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The Weekly Florists' Review 



OCTOBBR 27, 11)04. 



Beat Tase, fifty blooms, fifty Tarleties, gets 

 |10 and $5. 



On the fourth day seedlings are to be shown. 

 The best twenty blooms of a rose not In com- 

 merce gets a silver cup. Fifteen blooms of 

 roses must be shown for certificates, which are 

 In addition to exposition awards. 



The best seedling mum, ten blooms, gets a 

 cup. Other seedlings get C. S. A. certificates 

 of merit in addition to exposition awards. 



The best seedling carnation, fifty blooms, gets 

 a silver cup. Other seedlings, twenty five 

 blooms, get certificates of merit In addition to 

 exposition awards. 



Vases of 100 Beauties arranged for etTect get 

 flOO, 175, $50 and t25. There are the same 

 premiums for vases of lOO mums arranged for 

 effect. 



^.l^^E^ ^^^ "'^'^ ^^^ following premiums on the 



nrth day for floral arrangements: 



„ , ^ I 1st 2d 3d 



Basket of roses $35 |25 $15 



Basket of carnations 25 15 10 



Brides' lH>uquet 25 15 10 



Display of valley 25 15 10 



Display of violets 25 15 10 



Vase of Easter lilies jl5 10 5 



Vase of any other lilies 10 5 



Display of Shasta daisies 10 5 '.'. 



The above rules and preliminary pre- 

 mium list was submitted to F. W. Tay- 

 lor, Chief of Horticulture at the Fair 

 and he advised the executive committee 

 as follows in writing: 



— '.,*"^?uP'*'"^"''*' *" advising yon that I have 

 read with care the premium list which vou offer 

 and the rules and regulations regarding the 

 flower show to be held on November 7 to 12 In- 

 clusive, and I find that all these are In accord- 

 ance with the rules of the exposition and the 

 various conferencrs which have been held be- 

 tween representatives of your organization and 

 this department. I am glad, therefore, to ad- 

 vise you that the arrangement which vou have 

 worked out meets with the entire approval of 

 this department. 



THE SHAW PREMIUMS. 



The founder of the Missouri Botanical 

 Garden, Henry Shaw, made provision 

 m his will for "$500 annually for pre- 

 miums or prizes to a flower show or ex- 

 hibition, when such flower show may be 

 established by amateurs and horticultur- 

 ists of St. Louis, to be paid each year 

 out of the funds of the garden," In 

 1893, by action of the trustees of the 

 garden, there was founded, as part of 

 these premiums or prizes, a gold medal 

 of the value of $25 to be known as the 

 Henry Shaw medal for the introduction 

 of a valuable plant, to be awarded each 

 year, when practicable, for a new plant 

 of value for cultivation, exhibited in St. 

 Louis, provided that the judges making 

 awards at such exhibition shall certify 

 that said medal is awarded for a plant 

 of decided merit for cultivation, not 

 previously an article of North American 

 commerce, and introduced to such com- 

 merce by the exhibitor during the year 

 in which said award is made. 



With the sanction of the president of 

 the board of trustees the director of the 

 Garden has authorized the managers of 

 the World's Fair Flower Show to offer 

 the amount of $500, for the present year, 

 in the form of twelve Shaw medals, un- 

 der the conditions stated above, and $200 

 in cash prizes. It will be seen that the 

 opportunity is an unusual one for those 

 who have this year made notable addi- 

 tions to American horticulture to exhibit 

 their plants in St. Louis and win this 

 exclusive recognition of their enterprise, 

 in addition to any of the World's Fair 

 or other premiums that they may com- 

 pete for. There is nothing in the lan- 

 guage governing the founding of the 

 Shaw medal to prevent its award for 

 fruits, vegetables or decorative plants 

 other than flowers, complying with the 

 requiremnets as to novelty and distinct 

 value for cultivation, the only restric- 

 tion being that the policy of the Gar- 

 den is to request judges to make awards 

 for plants promising to be of perma- 

 nent rather than merely transient value, 



and the manager of the Flower Show will 

 therefore receive entries for this medal 

 in any branch of horticulture. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market 



Chrysanthemums rule the market. The 

 early sorts have given place to the mid- 

 season varieties now in their glory. 

 There is a fair amount of business, quite 

 as much as can be expected at the end 

 of October, but it must be frankly ad- 

 mitted that it would take a Christmas 

 or an Easter to sell the stock of flowers 

 at fair prices. 



Each good variety of chrysanthemum, 

 as it appears, sells well at good prices, 

 but the poorer flowers of the varieties 

 displaced often spoil or are sold at any 

 price. There are many fine sorts in. 

 The Leo Niessen Co. has Col. Appleton, 

 Mrs. Henry Eobinson, H. Balsley, Major 

 Bonnaffon and Ivory. The Flower Mar- 

 ket has Miss Florence Harris, a fine yel- 

 low; Mrs. Robinson, Col. Appleton and 

 Ivory. Samuel S. Pennock has William 

 Duckham, a superb lavender, an unusual 

 shade; Col. Appleton in exhibition form, 

 Mrs. Coombes, Marie Liger, pink, not 

 yellow as erroneously stated, and Mrs. 

 Eobinson. These are simply quoted as 

 examples. All the centers of trade hav6 

 fine varieties of merit and in quantity. 



