Tne Weekly Florists' Review. 



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House, 33x200 feet, of Chrysanthemums, at Florham Farms, Madison, N. J. 



will be so divided as to facilitate judg- 

 ing. 



The meetings of the society will be 

 held on the same floor as the show, and 

 members are requested to gather at 3 

 p. m„ November 11, the second day of the 

 show, for the convention. .Matters of 

 great importance to the members of the 

 society will come up. The president's 

 address will be of great interest to all 

 the members. 



Prof. Geo. E. Stone, of the Hatch Ex- 

 periment Station of the Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College, will lecture on 

 ' ' The Diseases of the Chrysanthemum. 



This exhibition promises to be the 

 greatest ever held in New York. 



Fred H. Lemon, Sec'y- 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY. 

 There were sbs varieties before the 



W. 



red COI 



exhibited by H. 

 III.; pure white. 



petals reflex. .1. 

 lercial scale. ;i] 



Japanese 

 points. 



Kockford, by the same exhibitor, yel- 

 low. Japanese incurved; scored commer- 

 cial scale, ss points. 



China, exhibted by the E. G. Hill Co., 

 Richmond, Ind.; deep yellow, Chinese 

 type; scored commercial scale, 85 

 points. 



Lord Hopetotm, by the same exhibitor ; 

 color of Geo. W. Childs, Japanese; 

 scored commercial scale, 87 points. 



Ethel Fitzroy, by the same exhibitor. 

 bronze and gold, Japanese; scored ex- 

 hition scale, 86 points. 



Madam J. 11. Perraud, by the same ex- 

 hibitor; cream-colored Japanese; scored 

 commercial scale, SO points. 



Andnu Morrison, gardener for Cur- 



M Stoddart, Esq., Rydal, Pa., exhibited 

 Seedling A before the Philadelphia com- 

 [tiittee. This variety is described as a 

 light rose pink, re flexed Japanese; scored 

 commercial scale 7S points, exhibition 

 scale 83 points. In the committee's judg- 

 ment the flowers sent were past their 

 best. 



Fred H. Lemon. Secretary. 



THE TWOMBLY ESTATE. 



The enormous 1,400-acre estate of II 

 M.l\. Twombly, at Madison, X. J., is 

 one of the triumphs of art over nature, 

 and infinite patience and toil and unlim- 

 ited wealth have made it a "garden of 

 the gods." What will yet be aecom- 

 plished under the able management of 

 Arthur Herrington, it would be no easy 

 thing to say. The possibilities are un- 

 limited, and the work already accom- 

 plished compares favorably with any of 

 the great landscape effects of America. 

 The grand view from the eminence on 

 which the palatial residence has been 

 .re, te I reminds one of Biltmore, and the 

 mountains alone are lacking to bring 

 vividly to ones memory the delightful ex- 

 perience at Asheville, while the artistic 

 effects and the perfection of detail are 

 far in advance of what has been accom- 

 plished there. 



The great ranges of glass, conserva- 

 tories and commercial departments, are 

 the special domain of Mr. Herrington. 



Space forbid- re than passing mention 



of the multitude of interesting features 

 that appeal I oi e et -.and. Such 



at the November exhibition. Miss Alice 

 Byron is a large, early white; R. Hooper 

 Pearson, a rich yellow ; Mrs. T. \V. Pock- 

 ett, resembling Golden Wedding; Ome 



ga, yellow; Mrs. C nl.es. pink; Lilly 



Mountford, pink; Mrs. 8. Darby, pur 

 plish amaranth; M. Verlot, pink; Henry 

 Hun-ell, rich yellow; Eobert Halliday, 

 yellow ; II. J. Jones, deep crimson; Vivi- 

 and-Morel, Mrs. Henry Robinson. Lady 

 Ha i riet, Tinn.l liy Eaton, of remarkable 



growth; the Fellow Eaton, T. I i g 



ton, Col. Appleton, Louis La Eoux, a new 

 pink, with great possibilities, and so on 



Then there are the grape houses, with 

 their luscious product; a ton each is their 

 record and great bunches of Muscat of 

 Alexandria still waiting to demonstrate 

 their sweetness to the fortunate investiga- 

 tor. 



There are nine great orchid houses, 

 with an assortment unexcelled in Amer- 

 ica. Four houses are 170 feet in length, 

 three 100 feet and two seventy feet, and 

 all "full to the muzzle" with absolutely 

 pei fee plant-. Cattleyas oci upy a large 

 part of the space, all the varieties of 

 value being represented. The stock of 

 ( '. Mendelli is said to be the largest in 

 the world. There are several benches of 

 Cypripedium Leeanum which will be in 

 (lower for Cliri-tmas. ("'. insigne and t '. 



ock of 



the 



the orchids is 

 t laid through 



- close to the 



- built, high 

 to reach them 

 lode! of clean- 



roof and a platfor 

 enough to enable the 

 easily. Every house it 

 liness and neatness. 



Three houses of Farleyense are a strik- 

 ing feature of the fern department, the 

 equal of which I have never seen. 



The stock of immense azaleas, fifty of 

 them, is the largest and finest in this 



Champaign, III. — Thomas Franks ex- 

 pects to add two more greenhouses to his 

 plant, using considerable material which 

 he has on hand. 



Azalea Marie Louise Nine Feet in Diameter. 



One of half a dozen in the collection at Florham Farina. Madia 



