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The Rorists^ Review 



NOTBMBKB 17, 1921 



private growers. The Springfield Floral 

 Co. won first for six varieties, twenty- 

 five blooms of each, with Mrs. C. W. 

 Ward, Enchantress Supreme, Laddie, 

 iWhite Enchantress, Matchless and Belle 

 Washburn; first for three varieties, 

 twenty-five blooms each, and first for a 

 vase of one variety, twelve blooms, with 

 Hope Henshaw. M. A. Patten & Co., 

 Tewksbury, Mass., and the Springfield 

 Floral Co., showed vases of the new car- 

 nation, Thomas C. Joy, for exhibition 

 only. 



At this show, Andrew Strachan, gar- 

 dener for W. B. Thompson, Yonkers, 

 N. Y., won first prizes in nearly all the 

 classes for bush and standard plants of 

 chrysanthemums. 



The fruit section of the show this year 

 was smaller than ever beforie, but there 

 were several fine exhibits of vegetables. 



J. H. P. 



WINNING BRIDE'S BOUQUET. 



The accompanying picture shows Miss 

 Wright, daughter of Tom Wright, of 

 Wright's Flower Shop, Los Angeles, 



gold medal and a committee was ap- 

 pointed to make a report on suitable 

 awards and rules and regulations for 

 governing the same. It was also decided 

 that only experts should be engaged as 

 judges. 



An exhaustive list of native orchids, 

 prepared by Oakes Ames, was submitted, 

 which is considered the most complete 

 list ever made, and the society passed 

 an appreciative vote of thanks to Mr. 

 Ames for allowing the society the use of 

 such a comprehensive list, which could 

 not be obtained from any other source, 

 Mr. Ames having the most complete 

 native orchid library in existence. 



Some interesting reminiscences on 

 orchid collecting were related by John 

 E. Lager, Louis Burk and Joseph A. 

 Manda in their attempts to locate 

 orchids in their native habitats. 



Several important matters, incident 

 to the proposed publication on "Native 

 Orchids," to be issued by the society, 

 came up for discussion and the outlook 

 for a book worthy of the t)bject in view 

 is promising and it will be appreciated 



Prize- W^inning Bouquet at Los Angeles Show Held by Miss \^rigbt. 



holding the prizc-wiiuiing bouquet at 

 the flower show recently held in that 

 city. Mr. Wright 's exhibit was fre- 

 quently changed during the period of 

 the show and the firm took many prizes 

 for table decorations, bouquets and bas- 

 kets. All the money taken in prizes 

 was handed over to the staflf by Mr. 

 Wright as an appreciation of their good 

 work at all times. 



by the members when Lssued by the com- 

 mittee appointed for that purpose. 



OflScers for the coming year were nom- 

 inated, to be voted on at the annual 

 meeting. Alfred J. Loveless, Sec'y. 



CAENATION CONVENTION. 



AMERICAN ORCHID SOCIETY. 



Trustees* Meeting. 



A meeting of the trustees of the Amer- 

 ican Orchid Society was held at the 

 American Museum of Natural History, 

 New York city, Friday, November 4, 

 with nine members present. 



Besides the left-over business of the 

 last meeting, much new work was taken 

 up. It was generally agreed that the 

 society's premier award should be a 



Hartford Florists Plan. 



It is expected by Hartford florists 

 that visitors to the number of 400 will 

 attend the convention of the American 

 Carnation Society next January from 

 various parts of the country. The head- 

 quarters will be at the new Bond hotel. 

 The exhibition is to last three days and 

 the public will be admitted free after 

 6 p. m. the first day. N. C. Osborn, vice- 

 president of the American Carnation So- 

 ciety, will be superintendent of the 

 show. Wallace R. Pierson is chairman of 

 the general committee in charge of the 



arrangements for the meetings and the 

 flower show. 



Local Coqaolttees. 



The Hartford Florists' Club has ap- 

 pointed the following: chairmen of com- 

 mittees: General cnairman, Wallace 

 Pierson; superintendent of show, N. C. 

 Osborn; hall, J. F. Coombs; publicity, 

 George F. Lane; banquet, Joseph Mc- 

 Manus; finance, Wallace Thomson; 

 hotel, Andrew Welch; transportation, J. 

 A. Brodrib. 



Joseph McManus, chairman of the 

 banquet committee, said that the an- 

 nual banquet of the national club in 

 convention here and the local club will 

 be held at the Bond hotel and the deco- 

 rations for ^J^is functip., will exceed 

 anything ever seen. The wiJtaen accom- 

 panying the visitors are t& be enter- 

 tained by the following committee of 

 Hartford women: Mrs. Joseph Mc- 

 Manus, Mrs. Ellen Welch, Mrs. J. A. 

 Brodrib, Mrs. Charles Coite and Mrs. 

 Wallace E. Pierson. C. B. M. 



AROUND THE WORLD? 



Some months ago The Review pub- 

 lished an item regarding what the late 

 Ralph M. Ward said about the florists 

 of the United States making a trip 

 around the world. The article stated 

 that he strongly advised such an ex- 

 cursion. 



Personally, I think the idea a good 

 one. Why not start the stone rolling? 

 Let someone appoint himself a com- 

 mittee to ascertain the probable cost of 

 chartering a suitable steamer. Then 

 one could determine the individual cost 

 on a basis of a party of, say, 100 or 

 200. There are a number of well in- 

 formed men in the trade who are so 

 situated that they could easily give the 

 information. S. C. Templin. 



REVIEWING SUCCESSFUL SHOW. 



Pearson Points Out Profit. 



The success of the flower show held in 

 conjunction with the Uptown Chicago 

 Exposition, at the Broadway Armory, 

 Chicago, November 1 to 5, was due pri- 

 marily to H. D. Schiller, the president 

 of the exposition association. Being a 

 florist, he thought of flowers as an 

 additional attraction to the public. Mr. 

 Schiller set about securing the space 

 that he thought would be adequate for 

 a flower show of this kind, it being the 

 first time that an exposition of this 

 kind with a flower show in conjunction 

 had been attempted in an outlying dis- 

 trict of Chicago. No one knew as to 

 its possible success or failure, but every- 

 one in charge worked and hoped for its 

 success. 



November 1, the opening day, 19,000 

 visitors attended the show. Saturday 

 night, when the doors closed, over 

 100,000 persons had seen the show. Its 

 success had been greater than the fond- 

 est expectations of its promoters.* While 

 the flower show, owing to the brief time 

 for preparation, the novelty of such a 

 venture, the lack of an organization ex- 

 isting for its promotion and exhibits 

 being secured for most part by solicita- 

 tion of indefinite quantities of stock, 

 was not of the quality or magnitude 

 that would do justice to the florists' in- 

 dustry, yet it was evident from the at- 

 tention the public gave to the flowers 