Violets are selling fairly well, in rec- 

 ognition of their improved quality. S. 

 S. Pennock has white violets. They are 

 much sought for weddings. Eoses and 

 carnations feel the over-production most. 

 A great many are sold at fair prices, but 

 there are too many of «'hem, making the 

 average price low. The Leo Niessen 

 Co. has added bouvardia and pansies to 

 the list. Eugene Bemheimer has added 

 mignonette and the Flowei Market has 

 added calla lilies. 



A B. and M. Grower. 



Nearly all the principal B. and M. 

 growers whose products figure in the 

 Philadelphia market are located on one 

 or the other of the roads that stretch 

 out from the Eeading Terminal^ like 

 fingers from the palm of the hand. It 

 was on one of these roads that Eugt-ne 

 Weiss, the well known retailer and 

 grower, conducted Phil to his place at 

 Hatboro recently. Mr. Weiss' place is 

 beautifully situated on high ground about 

 two city blocks from the station. A 

 conveniently arranged building serves as 

 oflBce and workshop. Underneath are 

 two large return tubulai boUers, a good 

 sized cooling room and below all a fine 

 well from which the water is pumped 

 through the pipes to all the greenhouses 

 b" means of a Worthington force pump. 

 There is also a tank for liquid manure 

 operated by this pump which stands in 

 the workshop, the well water being shut 

 off and the manure water being admitted 

 into the pipes by means of valves. There 

 are ten greenhouses; a range of six 

 houses even-span, open between, each 

 about 10x175 feet, and four detached 

 houses, the same length as the range 

 but varying in width, one being about 

 twenty-five feet, two about twenty feet 

 each and one about fifteen feet. The 

 first eight houses are planted with 

 Brides and Maids, the narrower detached 

 house with carnations an I the last house 

 with Liberty. 



Th» front ana back houses in the range 

 are planted with Brides, the four center 

 houses with Maids, grafted stock, which, 



after bearing continuously for s year^ 

 were cut back iu September an' art now 

 breaking freely from the old canes. The 

 front house of Brides is like the four 

 Maid houses, but the back house of 

 Brides, the only one in benches, i» 

 planted with young stock. The two de- 

 tached tea rose houses, also ground beds^ 

 are further advanced. Own-root stock 

 prednnanates. 



Foreman Paul Bender — no, not th» 

 Athletic '8 pitcher — he spoke of shoots 

 but never of curves — favors the grafted 

 stock. A new house 12x70 feet is planned 

 for propagating and grafting. The car- 

 nation house was in excellent condition. 

 Joost, Enchantress, Queen Louise and 

 Mrs. Lawson all looked well. The whole 

 place was neatly stocked, with not a weed 

 visible. Outside double petunias and 

 peonies have been specialties in their 

 season. The cut of the place is shipped 

 by the night foreman on the early train. 

 The boxes are met by Samuel Zilley^ 

 who distributes the flowers among hi» 

 customers. 



His Losses. 



He was a cheerful looking man, Evi- 

 dently in the prime of life, a well-to-do 

 man, judging from appearances, who had 

 secured some measure of success as a 

 result of years of hard work. He wa» 

 telling two brother florists of his losses^ 

 ^n unusual theme, treated with perfect 

 good humor. "When I first came to thi» 

 country," he said, "I had $1,000. I 

 looked about for a good investment out- 

 side of my business, where this money 

 would grow and yield some revenue. I 

 put it into oil stock. I never got any- 

 thing from it and I never will. Later 

 on,'* he continued thoughtfully, "I 

 bought twenty acres of ground in the 

 south. I thought they would be valuable- 

 some day. They were dirt cheap. They 

 are even cheaper today. I have put it 

 in my will that I am to be buried there. 

 It isn 't every man who can be buried in 

 twenty acres of ground," he concluded 

 with a smile. 



Variotis Notes. 



The Stratford Flower Farm is using a 

 private mailing card, pea green in color. 



Miss Leedom, who sells for J. Henry 

 Bartram, of Lansdowne, has the distinc- 

 tion of being the only wholesale sales- 

 woman in the city. She carries roses in 

 a valise instead of the conventional tray 

 and has thoroughly mastered the art of 

 economizing space. 



William P. Craig had a large wedding 

 order at Chadd's Ford last Tuesday. 



The Greenmont Nursery, Charles A. 

 Cox, is putting in the Wren patent grate 

 bar, which provides for expansion and 

 contraction. 



Hitchings & Co. are just finishing the 

 glazing on a two-sectioned greenhouse at 

 Upsal, Germantown, for William Bayard. 



Hugh Graham has a fine new pink 

 chrysanthemum grown at his plant at 

 Logan. 



James M. Thoirs, of 542 Market street, 

 Camden, N. J., has put a handsome new 

 wagon on the street. He has been do- 

 ing an excellent business this fall and 

 is looking forward to a good season. Hi» 

 window was decorated with choice yel- 

 low chrysanthemums a few days ago. 



J. J. Habermehl's Sons decorated for 

 the Clover Club dinner at the Bellevue- 

 Stratford last week. Oak leaves, cosmo» 

 and Beauties were used. 



The Philadelphia Cut Flower Co. has 

 its new sign on the windows and plenty 



