November 10, 1906 



HORTICULTURE 



501 



THE BOSTON EXHIBITION. 



The big exhibition of the Massachu- 

 setts Horticultural Society, which 

 closed on Sunday night, Nov. 4, was 

 much more than a "chrysanthemum 

 show"; in fact the chrysanthemum 

 was but one of many factors in the 

 malve-up of an exhibition which, had 

 it been confined mainly to chrysan- 

 themums as in former years, could 

 hardly have been called a success. 

 But as a comprehensive fall display of 

 horticultural products it certainly was 

 a success and undoubtedly much more 

 interesting to the public and inspiring 

 to the craft than any exclusive dis- 

 play of chrysanthemum flowers and 

 plants could possibly be. The show- 

 ing of trained specimen plants — here- 

 tofore Boston's especial pride — was 

 very weak. The plants from J. S. 

 Bailey, although not as large as we 

 have been accustomed to see, would 

 have made very creditable specimens 

 had they been given a week more in 

 which to open their flowers. Those 

 from W. H. Elliott were well-grown 

 little commercial plants in small pots. 

 The competition for the Gane Memo- 

 rial prizes was also very weak, E. J. 

 Mitton receiving second award. 



In the chrysanthemum cut flower 

 section quality ruled high and very 

 uniform and the display was of mod- 

 erate extent. In the big vase class 

 there was only one exhibitor, E. A. 

 Clark. It was a great pyramid of 

 enormous blooms, and W. A. Riggs, 

 the gardener, was given a first-class 

 certificate for superior arrangement. 

 R. W. Paterson's table of 25 blooms in 

 25 varieties, Thos. Proctor, gardener, 

 was as fine a set as ever seen here, the 

 Australian varieties being conspicu- 

 ous. Peter B. Robb and Wm. Whit- 

 man, winners of second and third in 

 this section, each put up excellent dis- 

 plays. In the classes for vases of ten 

 blooms of one variety, color specified, 

 the winning varieties, in order as 

 given, were as follows: pink, Mrs. 

 Morton F. Plant, Wm. Duckham, Dr. 

 Enguehard; red, John Shrimpton; 

 white, Merza, Nellie Pockett, Beatrice 

 May; yellow, Cheltoni, Col. Appleton; 

 "any other color," Donald McLeod, 

 Harrison Dick. In these classes and 

 the twelves and sixes Mrs. C. C. Con- 

 verse and Mrs. Lester Leland won 

 four firsts and three seconds, Wm. 

 Whitman four firsts and two seconds, 

 A. F. Whitin two firsts and one sec- 

 ond, Geo. F. Fabyan two firsts and 

 one second, Peter B. Robb two firsts, 

 S. A. Borden and Jas. Nicol each two 

 seconds. The sensational feature of 

 the chrysanthemum section was a 

 table of new single varieties shown 

 as naturally grown sprays by Miss E. 

 J. Clark, gardener John Ash. It was 

 awarded a silver medal and the at- 

 tention it attracted was generally con- 

 strued as indicating the trend of popu- 

 lar fancy here. Louis Dupuy was 

 given honorable mention for a new 

 bronze-flowered chrysanthemum ex- 

 hibited without name and Charles H. 

 Totty received a first-class certificate 

 for white sport from Mr. Duckham. 



So much for the chrysanthemums. 

 The Hunnewell premium for hardy 



coniferous trees was won by ii. >v J. 

 Farquhar & Co. The big gn)ui).s of 

 foliage and flowering plants saved the 

 (Jay for the show in general decorativ.; 

 effect. Wni. Whitman, Edward iMai- 

 Mulkin and Sidney Hoffman won first, 

 seconil, and third prizes respectively 

 with enormous groups, of varied char- 

 acter. Orchid displays were also very 

 rich, the winners in the plant competi- 

 tion Ijeing -Mrs. J. L. Gardner and 

 Edward MacMulkin and in the vase 

 classes J. K. Rothwell and Edward 

 MacMulkin. Julius Roehrs Co. and 

 Lager & Hurrell also staged large 

 orchid groups, not for competition. 

 Honorable mention was given Peter 



B. Robb for seedling Catlleya Louise 

 and E. O. Orpet for seedling cattleyas 

 and Iwlias. 



In the other plant classes special 

 awards were made as follows: honor- 

 able mention to F. R. Pierson Co., 

 for sport from "Tarrytown fern" (see 

 frontispiece of this paper), F. W. 

 Fletcher Co., for Ficus altissima, 

 Juliun Roehrs Co., for Tillandsia 

 Duvalliana and Begonia Rex The 

 Marquis, and John Nilan for seedling 

 Impatiens. 



The carnation growers were well 

 represented, Backer & Co., winning 

 first for crimsons with Harry Fenn. 

 dark pink with Pink Patten, light 

 pink with Rose Pink Enchantress, 

 scarlet with Robert Craig, yellow with 

 Sunrise, variegated with Mrs. Patten. 

