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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



NOVEMBER 16, 1899. 



G. Carey, gardener to T. C. Price, 

 Chestnut Hill; Chas. Zimmer, West 

 Collingswood, N. J.; John N. May. 

 Summit, N. J.: John Mitchell, Pennsyl- 

 vania Hospital; Prank Gould, gardener 

 to J. T. Morris, Chestnut Hill; Wm. 

 Kleinheinz, gardener to P. A. B. Wide- 

 ner, Ogontz; Wm. Robertson, gardener 

 to John W. Pepper, Jenkintown; John 

 MeCleary; Edward A. Stroud, Over- 

 brook;. Hugh Graham; Francis Can- 

 ning; Martin McTigue, gardener St. 

 Joseph's Convent. 



In the decorative plant classes first 

 premiums were awarded to John Mc- 

 Cleary, John Thatcher, Thomas Long, 

 gardener to Geo. W. Childs Drexel. 

 Bryn Mawr; Francis Canning, John 

 A. Shellem, Joseph Hurley, Chas. Rob- 

 ertson. 



In the rose classes firsts were taken 

 toy Myers & Samtman and Joseph 

 Heacock. In the carnation classes Rob- 

 ert Craig & Son won the prize tor best 

 pink carnation not yet disseminated, 

 with Ethel Crocker. And the Craig 

 silver cup for best American seedling 

 not yet disseminated went to H. Web- 

 er & Sons, Oakland, Md., for Miss 

 Genevieve Lord. 



Special premiums awarded were to 

 H. A. Dreer, tor collection, of aquatics 

 and foliage plants; Hugh Graham. 

 Philadelphia, for effective display of 

 finely grown Acalypha Sanderii and 

 foliage plants; John Thatcher, gar- 

 dener to Edward Le Boutillier, Wynne- 

 wood, for specimen plant of Cycas cir- 

 cinalis; Edwin Lonsdale, Chestnut 

 Hill, for finely grown plants of be- 

 gonia Gloire de Lorraine; Jos. Hur- 

 ley, gardener to James M. Rhodes, 

 Ardmore. for collection of caladiums 

 and ferns; John Thatcher, for display 

 of ornamental foliage plants. 



Certificates of merit were awarded 

 to Henry A. Dreer, for new anemone. 

 "Queen Charlotte;" to John Thatcher, 

 for finely grown Alocasia Sanderii: to 

 Lehnig & Winnefeld, Hackensack, for 

 collection of cyclamen. 



Honorable mention was given to 

 John Thatcher, for specimen plant of 

 Statice Halfordii; to L. Salingre, gard- 

 ener to Louis Burk, Olney, for group 

 of foliage plants; to H. A. Dreer for 

 collection of tuberous rooted begonias. 

 A silver medal was awarded to H. 

 T. Clinkaberry for his superb display 

 of orchids. 



Other special awards were: For 

 chrysanthemums — To Alburger's East 

 Park Nursery for collection of stand- 

 ards and plants grown in pairs: to 

 Joseph McGregor, gardener to Mrs. 

 Thomas A. Scott, Darby, for two 

 groups single stem plants; to W. 

 Fowler, gardener to Mrs. Charles 

 Wheeler, Bryn Mawr, for large well 

 grown plant of white; to J. H. Jones, 

 gardener to Mrs. Matthew Baird, Ger- 

 mantown, for fan shaped plant of yel- 

 low; to John Kuhn, Philadelphia, for 

 yellow seedling of Chinese type, and 

 to John Cullen, gardener to Percival 

 ltoberts, Jr., Pencoyd, for collection 

 of cut blooms. 



Certificates of merit were awarded 



to John Cullen, for collection of I 

 nese native cut blooms of chrysanthe- 

 mums, and to. John Mitchell, gardener 

 to Pennsylvania Hospital, for collec- 

 tion of cut blooms of American bred. 



Certificates of merit to Dailledouze 

 Brothers, Flatbush, L. I., for the seed- 

 ling carnation, "No. 666," and to Rob- 

 ert Craig & Son, for the new pink Tar- 

 nation, "Ethel Crocker." 



Special mention was given John 

 Kuhn, Philadelphia, for his two new 

 carnations; Mrs. Lippincott and John 

 Habermehl. 



PROVIDENCE, R. I. 



The annual exhibition of chrysan- 

 themums by the Rhode Island Horti- 

 cultural Society was held November 

 9th and 10th with a fairly good at- 

 tendance. The interest, however, in 

 chrysanthemums seems to be dving 

 out in this vicinity, and while those 

 who visit the exhibition express great 

 delight at the wonderful creations, the 

 public in general seems to pay but 

 little heed to the exhibitions. 



