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OHEYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY. 



Annual Exhibition at New York. 



This week the Chrysanthemum Society 

 of America holds its annual exhibition 

 in conjunction with the show of the 

 American Institute at the Engineering 

 building, New York. The exhibition 

 opened Wednesday evening, November 

 5, and continues until November 7. 



On the opening night the annual meet- 

 ing of the society was held. The officers 

 of the organization are : President, Wil- 

 liam W. Vert, Greenwich, Conn.; vice- 

 president, William Turner, Oceanic, 

 N. J.; secretary, Charles W. Johnson, 

 Chicago, 111., and treasurer, John N. 

 May, Summit, N. J. 



Work of the Committees. 



The examining committees of the C. 

 S. A. have submitted reports on new 

 varieties as follows: 



At Cincinnati, October 25, No. 110-17, pink, 

 Japanese reflexed, submitted by Baur & Steln- 

 kamp, Indianapolis, Ind., scored as follows on the 

 comnieroial scale: Color, 10; form, 12; fullness, 

 10; stem, 15; foliage, 12; substance, 11; size, 8; 

 total, 84. 



At Chicago, October 27, Clarice, light pink, 

 pompon, submitted by Elmer D. Smith & Co., 

 Adrian, Mich., scored as follows : Color, 36 ; 

 form, 17 ; stem and foliage, 16 ; fullness, 17 ; 

 total, 86. 



Chas. W. Johnson, Sec'y, 



MORRIS COUNTY EXHIBITION. 



Largest in Society's History. 



The twenty-third annual flower show 

 of the Morris County Gardeners' and 

 riorists' Society was held in the 

 Armory, Morristown, N. J., October 29 

 and 30. 



The annual exhibition of this society 

 is usually one of the most important 

 of the season and it lost nothing from 

 its rating this year. Customarily, it is 

 held in James hall, Madison, and com- 

 fortably fills that hall. The Armory is 

 two and ona-half times larger than 

 James hall, and practically every avail- 

 able foot of floor space was used for 

 purposes of the exhibition, which was 

 the biggest in the history of the so- 

 ciety. 



No New Mums. 



The chrysanthemums were somewhat 

 poor in quality, owing, no doubt, to the 

 excessive temperatures for some time 

 experienced, and many rainy days just 

 preceding the show dates. There was 

 little or nothing in the way of novelties 

 to be seen in this section, but Sergeant 

 Young, light bronze, of 1918 introduc- 

 tion, and Corporal Piper, an incurved 

 yellow, also of the 1918 list, were 

 prominent among the best varieties ex- 

 hibited, the latter, perhaps, being the 

 best in the show. Both were shown by 

 the C. H. Totty Co., Madison, N. j". 

 which also exhibited a splendid group 

 of singles and pompons, not for com- 

 petition. 



Six handsome new chrysanthemums 

 in the single and pompon section were 

 shown by the C. H. Totty Co. and were 

 scored by a committee of the Chrysan- 

 themum Society of America for certifi- 

 cates. They were: Nelma Putnam, pink 

 shading to white at .center; Miss Anna 



L. Moran, chestnut bronze; Mrs. Harri- 

 son, blush white; No. 116, light bronze; 

 No. 10, wine red, and Mrs. C. Jameson, 

 deep gold. 



No Orchid Competition. 



The display in the orchid class was 

 quite good, and the staging excellent. 

 There were no commercial entries, al- 

 though the class was open. Joseph A. 

 Manda, West Orange, N. J., however, 

 staged a table of Cypripedium insigne 

 SandersB (not for competition), and 

 Lager & Hurrell, Summit, N. J., had a 

 small group of cypripediums in differ- 

 ent varieties. 



As might be expected from such a 

 rose-producing district, the rose display 

 was extensive. Competition in a special 

 class for a silver cup offered by Miss 

 Euth V. Twombly, calling for a display 

 of roses on a table five and one-half 



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No week passes without some 

 advertisements arriving after 

 the paper has gone to press. 

 It is because of the ages- old 

 habit of putting things off. 

 To avoid disappointment, 

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of a certain date must be in 

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the preceding Tuesday. 



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feet in diameter, was exceedingly keen. 

 The cup was taken by the C. H. Totty 

 Co. with a table of Premier, Butterfly, 

 F. W. Dunlop, Double White Killarney, 

 Columbia and Hadley. Noe & Ruzicka 

 were second. 