 Philip Dexter won first in its class 

 with Enchantress and Peter Fisher 

 first in whites with White Perfection. 

 F. R. Pierson Co., showed a superb 

 vase of fifty Winsor. 



Dahlias were shown in large num- 

 bers and remarkable quality (all out- 

 door grown) for so late a date by N. 

 Allen Lindsay, Geo. H. Walker and W. 



C. Winter. Special awards in the cut 

 flower section were as follows: H. A. 

 Jahn honorable mention for carna- 

 tions Jahn's White and Jahn's Crim- 

 son; Wm. Sim ditto for new violet, 

 sport from Princess of Wales, and 

 Cobbett School, Lynn, ditto for dis- 

 play of pompon chrysanthemums. 

 Roses were shown by Waban Rose 

 Conservatories and W. H. Elliott, the 

 varieties being American Beauty, 

 Wellesley, and Richmond. Mr. 

 Elliott's Richmonds were simply 

 superb. James Crawshaw made an at- 

 tractive exhibit of his new decorative 

 asparagus. 



The fruit displays were excellent, 

 especially as to apples and pears. 

 Vegetables made a glorious showing. 

 E. L. Lewis was awarded a silver 

 medal for commercial grown celery 

 and W. Heustis & Son a bronze medal 

 for the same. Remarkable collections 

 of vegetables aranged for effect were 

 made by E. L. Lewis, Ed. Parker, W. 

 W. Rawson and Mrs. Alice Warburton. 

 to whom the prizes were awarded in 

 order named. 



On the second day the dinner table 

 decorations were the centre of in- 

 terest. This is an Innovation in the 

 Mass. Horticultural Society shows 

 and the three very liberal prizes 

 brought out eight competitors. 

 Society ladies served as judges. Sid- 

 ney Hoffman was first with a centre 

 piece of cattleyas and ferns, J. J. 

 Casey second with violets and Hough- 

 ton & Clark third with cyprlpedlums 

 and oncidiums. G. A. Severy & Co., 

 were highly commended for a centre 

 piece of fruits. 



THE PHILADELPHIA SHOW. 



Philadelphia has been unfortunate 

 this year in not being the center of 

 interest in the horticultural world. 

 Chicago, New York, Boston have all 

 claimed special attention, and Phila- 

 delphia has. for once had to take a 

 back seat. Nevertheless we have had 

 a very good show, thanks to the earn- 

 est endeavors of the private gardeners 

 in the vicinity. The kings of the hor- 

 ticultural world have deserted us thus 

 year and the progress of the world 

 will no doubt emanate from Chicago 

 and other centers. In cut flowers we 

 have had as fine an exhibition as 

 ever, and if not quite so large it Is 

 made up for in the keenness of the 

 competition. Wm. Kleinheinz was 

 one of the conspicuous figures in the 

 prize winning in this class and cov- 

 ered himself with glory generally. In 

 the specimen plant section Joseph 

 Hurley was first and the rest no- 

 where. Mr. Hurley has been edging 

 up to this point for several years and 

 now he has topped the rise. The 

 show was particularly rich in foliage 

 plants and ferns. The Gleichenias 

 from the Drexel estate were excep- 

 tionally fine. The vegetable and fruit 

 exhibit was rather under the average. 

 In the trade section the censpicuous 

 feature was the Michell exhibit, en- 

 gineered by Philip Phreud. who showed 

 himself as resourceful as ever and 

 over topped all the other trade dis- 

 plays. Dreer's exhibit was also very 

 good. 



Features of the show in a hurried 

 look around before the opening and 

 judging, (Tuesday), are noted as fol- 

 lows: 



Mr. Long's gleichenia in the rotun- 

 da, 12 feet in diameter and 8 feet 

 high. 



The bay trees of Messrs. Dreer in the 

 entrance; pyramids and standards In 

 great variety and all sizes. 



The two specimens of Ficus pan- 

 dura from Craig's in front of the 

 newel pillars. These stood 5 feet 

 high, perfect and well finished. A 

 great distinction to the show. 



The stairways were handsomely 

 banked with vases of the finest cut 

 blooms of chrysanthemums, the cream 

 of the season's showing being cen- 

 tered in this display. Chamberlain, 

 Appleton, Duckham, Merza, Pockett, 

 Enguehard, Eaton, Hatton and Beech 

 were conspicuous among the choicer 

 varieties. On the middle landing of 

 the stairway were Tom Holland's two 

 shields of pink chrysanthemums, a 

 fine example of good training and cul- 

 ture and a feature of the show, al- 

 though there was no prize. At the top 

 of the stairway E. G. Hill & Co. ex- 

 hibited a new one for the prize In 



