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HORTICULTURE 



February 8, 1913 



INTERNATIONAL FLOWER SHOW 



GRAND CENTRAL PALACE, NEW YORK, APRIL 5 TO 12, 1913. 



The nnal schedule of Prizes for the 

 Third National Flower Show of the 

 Society of American Florist and 

 Ornamental Horticulturists and Con- 

 tributing Societies in Co-operation with 

 the International Exposition Company, 

 has been issued and copies may now 

 be obtained on application to Secre- 

 tary John Young, 54W. 28th St., New 

 York City. ^,. ^ ^-^ 



We shall not attempt to publish the 

 entire list of prizes at the present time. 

 Our readers can have them in more 

 convenient and preferable form in the 

 regular official publication, which is a 

 44-page pamphlet, well-printed in large 

 type on heavy paper and including all 

 the rules, scales of points, etc., of the 

 Flower Show Committee and the vari- 

 ous contributing societies. There are 

 563 distinct classes each providing one, 

 two or three cash prizes, cups or med- 

 als In addition to the extensive lists 

 offered by the Society of American 

 Florists, American Carnation Society, 

 American Gladiolus Society, American 

 Rose Society, and American Sweet Pea 

 Society in their respective sections, sil- 

 ver cups or gold, silver and bronze 

 medals are contributed by the follow- 

 ing named societies: 



American Institute of the City 

 of New York, Chrysanthemum So- 

 ciety of America, Dutchess County 

 Horticultural Society, Elberon Horti- 

 cultural Society, Horticultural Society 

 of Chicago, Horticultural Club of Bos- 

 ton, Horticultural Society of New- 

 York, International Exposition Com- 

 pany, Lenox Horticultural Society, 

 Morris County Gardeners' and Florists' 

 Society, Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society, Nassau County Horticultural 

 Society. National Association of Gar- 

 deners, New Jersey Floricultural So- 

 ciety. Newport Horticultural Society. 

 New York and New Jersey Association 

 of Plant Growers, New York Florists' 

 Club, North Westchester Horticultural 

 Society, Paterson Floricultural Socie- 

 ty, The Perpetual Flowering Carna- 

 tion Society of England, Southampton 

 Horticultural Society, Tarrytown Hor- 

 ticultural Society, Westchester and 

 Fairfield Horticultural Society, Gar- 

 deners' and Florists' Club of Boston, 

 Missouri Botanical Garden. 



Donations and special prizes of cups 

 or cash are credited to 33 commercial 

 firms in various parts of this country 

 and abroad, also from 13 amateur 

 patrons of horticulture. 



Entries must be in the secretary's 

 hands not later than March 30th. A 

 charge of $2.00 will be assessed for 

 every entry made after this date and 

 the management reserves the right to 

 reject any and all entries received af- 

 ter March 30th. All entries other than 

 for the rose, carnation, sweet pea and 

 gladiolus societies, should be sent to 

 John Young secretary, S. A. F. and O. 

 H., International Flower Show, New 

 Grand Central Palace, 46tb street and 

 Lexington avenue, New York. 



Entries for all the rose classes 

 should be forwarded so as to reach 

 the secretary, Benjamin Hammond, 

 Fishkill-on-Hudson, N. Y., not later 

 than March 29th, 1913. 



All carnation entries must be in the 

 hands of the secretary, A. P. J. Baur, 

 Indianapolis, Ind., not later than March 



26th. Exhibitors from a distance will 

 please note the date and mail accord- 

 ingly. A charge of $2.00 will be made 

 for each entry made later than March 

 26th. 



Sweet pea entries will be received up 

 to 10 o'clock on the day previous to the 

 exhibition. A great favor will be con- 

 ferred, however, by earlier notification. 

 Entries must be made on the forms 

 supplied by the secretary, Harry A. 

 Bunyard, 342 W. 14th street, N. Y. C. 



All gladiolus entries must be made 

 to the secretary, L. Merton Gage, South 

 Natick, Mass., not later than one week 

 before the first day of the exhibition, 

 on blanks provided by the secretary for 

 the purpose. 



Intending exhibitors should note 

 very carefully the days on which the 

 different classes will be staged. 



Copies of the official schedule may 

 be had by anyone calling at the office 

 of HORTICULTURE, 11 Hamilton 

 Place, Boston, where a stock will be 

 kept constantly on hand, and any in- 

 formation will be cheerfully given to 

 intending exhibitors or prospective vis- 

 itors to the show. 



Lectures, Trade Exhibition and Other 

 Features. 

