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The Florists^ Review 



OCTOBKE 2, 1913. 



EUBOPEAN NOTEa 



New Irish Boses. 



At the autumn show of the National 

 Rose Society, held in London about the 

 middle of September, four new roses 

 from Ireland received gold medals and 

 first-class certificates. Eed Letter Day 

 and Edward Bohane were shown by 

 Alexander Dickson & Sons, Ltd.. New- 

 townards. The former is a oright- 

 eolored hybrid tea, a rich crimson red, 

 and the latter is a hybrid tea oio^arge 

 size, rich crimson scarlet. Edvr M. 

 Bnrnett, shown by S. MeGredy & Son, 

 Portadown, has a large bloom, blush 

 pink, a fragrant hybrid tea. Muriel 

 Dickson, from Hugh Dickson, Ltd., Bel- 

 fast, is a large hybrid Austrian briar, 

 reddish rose with orange tints. 



Three of the best blooms in the show 

 were George Dickson, Bent Cant and 

 A. Hill Gray, and the honors for these, 

 a silver gilt medal to each, went 

 to the Newtownards firm, Dickson & 

 Sons. The best collection of thirty- 

 six blooms, distinct varieties, was put 

 ap by Hugh Dickson, Ltd. S. McGredy 

 & Son staged British Queen in splendid 

 form. The finest representative collec- 

 tion of roses on a table, in a space 

 6x18 feet, was arranged by W. &. J. 

 Brown, Peterborough, and was awarded 

 a gold medal; the second prize, a sil- 

 ver gilt medal, went to Dobbie & Co., 

 Edinburgh, who were specially strong 

 in Richmond, Lyon Bose, Mrs. Theo- 

 dore Boosevelt, Frau Karl Druschki 

 and General MacArthur. 



Prize winners in other leading 

 classes were: Paul & Son, Cheshunt; 

 Hobbies, Ltd., Dereham; B. B. Cant & 

 Sons, Colchester; Jackman & Son, Wok- 

 ing, and J. Mattock, Oxford. 



New Dahlias. 



At the recent show of the National 

 Dahlia Society quite a large number of 

 novelties were submitted to the floral 

 ewnmittee, and half a dozen found 

 favor and were awarded cultural cer- 

 tificates. Four of the awards went to 

 J. Stredwick & Son, St. Leonards on 

 Sea, for Pierrot, cactus, yellow florets 

 tipped buflf white; E. F. Hawes, cactus, 

 large blooms of superb form, rose-pink; 

 Dorothy Hawes, cactus, finely curved 

 florets, large blooms of a bright rose 

 color, and John Green, cactus-peony, 

 showy yellow florets margined and 

 tipped brilliant scarlet. Keynes, "Will- 

 iams & Co., Salisbury, scored with 

 Rosa, a mauve-colored pompon of good 

 form, and the sixth variety, Wee 

 Gracie, a cream-colored pompon, was 

 shown by J. T. West, Brentwood. 



In the premier classes T. Burrell & 

 Co., Cambridge, wrested the leading 

 honors from J. Stredwick & Son, who 

 have held top position for a series of 

 years. Hobbies, Ltd., Dereham, were 

 awarded a gold medal for a large col- 

 lection, embracing cactus, peony, pom- 

 pon, collarette and other forms. Dob- 

 bie & Co., Edinburgh, continue to in- 

 troduce new collarette dahlias of splen- 

 did form and in a marvelously rich 

 range of colors. In this direction they 

 are ahead of all competitors. 



Sweet Peas. 



The National Sweet Pea Society has 

 arranged for its annual trials in 1914, 

 at the Burbage Experimental Farm, 

 and has decided that the seeds shall be 

 sown in October, instead of in the 

 spring, as in former years. The annual 

 show will be held in London about the 



middle of July, and the provincial 

 show in the following week at Belfast. 

 Bee. 



HX7Q]|Y! mmBYI! HUBBY!!! 



Fifty-tnree years on the job! 



Just think of it, you rolling stones, 

 who work six weeks at a place and 

 move on; H. A. Barnard has spent fifty- 

 three years of the sixty-seven he has 

 'lived working for one firm of plants- 

 Inen. 



Mr. Barnard is on a trip through 

 the Unitia States for his firm, Stuart 

 Low & Co., Bush Hill Park, England, 

 and plans to spend the greater part of 

 October on a tour of the Pacific coast. 

 He has never been there, although on 

 his repeated journeys he has become 

 known almost everywhere as far west 

 as Chicago. 



Wherever Mr. Barnard goes he meets 

 gardeners he knew when they also 

 were employed at his firm's headquar- 

 ters in Middlesex, and he eays it's 



The Kditor is pleased 

 wben a Reader 

 presents Ills Ideas 

 on any subject treated In 



,^/|5(l*C 



As experience Is the best 

 teacher, so do wb 

 learn fastest by an 

 exchanere of experiences. 

 Bfany valuable points 

 are brouKht out 

 by discussion. 