In the vase classes there were some 

 good exhibits, but the quality of the 

 roses was not up to the usual standard 

 at this show. 



Commercial Awards. 



The following were the awards to 

 commercial exhibitors: 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 



Ten blooms, any yellow — C. H. Totty Co., Mad- 

 ison, N. J., first, with Bob Pulling. 



Ten blooms, any pink — C. H. Totty Co., first. 



Ten blooms, any other color — C. H. Totty Co., 

 Urat, wUh W. H. Waite. 



ROSES. 



Eighteen American Beauty — Noe & Ruzicka, 

 Madison, N. J., first. 



Twelve American Beauty — Noe & Ruzicka, 

 first. 



Twenty five any white — Duckham-Pierson Co., 

 Madison, N. J., first. ^ 



Twenty-flve any red — Duckham-Pierson Co., 

 first, with Hadley; I.. B. Coddlngton, Murray 

 Hill. N. J., second, with Hadley. 



Twenty-five Mrs. Aaron Ward — L. B. Coddlng- 

 ton, first. 



Twenty-flve Ophelia — Duckham-Pierson Co., 

 first; li. B. Coddlngton, second. 



Twenty-flve Premier — Duckham-Pierson Co., 

 first; L. B. Coddlngton, second. 



Twenty-five Mrs. Chas. Russell — Duckham- 

 Pierson Co., first. 



Twenty-flve Columbia — Duckham-Pierson Co., 

 flrst; C. H. Totty Co., seoond. 



Vase of twenty-flve blooms, one or more va- 

 rieties, arranged for efTect — Noe & Ruzicka, 

 second, 



CARNATIONS. 



Twenty-five light pink — The Rose Shop, Sum- 

 rait, N. J., first, with Enchantress Supreme. 



Twenty-flve dark pink — The Rose Shop, flrst; 

 David Francis, Morristown, second. 



Twenty-five red — The Rose Shop, first. 



Twenty-flve variegated — C. H. Totty Co., flrst, 

 with Benora. 



Vase of fifty blooms arranged for effect — The 

 Rose Shop, first. 



For table decorations first prize was 

 won by J. M. Barker, Morristown, N. 

 J., with a splendid table decorated 

 with Ophelia Supreme roses, Bouvardia 

 Humboldtii and maidenhair fern; sec- 

 ond by the Rose Shop, Summit, N. J., 

 and third by David Francis, Morris- 

 town. 



The C. H. Totty Co. staged the new 

 rose, Frank W. Dunlop, in a tall ped- 

 estal basket with a bronze ribbon for 

 decoration. It was alone on the floor 

 and was much admired. 



J. M. Barker had a handsome display 

 of filled baskets, centerpieces and other 

 artistic work. • 



H. C. Holmes staged a fine group of 

 decorative plants. 



The leading feature of the show was 

 a well-arranged group of chrysanthe- 

 mum plants in flower, arranged with 

 foliage plants for effect, in a space of 

 seventy-five square feet or more, staged 

 by Robert Tyson, gardener to Mrs. H. 

 McK. Twombly, Madison, which won 

 first prize. 



The committee in charge of the show 

 was Wm. H. Duckham, Charles H, 

 Totty and Arthur Herrington, all of 

 Madison. J. H. Pepper. 



NEW YORK FALL SHOW SMALL. 



Entries Not Numerous. 



The fall show of the Horticultural 

 Society of New York, held in the Amer- 

 ican Museum of Natural History, New 

 York, October 30 to November 2, was 

 disappointing to those accustomed to 

 seeing a fine show staged by the so- 

 ciety. Many of the classes were un- 

 filled and the exhibits were anything 

 but numerous. The immense chrysan- 

 themum plants usually exhibited by 

 Adolph Lewisohn and Captain De Lamar 

 were missing, and the beautiful foyer 

 of the museum presented a bare appear- 

 ance in consequence. The eastern cor- 

 ridor was without exhibits at all and 

 the western corridor was not wholly 

 used; had it not been for a fine exhibit 

 of dahlias by Mills & Co., of Mama- 

 roneck, N. Y., the display in this cor- 

 ridor would have been small. One or 

 two stagings outside of the classes 

 helped materially in the make-up of 

 the show. 



There were no carnations at all, no 

 roses in the commercial vase classes, 

 except in the class for new varieties; 

 an extremely small display of orchids, 

 and but little in the way of decorative 

 plant exhibits. A few small specimen 

 trained plants of chrysanthemums were 



