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HOETICULTUKE 



November 13, 1915 



THE FALL FLOWER SHOWS 



Bost 



on 



We were able to give a fairly 

 descriptive summary in our last issue 

 of the situation on the opening day of 

 the annual Autumn Exhibition of the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 

 The prizes had not then been awarded, 

 however, and these with the new ex- 

 hibits in the following days and other 

 items of interest furnish material for 

 a few further notes this week. 



A significant fact which many will 

 readily note is the rapid advancement 

 of the commercial florists in the com- 

 petitive classes as compared with the 

 situation a few years ago when the 

 plant groups and specimens and or- 

 chid collections were mostly con- 

 tributed by the private gardeners. A 

 glance over the list of awards which 

 follows will be sufiBcient to show the 

 drift of present development. It is 

 gratifying to be able to state that the 

 attendance was just double that of last 

 year. 



List of Awards. 



Foli.Tge and Flowering Plants — Group, 

 covering tlaree hunilred square feet: 1st, 

 A. M. Davenport; 2d, W. W. Edgar Co.; 

 group covering one hundred and fifty 

 square feet (for private gardeners only) : 

 1st, Mrs. J. L. Gardner. Orchids— Flams 

 and flowers: 1st, F. J. Dolansky; 2d, 

 Wheeler & Co. ; six plants, 1st. F. J. Dolan- 

 sky; specimen, 1st, F. J. Dolansky; 2d, 

 Miss Cornelia Warren. Evergreen trees 

 and shrubs in tubs or pots: 1st. Breck, 

 Boblnson Co.; 2d, Old Town Nurseries. 

 Chrysanthemums — Group of plants 2(>0 

 square feet: 1st. Mrs. J. L. Gardner: 2d, 

 A. M. Davenport; six trained specimens: 

 1st, Jason S. Bailey; specimen plant, white: 

 1st, Galen L. Stone; 2d, Mrs. C. G. Weld; 

 yellow. 1st, Mrs. C. G. Weld ; 2d, Mrs. C. 

 G. Weld; pink. 1st, A. M. Davenport; 2d, 

 Jasoii S. Bailey; twenty-flve plants, com- 

 mercial specimens, 1st, W. H. Elliott ; 2d, 

 A. M. Davenport; twelve single-flowering 

 sorts, 1st, Mrs. Lester Leland ; twelve 

 l)looms, Japanese, 1st, Harry E. Converse; 

 twelve Japanese Incurved, l.st, Harry E. 

 Converse; twelve Reflexed, 1st, Harry E. 

 Converse; twelve sprays Anemone, 1st, 

 Frank P. Putnam; twelve vases Pompons, 

 1st, Frank P. Putnam ; collection of sprays 

 of single chrysanthemums, Frank P. Put- 

 nam; best chrysanthemum plant on exhi- 

 bition, Galen L. Stone, Garza, silver medal : 

 twenty-flve blooms of twenty-flve distinct 

 varieties, 1st, Harry E. Converse; vases of 

 ten blooms on long stems, pink, 1st, Mrs. 

 Lester Leland with Chieftain; 2d, P. J. 

 Dolansky with Chieftain ; red, 1st. W. S. 

 Russell with F. T. Quitlenton; white. 1st, 

 James Nicol with Beatrice May; 2d, P. J. 

 Dolansky with Wm. Turner; yellow, 1st, 

 Mrs. Lester Leland with Mrs. Wm. Duck- 

 ham; 2d, W. S. Russell with Col. D. Ap- 

 pleton; any other color. 1st, F. J. Dolan- 

 sky with Polly Salis; Henry A. Gane Me- 

 morial Prize for the best vase of blooms 

 of the Mrs. Jerome .Tones or the Yellow 

 Mrs. Jerome Jones : 1st, James Nicol. 

 Begonias — Glolre de Lorraine, or any of 

 Its varieties, six plants: 1st. Mrs. C. G. 

 Weld; 2d, Galen L. Stone; any other win- 

 ter-flowering variety, six plants: 1st. A. M. 

 Davenport with Melior. Table decoration 

 (for private gardeners only) : 1st, Duncan 

 Flnlayson; 2d, Wm. Thatcher. Artistic 

 display of out flowers to cover 100 sq. ft. : 

 1st, Penn, the Florist. Mantel decoration : 

 1st, Wax Bros.; 2d. Penn. the Florist. 

 Carnations — Six vases, ."iO each: 1st. A. A. 

 Pembroke; 2d, C. S. Strout; 100 mixed: 

 Ist, A. A. Pembroke; 2d. M. A. Patten Co.; 

 50 mixed: 1st, James Wheeler; 25 mixed 

 (for private gardeners onlv): 1st, William 

 C. Rust; 2d. Charles D. Sias. Table deco- 

 ration: (Thursday) 1st. F. J. Dolansky; 

 2d, Mrs. Christine Flnlayson. (Friday) 

 1st. Boston Cut Flower Co. ; 2d, Henry R. 

