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The Florists' Review 



NOVBMBBR 17, 1921 



]iriv:it,c ^rdwcis. Tlic Siiriiij;lirl(l Fhiial 

 Co. won first for six vnrict it's, twonty- 

 livo iilooiiis of I'acli, witli Mrs. ('. W. 

 Ward, Kiicliaiitrcss Supreme, Laddie, 



, White Enchantress, Matchless and lielle 

 Wasliburn; first lor three varieties, 

 twenty-five blooms each, ;ind first for a 

 v.'ise of one variety, twelve l)loonis, -with 

 Hojie Henshaw. M. A. I'atten & Co., 

 Tewkshury, Mass., and the yjirinj;;field 



*" Floral Co., showed vases of tlu' new car- 

 nation, Thomas C. Joy, for exhibition 

 only. 



At tltis sliow, Andrew Strnchan, gar- 

 dener for W. B. Thompson, Yonkers. 

 N. Y., won first jirizes in ni'arly all the 

 classes for bush and st.'indard plant.s of 

 rhrysanf hemunis. 



The fruit section of the show this year 

 was smaller than ever before, but there 

 wore several fine exhibits of vegetables. 



J. JI. 1". 



WINNING BRIDE'S BOUQUET. 



Tlie accomp.'uiying pi<-ture shows Miss 

 Wright, daughter of Tom Wright, of 

 Wright's Flower Hholi, Los .\ngeles, 



gold iiicd.-i! .-ind a committee was ap- 

 pointed to iii:ike 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. 



.\u exhaustive list of native orchids, 

 prepareil by Oake.s Ames, was submitted, 

 which is considered the most complete 

 list evi'r made, and the society passed 

 .111 .-iiiiireciative vote of thanks to Mr. 

 .\mes for allowing the society the use of 

 such a comprehensive list, which could 

 iir)t be obtained from any other source, 

 Mr. .\mes having the most complete 

 native or(diid library in existence. 



Some interesting reminisceiu'es on 

 orihid collecting were related by John 

 F. Lager, Louis Burk and Joseph A. 

 M;inda in their attempts to locate 

 orchids in their native habitats. 



Several important matters, incident 

 to the proposed i)id)lication on "Native 

 Orchids," to be issued by the society, 

 came up for discussion and the outlook 

 for a book worthy of the object in view 

 is ])romisiMg and it will be .•ipjireciatcd 



Price-Winning Bouquet at Los Angeles Show Held by Miss Wright. 



holding the ]iri/c-w inning liouipiet at 

 the liowcr show recently held in that 

 city. Mr. Wright's exhibit was fre- 

 (|uently changed during the period of 

 th(> show and the linn took many prizes 

 for table decorations, boii(|uets and l)as- 

 kets. .Ml the money taken in prizes 

 was handed over to the staff by Mr. 

 Wright as an appreciation of their good 

 work at all tinu'S. 



by the nl^mlM■r^ w hen issued by the com 

 mittee apixdnted for that puri)ose. 



Officers foi- the coming year were nom- 

 inated, to be \iiti(| fill at the annual 

 meeting. .\ If red J. Loveless, Sec 'y. 



CARNATION 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 i> exiiected I'y Hartford tlofi^ts 

 that visitors to the number of UK) will 

 attend the coineiition of the .Vnnrican 

 Carnation Society next January from 

 various |iarts of the country. The he.'nl 

 <|iiarttrs will be at the new Bond hotel. 

 The exhibition is to last three days and 

 the juiblic will be admitted free after 

 1) ]i. ni. the first day. N. C. Osborn, vice- 

 ]iresident of the American Carnation So- 

 ciety, will be suiierintendent of the 

 show. Wallnee I^. I'ierson is chairman of 

 the general committee in charge ftf the 



arrangements for the meetings and the 

 flower show. 



liocal Committees. 



The Hartford Florists' Club hiis ap- 

 pointed the following chairmen of com- 

 mittees: General chairman, Wallace 

 Bierson; 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 this functiqn will exceed 

 anything ever seen. The women accom- 

 piinying the visitors are to 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 K. I'ierson. C. B. M. 



AROUND THE WORLD? 



Some months ago The Review jmb- 

 lished an item regarding what the late 

 l{ali>h M. ■V\^ard said about the florists 

 of the United States making a trip 

 .■iroiind 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 jirobable cost of 

 chartering a suitable steamer. Then 

 one could determine the individual cost 

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

 L'dO. 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, 

 Cliic.ago, November 1 to 5, was due pri- 

 marily to H. 1). Schiller, the president 

 ol the exjiosition association. Being a 

 llorist, he thought of flowers as an 

 .'idditional attraction to the public. Mr. 

 Schiller set about securing the sjiace 

 th.'it he thought would be adecpiate f or • 

 a tlower show of this kind, it being the 

 lirst time that an exposition of this 

 kind with a flower show in conjunction 

 li;id 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 oiiening day, 1!»,0(»0 

 visitors attende(l the show. Saturday 

 night, when the doors closed, over 

 1(10.(100 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 jirejiaration. the novelty of such a 

 \ciiture, the l:ick of ;in organization ex- 

 isting for its promotion and exhibits 

 being secured for most jtart by stdicita- 

 tion of indefinite (piantities of stock, 

 was not of the quality or magnitude 

 that would do justice to the florists' in- 

 dustry, yet it was eviilent from the at- 

 tention the jiublic gave to the flowers 



