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The Florists' Review 



November 12, 1914. 



1518.00 



Oct. 13. Harry E. Converse, for 



cup 25.00 



Oct. 13. J. N. May, dues 2.W 



Oct. 15. Received from secretar.v. 22.00 



Oct. 21. Recdved from secretary. 10.00 



Oct. 23. Received from secretary. 4.00 



Oct. 30. Received from secretary. 10.00 

 Oct. 30. One year's Interest on 



?200.00 (saving acct.). 7.08 



DISBURSEMENTS. 

 1013. 

 Dec. 11. Regan Printing House...* 4. .50 



1914. 

 Jan. 8. Regan Printing House... 1.75 

 Jan. 8. C. W. Johnson, bill, sal- 

 ary, etc .".•'..70 



July 21. Regan I'linting House... 2..j0 



July 21. American Horlst Co 3.0O 



Aug. 4. Regan Printing House... 51.75 

 Sept. 2S. Regan Printing House... 9.50 

 Oct. 27. Reed & Karton, for cup. 25.00 

 Oct. 30. C. W. Jolinson, postage, 



expenses 11.01 



Oct. 30. J. N. May, treas., post- 

 age, expenses 1.94 



Oct. 30. Special acct., on Interest 200.00 



$364.65 



To balance on hand 154.34 



■ $518.99 



SEOEETARY JOHNSON'S REPORT. 



[The following Is the report of Chas. W. John- 

 son, secietary of the Chrysanthemum Society of 

 America, presented at the Indianapolis conven- 

 tion, November 7, 1914.] 



We are pleased to report progress. 

 The number of seedlings submitted to 

 the examining committees shows an in- 

 crease over the preceding year; new 

 members have been added to our ranks 

 and our income also shows an advance. 



The reports of the examining com- 

 mittees were sent to the trade papers 



each week as they were received by 

 the secretary, and a final, summary of 

 the season's work was published. The 

 trade press generously printed these 

 and other notices sent to them free of 

 charge, for which we owe to them our 

 vote of thanks. 



Our vice-president, A. F. J. Baur, 

 deserves the commendations of this 

 society for the great interest he has 

 taken in the welfare of the Chrysan- 

 themum Society and his efforts to make 

 the present meeting a success. 



The routine work of the secretary's 

 office, consisting of sending out the 

 statements to the members, recording 

 the varieties disseminated, getting out 

 the report of the twelfth annual meet- 

 ing and soliciting the special premiums, 

 was attended to in due season. 



Our special premium schedule is 

 larger for this exhibition than it has 

 been for any other, and to all the firms 

 and individuals who have helped us to 

 make it so we extend our thanks. 



A meeting of the society was held at 

 New York during the time of the Na- 

 tional Flower Show, with President 

 William Kleinheinz presiding and A. F. 

 J. Baur acting as secretary pro tem. 

 One of the important matters brought 

 up at this meeting was the definition 

 of the term "spray," as applied to 

 the single and pompon chrysanthemums, 

 and it was approved that the term 



"spray" shall mean the cluster of 

 blooms produced by a single terminal 

 growth. 



As instructed-at the last annual meet- 

 ing, the secretary sent letters of appre- 

 ciation to William K. Harris, Phila- 

 delphia, Pa., and to Fred Dorner & 

 Sons Co., La Fayette, Ind., the raisers 

 respectively of the varieties Ivory and 

 Major Bonnaffon, to show the apprecia- 

 tion of the society for the wonderful 

 record these two varieties have made 

 as money-makers for the florists all 

 over the country. 



Eeferring to the membership of the 

 society, your secretary earnestly re- 

 quests that each member undertake to 

 do some personal work to get new 

 members to join at this meeting. We 

 are entering upon the twenty-fifth year 

 of the Chrysanthemum Society of 

 America's existence, so let us celebrate 

 it by a big increase of members. 



The badges for members winning first 

 premiums at any chrysanthemum show 

 have again been sent to the secretaries 

 of the different societies, requesting 

 them to attach one to every first- 

 premium exhibit of a member of the 

 C. S. A. The secretary wishes to 

 acknowledge the kindness of Elmer D. 

 Smith in furnishing him with a com- 

 plete list of varieties disseminated in 

 1913, which was a great help in making 

 up the annual report. 



NOTES OF THE AUTUMN SHOWS 



QUALITY THE KEYNOTE OF THE SHOWS THIS YEAR 



CHICAGO. 



Horticultural Society's Show. 



The larger part, and unquestionably 

 the more important part, of the chrys- 

 anthemum show of the Horticultural 

 Society of Chicago, held at the Art In- 

 stitute, November 9 and 10, consisted 

 of exhibits not entered for competition. 

