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The Florists* Review 



November 6, 1913. 



CLEVELAND'S SHOW NEXT. 



Final arrangements are being made 

 to care for all exhibitors at the Ohio 

 Horticultural Society's and the Cleve- 

 land Florists' Club's faJl show, which 

 opens Thursday, November 13, to con- 

 tinue to November 15. The decora- 

 tion committee is at work converting 

 the big, new, empty building, contain- 

 ing 64,000 square feet of floor space, 

 into a thing of beauty. The decorative 

 scheme promises to awaken the public 

 to the fact that Cleveland really is, 

 and that Cleveland 's florists really are, 

 right up to the minute in floral decora- 

 tions and floral art. 



The publicity committee is on its 

 final spurt, started just after election 

 day. The public is to be notified that 

 a flower show second to none held in 

 this country is soon to take place in 

 their midst. 



For the florists out of town who come 

 to see the show the entertainment com- 

 mittee is planning a warm welcome. 

 The banquet, with cabaret attachments, 

 to be held at Hotel Euclid November 

 14, is for ladies as well as men. The 

 committee invites every florist to bring 

 his wife. Register immediately on en- 

 tering tlie show. 



Second editions of the premium list 

 were mailed November 1. They were 

 unavoidably held up at the printer's. 

 Copies may be had l9y addressing John 

 Boddy, City Hall, Cleveland, O. 



Special prizes, notices of which were 

 received too late to get into the list, 

 are as follows: 



Silver cup offered by S. S. Skidelsky & Co.. for 

 swei'pstakes on vases of fifty roses, class 117. 



Stiver cup offered by Stumpp & Walter Co.. 

 as first prize lu class 121 for best 100 lily of the 

 valley. 



Sliver cup offered by the ClevelauJ Cut Flower 

 Co., for supremacy in bridal work. 



Silver cup offered by A. Henderson & Co.. as 

 sweepstakes on vases of twenty-flve roses, class 

 102. 



Cup offered by Harry Balsley as sweepstakes 

 for vases of 100 carnations, class 78. 



Gold medal offered by H. F. Michell Co., for 

 best basket of not more than 150 Illy of the 

 valley. 



Cup offered by Bowler & Burdlck as sweep- 

 stakes for best vase of twenty-flve chrysantlie- 

 mums, class .32. 



Cup offered by Geo. H. Bowman as sweep- 

 stakes prize for best vase of twelve chrysan- 

 themums, class 39. 



Cup offered by Cornell & Hubbard as sweep- 

 stakes for best vase of six chrysantliemums. 

 seedlings, class 52. 



Cup offered by Webb C. Ball as sweepstakes 

 for biest vase of fifty carnations, class (il. 



r!up offered by Scrihner & I.oehr as sweep- 

 stakes for best vase of twenty-flve carnations, 

 class 71. 



The .judges on table decorations, 

 bridal work, etc., are to be Samuel 

 McClements, Albert Pochelon and Chas. 

 Henry Fox. The judges on plants and 

 cut flowers are W. N. Rudd, Prof. J. F. 

 Cowell and M. Blov. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY. 



The committee has examined new 

 varieties as follows: 



At Philadelphia, October 25. Ivy (iay, soft 

 pink. Japanese incur%'ed, exhibited by Chas. H. 

 Totty, Madison, N. J., scored as follows on com 

 inerolal scale: Color. 17; form, 1-1; fullness, i); 

 stem, 12; foliage, 1.3; substance, 14; size, 9; 

 total, 88. 



At Philadelphia. October 25, Gladys nuckliam, 

 white, single, exhibited by Chas. H. Totty, Madi- 

 son, N. J., scored as follows: Color. .34; form, IS; 

 substance, 17; stem and foliage. 17: total, 86. 



At Philadelphia, October 25. Stanley Ven. i)ink, 

 single, exlilhlted by Chas. H. Totty, Madison, 

 N. .1., scored as follows: Color. 38; form. IS; 

 substance. 18; stem and foliage, 18; total, 92. 



At Philadelphia, October 25, It. B. Burge. 

 white, single, exhibited by Chas. H. Totty, Madi- 

 son, N. J., scored as follows: Color, 39; form, 

 18; substance. 18; stem and foliage, 17; total, 92. 



At Boston. October 25. Gladys Duckham, white, 

 single, exhibited by Chas. 11. Totty, Madison, 

 N. J., scored 88. 



.\t Boston, October 25. R. B. Burge, white, 

 single, exhibited by Chas. II. Totty, Madison 

 N. J., scored 95. 



At Boston. October 25. Stanley Ven. rose pink. 



single, exhibited by Chas. H. Totty, Madison, 

 N. J., scored 94. 



At Boston, October 25, Ivy Gay, rose pink, 

 Japanese Incurved, scored on commercial scale 90; 

 on cxhililtion scale 82. 



Chas. W. Johnson, Sec'y. 



NATIONAL GABDENEBS MEET. 



Officers Elected. 



