought good 

 prices and a considerable sum was thus 

 added to the general fund. The treas- 

 urer, Mr. May, informed us that owing 

 to a great many tickets being out among 

 the patronesses, the financial end of the 

 show would not be known for some time. 

 The tickets sold at the door, however, 

 fell far below expectations. 



Following is a list of the awards: 

 Section A— Open to AU. Twenty-flve Blooms. 



American Beaut> — First. Myers & Samtman. 

 Philadelphia; second, J. Heacock. Wyncote, 

 Pa.; third. H. Hentz. Jr.. Madison. N. J. 



Bride — First, J. H. Dunlop, Toronto; second, 

 H. Hentz, Jr. ; third, Dale Estate. Brampton. 

 Ont. 



'teor— First, J. H. Dunlop; second, Dale 

 Estate. 



Mrs. Plerpont Morgan— First, Dale Estate; 

 second. J. N. May. 



Mme. Hoste— First. Dale Estate. 



Perle des Jardlns— First, Dale Estate. 



Sunset— First. Dale Estate. 



Golden Gate— First. American Rose Co., 

 ■Washington; second. J. H. Taylor, Bay Side, 

 New York. 



Mme. Chatenay— First. American Rose Co. 



Papa Gontier— First. J. N. May. 



Bon Silene— First. J. N. May. 



Lady Dorothea— First. J. H. Dunlop. 



Liberty— First, Taylor. 

 Section B— Growers Having Not More Than 



20.000 Feet. Twelve Blooms. r 



American Beauty— First, Righter & Bartoh, 

 Madison, N. J. 



Bride— First, Righter & Barton. 



Bridesmaid— First. Righter & Barton. 



Papa Gontier— First, P. R. Qulnlan, Syracuse, 

 New York. 

 Section C— Onen to Private Gardeners, twelve 



Blooms. 



American Beauty— Second. J. Dowlen. 



Bride— First. G. H. Hale; second, N. Butter- 

 bach: third. Dowlen. 



Bridesmaid— First. H. Kettel; second. Hale. 



Kaiserin Augusta Victoria— Second, J. Dow- 

 len. 



Mrs. Plerpont Morgan— First, Hale; second, 

 Dowlen. 



President Carnot— First. Dbwlen. 



Perle des Jardlns- First. W. L. Stow; second. 

 Dowlen. 



Golden Gate— First. Stow. 



La France— Second. Dowlen. 



Marechal Niel— Third. O. Mcintosh. 

 Section F— Open to Private Gardeners. Single 



American Beauty— First, Hale; second, Stow; 

 third, Dowlen. 



Bride— First. Hale; second, Dowlen; third, 

 Butterbach. 



Bridesmaid— First. Hale; second. Butterbach. 



Kalscrfn Augusta— Third, Dowlen. 



Mrs. Plerpont Morgan— First, Hale; second. 



Golden Gate— First, Stow. 



La France— Third. Dowlen. 



Mrs. Robert Garrett— Third. Dowlen. 



Marechal Niel— Second. Butterbach. 



Liberty— First. Butterbach. 



Any Other Disseminated Variety— First, But- 

 terbach. 

 Sectl'.'n r;— Oj.. II i,> all Groups. Plants. 



Dl^i I , ' ; 1- .irranged for effect 



ana lirsl. H. C. Steln- 



Sii.. :i .1 larger than S- 



Inrli 1 iii 11 First. StelnhofT. 



Cllmlilnt; I!..s..s In Pots— Specimen In tub or 

 pot (not less than twelve Inches): First. H. C. 

 Stelnhoff; second. Slebrecht & Son. 



Standard, single specimen plant— First, Steln- 

 hofT. 



SECTION H— Novelties 



Certificates to Queen of Edgely. Robert 

 Scott, Ivory and Florence Pemberton. 



Six blooms of any variety. Introduced since 

 1898— First, J. N. May, with Mrs. Oliver Ames. 



SPECIAL PRIZES. 



The Stoeckel Cup for 36 garden roses In pots 

 was awarded to Slebrecht & Son, New Rochcllc, 

 New York. 



The Asmus Prize for 50 blooms of Liberty 

 was taken bv B. Dorrance. 



The Taylor Cup for best vase of any new 

 rose was won bv the Queen of Edgely. from 

 the Floral Exchange. Philadelphia. Pa. 



The MIchell Cup, of H. F. MIchclI. Phila- 

 delphia, Pa.. In a close competition, was ulti- 

 mately taken by B. Dorrance. Dorrancetown. 

 Pa., for best display of cut roses, grown K.o 



Hitchings Cup. $100, to Peter Crowe, Utica. 

 ^•. Y.. with Bride. 