 The feature program for the show, 

 while not yet completed, will include 

 free lectures to the public every after- 

 noon and evening. President Farqu- 

 har of the S. A. F. will speak on 

 -Gardens of Japan." J. Otto Thilow. of 

 Philadelphia will lecture on "A trip 

 through the Canadian Rockies." E. H. 

 Wilson, of Boston, will speak on 

 "Chinese Plants." F. W. Brown, of 

 Buffalo, has kindly consented to give 

 his ideas on "Floral Arrangement and 

 Art." R. F. FeUcJi, of London, Eng.. 

 it is also hoped will speak on "Floral 

 Decorations as used at the British 

 Court." Other well known lecturers 

 will be Leonard Barron, of The Gar- 

 den Magazine: George V. Nash, of the 

 New York Botanical Garden; J. H. Mc- 

 Farland. of the McFarland Publicity 

 Co., Harrisburg. Pa.: and Miss Bea-. 

 trice Jones, of New York, the well- 

 known landscape artist. The lecture 

 room, which is on the third floor of 

 the Palace, will be used by members 

 of the different societies for their 

 meetings in the mornings: definite 

 dates will be set for each society as 

 scon as -the program is properly ar- 

 ranged. 



The board of jurors, composed of 

 about sixty well posted men in Ameri- 

 can horticulture, will work in con- 

 junction with about a dozen European 

 gentlemen, in order that the show may 

 be judged expeditiously and the jtrizes 

 all awarded before the building is 

 opened to the public. 



Arrangements are being made to 

 have the music in i eeying with the 

 magnitude and importance of the 

 event. 



Some of the commercial firms think 

 the price of 7.5c., f 1 and $1.50 per ft. 

 (according to location) for space in 

 the trade exhibition section is too high, 

 but it must be remembered that con- 

 ditions in New York are very different 

 from those found in small towns. Mr. 

 Young still has a few good locations 

 for sale, and, as purely a business 

 proposition anyone interested who doc-^ 



not have space in this show will sure- 

 ly regret the fact, afterward. The 

 building in which the show will be 

 held (of which a very fine picture ap- 

 pears on the back of the Final Sched- 

 ule of Prizes) rents for $2000 per day; 

 the lighting and other essentials are 

 additional items; and while the S. A. 

 F., & O. H. has an agreement with the 

 International Exposition Co.. which 

 relieves the society of much direct re- 

 sponsibility, still it will have to be 

 provided for. The cost of space, how- 

 ever, if any business man will sit down 

 and conscientiously figure it out, is 

 really very little considering the fact 

 that automobile shows in the same 

 building rented their space for from $:i 

 to $5 per foot; and also considering 

 the fact that an exhibitor is putting 

 his goods before the greatest buying 

 iniblic in the world. When one con- 

 siders, too, that more than seventy- 

 five thousand people passed through 

 the gates at a local exhibition one 

 Sunday last fall just to see a chrysan- 

 themum exhibition, the prospects for 

 a record breaking attendance at the 

 International Show looks exception- 

 ally bright. 



the International Exposition Com- 

 pany, through its arrangements with 

 the advertising agencies, will have an 

 announcement of the show in all the 

 surface, elevated and subway stations, 

 and in this way it will come to the 

 direct notice of over two million peo- 

 ple a day, a great many of whom will 

 be interested in the show. 



It is expected that one day will be 

 known as "Society Day," on which day 

 the admission fee will be double that 

 on ordinary days. This will be the big 

 display day of the Rose and Carnation 

 Societies. 



J. H. PEPPER. 

 Chairman Publicity Committee. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



The members of the American Rose 

 Society are quite in earnest about put- 

 ting up a fine show at the coming In- 

 ternational Exhibit in New York City. 

 There have been special prizes of con- 

 siderable value offered by the New- 

 York Cut Flower Company which 

 have not yet been finally adjusted, the 

 value being $200. There is also a spe- 

 cial prize from Moore, Hentz & Nash, 

 of a silver cup valued at $50 for the 

 best six roses: six roses in each 

 entry, no three to be of the 

 same variety, no stem to be long- 

 er than twenty inches, the roses 

 of each variety to be judged on their 

 own merits and not by comparison 

 with the other varieties. There is also 

 a special growers' i)rize, first, second 

 and third. $15, $10 and $7 in cash. 

 This prize is for the actual grower of 

 any exhibit and not for the exhibitor, 

 excepting in the case where he does 

 his own growing. The object is 

 to recognize the man who actually 

 does the good work. This prize was 

 first offered by Frank L. Moore of 

 Chatham. N. J., and has been renewed 

 by someone almost every year since. 

 There is also another special prize re- 

 ported as coming ffom Philadelphia, 



for 75 roses of any variety, excepting 



American Beauties. 



BENJAMIN HAMMOND, Sec. 