 The classes open to commercial grow- 

 ers numbered six. Class 7, for the best 

 display of cut blooms of outdoor chrys- 

 anthemums by an amateur, had no en- 

 try. 



The chrysjj^nthemum entries were 

 mainly by Poehlmann Bros. Co. and 

 Mt. Greenwood Cemetery. Confronting 

 the visitor as he entered the doors of 

 the Art Institute was a large circular 

 arrangement of plants by Poehlmann 

 Bros. Co., which the judges rightly 

 thought worthy a silver medal, though 

 it was not entered for competition. At 

 either side of the room were cyclamens 

 and begonias and in the rear were 

 araucarias, crotons, ferns and other 

 foliage plants from the same concern. 



In the competitive classes Poehl- 

 mann Bros. Co. also led. Vaughan 's 

 Seed Store won first prize for a group 

 of chrysanthemum plants, the only 

 group entered. Poehlmann Bros. Co. 

 took first for the best display of cut 

 blooms of large-flowering mums, with 

 W. H. Chadwick. Robert Blackwood, 

 gardener for Mrs. A. C. Allerton, Lake 

 Geneva, Wis., took second, with Mrs. 

 Gilbert Drabble. For the best display 

 of cut blooms of single, pompon and 

 anemone chrysanthemums, Mt. Green- 



wood Cemetery won first place, with a 

 large and excellent showing, while C. 

 H. Totty, of Madison, N. J., took sec- 

 ond with fifty-odd vases of various 

 varieties, all named. The only display 

 of seedling mums not disseminated was 

 made by Mt. Greenwood Cemetery, and 

 first prize was given this vase, named 

 Mt. Greenwood, a pink, incurved va- 

 riety. Poehlmann Bros. Co. made such 

 a strong showing in the class for a 

 vase, basket or other arrangement of 

 cut blooms of large-flowering mums, 

 with the usual accessories, that its 

 vase of Yellow Chadvvick was given 

 first prize and one of White Eaton sec- 

 ond. A. Lange's vase of Wm. Turner 

 was also given a second prize. A. 

 Lange 's arrangement in the class for a 

 vase, basket or other arrangement of 

 pompons, singles or anemones, with 

 usual accessories, took first place, and 

 one of Poehlmann Bros. Co. took sec- 

 ond. A striking basket, of large di- 

 mensions, containing both the large- 

 flowering and pompon types, arranged 

 by the Bohannon Floral Co., was dis- 

 barred. 



Non-Competitive Exiiibits. 



One of the leading non-competitive 

 exhibits was the large plant of Wm. 

 Turner shown by Robert Blackwood, 

 which was seven feet across and had 

 in the neighborhood of 700 blooms; this 

 received a silver medal. 



On the second day the E. G. Hill 

 Co., Richmond, Ind., showed a fine vase 

 of Hoosier Beauty, the new Dorner 

 crimson rose, and one of the unnamed 



yellow seedling designated as No. 1000, 

 which took every grower's eye. It 

 will be sure of a large sale when it 

 is offered to the trade. 



A new white anemone, Chas. L. 

 Hutchison, was shown by Mr. Hutchi- 

 son's gardener at Lake Geneva, Wm. 

 P. Longland, and was given a bronze 

 medal. 



The new pompon, Queen Marie, 

 shown at Indianapolis by Herman 

 Bros. Co., of Council Bluffs, la., was 

 exhibited and received honorable men- 

 tion. 



The Chicago Carnation Co. showed 

 Peerless Pink and the new scarlet car- 

 nation Aviator, which made an excel- 

 lent appearance and was awarded a 

 certificate of merit. 



The J. D. Thompson Carnation Co. 

 showed a first-class vase of each of the 

 three new carnations. Vera, Superb and 

 Hero, each of which received a cer- 

 tificate of merit. 



Wm. Tricker, of Arlington, N. J., 

 had a nice display of Nymphjca Mrs. 

 Woodrow Wilson, his new lavender 

 water lily, which received a certificate 

 of merit. 



One of the most interesting exhibits 

 was that of W. A. Manda, of South 

 Orange, N. J., comprising a number of 

 foliage plant novelties. The new dahlia, 

 Albert Manda, also attracted notice. 

 Polypodium Mandaianum, Anthericum 

 Mandaianum, Manda's Golden privet, 

 Adiantum O'Brieni, Cyperus alter- 

 nifolius laxus variegatus, Asplenium 

 elegans. Begonia Christmas Red, and a 

 number of other novelties were exhib- 



