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The Florists' Review 



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TAERYTOWN'S ANNUAL SHOW. 



Chiefly from Private Estates. 



The twenty-first annual exhibition of 

 the Tarrytown Horticultural Society 

 was held in Music hall, Tarrytown, 

 N. Y., November 5 to 7. Notwithstand- 

 ing the unfavorable conditions, owing 

 to the coa^-sit^ation, of the last year or 

 more, the hall was well filled with choice 

 plants and flowers equal in quality to 

 any previous exhibition held by this 

 society. The chrysanthemum blooms 

 were gorgeous and equal to those ex- 

 hibited at any exhibition in the vicinity 

 of New York city. 



Practically all of the exhibits were 

 from private estates. Among the prize- 

 winners were George Wittlinger, gar- 

 dener for John D. Rockefeller; Charles 

 R. Russell, gardener for Finley J. Shep- 

 ard; John Mair, for H. M. Sidenberg; 

 Andrew Strachan, for William B. 

 Thompson; Alex Thompson, for E. S. 

 Bayer; William Jamieson, for E. Berolz- 

 heimer; John W. Dowlan, for S. M. 

 Lehman; J. W. Smith, for Mrs. F. E. 

 Lewis; George Mcintosh, for Dr. C. C. 

 Brace; Chas. G. Wood, for Mrs. Stanley 

 McCormick; James Linane, for Mrs. F. 

 H. Allen; Alfred Townsend, for Stanley 

 G. Mortimer; John Woodcock, for J. L 

 D. Bristol; Frank Barcino, for J. E. 

 McKinney; Robert Williamson, for 

 Mrs. A. A. Anderson; T. J. Morris, for 

 D. G. Reid; J. Tansy, for H. M. Tilford; 

 William Graham, for Mrs. E. C. Con- 

 verse; William Smith, for Robert Mal- 

 lory; William Wile, for C, Whitman; 

 John Holgerson, for W. H. Brown, and 

 Thomas Ryan, for John I. Downley. 



Special Awards. 



The largest chrysanthemum bloom in 

 the exhibition was Louisa Pockett, ex- 

 hibited by Alexander Thompson, gar- 

 dener for E. S. Bayer. 



A certificate of merit was awarded 

 F. R. Pierson for a vase of Premier 

 roaew. He was also awarded a cultural 

 certificate for his entire exhibit, which 

 consisted of Columbia and Francis 

 Scott Key rosea and ferns. 



Joseph Manda, of West Orange, N. J., 

 received honoralile mention for an ex 

 liibit of Cypripedium Insignc Sandera'. 



Elmer 1). Smith & ("o., Adrian, Mich., 

 received honorable mention on an ex- 

 hibit of pompon chrysanthennims. 



Cultural certificates were awarded 

 Mrs. E, C. Converse for si)t'cimen ferns, 

 for vase of single chrysanthemums and 

 vase of seedling chrysanthemums, and 

 lioiKirahle mention for vase of bouvar- 

 dia. A. L. Gilford received houorable 

 mention for exiiibit of chrysantliemums 

 in tul)s and vase of cut blooms; Mrs. H. 

 Oilesheimer for exhibit of double-flow- 

 ering cosmos, and Mrs. Stanley McCor- 

 mick for exhibit of vegetable marrow 

 and for exhibit of Squash Cocozelle de 

 Napoli. Finley .1. Shcpard exhibited a 

 beautiful specimen of Dracaena Victoria 

 and was awarded a special prize on the 

 plant. 



The judges the first day were Alexan- 

 der McKenzie, of Oyster Bay; Thomas 

 Proctor, of Oyster Bay, and Robert 



Angus, of Rye; the second day, P. W. 

 Popp, of Mamaroneck; Arthur Griffin, 

 of Yonkers, and Thomas Wilson, of 

 Tarrytown. 



MUM SOCIETY'S SHOW. 



Draws Few Commercial Growers. 



The annual exhibition of the Chrys- 

 anthemum Society of America was held 

 in connection with the eighty-eighth 

 annual show of the American Institute, 

 in the Engineering Societies building, 

 33 West Thirty-ninth street, New York, 

 November 5 to 7. 