Good penmanship, spellintr and 

 grammar, though desirable, are not 

 necessary. Write as you would talk 

 when doing your best. 



WK SHALL BE GLAD 

 TO HEAR FROM TOU 



quite plain why the best gardeners are 

 of European training: 



"The American is in too big a hurry 

 to garden finely," said he; "he wants 

 to see things jump. Fancy an Amer- 

 ican born raising seedling orchids and 

 waiting seven years for a flower! You 

 can't? No more can I. It takes the 

 European man of patience to do such 

 things. ' ' 



WHAT A BBEEZE COSTS. 



Eoy Wilcox, of J. F. Wilcox & Sons, 

 Council Bluffs, la., dropped into The 

 Review office one day last week. Nat- 

 urally, the conversation turned to the 

 results of the big storm that wrecked 

 some of the Wilcox houses last spring. 



"The houses have been repaired and 

 replanted, and we are cutting a little 

 from them," said Mr. Wilcox. 



There are two houses, each 60x1,000 

 feet, the largest in the west, and they 

 were a wreck after the cyclone that 

 swept Omaha that Sunday afternoon. 



"Of course, we can not figure our 

 loss," continued Mr. Wilcox. "We 

 were just beginning to take some real 

 money out of those houses, the first 



we had had from them. Since the 

 stock froze solid the next day, nat- 

 urally we were hard hit there, but how 

 much no one can tell. For the material 

 and labor to repair and replant the 

 houses, the items we can count, we 

 figure we spent $40,000. And at that 

 we got off lighter than we thought we 

 would. These are iron or rather steel- 

 framed houses, and when we got at the 

 job we found we could use a great deal 

 more of the material than we had sup- 

 posed. A great deal of it straightened 

 of itself when the strain was removed, 

 and most of it we could straighten 

 with home-made devices. Both ends 

 of the two houses were badly broken 

 up, especially where the tornado "car- 

 ried a lumber pile into the glass, but 

 the center 500 feet in each house stood 

 80 well that nothing was needed but to 

 replace a few p4ffi|s of glass broken by 

 hail. At the . s^jfei time, the force of 

 the storm wasisl^great that it broke 

 off the steam JWgBs- It was the iron 

 frame that sa\!i^^e houses from total 

 destruction. I^^^png could have gone 

 uninjured thrtfU;^ such a blow, and I 

 am confident *llQit all-wood houses 

 would have been wiped off the lot." 



CHBYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY. 



Examining Committees. 



President Chas. H. Totty announces 

 the committees to examJBe new chrys- 

 anthemums for the ensuing year, as 

 follows: 



Chicago — J. B. Deamud. chairman; E. 0. Or 

 pet, D. A. Robertson. Ship flowers to J. B. Dea 

 mud, 160 North Wabash avenue, Chicago. 



Cincinnati — R. Wltterstaetter, chairman; Jab 

 Allen, Henry Schwarz. Ship flowers to chairman, 

 at Jabez Elliott Flower Market, care Janitor. 



Boston — Wm. Nicholson, chairman; James 

 Wheeler, Alex. Montgomery. Ship flowers to 

 Boston Flower Exchange, C Park street, care 

 chairman. 



New York — Eugene Dailleduoze, chairman; 

 Wm. H. Duckham, A. Herrlngton. Ship flowert 

 to New York Cut Flower Co., 55 Twenty-second 

 street, care of chairman. 



Philadelphia — A. B. Cartledge, chairman; John 

 Westcott, S. S. Pennock. Ship powers to A. B 

 Cartledge, 1514 Chestnut street. 



Shipments should be made to arrive 

 by 2 p. m. on examination days to re 

 ceive attention from the committee. 

 They must be prepaid to destination 

 and an entry fee of $2 should be for 

 warded to the secretary not later than 

 Tuesday of the week in which they are 

 to be examined, or it may accompany 

 the blooms. 



Seedlings and sports are both eligible 

 to be shown before these committees, 

 provided the raiser has given them two 

 years' trial to determine their true 

 character. Special attention is called 

 to the rule that sports, to receive a cer- 

 tificate, must pass at least three of the 

 five committees. 



The committees will be in session to 

 examine such exhibits as may be sub- 

 mitted on the following Saturdays dur- 

 ing October and November: October 11, 

 18 and 25, and November 1, 8, 15, 22 

 and 29. 



The official judging scale will be as 

 follows: 



Commercial— Color, 20: form, 15; fullness, 10. 

 stem, 15; foliage, 15; substance, 15; size, 10: 

 total. 100. 



Exhibition — Color, 15; stem, 5; foliage, 5; 

 fullness, 15; form, 15; depth, 15; size, 30; total. 

 100. 



Single Varieties— Color, 40; form, 20; sub 

 stance, 20; stem and foliage, 20; total, 100. 



Pompons — Color, 40; form, 20; stem and fo- 

 liage, 20; fullness, 20; total, 100. 



Single varieties are to be divided into 

 two classes, the large-flowered and the 

 small-flowered. 



Chas. W. Johnson, Sec'y. 



Morgan Park, 111. 



