THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK 



For six any other color, except white, pink, yellow or red, Mrs. 

 Neustadt also received first prize, with Mary Mason, Miss B. 

 Potter, Ossining, N. Y., Geo. Wittlinger, gardener, second. For 

 a vase of one or more varieties, arranged for effect, any other 

 foliage permitted, Mrs. Constable won first. Prof, H. F. Osborn, 

 Garrison, N. Y., Wm. Ritchie, gardener, second. 



The competition for the society's silver cup, valued at one 

 hundred dollars, was keen. This prize was offered for twelve 

 vases, twelve varieties, three blooms of each variety, stems 

 eighteen inches long. The cup was won by Miss M. T. Cockcroft 

 with the following varieties: Wm. Turner, M. Loiseau-Rosseau, 

 Mrs. Gilbert Drabble, Lady Hopetoun, F. S. Vallis, Rose Pockett, 

 W. Woodmason, Mary Alason, Wells' Late Pink, Frank Payne, 

 Alice Lemon, and Pockett's Crimson. Messrs. J. M. Thorburn 

 & Co. offered a second prize in this competition, a silver cup, 

 valued at twenty dollars. This was won by Mrs. D. Willis 

 James, Madison, N. J., W. H. Duckham, superintendent, with 

 the following: Beatrice May, Mary Mason, M. Loiseau-Rosseau, 

 Mrs. Gilbert Drabble, Harry E. Converse, F. S. Vallis, Pockett's 

 Crimson, Onunda, W. Woodmason, Lady Hopetoun, and Hon. 

 Mrs. Lopes. 



For a collection of twenty-four varieties, one of each variety, 

 stems not over fifteen inches long, all named kinds, the first prize 

 was awarded to Mrs. Wm. E. S. Griswold, Lenox, Mass., A. J. 

 Loveless, superintendent, with, among others, the following: 

 Mrs. Gilbert Drabble, Annie E. Angus, F. S. Vallis, Mrs. J. C. 

 Neill, ^Irs. H. Stevens, Beatrice May, Mrs. G. C. Kelly, W. A. 

 Ethrington, W. Mease, Chrysanthemiste Montigny, Christy 

 Mathewson, Manhattan, Pockett's Crimson, Mrs. W. Duckham, 

 Valerie Greenham, ]\Ierstham Blush, W. Woodmason, Mrs. W. 

 E. Tricker, and Lady Hopetoun. The second was won by Mrs. 

 S. Neustadt. For a collection of six varieties the first prize went 

 to Prof. H. F. Osborn, the second to Mr. J. T. Pratt. 



A collection of pompons, twenty-four varieties, secured the 

 first prize for Mr. H. Darlington, Mamaroneck, N. Y., P. W. 

 Popp, gardener, showing, among others : Lilian Doty, Inez, Alma, 

 St. Illoria, Meg, Ruth, Myers' Perfection, Delicatissima, and 

 Donald. The second was won by Mr. Fred'k Sturges, Fairfield, 



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