 Comley. (Saturday) 1st, Henry R. Com- 



ley; 2d, F. J. Dolansky, Collection of 

 vegetables exhibited by seedsmen : 1st, 

 Thomas J. Grey Co., silver medal. 



SrECIALS AND GRATXnTIES 



The Appleton Silver Medal— B. & J. Far- 

 quhar & Co., group of decorative plants. 



Silver Medals— William C. Winter, Da- 

 vailia Mooreana ; Waban Rose Conserva- 

 tories, new rose Mrs. Bayard Thayer; K. 

 & J. Farquhar & Co., artis.tic display of 

 plants and flowers. 



i^irst Class Certificates of Merit — Llttle- 

 fleld & Wyman, Carnation Theo ; Edwin 

 S. Webster, new winter-flowering Begonia, 

 Optima; A. W. Preston, Hybrid Cattleya 

 Moira ; Ernest B. Dane, Hybrid Cattleya 

 Mo Ira. 



Honoral>le Mention — Mrs. C. G. Weld. 

 Ipomoea (Slorning Glory), Heavenly Blue; 

 F. E. Palmer, arrangement of window 

 plants; George Detlefsen, new Heliotrope, 

 Elsie: Gen. S. M. Weld, 3 plants Dracaena 

 indivisa var. Parei excelsa; George Detlef- 

 sen, new Anemone-flowered chrysanthe- 

 mum. Waverly Star. 



New York 



The Horticultural Society of New 

 York has good reason to feel elated 

 over the success of its Pall Show 

 which was held at the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History on November 

 4 to 7 inclusive. There were many 

 notable displays by commercial grow- 

 ers and private gardeners of high re- 

 pute and the public appeared to take 

 an unusual interest in it all. On Sun- 

 day, the last day, the attendance 

 reached 88,593 between the hours of 

 1 and 5 P. M., making the stupendous 

 total of 194,024 visitors during the four 

 days. 



The sensational trained chrysanthe- 



ThE StECIMEN CHRyS.\NTHEMUM:S AT BOSTON FALL ShOW. 

 Part of Farquhar Plant Group in Background. 



Vote of Thanks— F. J. Dolansky, Cat- 

 tle.va labiata varieties. 



Cash (Jratuities — Edwin S. Webster, 

 Begonia Mrs. Heal ; Mrs. Lester Leland, 

 chrysanthemums; W. A. Riggs. chrysan- 

 themums; .Tames Wheeler, carnations; S. 

 .T. Goddard. carnations; Peter Fisher, car- 

 nations; A. A. Pembroke, carnations; Miss 

 Cornelia Warren, group of plants; Kame- 

 yama & Serada, group of plants and flowers; 

 A. Leuthy & Co.. display of palms; W. W. 

 Edgar Co.. display of palms: S. R. Cowey, 

 seedling chrysanthemums: George Detlef- 

 sen, seedling Pompon chrysanthemnms ; 

 W. D. Hathaway, dahlias; Edward Wink- 

 ler, carnation Morning Glow; Waban Rose 

 Conservatories, vases of roses; George V. 

 Stewart, Cattleya Trianae; Kidder Bros., 

 violets; William Sim, pansies; Belcher's 

 Flower Shop, table decoration. 



The annual chrysanthemum show of 

 the Montreal Gardeners' and Florists' 

 Club was held on November 1. J. 

 Keene of the Mt. Bruno Floral Com- 

 pany made a splendid display of chrys- 

 anthemums, roses and carnations 

 which won a special certificate of 

 merit. A. C. Wilshire with single flow- 

 ered chrysanthemums, John Walsh 

 with cattleyas and W. H. Whiting with 

 promiscuous plants were among the 

 prominent contributors. 



mum plants for which John Canning, 

 supt. for Adolph Lewisohn has become 

 famous were again the central feature 

 of the spacious foyer of the Museum. 

 The varieties were R. F. Felton, Lady 

 Lydia and Greystone. The Felton 

 plant reached the unprecedented 

 spread of 17 ft. and, in addition to the 

 1st prizes won by the trio, this plant 

 got the ?100 sweepstakes cup for the 

 best plant shown. The honors in the 

 other chrysanthemum plant classes 

 were all with Samuel Untermyer. 



The cut flower classes for commer- 

 cial growers were cleaned up by 

 Charles H. Totty and Scott Bros. In 

 the non-commercials, Adolph Lewisohn 

 captured four Ists. Mrs. F. A. Con- 

 stable, gard. Jas. Stuart, four; Edwin 

 Jenkins one, Mrs. Payne Whitney, 

 gard. L. R. Forbes, one; A. Iselin, Jr., 

 gard. Jos. Tiernan one, and Frederick 

 Sturgis, gard. Thos. Bell, one. Arthur 

 N. Cooley, gard. E. W. Edwards; D. E. 

 Oppenheimer, gard. Alex Macdonald, 

 and Mrs. Pauline Boettger, gard. Ru- 

 dolph Heidkamp, were close 2nds in 

 second classes. For dinner table dec- 



