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The Florists^ Review 



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AMEKICAN SWEET PEA SOCIETY. 



Weather Opposes Show. 



Two or three weeks ago everything 

 promised well for a splendid sweet pea 

 exhibition in Boston June 24 and 

 25. Man proposes, however, and the 

 weather man, through Jupiter Pluvius, 

 disposes of some of our summer shows, 

 which are and must ever be largely de- 

 pendent on kindly climatic conditions. 

 A week of scorching heat was followed 

 by cold, dark weather, which, in turn, 

 culminated in a series of disastrous 

 thunder storms, with torrential rains and 

 hail thrown in for good measure, which 

 simply battered the life out of sweet 

 peas and, in fact, all other open-air 

 flowers. Along the nortii shore, at New- 

 port and Bar Harbor, where the finest 

 sweet peas in New England are found, 

 a week of fog caused practically all 

 buds to drop and, with such unkindly 

 conditions, it was surjjrising that any 

 sweet peas appeared at all. It was un- 

 doubtedly the smallest sweet pea show 

 the American Sweet Pea Society has 

 yet held, but the enthusiastic spirits 

 who keep the society going, while dis- 

 appointed, are aot discouraged and will 

 give Boston another chance in 1923 to 

 make good. 



Will Sweet Peas Hold Stage? 



Sweet peas are not now grown in 

 such numbers outdoors in the region of 

 Boston as was the case ten years ago. 

 Tlie Spencer varieties, wliich now rule 

 suj)reme, are not as good doers and 

 bloomers as the old grandifloras, and 

 many amateurs have grown discouraged 

 and have dropped swe<'t pea culture. 

 Even on private estates the num- 

 ber grown thereabouts is not one-fourtli 

 that of a decade ago. Lack of labor to 

 care for them is mainly blamed and the 

 added fact that when they flower, em- 

 l)loyer8 have moved away to mountain 

 or ocean resorts. Probably this condi- 

 tion is but a temporary one and 

 sweet peas will come back more strongly 

 than ever, as there is no other annual 

 possessing their fragrance, i)ersistent 

 blooming qualities and great range of 

 colors. It ia always hard to hit an exact 

 ilate for a sweet pea show, for what will 

 suit one set of growers may be too late 

 tor others 100 miles north or south, and 

 this applies more or less to all our early 

 summer flowers. 



Exhibitors were not numerous, but 

 (|uality for such a season was excellent. 

 The Hitchings memorial cup offered for 

 twelve varieties, twenty-five sprays of 

 each, was won for this year by Edwin 

 •Jenkins, superintendent to Girard Fos- 

 ter, Lenox, Mass., with excellent flow- 

 ers, mainly four on a stem, of Daisy K. 

 Elliott, Floradale Pur]>le, Ravessening, 

 a fine dark maroon varietv; Cecil v, R. F. 

 Felton, Hebe, Felton 's' Cream", Con- 

 stance Hinton, Alex.-inder Malcolm, Mrs. 

 Tom Jones, Rose Elliott and Mascott s 

 • ngman. This exhibit won also the Bur- 

 pee trophy cup and $10 in cash. 



Prizes Won. 



••'or six vases, Allen J. Jenkins, Iris- 



thorpe, Shrewsl)ury, was first, with 

 Hebe, Felton 's Cream, Constance Hin- 

 ton, Mascott 's Ingman, Floradale Pur- 

 ple and Alexander Malcolm. 



Allen J. Jenkins captured the silver 

 trophy offered to the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society by the Chestnut 

 Hill Garden Society, tor the most artis- 

 tic display of sweet peas. In his collec- 

 tion were excellent vases of Faith, Deb- 

 bie's Cream, King Manuel, Floradale 

 Purple, Jack Cornwall, Mrs. Tom Jones, 

 Felton 's Cream, R. F. Felton, Constance 

 Hinton, Daisy K. Elliott and Royal 

 Purple. 



For twenty maroon and fifty mixed 

 Spencer, William Gray, superintendent 

 to Princess Anastasia of Greece, New- 

 port, R. I., was first. 



For twenty-five lavender, A. J. Jen- 

 kins won the Farquhar prize. 



In the amateur classes for white, 

 W. J. Taylor, Newport, K. I., was first 

 and Mrs. P. J. Forbes, Worcester, sec- 

 ond, each showing Constance Hinton. 

 The same exhibitors won for lavender in 

 the same order, with R. F. Felton. For 

 pink they also won, as well as any other 

 color, Mr. Taylor showing FloraHale 

 Purple and Mrs. Forbes, Barbara. 



For three vases, W. J. Tavlor won 

 with Giant White, Mrs. C. P. Toiulin 



and Mascott 's Ingman; second, Mrs. P. 

 .1. Forbes. 



For vase of a novelty, Mr. Taylor won 

 with Mrs. David Lloyd George, a varie- 

 gated variety. 



For six varieties, Mrs. Forbes won 

 with nice, fresh flowers of Elfrida Pear- 

 son, R. F. Felton, Debbie's Cream, Wil- 

 liam Barnes, Constance Hinton and 

 Wedgwood. 



Hybrid Display Small. 



The display of both hybrid tea and 

 hybrid perpetual roses was the smallest 

 ever seen at a June show of the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society. Hybrid 

 perpetuals still seem to keep ahead of 

 hybrid teas in popular favor, however. 

 The vase of the hybrid tea Pharisaer 

 from William Gray was exceptionally 

 good. There were good general displays 

 of roses from the Walter Hunnewell es- 

 tate, Hillcrest Gardens and Henrv Stew- 

 art. 



A. J. Fish, of New Bedford, made the 

 largest and most truly representative 

 display of rambler and pillar roses ever 

 seen here. He makes a specialty of this 

 ty})e of roses and does them remarkably 

 well. First prize for the finest rose dis- 

 ])lay went to this collection. Of splen- 

 did quality were Silver Moon, Dr. Van 



W. A. Sperling. 



U{e-cl<rtctl rresldcnt of the Amerlcun Sweet I'ea .So<-lety.^ 



