Copyright, 1899, by 

 rUORISTS' PLIBL.ISI1IMG CO., 520-53S Gaxton Bulldlnft, CHICAGO. 



Vol. m. 



CHICA.GO AND ISfEW YORK, FEBRUARY 23, 1899. 



No. 65. 



American Carnation Society. 



PHILADELPHIA, FEBRUARY 16 AND 17, 1899. 



The eighth annual convention of the 

 American Carnation Society held in 

 Philadelphia last Thursday and Fri- 

 day, Feb. 16 and 17, was one of the 

 most successful and interesting in the 

 history of the society, in spite of ad- 

 verse circumstances that were well 

 Jilgh overwhelming. With the rail- 

 road systems blockaded with snow and 

 as the result of bitter cold, with trains 

 so infrequent and uncertain as to make 

 travel exceedingly uncomfortable and 

 the safe arrival of express shipments 

 a matter of grave doubt, it is certainly 

 very much to the credit of the craft 

 that such a splendid showing was 

 made. 



The Exhibition, 



Owing to delays in delivery it was 

 noon of Thursday before the exhibi- 

 tion was in shape and belated cases 

 arrived as late as Friday noon. But 

 when all the entries were in place it 

 was a grand display, well worthy of 

 the occasion. All the leading growers 

 were strongly represented and we 

 ijuestion whether such a collection of 

 specimen flowers were ever before 

 brought together. 



Messrs. Wm. Scott, C. H. Allen and 

 W. N. Rudd were the judges of seed- 

 lings and they awarded certificates of 

 merit to L,. E. Marquisee, Syracuse, 

 N. Y., for The Marquis, a beautiful 

 pink flower; to John N. May, Summit, 

 N. J., for Olympia, a white varie- 

 gated; to Cottage Gardens, Queens, 

 N. Y., for Gen, Gomez and Gen. Ma- 

 ceo, both crimson; to H. Weber & 

 Sons, Oakland, Md., for seedling No. 

 38. The Cottage Garden's silver cup 



for best scarlet seedling was won by 

 Dailledouze Bros., Flatbush, N. Y.; 

 with the variety Mars, and the Rook- 

 wood vase went to Ernst Asmus, 

 West Hoboken. N. J. 



The various named seedlings entered 

 scored points as follows: 



Gen. Maeeo (Ward) 88 points. 



Olympia (May) 87 points. 



The Marquis (Marquisee) 86 points. 



Hanna Hobart (Sievers) 86 points. 



Gen. Gomez (Ward) 85 points. 



J. Whitcomb Riley (Dailledouze) 81 

 points (without plpnt). 



Gov. Griggs (Towell) 80 points. 



America (Hill) 80 points. 



Mrs. L/ippincott (Kuhn) 78 points. 



Pink Beauty (Rusler) 69 points. 



Kathleen Pantlind (Hopp & Lemke) 

 65 points. 



White Seedling (Hancock) 65 points. 



'Seedling No. Ill (Weimar) 63 points. 



Rosamond, 59 points. 



Opal (Witterstaetter) 58 points. 



In the general classes the awards 

 were made by Messrs. Eugene Daille- 

 douze, Peter Fisher and R. Witter- 

 staetter, and were as follows: 



Vase 100 blooms white, 1st to Hugh 

 Graham, Philadelphia, with White 

 Cloud. 



Vase 100 blooms light pink, 1st to C 

 Besold, Mineola, N, Y., with Mrs, 

 Frances Joost; 2nd to R. Craig & Son, 

 Philadelphia, with Melba. 



Vase 100 blooms, dark pink, 2nd to 

 Stollery Bros., Chicago, with Argyle. 



Vase 100 blooms scarlet, 1st to Chi- 

 cago Carnation Co., Joliet, 111., with 

 Jubilee; 2nd to F. A. Blake, Rochdale, 

 Mass., with Bon Ton. 



Vase 100 blooms yellow variegated. 



1st to W. N. Rudd, Chicago, with 

 Mayor Piugree; 2nd to Chicago Car- 

 nation Co., with Gold Nugget. 



Vase 100 blooms white variegated, 

 1st to Chicag'o Carnation Co. with 

 Mrs. G. M. Bradt; 2nd to H. D. Rohrer, 

 Lancaster, Pa . with tame variety. 



Vase 50 Flora Hill, 1st to R. Craig 

 & Son; 2nd to H. Giahani. 



Vase 50 Jubilee, 1st to Chicago Car- 

 riation Co.; 2nd to R. Craig & Son. 



Vase 50 Scott, 1st H. D. Rohrer. 



Vase 50 Victor, 1st Chicago Carna- 

 tion Co.; 2nd R. Craig & Son. 



Vase 50 Triumph, 2nd to H. D. Rohr- 

 er. 



Vase 50 any other light pink. 1st to 

 J. N. May, with Melba. 



Vase 50 Armazindy, 2nd to Chicago 

 C'arnation Co. 



Vase 50 Lily Dean, 1st H. D. Rohrer. 



Vase 50 any other white variegated, 

 1st to Chicago Carnation Co., with 

 Mrs. Bradt. 



Vase 50 Pingree, 1st W. N. Rudd. 



Vase 50 any other yellow. 2nd to R. 

 Craig & Son, with Gold Nugget. 



In Class C, covering introductions 

 of 1898, 25 blooms each, in light pink 

 Chicago C'arnation Co. was second 

 with Mrs. Jas. Dean. In dark pink 

 Stollery Bros, were first with Argyle 

 and Hugh Graham second with the 

 same variety. In scarlet F. A. Blake 

 was second with Bon Ton. In yellow 

 variegated Chicago Carnation Co. was 

 second with Gold Nugget, and in white 

 variegated Dailledouze Bros, were first 

 with Mrs. Bradt. 



H. D. Rohrer won the Blake special 

 prize for 25 blooms of Bon Ton, and 

 H. Graham the Witterstaetter prize 

 for 100 Evelina. 



The S. A. F. medal for six vases, 25 

 blooms each, six varieties, introduc- 

 tions of 1897 and 1898, was won by the 

 Chicago Carnation Co., the varieties 

 being Mrs. Bradt, Mrs. Jas. Dean, Mrs. 

 Frances Joost, New York. John Young 

 and Gold Nugget. 



