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The Weekly Florists^ Review, 



451 



General View of the Exhibition at the Indianapolis Convention of the American Carnation Society. 



REVIEW OF THE EXHIBITION AT 

 INDIANAPOLIS. 



The exhibition of carnations held in 

 connection with the eleventh annual 

 meeting of the American Carnation So- 

 ciety was undoubtedly the finest exhibi- 

 tion of carnations ever held, not only in 

 this country, but in the world. Never 

 before were as many extra fine blooms 

 staged at one time in spite of the fact 

 that many thousands of blooms were 

 delayed on the way too long to be in 

 condition for staging on their arrival. 

 All the trains from the east were several 

 hours late and none of the cxliibits ar- 

 rived in time for competition, the time 

 limit of which was set for 1 p. m. Wed- 

 nesday. The Boston shipments were 

 held at Cleveland, Ohio, for sixteen 

 hours, while C. W. Ward's shipments 

 did not arrive until Thursday, which 

 made it of little use staging them. It 

 was very unfortunate, indeed, as most 

 of the consignments contained new va- 

 rieties which we were all very anxious 

 to see, and this was the only oppor- 

 tunity most of us are likely to have 

 to see them. Those who were fortunate 

 enough to see them within a short time 

 after they were unpacked were able to 

 form an opinion of their worth, but af- 

 ter being packed so long the warm air 

 of the exhibition hall soon put them to 

 sleep. 



AJnong the late comers were some 

 grand blooms of Peter Fisher's Gov. 

 Wolcott, which certainly seems to be a 

 fine white. Enchantress, a fine Day- 

 break colored variety, and Mrs. W. A. 

 Patten, a white variegated variety. Mr. 

 C. Warburton's Cressbrook was on the 

 same train, but fortunately for him the 

 E. G. Hill Company had brought over a 



large vase full of magnificent blooms. 

 Another bunch of Fair Maid, from Mr. 

 A. Roper, of Tewksbury Center, Mass., 

 looked fine for an hour or two, but the 

 long journey was too much for it and it 

 soon developed a bad case of that tired 

 feeling. We were sorry that Mr. Ward 

 did not set up a few of his new ones 

 as it would have given most of the 

 growers a glimpse of their color and 

 form at least. 



The Chicago Carnation Company's 

 shipment arrived too late for competi- 

 tion on account of missing a train while 

 being transferred by the express com- 

 pany. They put up a few vases of their 

 new ones, though, among which were 

 bunches of about 100 each of Mrs. Pot- 

 ter Palmer, a grand soft scarlet bloom 

 of good size and substance; Mrs. Higin- 

 botham, a fair sized bloom of a beautiful 

 shade of light salmon, and about fifty 

 blooms of Marshall Field, a white varie- 

 gated of large size and good form; also 

 a large bunch of a fine white, of which 

 I was unable to learn the name. All of 

 these had fine stems, nearly three feet 

 long, and showed unusually good culti- 

 vation. 



Among the seedlings were the follow- 

 ing varieties of merit: A large bunch 

 of iSTo. 99, a deep salmon, shown by E. 

 Buettner, of Park Eidge, 111. ; "Daybreak 

 Perfection," which looked like a giant 

 Daybreak, by Boehringer Bros., Bay 

 City, Mich.; "Oriole," a pretty, fair sized 

 red bloom, by J, B. Goetz, of Saginaw, 

 Mich. E. Witterstaetter, of Sedamsville, 

 Ohio, showed a white of unusual merit, 

 numbered 723 A, and if it produces 

 enough blooms to the plant it will surely 

 be a winner. His Enquirer was also 

 very fine indeed. E. T. Graves showed a 



fine bunch of Camelliaflora, another fine, 

 large white of high quality and purity 

 of color. 



F. Dorner & Sons Company had their 

 four new ones in fine shape, besides a 

 large number of smaller bunches of 

 unnamed seedlings which made a fine 

 show, and crowds were collected there 

 continually admiring the odd and also 

 fine shades of color and the large size 

 of some of the blooms. Theirs was easily 

 the prettiest display in the hall. The 

 E. G. Hill Company set up a vase of 

 100 blooms of that grand scarlet, 

 Adonis, which looks fine every time I 

 see it, and. by the way, it captured the 

 Lawson gold medal, which was the very 

 highest honor to be striven for in the 

 whole exhibition. Their vase of Gaiety 

 looked grand and was admired by all on 

 account of its fine, clear marking and 

 good stems. Their vase of Cressbrook 

 easily ranked with Lawson and En- 

 quirer. 



Every visitor from out of town wag 

 anxious to have a peep at the Mrs. 

 E. A. Nelson, and they had an oppor- 

 tunity to feast their eyes on a bunch of 

 fifty magnificent blooms. Uncle John 

 Tliorpe pronounced it one of the finest 

 ever produced, and he was not far from 

 right. John Hartje and Baur & Smith 

 each had on exhibition a number of 

 seedlings in their second year and many 

 of them were very favorably commented 

 on. Next year will show more of their 

 worth. 



I forgot to mention among the late 

 comers Mr. Marquisee's Empire Staie, a 

 white of unusual purity, fine stem, good 

 calyx and large bloom, resembling Mar- 

 quis in form. This looks like a great 

 acquisition. 