President — William H. Waite, gar- 

 dener for Samuel Untermyer, Yonkers, 

 N. Y., reelected. 



Vice-president — John W. Everitt, gar- 

 dener to J. T. Pratt, Glen Cove, N. Y. 



Treasurer — James Stuart, gardener 

 to Mrs. F. A. Constable, Mamaroneck, 

 N. Y. 



Secretary — M. C. Ebel, Madison, N. J. 



The annual business meeting was held 

 in the afternoon of November 3 at the 



Leonard Utziager. 



(Member Hall Committee for the Cleveland 

 Trade Show.) 



American Museum of Natural History, 

 New York, during the progress of the 

 exhibition of the Horticultural Society 

 of New York, and was opened by an 

 address of welcome by F. R. Pierson. 

 The attendance was about 100. The 

 report of the secretary showed a mem- 

 bership of 720. Resolutions on the 

 death of Julius Roehrs were adopted 

 as drafted bv a committee consisting 

 of F. R. Pierson, M. C, Ebel and Mr. 

 McMackin. The new trustees are 

 Messrs. Kleinheinz, Mackenzie, DuflF, 

 Dodds and Duckham. 



An address was given by Prof. Head- 

 ley, state entomologist for New Jersey, 

 on the relation of Ihe entomologist 

 and the gardener. 



Annual Banquet. 



The annual banquet was held at the 

 Hotel Endicott following the business 

 meeting. The members and guests 

 numbered 100. Arthur Herrington was 

 toastmaster. The principal speakers 

 were R. Vincent, Jr., F. R. Pierson, W. 

 J. Stewart, C. H. Totty, H. A. Bun- 

 yard and Wm. Duckham, but Messrs. 

 Miller, Ebel, Williamson, Johnson, 

 Brown, Donald, Dick, Jenkins, Greib, 

 Maynard, Shaw and others each spoke 

 a few words. The affair was a great 

 success, there being a fine orchestra and 

 cabaret divertisement. 



C. S. A. ANNUAL MEETING. 



Officers Elected. 



President — William Kleinheinz, 

 Ogontz, Pa. 



Vice-President — A. F. J. Baur, In- 

 dianapolis, Ind. 



Treasurer^John N. May, Summit, 

 N. J., reelected. 



Secretary — C. W. Johnson, Morgan 

 Park, HI., reelected. 



The Business Session. 



The business meeting was held Nov- 

 ember .5. As recommended by the sec- 

 retary's report of a mail vote of the 

 members the scale of points for scoring 

 exhibition varieties in competition 

 with commercial varieties was adopted, 

 as follows: Color, 30; form and full- 

 ness, 20; size, 25; stem and foliage, 25; 

 total, 100. 



W. N. Rudd called attention to the 

 fact that twenty years ago, in the same 

 building, Bonnaflfon made its debut and 

 that it still holds the place it shortly 

 won. It was thought appropriate that 

 the records should note the event. 



E. G. Hill, on behalf of the Indiana 

 State Florists' Association, invited the 

 association to meet in Indianapolis in 

 1914. *rhe invitation was accepted. 



THE PEESIDENT'S ADDEESS. 



[The following is the address of President 

 Charles H. Totty, read before the Chrysanthe- 

 mum Society of America at its annual meeting 

 in Chicago, November 5, 1913.] 



We are once more assembled to do 

 homage to our favorite flower, the chrys- 

 anthemum, and in the name of the so- 

 ciety I bid you welcome! Just how far 

 we have progressed since a year ago, 

 I must leave it to the exhibition to tell. 

 The weather all along the eastern sea- 

 board has been so wretched that many 

 of our finest flowers never reached ma- 

 turity. Our brethren in the central 

 states are not bothered, I understand, 

 by the night fogs, for which they have 

 cause to thank a discriminating provi- 

 dence for sparing them this particular 

 misfortune, though perhaps they have 

 other troubles which counterbalance it. 



I think I may safely say that in my 

 eighteen years of chrysanthemum grow- 

 ing in New Jersey we have never had 

 such a season as this, with temperatures 

 running as high as 75 at night and a 

 heavy fog that rolls up and causes the 

 foliage and flowers to simply reek with 

 moisture. As a rule, damping is con- 

 fined to flowers that have been fed more 

 or less heavily, but this year, for the 

 first time in my experience, I saw 

 flowers that had never been fed at all 

 damp off almost as badly as flowers 

 that were overfed. 



It is indeed depressing to the grower 

 of fancy stock to see his labors for the 

 last six or seven months wiped out in 

 a night, but this apparently is one of 

 those conditions that the mum grower 

 is unable to prevent or advise on. I 

 thought perhaps if the society could get 

 up a list of what would be non-damp- 

 ing kinds, it would be useful to the 

 grower living in a foggy zone. Chrys- 

 olora, for instance, was the bright par- 

 ticular star of our collection, as com- 

 paratively few of the flowers failed to 

 mature in good shape. The question of 

 loss in a season like this is an extreme- 

 ly serious one and none of our members, 

 I am afraid, has made any money so 

 far this fall out of his product. 