While at previous shows the exhibits 

 have been larger in number, seldom has 

 the quality of the exhibits approached 

 that noted at this show. It was no- 

 ticed with regret that commercial ex- 

 hibitors had, with two exceptions, held 

 aloof from the exhibition. The ex- 



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hibits from private establishments were 

 numerous and competition in some of 

 the classes rather keen. In a class for 

 twenty-four blooms, one variety, with 

 long stems, Thomas Proctor, gardener 

 to W. R. Coe, Oyster Bay, N. Y., carried 

 off first honors with some wonderful 

 blooms of the variety Wm. Turner; it is 

 doubtful whether blixims of tliis va- 

 riety iiave ever before been seen at 

 sucn perfection. 



Johnson Takes Silver Cup. 



Tliere was little to be seen in the 

 way of novelties, at least as far as 

 clirysanthemums were concerned. C. W. 

 Johnson, superintendent for the Mount 

 Greenwood Cemetery Association, Chi- 

 cago, won the society's silver cup for 

 the best seedling chrysanthemum not 

 disseminated, with six blooms of Mrs. 

 C. W. Johnson, a loosely incurved white 

 variety, the result of a cross between 

 Nerissa and Silver King. The blooms 

 had traveled from Chicago, but were 

 seen in excellent condition. 



Totty Competes. 

 The C. H. Totty Co., Madison, N. J., 



was the only commercial exhibitor in 

 the competitive classes and won first 

 for six blooms of Chrysanthemum De- 

 light, for twenty-four blooms of one va- 

 riety on long stems, for ten blooms of 

 any crimson, for six blooms of any 

 white, for six blooms of any pink, with 

 Pink Turner, and for a vase of anemone- 

 flowered varieties, and second for vase 

 of single varieties. The company also 

 took a first in the rose class calling for 

 twenty-five pink blooms, with Premier, 

 and firsts in the carnation classes for 

 best six varieties, twenty-five blooms 

 of each; best three varieties, twenty- 

 five blooms of each, and best vase of 

 one variety, twenty-five blooms. Out- 

 side of the competitive classes, the com- 

 pany staged splendid vases of the new 

 roses, Frank W. Dunlop, Mme. Butterfly 

 and Golden Ophelia, and two fine groups 

 of single and pompon chrysanthemums. 



A. N. Pierson, Inc., Cromwell, Conn., 

 staged, not for competition, two fine 

 groups of single and pompon chrys- 

 anthemums, and vases of grand speci- 

 men blooms of the new roses. Pilgrim 

 and Crusader. 



One trained chrysanthemum plant 

 and three or four standard plants were 

 all in the exhibition to remind one of 

 the fine showing made with such plants 

 a few years ago. 



The exhibition was free to the publio 

 and was well attended. J. H. Pepper. 



NASSAU COUNTY EXHIBITION. 



Surpassed Previous Shows. 



The fifteenth annual chrysanthemum 

 show of the Nassau County Horticul- 

 tural Society was staged in Pembroke 

 hall. Glen Cove, N. Y., October 30 and 31. 

 The show was the finest which the so- 

 ciety has ever sponsored. Chief interest 

 centered in the chrysanthemum classes, 

 although the schedule provided for dis- 

 jdays in vegetables, roses, fruit, decora- 

 tive work, plants and carnations. 



Chief winners in the chrysanthemum 

 classes were Percy Chubb, Herbert L. 

 Pratt, Mrs. Payne Whitney, William R. 

 Coe, Walter Jennings, Mrs.' Arthur Gibb, 

 Charles F. Cartledge, John T. Pratt and 

 Harold T. Pratt. The silver cup ofifered 

 by Mrs. Frederic B. Pratt for the best 

 collection of fifty varieties of hardy 

 chrysanthemums was won by Johu T. 

 Pratt, who becomes permanent owner, 

 having won the cup for three years. 



P]xhibits which attracted notable at- 

 tention were the five bush chrysanthc- 

 niunis shown by Robert Marsliall, of 

 Glen Cove, but not entered in competi- 

 tion. The judges, however, gave them 

 the award of merit and in addition gave 

 to the big anemone bush chrysanthemum, 

 Emma, the gold medal offered by the Na- 

 tional Association of Gardeners for the 

 most meritorious exhibit in the show. 



Totty 's Bose Wins Award. 



Another award of merit given was 

 that to Rose Frank W. Dunlop, shown 

 by Charles H. Totty, of Madison, N. J. 



In the rose classes, Mrs. Charles E. 

 F. McCann, Mrs. Herbert L. Pratt and 



