The Weekly Florists' Review. 



1017 



THE EXHIBITIONS 



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NEW YORK. 



The second annual exhibition of the 

 chrysanthemum Society of America, 

 held in co-operation with the American 

 Institute, is on this week in New York 

 city, held in the grandest room which 

 has ever been available for a flower 

 show. It is in the new Herald Square 

 hall, at the top of the Macy building, 

 Broadway, between Thirty-fourth and 

 Thirty-fifth streets, and the space of 

 over 70,000 square feet is well filled. 



The doors were opened promptly at 

 the scheduled hour, and the management 

 was at once in receipt of congratula- 

 tions on the complete success of the ex- 

 hibition, for the general effect was ex- 

 eellentj the showing of high grade novel- 

 ties the grandest ever staged in this 

 country, and the early attendance most 

 gratifyingly large. All that was needed 

 from the opening hour was good weather 

 to insure a most pleasing outcome. 



Probably the center of interest was 

 the contest for the silver cup offered 

 by the C. S. A. for the best ten blooms 

 of any variety. It brought out a won- 

 derful lot of flowers, but none was equal 

 to the new pink, Wm. Duekham, ex- 

 hibited by Mr. Duekham himself. The 

 F. E. Pierson silver cup for best twenty- 

 five blooms in twenty-five varieties "as 

 also won by Mr. Duekham, his set in- 

 cluding many of the new sorts, described 

 in recent chrysanthemum notes in the 

 Reyif.w. A. Herrington won the Pierson 

 cup for twelve blooms of twelve varie- 

 ties with many of the novelties in his 

 set. These two were the principal prize 

 winners, Mr. Herrington capturing four- 

 teen firsts and four seconds, Mr. Duck- 

 ham ten firsts and two seconds. F. T,'. 

 Pierson Co. was first on its new pink 

 'mum, Dr. Englehardt. 



There were fine bush plants of chry- 

 santhemums from the Boston gardeners. 

 Lager & Hurrell make a very fine dis- 

 play of orchids. Pompon chrysanthe- 

 mums are shown by B. Vincent, Jr. & 

 Son, White Marsh, Md. .Julius Boehrs 

 staged a fine group of decorative plants. 

 John Lewis Childs showed crotons ami 

 plants. There are evergreens from Sie- 

 brecht & Son and box trees from Bob- 

 bink & Atkins. 



A good showing of carnations 

 by such growers as C. H. Allen, J. J. 

 Hayden, L. H. Marquisee. J. X. May 

 and Peter Fisher. Violets came from 

 < J. T. Sehuneman. The rose exhibitors 

 were Mitchell, Xoc, McArthur, May, 

 Williams and Adams. Xew roses were 

 shown by John Breitmeyer 's Sons, J. X. 

 May and John Cook. H. T. Clinkaberry 

 shows cypripediumg. Mr. Wells, the 

 English chrysanthemum grower, sent an 

 exhibit of twenty novelties. 



Among the best blooms shown, taking 

 the exhibits as a whole, are Wm. Duek- 

 ham, the grand pink; Eaton, white and 

 yellow; Col. Appleton in fine form and 

 F. A. Cobbold, one of the novelties. 

 Among the exhibitors from a distance 

 are E. G. Hill Co., Eichmond. Ind. ; 

 Xathan Smith &■ Son. Adrian. Mii-h.; 

 H. W. Buckbee, Eoekford, 111.: W. J. 

 & M. S. Vesey. Fort Wayne, Ind. The 

 trade visitors include all the principal 

 chrysanthemum growers in the country. 



The judges were: Eugene Dailledouzi . 

 Prof. Nicholson, Edwin Lonsdale, Win. 

 Turner and Elmer D. Smith. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



Beautiful weather greeted the open- 

 ing of the great Philadelphia flower show 

 on Tuesday evening, drawing a large 

 crowd of flower lovers to Horticultural 

 Hall. They found a grand collection of 

 plants and cut blooms of ehrysanthi 

 mums that deserved careful examina- 

 tion. The larger sized chrysanthemum 

 plants were numerous. They were, as 

 a rule, rather stockier than usual, with 

 an abundance of well-formed flowers of 

 good substance and size. They nearly 

 filled the main hall, being grouped about 

 a Japanese temple, which was arranged 

 i uli arches and supported by columns, 

 a temple of chrysanthemums, ferns, au- 

 tumn leaves and red Japanese lanterns, 

 put together in William Graham 's best 

 style. Some fine specimens of Areca 

 lutescens were along the walls and at 

 one end two splendid erotons in tubs, 

 the broad-leaved Queen Victoria yield- 

 ing the blue ribbon to Superbus. \ 

 specimen Ehapis flabelliformis in a big 

 tub was much admired. Near 

 another of Cyeas Siamensis, not often 

 seen. In ferns John H. Ley had his 

 challenge exhibit of Adiantum hybri- 

 dum in good form. Thomas Long has 



being crowded into the lower hall, with 



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INDIANAPOLIS. 



Tin- foni-ii ii in i, ; .,[ ,„ santhemum 



aho'vi opened \ abet ith the 



grandest di-|.la; ms and 



before were such uniformly line blooms 

 on exhibition here, and Bim e thi i 

 two years ago there certainly has been 

 a great improvement in the 'mum. 

 Those large and gorgeous Australians 

 are almost beyond description, bul tin 

 are having a hard tussle in their en- 

 deavor to displace our own Eatons and 

 Appleton, and a few others. Perhaps 

 the grandest show in the hall are two 

 big vases of equally big Appleton done 

 to perfection, one by Mrs. Vesey and 

 the other by the E. G. Hill Co. They re- 

 ceived first and second in the order 



Darned, but it k -.mi. fine judging to 



decide between them. We have three 

 good judges, though, in the persons of 



Messrs. Bui ttnet and ■' ii il her, of 



Chicago, and Theo. Bock, of Hamilton, 

 Ohio. 



H. W. Rieman has several -■ 

 and they are laying the ..tli.r \arietii-s 

 out in good shape. Consequently Henry 

 wears that "smile that won't come off." 

 If. W. Buckbee, of Rockford, is here 

 with some grand stock. The mossed 

 banks were introduced at this show and 

 the blooms show up fine this way. Espi 

 .dally is this way effective with those 

 large, reflexed Australians, with their 

 long and spreading petals. Bare necks 



Wm. Scott's Exhibit, Winner of Silver Cup at the Tarrytown Exhibition. 



To return to chrysanthemums, the cut 

 flowers were shown in great profusion. 

 The largest single bloom was sa j,j to bo 

 John Mitchell's Madame Carnot, which 

 was apparently a record-breaker. Tin- 

 best three vases were Colonel Appleton, 

 yellow; Xellie Poekett, white, and Marie 

 Liger, pink, all from William Ro 

 There is a nice collection of orchids, 

 also many fine decorative plants and 

 evergreens. 



The show is very large, many foliage 

 plants and the hardy chrysam 



do not detract from the beauty of the 



is they do when in vases. While 



we do not like to see varieties with good 



hown in this way, there is no 



doubt that for many varieties this method 



is to be preferred. Among the older 



varieties we notice Morel and it looms 



up better than ever. A vase of this 



variety shown by Mrs. Vesey carried off 



the prize in the pink .lass, H. W. Eie- 



man 's seedling running a close second. 



There is very close competition in the 



classes calling for six blooms each of 



many vases that 



arc well worthy of a first prize will be 



