NOVIMBBE 17, 1921 



The Florists' Review 



41 



Aaaual Baoqaet of the Scranton Florkts* Clab, Held Last Veek in Connection with Show. 



and also for single specimen. He also 

 had all the first prizes for pot chrysan- 

 themums. Eugene McCarron showed a 

 fine table of tastefully arranged baskets 

 of chrysanthemums, sweet peas and other 

 flowers. M. J. Leach & Sons had some 

 handsome large baskets of chrysanthe- 

 mums and Wanokuck Greenhouses a 

 group of a fine new seedling single 

 geranium. 



A feature of the show was the exten- 

 sive and well-varied displays from 

 nurserymen, both deciduous stock and 

 evergreens, also fruit trees being in- 

 cluded. C. H. Greaton, Providence, was 

 a good first; 'Daniel A. Clarke, Fiske- 

 ville, R. I., second. Mr. Clarke also 

 staged an extensive and finely arranged 

 collection of vegetables, which was one 

 of the best things in the show. Excel- 

 lent nurserymen's groups were also 

 staged by Lorenzo F. Kinney, Kingston, 

 and Still River Gardens, Edgewood, of 

 which F. E. Cole is the proprietor. F. S. 

 Peck had the best collection of vege- 

 tables and won a good number of first 

 prizes in individual vegetable and fruit 

 classes. W. N. Craig, Brookline, Mass., 

 ofiiciated as judge. W. N. C. 



AMEEICAN INSTITTJTE SHOW. 



New York Society's Ninetieth. 



The annual fall exhibition of the 

 American Institute of New York, form- 

 ing really the ninetieth annual "fair" 

 of the institute, was held in the En- 

 gineering Societies' building, New York, 

 November 9 to 11. Many decades ago, 

 when the county of New York, now en- 

 tirely covered by New York city, was 

 an agricultural county, the annual fair 

 of the institute was an important event. 

 Nowadays, flowers are the chief prod- 

 ucts exhibited, and the few fruits and 

 vegetables shown come from other coun- 

 ties to represent the glories of the past. 



The show this year was most credit- 

 able, although, perhaps, the exhibits 

 were not quite so extensive as in pre- 

 vious years. There was almost an en- 

 tire absence of anything in the way 

 of artistic arrangements of flowers, such 

 as floral baskets, panels and the like, 

 but their absence was well compensated 



for in the superb quality of the exhibits 

 in general. 



Big Mums. 



At the recent show of the Horticul- 

 tural Society of New York, the pompon 

 and single varieties of chrysanthemums 

 predominated. At the institute's show 

 it was the reverse, the exhibition varie- 

 ties forming the bulk of the chrysanthe- 

 mum stagings, and seldom have a finer 

 lot of flowers been seen. The grandest 

 staging in the show was to be seen in 

 the classes, for private growers only, 

 calling for twenty-four blooms, one va- 

 riety, long stems, white, in which the 

 variety Louise Pockett, shown by 

 George Ferguson, gardener for Mrs. 

 Payne Whitney, Manhasset, N. Y., won 

 first prize. The flowers were wonderful 

 in their excellence. 



The commercial and open classes were 

 not particularly well filled, and competi- 

 tion was chiefly in the rose classes. The 

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

 first for twenty-four blooms, one va- 

 riety, long stems, with Nagirroc, and the 

 Springfield Floral Co., Springfield, N. J., 

 second with Glenview. In the class for 

 twenty-four blooms, twenty-four dis- 

 tinct varieties, one bloom of each, 10- 

 inch stems, the C. H. Totty Co. won first 

 with Meudon, G. C. Wigg, Mrs. Buhl, 

 Wm. Turner, Vermont, Elberon, Nagir- 

 roc, Catherine Trigg, W. "Wade, Yellow 

 Turner, Mrs. J. Balmer, Orange Queen, 

 Corporal J. F. Piper, Seedling No. 8, De- 

 light, Reflexed Louise Pockett, J. Wells, 

 W, Rigby, Yellow Pockett, F. S. Vallis, 

 Glenview, John Freeman, C. G. Mason 

 and Pink Turner. F. C. Read, Orange, 

 N. J., was awarded second. In the open 

 class for a vase of pompon varieties, ten 

 sprays, crimson, the Springfield Floral 

 Co. gained the second award with Julia 

 Lagravere. In the section for seedlings, 

 sports, and undistributed importations, 

 the C. H. Totty Co. was awarded a 

 first for Mrs. John Balmer, a first for 

 Mrs. C. H. Curtiss, a beautiful pink, and 

 a first for a seedling white. 



Pompons and Singles. 



For a collection of twenty vases of 

 pompons, A. N. Pierson, Inc., Cromwell, 

 Conn., was awarded first prize, and the 

 C. H. Totty Co. second. The Springfield 

 Floral Co. was awarded a special prize 



for an exhibit in the same class. A. N. 

 Pierson, Inc., and the Springfield Floral 

 Co. also staged splendid groups of pom- 

 pons and singles not for competition, 

 and the C. H. Totty Co. occupied the 

 place of honor at the head of the main 

 hall with a grand group of chrysanthe- 

 mums and roses, in which were featured 

 some of the new Japanese anemone 

 types. Richard Vincent, Jr., & Sons Co., 

 White Marsh, Md., also staged an ex- 

 cellent exhibit of singles and pompons. 

 A plant of Buttercup, a diminutive 

 single chrysanthemum, with flowers 

 about the size of a dime, was exhibited 

 alongside a basket of the single, Joseph- 

 ine, the exhibit gaining a special prize 

 as showing the smallest and largest sin- 

 gles in the show. The plant of Butter- 

 cup attracted considerable attention, 

 and was believed to be a new thing until 

 an old-timer called to memory an ex- 

 hibit of the variety in 1904, made by 

 Vaughan's Seed Store, at the institute's 

 show in Macy's hall. New York. The 

 exhibit at this show was made by Frank 

 Swenson, Riverdale-on-Hudson, N, Y. 



Rose Exhibits. 



The rose exhibits were particularly 

 fine, and the private classes unusually 

 well filled. In the commercial section 

 L. B. Coddington, Murray Hill, N. Y., 

 won first in the class for twenty-five 

 blooms pink, with Columbia. In the 

 class for twenty-five blooms yellow, W. 

 W. Vert, Madison, N. J., was first with 

 Sunburst, and L. B. Coddington, second, 

 with Mrs. Aaron Ward. Mr. Codding- 

 ton won first for twenty-five blooms 

 crimson w^ith Hadley, and Edward 

 Towill, Roslyn, Pa., won first in the class 

 for any other color with his new Amer- 

 ican Legion, which was a decided at- 

 traction. In the silver medal class for 

 a vase of any new rose not yet in com- 

 merce, the medal was taken by A. N. 

 Pierson, Inc., with Priscilla, the new 

 light pink, over Angelas, the promising 

 white, exhibited by C. H. Totty Co., and 

 Phantom, yellow, exhibited by Edward 

 Towill. The C. H. Totty Co. staged some 

 splendid vases of Mme. Butterfly for ex- 

 hibition only. 



Caxnations. 



There was a fair display of carna- 

 tions, the exhibits being mainly from 



