The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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THE EXHIBITIONS 1 



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NEW YORK. 



Your regular -respondent will doubi 



as send you the awards individuallj 

 3 I will confine mvself to eeneralitit 



of 



(lowers ever brought together in Amer- 

 ica. Great credit is due the (inns of 

 E. G. Hill, Nathan Smith & Son and 

 H. W. Buckbee for their enterprise in 

 bringing plants and flowers Buch ;i dis- 

 tance and being able to win prizes after 

 that. While there was an immense quan- 

 tity of high grade flowers on exhibition, 

 the number would have been trebled had 

 the show been held a week or ten days 



earlier, for the ex Ungly warm fall 



brought out all the varieties in ;i flood 

 ami all the exhibitors complain of the 

 difficulty of holding their flowers long 

 enough to exhibit. 



In the commercial classes, A. Herring- 

 ton, the president, covered himself with 

 glorv, -winning some fourteen first prizes. 

 Hill, Smith an. I Buckbee being also 



prominent, mil winning on nttv veilow 

 with Percy Plumridge, Appleton and the 

 Eatons being still prominent in these 

 classes. In the collection of thirty va- 

 rieties fine displays were made by Hill 

 and Smith, many of the no\elties ap- 

 pearing in these classes. 



gardener to D. Willis .lames. Madison, 

 N. J., exhibited some wonderful flowers. 

 Chiefly novelties. He won the C. S. A. 

 silver cup with \V. Duekham, which was 

 easily the fines! vase in the entire shoT\ 



were W. Duekham, a magnificent pink; 



low ; Ben Wells', a reflexed white; CheJ 

 toni, Leila h'ilkins. .Mai v I nulls ami other 

 immense flowers. The-,, new varieties, 

 as shown by Mr. Duekham ami also 

 Nathan Smith & Son ami E. G. Hill, were 

 i he star attraction for the professional 



ent. 



the 1 ors with H. W. 



standards were fine. ' 

 grafted specimen in th 

 foliage plant ,-lasses, .1. 

 Roehrs and Siebrecht 

 and in the orchid section 



.re made by Kohl, ink & Atkins a 

 ther exhibitors. 



Tl xhibitioii of roses was. as is ns, 



. New York, small in extent, the Ma 

 in men. L. A. Xoe ami .1. R. Mitel., 



rose and a very sweet smelling uoveil 

 from .1. X. May, called General M 



Arthur. 



tarnations could not lie called all "ex- 

 tensive exhibit, though th, re were some 

 high grade Hon,.,- from C. W. Ward 

 ami others, M. A. Patten showing up 

 w.ll, as did also Flamingo ami Albat- 

 ross. John \. May set up the Bride 

 in excellent condition, apparently a good 

 white, very tin,- ami very mat in ap- 

 pearani e. 



W. Wells, of England, sent a collec- 

 tion mi novelties in chrysanthemums, 

 thai, ,-oii-ideriiig the ,|istan,-e thev had 



trnv 



looked 



an who has sufficient 



flowers over 3,000 



of every eommenda- 



e flowers would not 



ill, anyway, had there 

 ird-breaking monsters 



ixhibitors set up finer 

 l.efore. notably Wil- 

 i,l Mel-'arlane, of Tar 

 Duff, of Orangi ; but 

 ill was certainly Win. 



lowers u, re, 1 hori- 



'here were a host of smaller, inter- 

 ng features that escape me at this 

 nent. lint they all helped to make up- 

 how that was of surpassing interest. 

 ,\ as somewhat of a surprise to me to 

 the hall packed in the evenings so 



The Cut Bloom Section at the New York Exhibition, November 10-12, J 903. 



