JUNB 23, 1921 



The Florists^ Review 



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HOWARD WINS AT BAGATELLE. 



The gold medal for the best new rose 

 at the Bagatelle Gardens, Paris, France, 

 lias again been awarded to Howard & 

 Smith, of Los Angeles, Gal., according 

 to a cablegram just received by Fred 

 Howard. The international rose com- 

 petition held at these gardens is open 

 to all countries and all comers, and to 

 win this prize is one of the highest 

 honors in rosedom. Two years ago Mr. 

 Howard's rose, Los Angeles, captured 

 this prize. This time the winning vari- 

 ety is seedling No. 252, since named 

 Miss Lolita Armour. The habit of this 

 rose is somewhat similar to that of Los 

 Angeles. The flowers are a kind of 

 burnt orange and copper with a golden 

 yellow base, and are extremely full. It 

 is a fine garden rose. This variety is 

 another of Fred Howard's Pernetiana 

 hybrids. 



INTERNATIONAL BODY MEETS. 



At the time of the Chelsea show, May 

 25 and 26, there was held in London the 

 annual meeting of the International 

 Professional Horticultural Federation, 

 which includes France, Belgium, Italy, 

 Luxembourg, Holland and Great 

 Britain. The last conference was held 

 at Ghent in 1920, when George Monro 

 was elected president. The conference 

 was held under his chairmanship last 

 month, and among the delegates were H. 

 Graindorge, E. Turbat, L. Savage, H. 

 Detriche, N. Levavasseur and L. Leva- 

 vasseur, France; F. Spae, Albert de 

 Smet, E. Praet and Van Orshoven, Bel- 

 gium; B. Buys and Wezelenburg, Hol- 

 land. Great Britain was represented by 

 George Monro, E. A. Merryweather, J. 

 S. Brunton and C. M. Matthews, of the 

 Chamber of Horticulture; G. Arluison, 

 international secretary; P. A. Cragg 

 and Prof. M. Lefroy, technical commit- 

 tee; G. W. Leak, E. A. Bunyard and Du 

 Cann, of the Horticultural Trades' As- 

 sociation; A. W. White, of the British 

 Florists' Federation; W. G. Lobjoit, 

 controller of horticulture; H. Morgan 

 Veitch, legal adviser; Mr. Cuthbertson, 

 Edinburgh, and Mr. Cairns, Glasgow. 



The rules for registration of new va- 

 rieties drafted at Ghent were agreed 

 upon, and the international registration 

 bureau will be under the supervision of 

 M. Sauvage, Paris. It was generally 

 agreed that each nation should have its 

 own bureau in correspondence with the 

 international bureau. Registration will 

 secure the right of a selected name for 

 a plant and will avoid duplicating in 

 that respect. The bureau does not con- 

 sider in any way the "value" of the 

 new plant. This is left to the special 

 societies to decide. 



The question of conditions of sale 

 and payment was freely discussed with 

 a view to uniformity in each country's 

 terms, nationally and internationally. 

 The question was taken by the delegates 

 to their various associations for further 

 consideration and report. 



It was decided to hold the 1922 con- 

 ference at The Hague, Holland. E. 

 Krelage was elected president; E. A. 



Bunyard, vice-president; M. Turbat and 

 M. Barbier, joint secretaries, and M. 

 Sauvage, treasurer. 



AWARDS AT BRITISH SHOW. 



At the annual show of the British 

 Royal Horticultural Society at Chelsea 

 May 24 to 26, thousands of visitors wit- 

 nessed one of the finest shows ever held 

 under the society's auspices. All the 

 classes had splendid exhibits. The 

 awards made for new varieties were as 

 follows : 



Herbert Chapman, Ltd., award of merit for a 

 fine lx)ld Dutch iris named Banzia, a yellow and 

 pale mauve color. 



Wm. Paul, award of merit for Rose Florence, 

 a Klowing rosy pink of loose form. 



Wm. Cutbush & Son, award of merit for 

 Polyantha Rose Juliana, a dainty flower of a 

 salmon pink shading. 



John Waterer, Sons & Crisp, award of merit 

 for Lupinus Sunshine, color deep canary yellow, 

 11 fine large spike, and for a new alpine aster, 

 Wargrave variety, a large mauve flower of 

 dwarf hnbit. 



R. C. Norcutt, Woodbridge, award of merit for 

 Rhus cotinus folus, a nice red decorative leaf. 



J. Pipers, award of merit for three new aza- 

 leas. 



Wallace, of Tunbridge Wells, award of merit 

 for Rhododendron Hugo de Vries, a large truss 

 of stiff and sturdy habit, color old rose. 



Douglas, Bookham. award of merit each for 

 border carnation, Kelso, a large flower, pale yel- 

 low ground, flushings of ruby red; Bookham 



Scarlet, a splendid scarlet of perfect form; 

 Bookham Salmon, an exceptionally large salmon- 

 colored flower of grand shape. 



C. Engelmann, Saffron Walden, award of merit 

 for Carnation Tarzan, a grand scarlet of the 

 perpetual class, intense and vivid coloring, 

 beautifully stiff erect habit and fine form. 