Stow Cup. for long-stemmed American Beau- 

 y Roses, was won by Mr. Stow's own gar- 

 lener, who exhibited blooms of very superior 

 luality on stems of surprising length. 



Display of Bulbous Plants, 



Newbold's 

 is. Gardener 

 second, Sie- 



Prize: First, Cornelius 

 N. Butterbach, Oceanic, 

 brecht & Son. 

 Mrs. Henry Clews' Prize for 50 White Roses 



Mrs. Richard Irvin's prize for Moss Roses: 

 J. N. May, first; Slebrecht & Son, second. 



Young & Nugenfs Cup for 50 Bride and 50 

 Bridesmaid, went to H. Dale Estate. Bramp- 

 ton, Ont.. Canada. 



American Beauty Roses, 50 blooms on not 

 loss than four-foot stems, in strong competi- 

 tion: H. Hentz. Jr.. first; L. A. Noe, second; 

 J. Heacock. third. The Lord & Burnham Chal- 

 lenge Cup. value $250, was taken by H. Hentz, 



For 50 Blooms, any variety, Beauty ex- 

 cepted: First, American Rose Co.. with 

 Ivory, and second. J. H. Dunlop. with Meteor. 



The' Blair Cup for 100 Roses, was won by B. 

 Dorrance with Liberty. 



Miss Callender's Prizes for Mignonette: First. 

 J. N. May; second, H. Spavins, Mt. Kisco, 

 New York. 



Battles' Cup for collection of Orchids: J. 



A. Dreer Co.. Phila- 

 itive plants, to Cor- 

 erbach, gardener. 



pot Roses was taken 



J. N. May. and third 

 rs. Gambrill's Prize tor 

 by H. A. Dreer & Co. 



J. H. Taylor, 

 best new plant 



i San- 



from New York City. 



Mr. Berwlnd's Prize for 

 100 square feet: First, Slebrecht & Son; sec- 

 ond, H. L. Terrell, Gardener J. Dowlen. ' 



The American Line Steamship Company's 

 Prize for arrangement of flowers for steamer 

 use was won by -Warendorf. New York City. 



Mrs. Burke Roche's Prize for decorative 

 plants, gardeners only, was won by H. L. Ter- 

 rell, Gardener J. Dbwlen, 



Mrs. Burke Roche's Prize for Lily of the Val- 

 ley: First, E. G. Asmus; second, Slebrecht &- 



Mrs. Storrs 'Wells' Prize for Gardenias, Sle- 

 brecht & Son. 



Mrs. Burks Roche's Prize for collection of 

 Carnations: First, C. W. "Ward; second. J. 

 H. Taylor. 



Fisher, Ellis. Mass. 



Mrs. C. Alexander's Prize for 50 blooms of 

 Lawson: Peter Fisher. 



Mrs. W. Douglas' Prize for display of Vio- 

 lets: First, O. Van Roden; second, H. Dale 

 Estate. 



Mrs, Mason's Prize fnr table decoration, lal.l 

 tor eight c.'v. .> Si.ii.lit ..i!: Son. 



Mr. Mus!. : r . for table decora- 



tion: J. II - ■ - ' N'ew York. 



Mrs. Ci.n. ■ . 11 Ml. -vs Prize for mirror 



dccnrali.ui ~i. luvcht & Son. 



I 1.. 1 i, . ■ 11-11 Society Prize for 



v.- ■ ,-h l.ff.'ht & Son. 



\ I nil i.iir ":i^ awarded to the 



ihn.ii 111 IM.j,l,\, wlii.h kept in spleifdid 

 cnndition up to Friday night. Prelimi- 

 nary certificates were awarded to Robt. 

 Scott & Son for Florence Pemberton. .i 

 very large rose after the color, form and 

 growth of Golden Gate, and to their new 

 rose, Robert Scott, which showed up fine- 

 ly and was greatly admired. The Amer- 

 ican Rose Co. got one for Ivory, or the 

 White Golden Gate, and B. Dorrance one 

 for his new rose Sarah Xesbitt. The 

 New York Botanical Garden arranged an 

 interesting group of plants, as did also 

 W. A. Manda, of South Orange. 



There were a great many noted visi- 

 tors in attendance. The official judges 

 were P. Breitmeyer, H. Small, E. Buott 

 ner, James Blair. Chester Davis. W. 

 Dovle. W. K. Partridge, H. Hentz and J. 

 W.' Withers. " J. I. T). 



If YOtr don't find what you want in 

 our classified advs. let us know and we 

 will ascertain for you where you may 

 get it. 



Cambridge, Mass.— A. F. Coolidge re- 

 ports that pinks have sold fairly well all 

 winter, but violets have been a drug on 

 the market. Easter is expected to better 

 conditions. 



