November 12, 1914. 



The Florists^ Review 



23 



A Large Room Was Occupied Exclusively by the Display of Bertermann Bros. Co., at Indianapolis. 



Francis Scott Key, a John Cook rose 

 disseminated in a small way last year, 

 was shown by F. E. Pierson Co., Tarry- 

 town, N. Y. Mr. Pierson thinks so well 

 of it that he will give it much wider 

 distribution this season. It is a deeper 

 American Beauty color, a large, full 

 flower. 



Mrs. Moorfield Storey, the 1914-15 in- 

 troduction of the Waban Eose Con- 

 servatories, Natick, Mass., was staged 

 by the originator. It is a delightful 

 shade of shell pink, perhaps nearer to 

 Taft than anything else, but much 

 larger and more double than that popu- 

 lar variety. 



Carnations. 



No classes were provided for carna- 

 tions, but there were a considerable 

 number of exhibits, principally of new 

 varieties. 



Alice, which Peter Fisher, of Ellis, 

 Mass., says is the most free-blooming 

 variety he has yet raised, had suffered 

 somewhat during its long journey, but 

 acquitted itself creditably. The light 

 flesh pink color is well liked and the 

 form is excellent. 



Aviator, from the Chicago Carnation 

 Co., Joliet, 111., sat where the afternoon 

 sun made its bright scarlet glow after 

 a fashion that caught every eye. The 

 flower is excellent; if the growth is as 

 good as the color it should prove an 

 acquisition. On the second day a vase 

 of Peerless Pink was placed with the 

 display of Aviator. 



From the J. D. Thompson Carnation 

 Co., Joliet, 111., came three seedlings 

 raised by the superintendent, P. W. 

 Peterson. They have been well named, 

 buperb. Vera and Hero. Superb is a 

 deep flesh pink, darker than Gloriosa; 



Vera a flesh pink a little darker than 

 Enchantress; Hero a deep pink, darker 

 than Mrs. Ward. One or more of these 

 probably will be disseminated next 

 season. 



Bassett & Washburn, Chicago, staged 

 a vase of their scarlet seedling, Belle 

 Washburn, which is being grown in 

 quantity for their cut flower trade. 



P. J. Olinger, Newcastle, Ind., for 

 whom William Gardener is superinten- 

 dent, showed a large red seedling of ex- 

 cellent form and color. There is stock 

 enough so that a large vase could be 

 filled with good blooms, but the variety 

 has not yet been christened. 



Fred Breitmeyer, Mt. Clemens, Mich,^ 

 sent a box of Philadelphia that many 

 failed to see because it was not set up 

 until the afternoon of Saturday. '~' 



F. Corner & Sons Co., La Fayette, , 

 Ind., set up, on the second day, vases 

 of Pink Sensation and Good Cheer car- 

 nations, two of their varieties that are 

 attracting visitors to La Fayette. 

 Blooms of Eose Hoosier Beauty also 

 came from La Fayette. 



The E. G. Hill Co., Eichmond, showed 

 an interesting table of carnations. The 

 special feature was Alice Coombs, tiie 

 Koper novelty. It is a fine flesh pink 

 and seems well thought of. A red seed- 

 ling also looked good. The rest of the 

 exhibit consisted of such blooms as are 

 sent to market and were excellent for 

 early autumn and extremely warm 

 weather. The varieties were Gorgeous, 

 Champion, Pocahontas, White Wonder, 

 Philadelphia, Benora, Mrs. Ward and 

 White Perfection. 



Sweet Peas. 



There was much interest in the exhib- 

 its of sweet peas, these not previously 



having been an early November flower. 



Albert J. Pittet, of Indianapolis, set 

 up a fine vase of Eose Queen, rose pink, 

 Spencer type, seed of which was dis- 

 tributed during the summer and which 

 is beginning to bloom with many grow- 

 ers who bought it. 



A. D. Euble, of Indianapolis, showed 

 an unnamed variety, said to be a seed- 

 ling, Spencer type, a fine clear pink, 

 large flowers on long stems, that took 

 everybody's eye. 



Miscellaneous ExUbits. 



The principal feature of the display 

 of J. A. Peterson & Sons, Cincinnati, 

 was Begonia Mrs. J. A. Peterson, so 

 called because the originator thinks it is 

 the best thing on the place. It is of 

 the Lorraine - Cincinnati type, deep 

 cerise in color, free blooming, bronze 

 foliage. Melior, just distributed, was 

 shown; also Cincinnati. The group in- 

 cluded a fine plant of Asplenium Nidus- 

 Avis, some good cyclamens and a num- 

 ber of small plants of Adiantum Farley- 

 ense. 



When John Zech saw that, outside of 

 a few in the retailers' booths, there 

 were no American Beauty roses in the 

 hall, he telephoned to Zech & Mann, 

 at Chicago, to send some long-stemmed 

 stock, and these were staged the next 

 morning, together with some excellent 

 Sunburst and some fine long Eussell, 

 also fifty blooms of each of five varie- 

 ties of carnations, filling a corner most 

 attractively. 



A general display of commercial cut 

 flowers was staged by the E. C. Am- 

 ling Co., Chicago. On the table were 

 eight varieties of roses, from Eussell 

 down to Cecile Brunner; a collection of 

 pompon and anemone-flowered mums,. 