W. Downer, Chichester, award of merit for 

 Lupinus Pink Pearl, a grand addition, being a 

 distinct rose pink, spikes of good size. 



Writes a commentator on the show: 

 ' ' Engelmann 's perpetual carnation, 

 Tarzan, is a variety that makes one 

 envious, for if I mistake not the owner 

 of this may snap his fingers at most of 

 the other existing scarlets. The form, 

 size, length and strength of stem, calyx 

 and perfume are all as one would like 

 to order them. The only additional vir- 

 tue required is sound constitution with 

 free-flowering propensities. I am told 

 there is no lack in this respect in Tar- 

 zan." 



Minneapolia, Minn. — Fire recently 

 damaged Joseph Rieck's greenhouse to 

 the extent of nearly $5,000. 



Gafifney, S. C. — H. D. Wheat, owner 

 of the Irene greenhouses, has announced 

 that the greenhouses at Irene park are 

 to be doubled in capacity at an early 

 date. An additional house, 25x200 feet, 

 is to be constructed. 



Minneapolis, Minn. — Lakewood Cem- 

 etery Association, which has done a 

 steadily increasing florists ' business for 

 many years, is erecting a new building 

 of unusual and attractive architecture 

 to house the retail department. New 

 fixtures to harmonize with the period 

 of the building are being built by the 

 A. L. Randall Co., Chicago. 



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A LIST OF BEST PEONIES. 



In the Bulletin of Peony News for 

 May the untiring secretary of the Amer- 

 ican Peony Society, A. P. Saunders, of 

 Clinton, N. Y., gives another instance of 

 his devotion to the flower by the tabu- 

 lation of the returns from the latest 

 rating list sent out to members for vot- 

 ing upon. From this questionnaire, sent 

 out last summer, eighty replies were 

 received. The voting was on the scale 

 of 10. That figure represented the 

 highest quality; 9, high quality, but 

 not the highest; 7 and 8, fairly good, 

 and anything below 5, not worth culti- 

 vating. Over 700 varieties received 

 votes; some a few, some many. Of 

 these about 150 received an average of 

 6 or below on the rating scale. About 

 200 varieties did not receive a single 

 vote, indicating that they were no 

 longer in cultivation. Thus it seemed 

 that more than one-third of the varie- 

 ties on the society's list might be dis- 

 carded as not worth cultivating. 



Prof. Saunders .arranged two lists, 

 one of varieties which averaged 8 or 

 more and received twenty or more votes, 

 and one of varieties which averaged 8 

 or more, but received less than twenty 

 votes. The first, he believes, contains 

 varieties of fixed worth, not likely to 

 vary much; the second, varieties of 

 merit whose position is not yet defin- 

 itely determined. These two lists com- 

 prise about 200 varieties. 



As a list of "sure things," he gives, 

 in conclusion, the following varieties, 



arranged by color, which received 

 twenty or more votes and ranked higher 

 than 8.5: 



WHITE. 



9.9 Le Cygne, 8.8 Alsace I>orraine, 



9.8 Kelway's Glorious. Enchantresse, 

 9.4 Mme. Jules Dessert, I.jiura Dessert, 

 9.3 Festlva maxima, 8.7 Albfttre, 



9.2 Elizabeth Barrett Avalanche, 



Browning. James Kelway, 



9.1 Frances Willard, 8.6 Primevfre, 

 9.0 Baroness Schroeder, 8.5 Marie Lemoine. 



8.9 Mme. Emile Le- 

 moine, 



Pleas' Jubilee, 



PINK, ALL SHADES. 



8.7 Claire Dubois, 

 Mignon, 



8.6 Albert Crousse. 

 Relno Hortense. 

 Eugfnle Verdier, 

 Judge Berry, 

 I.d I»rraine 

 Mme. Auguste Des- 

 sert, 



8.3 Oermaine Bigot, 

 Iji Perle. 



.Mme. Emile Gallf, 

 Maud L. Richard- 

 son. 



Ootavie Demav, 

 Opal. 



9.8 Thfrfise. 



9.7 Solenge, 

 9.4 Tourangelle. 

 9.3 Walter Faxon, 

 9.2 La Ffe, 



M. Jules Elie. 



9.1 Lady A. Duff. 

 Martha Bulloch, 



9.0 La France, 

 Milton Hill, 

 Raoul Dessert, 

 Rosa Bonheur, 

 Sarah Bernhardt. 



8.9 Georgiana Shaylor, 

 Marie Crousse, 



8.8 Grandiflora, 

 Kelway's Queen, 

 liveliness, 



DARK RED. 



9.2 Philippe Rivoire, 8.7 Marv Brand, 

 9.0 I»ngfellow, 8.6 Cherrv Hill, 

 8.8 Karl Rosenfleld, Mikado. 



M. Martin Cahuzac, 8.5 Adolphe Rousseau. 

 Richard Carvel, 



"The lack of fine varieties in the 

 deeper shades of pink," says Prof. 

 Saunders, "is clearly brought out by this 

 list; almost all of the pinks in the list 

 above are in light shades. What we 

 need now as much as anything else in 

 peonies are good deep pinks, or light 

 reds, in fine, clear tones." 



