THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK 



The classes for odd-shaped plants were represented by four 

 entries. Mr. Adolph Lewisohn's pillar of Wells' Late Pink, a 

 superb specimen, ten or twelve feet tall, won first, a tall fan- 

 shaped plant of Caledonia, exhibited by Mr. Chas. Mallory, secur- 

 ing second. 



Of the display of bush plants Mr. Adolph Lewisohn contrib- 

 uted eight : four circular, two pillars, and two fan-shaped. Five 

 were in competitive and three in special classes. To this display 

 of eight plants the Exhibition Committee awarded a special prize, 

 a gold medal. 



The classes for cut chrj'santhemum blooms were well filled, a 

 much larger display in all than in any previous year. The quality 

 of the blooms was excellent. In the classes for commercial grow- 

 ers, twelve blooms, stems not less than three feet long, Mr. Chas. 

 H. Totty, Madison, N. J., received first prizes for a vase each of 

 white, pink, yellow and any other color, and second for a vase of 

 red. For a collection of twenty-five varieties, one of each, stems 

 not over fifteen inches long, Mr. Totty received first, Messrs. 

 Scott Bros., Elmsford, N. Y., second. A fine collection of pom- 

 pons, twenty-five varieties, gave the first prize to Mr. Totty, the 

 second going to Scott Bros. In the class for a collection of sin- 

 gles, twenty-five varieties, Mr. Totty secured first, Scott Bros, 

 second. 



The competition in the non-commercial classes was especially 

 keen. In those for six blooms, stems not less than two feet long, 

 there were many entries. For the white, Duke's Farm, Somer- 

 ville, N. J., A. A. Macdonald, gardener, won first, the second 

 going to Mr. Henry Goldman, Deal Beach, N. J., Anton Bauer, 

 gardener; there were nine entries. In the pink class there were 

 eleven entries. Miss M. T. Cockcroft, Saugatuck, Conn., Adam 

 Paterson, gardener, taking first, Mrs. Payne Whitney, Man- 

 hasset, N. Y., Geo. Ferguson, gardener, second. In the yellow 

 class there were nine entries, Mr. Goldman winning first, Mr. 

 Adolph Lewisohn second. Duke's Farm and Miss Cockcroft 

 were winners in the red class, the former securing first, the latter 

 second ; there were six other entries. In the class for any other 

 color, there were seven entries, the first prize going to Duke's 

 Farm, the second to Mr. A. N. Cooley, Pittsfield, Mass., E. W. 



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