Farquhar Macrae was the only ex- 

 hibitor in all classes, and no finer 

 blooms are anywhere exhibited than 

 those exhibited by him. This exhibit 

 filled a long table the length of the 

 hall, competing for the prizes offered 

 for six vases, 10 blooms each, in dif- 

 ferent classes; while cut blooms filling 

 50 bottles were on an adjoining table 

 with other classes by the same ex- 

 hibitor. 



The exhibit of carnations attracted 

 great attention as it is seldom so fine 

 a show is exhibited, filling a table the 

 length of the hall. The Homogansett 

 Greenhouses, John A. Macrae, Nathan 

 D. Pierce and Farquhar Macrae ex- 

 hibited a great variety of blooms of 

 all shades. 



Charles S. Cooper, of Brockton. 

 Mass., exhibited the Crawford Pink, 

 and a sport .from the same, and was 

 awarded a certificate of merit. John 

 McFarland, of North Easton, and 

 Thomas E. Thrasher, of Avon, Mass., 

 exhibited single and double violets 

 which received honorable mention. 



In the front of the hall there was 

 a large collection of ferns, palms and 

 chrysanthemums arranged by Wm. 

 Hill, gardener to Mrs. Sheppard. while 

 at the rear Alfred Powell, gardener 

 for Col. Wm. Goddard had a like ex- 

 hibit. 



This society combines a fruit exhi- 

 bit with flowers and a long table was 

 filled with luscious fruit. 



The principal awards were as fol- 

 lows : 



For vase of 30 blooms chrysanthe- 

 mums. Farquhar Macrae was the only 

 exhibitor and took first prize. $10.00, 

 being entitled to the same by virtue 

 of excellence in culture and foliage 

 as well as by the premium list. The 

 same exhibitor was awarded first pre- 

 mium as follows: 



Fifty bottles chrysanthemums. 12 

 blooms incurved, 6 blooms incurved, 

 single bloom, white; single bloom, 



pink; single bloom, yellow; single 

 bloom, any variety, and 6 vases, 10 

 Idooms each. 



Wm. Goddard, Alfred Powell, gar- 

 dener, took second premiums in sin- 

 gle blooms, white, pink, yellow, and 

 any variety. 



Among Farquhar Macrae's collec- 

 tions was noticed the old favorite Mrs. 

 Jerome Jones, which has lost none of 

 its charms in the hands of a skillful 

 grower, while among the more recent 

 varieties were Autumn Glory, Peter 

 Kay, Mrs. Frank L. Parkes and West- 

 urn King. 



The attendance in the two evenings 

 was good, while during the day our 

 friends from out of town visited the 

 exhibition in considerable numbers. 



One lesson we draw from the ex- 

 hibition is that the growers of chry- 

 santhemums in this vicinity are afraid 

 of "Mack" and therefore will not come 

 in competition with him, feeling sure 

 that our "King of Chrysanthemum 

 Growers" will take all the prizes. 



In the groups of chrysanthemums, 

 palms and ferns, Wm. Hill took first 

 premium, and Alfred Powell, gardener 

 to Wm. Goddard, second. 



The principal carnation exhibitors 

 were Homogansett Greenhouses, John 

 A. Macrae, N. D. Pierce and Farquhar 

 Macrae. Homogansett Greenhouses 

 took four firsts and two seconds; John 

 A. Macrae, two firsts and four sec- 

 onds; N. D. Pierce, one first and one 

 second; F. Macrae, first premium on 

 seedlings. Mr. Pierce exhibited some 

 finely grown cyclamen and took first 

 premium. 



John A. Macrae exhibited a fine 

 sport from Eldorado. 



F. Macrae exhibited several speci- 

 mens of the new begouia Gloire de Lor- 

 raine. 



Certificates of merit were awarded 

 to Charles S. Cooper, Brockton, Mass., 

 for the Crawford Pink, and for a sport 

 of the same, and to N. D. Pierce of 

 Norwood for his seedling carnation 

 Beau Ideal. 



The weather was fine and the ex- 

 hibition about paid expenses, some- 

 thing that like exhibitions have failed 

 to do for a number of years. Visitors 

 were present from Worcester. Boston, 

 Brockton, North Easton, Avon and 

 other parts of Massachusetts and from 

 Cleveland, Ohio. C. W. SMITH." 



VIEW OF CHICAGO SHOW. 



We present in this issue an en- 

 graving from a very much better pho- 

 tograph of the Chicago show than 

 that used last week. This shows the 

 display in the theater proper, though 

 the photograph being taken from a 

 very high elevation, it gives much un- 

 due prominence to the uncovered floor 

 space. 



In the foreground at the right is 

 seen the magnificent pot geraniums 

 shown by the Mt. Greenwood Ceme- 

 tery Association. In the central fore- 

 ground is seen the Cibotium regale 

 -hown by John Reardon, gardener for 



