February 20, 1902. 



The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



413 



THE INDIANAPOLIS CONVENTION 



AN INTERESTING MEETING AND A 

 GRAND EXHIBITION. 



THE NE^X^ OFFICERS: 



Pres., C. W. WARD, - 

 Vice-Pres., H. DAILLEDOUZE, 

 Sec'y, ALBERT M. HERR, 

 Treas., F. E. DORNER, 



Queens, N. Y. 



Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Lancaster, Pa. 



Lafayette, End. 



Next Year's Meeting to be held at Brooklyn, N. Y. 



The Indianapolis convention was a 

 record breaker, both in attendance and 

 in the magnitude of the exhibition. 

 The attendance I'roni outside points 

 must have been fully two hundred, 

 and the exhibition was a grand 

 one, in both quantity and quality. The 

 exhibition hall was much . the finest 

 that has ever been at the disposal of 

 the society, being not only large and 

 lofty but with an abundance of day- 

 light. And the other appointments were 

 equally satisfactory. The meeting hall 

 was in the same building, and was in 

 the form of a small theater. Every one 

 could see and hear to the very best ad- 

 vantage. The whole building had been 

 lavishly decorated with palms and 

 blooming plants by the Indianapcdis 

 florists and presented a very festive ap- 

 pearance. 



Quite a number of shipments of flow- 

 ers for exhibition had been delayed in 

 transit and it was noon before the dis- 

 play was fairly in shape; but when 

 .staged the collection was superb. It is 



safe (o say that never before were so 

 many extra fine carnation flowers 

 brought together under one roof. We 

 secured a great many photogiaphs of 

 the display in detail and plates from 

 same will appear next week. The In- 

 diana florists are certainly entitled to 

 much credit for supplying such admira- 

 ble quarters. In looking over "^^his gj and 

 display of flowers we could not help 

 comparing it Avith a former convention 

 of the society in Indianapolis, when one 

 of the small parlors in one of the hotels 

 held the entire display and only a few 

 growers were represented. This year 

 one of the largest halls in the city was 

 filled with flowers and nearly every sec- 

 tion of the country was represented. 



The Awards. 



Following arc the awards by the 

 judges, Messrs. C. W. . Ward, Adam 

 tiraham and E. Buettner, passing upon 

 the new varieties entered for certifi- 

 cates of merit; Messrs. E. Dailledouze, 

 Paul M. Pierson and W. N. Rudd judg- 



ing in classes A, B, C and D, and 

 Messrs. Ernst Asnius, F. Burki and A. 

 Herrington, awarding the special prizes 

 and those on general display. 



In the seedling classes for prelim- 

 inary certificates Daj-break Perfection, 

 exhibited by Boehringer Bros., Bay City. 

 Mich., scored 74 points; Oriole, pink, 

 exhibited by J. B. Goetz. Saginaw, Mich., 

 74 points; seedling 11-98, exhibited by 

 Geo. W. Smith. Cleveland. 0.. 70 points. 

 As none of these reached 85 points no 

 certificates were awarded. 



Empire State, white, exhibited by L. E. 

 Marquisee, Syracuse, N. \., scored 87 

 points and won a certificate. The Chi- 

 cago Carnation Co. won certificates for 

 Mrs. Higinbotham, 86 points; Mrs. Pot- 

 ter Palmer, 85 points, and white seed- 

 ling No. 101, 85 points. Louise Naii- 

 mann, exhibited by G. M. Naumann, 

 scored 60 points. 



In the general classes H. Weber & 

 Sons, Oakland, Md., won second on 100 

 white with iSforway, no first being 

 awarded, though Lorna was in com- 

 petition. They were superb flowers anil 

 the withholding of first showed the higli 

 standard that is being set by the judges. 



For 100 light pink, E. Witterstaetter, 

 Cincinnati, was first, with Enquirer; 

 E. G. Hill Co., Richmond, Ind., sec- 

 ond, with Creesbrook. 



For 100 dark pink, Bassett & Wash- 

 burn. Chicago, were first, with Lawson : 

 II. W. Buckbee, Roekford, second, also 

 with Lawson. , 



For 100 scarlet, Bassett & Washljuni 

 were first, with Chicago (Red Bradt) ; 

 J. A. Peterson, Cincinnati, second, with 

 Estelle. 



For 100 crimson, E. G. Hill Co. 

 were first, with Roosevelt; Bassett & 

 Washburn, second, with Maceo. 



For 100 yellow variegated Bassett & 

 Washburn were first, with Gold Nugget; 

 no second awarded. 



For 100 white variegated, E. G. Hill 

 Co. were first, with Gaiety; Bassett 

 & Washburn, second, with Bradt. 



For 100 any other color, Bassett & 

 Washburn were second, no first being 

 awarded. 



In the classes for fifty blooms, E. G. 

 Hill Co. took second on white, with 

 Flora Hill, no first being awarded. 

 • On 50 light pink, Mrs. E. T. Grave, 

 Richmond, Ind., won first, with Mar- 

 quis, no second being awarded. 



On 50 dark pink. Stuart & Haugh, 

 .\nderson. Ind., were first with Lawson; 

 E. G. Hill Co., second, with Dorothy. 



On 50 scarlet, R. Witterstaetter was 

 Jirst, with Estelle; E. G. Hill Co., 

 second, also with Estelle. 



On 50 white variegated E. G. Hill 

 Co. were first, with Bradt; W. K. Par- 

 tridge, Lockland, O., second, also with 

 Bradt. 



In the classes for 25 blooms, Hill 

 Co. were second on white, with Lorna. 

 On dark pink, Stuart & Haugh were 

 first, with Lawson. On crimson. Hill 

 Co. were first with Roosevelt. On 

 yellow variegated, Hill Co. were first 

 "with Gaiety. On white variegated, N. 

 A. Benson, Petersburg, Colo., was first, 

 with Bradt. On any other color, Bas- 

 .■-ett & Washburn were first with Pros- 

 perity. 



W. K. Partridge won the special prize 

 oflered by Hill Co. and A. M. Herr 

 for the best 50 blooms of Ethel Crocker. 



Bassett & Washburn won the hundred 

 dollar silver vase offered by W. A. Proc- 

 tor for the best separate collection of 

 ccMinurcial varieties. 



