June 26, 1919. 



The Florists^ Review 



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EXHIBITS AT DETROIT. 



The Long Distance Shipment. 



Every member of the American Peony 

 Society is proud of the achievement of 

 the T. C. Thurlow's Sons C». in captur- 

 ing the gold medal in the longest dis- 

 tance contest on record. Their peony 

 gardens are at West Newbury, Mass., 

 within sound of the hammers of the 

 shipbuilding yards at Newburyport, on 

 the Atlantic ocean, and yet the peonies 

 in their exhibit looked as if they had 

 just been brought in from a garden not 

 a hundred yards away. Some of the 

 rest of us, who did not have to bring 

 our flowers a great distance, wanted 

 the gold medal also, and we put up a 

 good, strong fight for it, but we were 

 fairly beaten, and are now making our 

 plans to get it next year. The medal 

 was given for the best display of not 

 more than 100 blooms, each bloom to be 

 of a different variety and to be cor- 

 rectly labeled. 



Chance for Opinions. 



I am glad there were so many mem- 

 bers of the American Peony Society 

 present, even from such distant states as 

 Iowa and Massachusetts, for the educa- 

 tional value of such a display can not 

 be overestimated. Everybody wanted 

 to see the new varieties, which are held 

 at such seemingly high prices. Each man 

 wanted a chance to make up his own 

 mind whether Glorious is really worth 

 $35 or not, whether Philippe Eivoire is 

 the best dark red peony in the world, 

 whether Lady Alexandra Duff deserves 

 all the good things which have been said 

 about it» and whether or not it is true 

 that Le Cygne is the acme of perfection 

 iu a pure white peony; 



Splendid Single Specimens. 



Next to securing the go^ medal, the 

 greatest honor that can come to an ex- 

 hibitor is to get the prize for the best 

 single bloom in the show, and after that 

 the prize for the best six specimens of 

 any one variety. There was great com- 

 petition in these two classes, and mag- 

 nificent blooms were shown. It would 

 have delighted the heart of every mem- 

 ber of the American Peony Society to 

 see on the same table Solange, Lady 

 Alexandra Duflf, Glorious, Therese, 

 Raoul Dessert, Mont Blanc, Le Cygne, 

 Givette, Richardson's Grandiflora and 

 Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 



Sensational Seedlings. 



The judges spent a great deal of time 

 over these aristocrats, and when they 

 finished their work, blue ribbons were 

 found on Glorious and on Le Cygne, and 

 Prof. A. P. Saunders, of Clinton, N. Y., 

 wore a smile that would not come off, 

 for both of the winning varieties came 

 from his garden. Therese came in sec- 

 ond in both classes, and her friends say 

 she can always be found among the 

 winners. 



The sensation of the show was a new 



seedling, also from Prof. Saunders' gar- 

 den, which is very full, pure white, of 

 splendid size and form, and which he 

 has named Grace Loomis. 



The T. C. Thurlow's Sons Co. also had 

 a seedling of special merit, named 

 Nymphffia, which is of exactly the oppo- 

 site type from Prof. Saunders' seedling. 

 It also is white, but its charm is in the 

 looseness and quality of its petals, and 

 it pleases the peony enthusiast for ex- 

 actly the same reason that makes Phyllis 

 Kelway such a favorite among the deep 

 pinks. 



Will McClelland, of Saginaw, Mich., 

 staged the first vase of fifteen Solange 

 ever seen in any peony show, and Miss 

 Blacklock, of Meadowvale, Ont., won 

 the only first prize of the society which 

 has ever gone out of the United States. 

 Her vase of twenty-five M. Jules Elie 

 was a center of attraction. D. W. C. 

 Ruff, of St. Paul, Minn., showed his 

 loyalty to the society by sending splen- 

 did blooms. 



The show was so large that I did not 

 get to see every display, but I know that 

 B. H. Farr, of Wyomissing, Pa., showed 

 some wonderful blooms of Milton Hill, 

 and I saw that two amateurs from Van 

 Wert, Ohio, Harry Eikenbarry and Miss 

 Alice Bonnewitz, each had some blue 

 ribbons. 



Detroit Hospitality. 



The members of the Detroit Florists' 

 Club were the hosts of the members of 

 the American Peony Society, and the 

 team work in the club was the wonder 

 of every visitor. Under the leadership 

 of Philip Breitmeyer and J. F. Sullivan, 

 the florists placed this peony show in 

 the front rank, and performed services 

 for the exhibitors that we could not 

 have asked for. They met us at the 



station with automobiles, took us to our 

 hotels, placed our blooms in cold stor- 

 age, came for us in the morning with 

 their machines, took our flowers to the 

 show room and assisted us in staging 

 our exhibits. They also gave a banquet 

 to the members of the society, and made 

 us feel that their service to us was a 

 pleasure to them. Every exhibitor will 

 remember the Detroit show with pleas- 

 ure, and every visitor can not help hav- 

 ing a more exalted idea of the beauty of 

 the peony as the queen of flowers. 



AMARYLLIS BELLADONNA. 



Last March I received a shipment of 

 a few hundred bulbs of Amaryllis Bel- 

 ladonna from California. When they ar- 

 rived they had fine white roots and 

 remnants of green foliage, though the 

 bulk of the leaves had been cut off. I 

 have not planted them yet, but have al- 

 lowed them to rest, as I understood that 

 they would bloom in winter. Please state 

 when they should be planted and when 

 they will bloom. A. H. — 'Neb. 



Amaryllis Belladonna naturally blooms 

 in late summer or in fall, but in the 

 greenhouse its season of flowering va- 

 ries somewhat, of course, according to 

 treatment. The leaves and flowers are 

 not produced together; the foliage fol- 

 lows the flowers. After the flowers fade, 

 the plants should not be stored away and 

 neglected, but should have plenty of 

 light and moisture, as they are then just 

 entering their period of most vigorous 

 growth and are beginning to accumulate 

 strength for future blooming. This time 

 of active growth is succeeded by a pe- 

 riod of partial rest, but even then water 

 should not be entirely withheld. 



As may be inferred from what has 



Observations on the exhibition of the Amer- 

 ican Peony Society at Detroit last weelj, by the 

 new president of the society, Lee R. Bonnewitz, 

 of Van Wert, 0. 



Lee R. Bonnewitz in his Peony Gardenst at Van Wert, Ohio. 



