CARNATION SHOW fg 

 M CHARMS BUFFALO 



Twenty-fourth annual exhibition of the American Carnation Society 

 draws large trade attendance and wins favor of puMic, admitted on tickets 

 issued hy Buffalo florists. Display comprises newest and hest varieties, all 

 of high quality. Interest centers on new varieties, which make strong, 

 though not sensational, showing. 



OR the carnation specialists 

 the unusual conditions that 

 have prevailed so far this 

 season appear to have add- 

 ed to rather than detracted 

 from /the interest attach- 

 ing to the annual meeting 

 of the American Carnation Society, in 

 progress at Buffalo. 



The regulars have turned out almost 

 to a man, but the attendance of those 

 who are not first of all carnation men 

 was not, at the opening, so large as it 

 usually is. The exhibition, staged in 

 the parlors of the Iroquois hotel Jan- 

 uary 27, is nearly as large as last 

 year's show at Cleveland, in certain 

 classes much larger, the New England 

 representation being especially strong. 

 President Goddard 

 was accompanied by 

 a bodyguard of about 

 thirty from Boston 

 and vicinity. They 

 brought their flowers 

 with them in the 

 sleeper and had the 

 drawing room packed 

 full to the ceilidg. 

 A. A. Pembroke, of 

 Beverly, Mass., is 

 the largest exhibitor, 

 staging twenty-four 

 vases, but President 

 Goddard and other 

 New Englanders 



make large and ex- 

 cellent shows. 



The E. G. Hill Co., 

 Richmond, Ind., is the 

 largest western ex- 

 hibitor. It can 

 truthfully be said for 

 this exhibition that, 

 while it is not quite 

 so large as some of 

 its predecessors, the 

 quality of the flow- 

 ers sets a record. 



Quality High. 



The exhibitors 

 practically all are 

 carnation specialists, 

 and their flowers all 

 are of superlative 

 quality. Also the varieties are the 

 newest and best. Enchantress does not 

 predominate as it so often does where 

 the general growers supply the bulk 

 of entries. The quality of the stock 

 has captured the Buffalo public, ad- 

 mitted by ticket, and the rooms are 

 crowded during the open hours. It 

 was not possible to duplicate last year 's 



OFnCERS ELECTED. 



Prestdent, 

 Joceph H. Hill, Richmond, Ind. 



Vice-President, 

 J. F. Ammann, Edwardsville, 111. 



Secretary, 

 A. F. J. Baur, lodlanapcUs, Ind. 



Treasurer, 

 Fred E. Domer, La Fayette, Ind. 



showing of retailers' work, which was 

 the great feature of the exhibition at 

 Cleveland. 



Giroatioa Alice Coombs. 



(Albert Kopcr's variety which swept the decks at Buffalo. 



The predominant feature, perhaps, is 

 the strength of the flesh-pink and light- 

 pink classes. The raisers of novelties 

 seem to have been working with the 

 blood of Enchantress. 



The show has brought out nothing 

 sensationally new. The varieties now 

 grown in quantity by the specialists 

 are so good it is not an everyday mat- 



ter to bring out something better. 

 Probably the two varieties to attract 

 most attention are Alice, from Peter 

 Fisher, and Pink Sensation, from 

 Domer, both flesh-pinks and being dis- 

 seminated this year. Miss Alice 

 Coombs, from Albert Roper, in the same 

 class, shows up strong. Its dissemina- 

 tion has been postponed to next year. 

 Mrs. Akehurst repeats the promise it 

 gave last year at Cleveland of becom- 

 ing a factor in the markets. Good 

 Cheer, medium pink, from F. Dorner & 

 Sons Co., also looks like a good com- 

 mercial sort. Laura Weber, from 

 Charles Weber, was entered in several 

 classes and shows up even better than 

 it did at the society's show at Cleveland 

 a year ago. 



The Debutantes. 



Of the varieties 

 shown for the first 

 time, Cottage Maid, 

 from the Cottage Gar- 

 dens Co., a flesh-pink 

 sport of Mrs. Ward, 

 commands attention. 

 The same exhibitor 

 has several promis- 

 ing seedlings under 

 number. Albert 

 Roper shows Grace, 

 another flesh-pink of 

 flne promise, and sev- 

 eral seedlings under 

 number that will be 

 heard from in an- 

 other year or two. 

 W. J. Palmer staged 

 Sunbeam, flesh-pink, 

 which he is trying 

 for .1. Steidle, of 

 Olivette, Mo. Ed- 

 ward Winkler, of 

 Wakefield, Mass., 

 sent some fine flowers 

 of Morning Glow. 



Bassett & Wash- 

 burn, Chicago, show 

 Belle Washburn, red; 

 Helen Washburn, 

 pink, and a flesh- 

 pink seedling under 

 number. Littlefield 

 & Wyman, Abing- 

 ton, Mass., show Miss Theo and a 

 seedling under number. Others who 

 have promising new sorts not yet 

 named were F. Dorner & Sons Co., 

 Mt. Greenwood Cemetery, E. G. Hill 

 Co., and William A. Dawson, of Willi- 

 mantic. Conn. 



The roses, staged for exhibition only, 

 made a splendid showing. F. Dorner & 



