THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK 



of these in the competitive classes. They were divided as fol- 

 lows: mound-shaped, twenty-one; of other shape, nine, two of 

 them pillars and one a combination of three superimposed mound- 

 shaped plants ; standards, six. Last year there were twenty- four 

 bush plants of all kinds, including standards. At the fall show 

 of 1916 there were six exhibitors of large chrysanthemum plants, 

 as follows : Mr. Geo. D. Barron, Mr. J. D. De Lamar, Mr. F. C. 

 Lewis, Mr. Adolph Lewisohn, Mr. Charles Mallory, and Mr. 

 W. B. Thompson. This fall there were also six: Mr. Geo. D. 

 Barron, Mr. J. D. De Lamar, Mr. J. B. Duke, Mr. Adolph 

 Lewisohn, Mr. W. B. Thompson, and Mr. Samuel Untermyer. 

 In 1916 there were eight bush plants in over fourteen inch re- 

 ceptacles, shown by four exhibitors, and in the classes for busl/ 

 plants in not over fourteen inch receptacles there were two ex- 

 hibitors who showed six plants. This year the number of bush 

 plants in the larger receptacles was thirteen, entered by five 

 exhibitors, and in the classes for plants in the smaller receptacles 

 there were three exhibitors showing eight plants. 



In the classes for specimen bushes, in not less than fourteen 

 inch pots, the following were prize-winners : 



Yellow: Mr. J. R. De Lamar, Glen Cove, N. Y., Robert 

 Marshall, gardener, first, for a superb plant of Mrs. R. H. 

 Pearson ; Mr. Adolph Lewisohn, Ardsley, N. Y., John Canning, 

 superintendent, second, for a plant of R. F. Felton. White: Mr. 

 Lewisohn, first, with a plant of Miss Elvia Scoville. Pink: 

 Mr. Lewisohn, first, with a superb plant of Wells' Late Pink; 

 Mr. J. B. Duke, Somerville, N. J., A. A. Macdonald, gardener, 

 second, with a plant of the same variety. Any other color: Mr. 

 Lewisohn, first, with Greystone. Anemone or single: Mr. W. B. 

 Thompson, Yonkers, N. Y., R. M. Johnston, gardener, first, with 

 a plant of Garza; Mr. Duke, second, for a plant of Gertrude M. 

 Smith. 



In the classes for specimen bushes, in not more than fourteen 

 inch pots, the following persons were prize-winners : 



Yellow: Mr. De Lamar, first, wtih Mrs. R. H. Pearson; Mr. 

 Thompson, second. White: Mr. Lewisohn, first, with Lady 

 Lydia; Mr. Thompson, second, with the same variety. Pink: 



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