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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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NOVEMBBB 10, 1904. 



The two Scotts, bailing from Tarry- 

 town and Brooklyn, each reported fine 

 business for his fern. Each came in 

 for its measure of praise. 



William Duckham's blooms were re- 

 minders of the grand specimens Brydon, 

 Montgomery, McKay and others used to 

 stage. Let all young growers wake 

 up and recover their lost laurels. 



W. A. Bigg's blooms were the best 

 grown in this section and show what su- 

 perb flowers can be produced in boxes. 



A great many visitors admired the 

 pompons, singles and anemones much 

 more than the big blooms. On private 

 estates the tendency in Massachusetts is 

 toward medium flowers. The craze for 

 mammoth blooms is subsiding and this 

 must effect future shows to some ex- 

 tent. 



Visitors. 



Among the visitors to the chrysanthe- 

 mum show were E. Jenkins, Carlquist, 

 Hermans, A. J. lioveless, Bedstone and 

 Proctor, Lenox, Mass.; W. Duckham, A. 

 Herrington, C. H. Totty, Madison, N. J. ; 

 J. N. May, G. F. Struck, Summit, N. J. ; 

 Alfred Dimmock, St. Albans, England; 

 F. B. Pierson, J. T. Scott, Tarrytown, 

 N. Y.; F. H. Traendly, H. Dailledouze, 

 A. J. Guttman, Alex. Wallace, Patrick 

 O'Mara, Chas. Weathered, New York; 

 J. D. Thompson, Joliet, 111.; Bobert 

 Laurie, William Hollingsworth, Wm. Hill, 

 Farquhar Macrae, John Macrae, P. M. 

 Johnson, Wm. Miller, Providence, B. I.; 

 D. Shepherd, Alex. McLellan, B. An- 

 thony, E. J. Coghlan, James Boyd, A. Mc- 

 Williams, A. McLennan, James Bobert- 

 son, Odin Bobertson, D. Mcintosh and 

 John Anderson, Newport, B. I.; John 

 Scott, Brooklyn, N. Y.; T. Fieldhouse, 

 Frank Atkinson, Falmouth, Mass.; E. O. 

 Orpet, Joseph Clark, Wm. ^Ander8on, 

 South Lancaster, Mass.; John Ash, A. J. 

 Newell, Pomfret, Conn., and T. W. Head, 

 Groton, Conn. W. N. Cbaio. 



THE BOSTON EXHIBITION. 



Viewed as a picture, the Boston show 

 stays in my memory as a pleasant dream, 

 the main hall where the plants and groups 

 were staged being very attractive. While 

 the specimen plants were said to be 

 smaller than in some previous years, they 

 were perfectly finished and of a quality 

 that cannot be seen anywhere else in the 

 country. The brick walls of the building 

 were hidden by elaborate decorations of 

 greenery which improved its appearance 

 very much and contributed greatly to the 

 general effect. 



The chief interest for me centered in 



the chrysanthemum cut flower exhibits 

 and, though one might wish that the en- 

 tries in the special classes offered by the 

 C. S. A. had been more numerous, the 

 quality of the flowers set up in those 

 classes left nothing to be desired. W. 

 Duckham won almost everything in sight, 

 capturing the C. S. A. silver cup with 

 Mrs. W. Duckham, which is more fully 

 described elsewhere; the Totty prize for 

 twelve W. Duckhams; the E. G. Hill 

 prize for twenty- four flowers; the C. S. A. 

 prize for twenty-four flowers; the Wells 

 gold medal and the Herrington prize for 

 six flowers, any color, Thomas W. Head 

 running second in several classes. These 

 flowers were the largest in the exhibition 

 and were much admired. W. Wells sent 

 over from England some fifty flowers of 

 new varieties, Merstham Yellow, Mrs. W. 

 Duckham, J. H. Doyle, Mrs. A. J. Miller, 

 Merstham Crimson and others showing up 

 finely. These flowers were cut, most of 

 them, on October 17 and some had al- 

 ready formed part of a gold medal ex- 

 hibit in London before being packed up 

 and sent to this country. That the flow- 

 ers were still in better condition than 

 some flowers grown within twenty miles 

 of Boston was looked on as wonderful 

 and it is a tribute to the enterprise of 

 Mr. Wells and the excellence of present 

 day transpo'i-tation facilities. This ex- 

 hibit was deservedly awarded a gold 

 medal. 



The other cut flower classes were much 

 better filled by the local growers, the big 

 vase exhibits showing the highest quality. 

 The carnation classes were well filled 

 and the quality of the flowers wonderful 

 for so earty in the season. In the same 

 hall with the carnations was an orchid 

 exhibit from the Ames estate (W. N. 

 (iraig, gardener), that could hardly be 

 duplicated in the country. 



Special mention may be made of ex- 

 hibits of the Scottii fern, the new Pierson 

 fern and a vase of Nicotiana Sanderae 

 from Sander & Son, of St. Albans, Eng- 

 land. It was the first time the latter 

 novelty had been exhibited in this coun- 

 try, and it was awarded a silver medal. 



At the business meeting of the C. S. A. 

 there were about a hundred present, when 

 President Herrington called the meeting 

 to order. The principal new business was 

 the final adoption of the scale of points 

 for judging seedlings. The commercial 

 scjile was adopted as handed in by the 

 committee, but the exhibition scale was 

 revised somewhat. Some twenty-four new 

 members wrre accepted and I see no rea- 

 son why the C. S. A. should not move 

 onward and upward at a rapid rate. 



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The banquet given in honor of the C. 

 8. A.'s visit was one of the most enjoy- 

 able things I ever attended and too much 

 praise cannot be given to the committee 

 in charge of the affair. Judge Huitt as 

 toastmaster cannot be equalled and he 

 can bring down the house whenever he 

 wishes. The time passed all too quickly 

 and I wish to place myself on record as 

 publicly thanking the members of the 

 craft in Boston for their uniform kind- 

 ness and courtesy to the visiting delega- 

 tions. Charles H. Tottt. 



WM. DUCKHAM, 



When the king was la a devil of a fix, 



He was wont to send for a Devon, maw Sir. 



So run the words of an old English 

 song and while the C. S. A., is not iu any 

 kind of a fix, it has sent for a Devon- 

 shire man as its executive head for the 

 next year, Mr. Duckham hailing from that 

 smiling county of large cheeses and 

 clotted cream. 



It need not be inferred, however, that 

 because he was born in a pastoral com- 

 munity that the new president is any- 

 thing of a farmer. He has often proved 

 his ability to travel in any kind of com- 

 pany and when it comes to lifting prizes 

 in a mum competition, he is easily the 

 champion of the heavyweights. He could 

 easily afford to give Sir Thomas Lipton 

 half a dozen silver cups and have some 

 left to grace his sideboard as testimoni- 

 ai,^ to his cultural skill. 



It was a case of the office seeking the 

 man, for Mr. Duckham is not the kind 

 that goes looking for anything, modesty 

 being his chief characteristic, but that 

 hL- will fill the chair to the satisfaction 

 of everyone, no one who knows him can 

 for a moment doubt. 



Mr. Duckham is not only a chrysanthe- 

 mum expert but an all-round grower, 

 earnations, orchids, palms, stove plants 

 and in fact, almost everything he grows 

 siiowing the touch of the master hand. 

 The estate of D. Willis James, of Madi- 

 son, N. J., of which he is the superin- 

 tendent, is one of the best known places 

 ill the east, and it has grown into being 

 under his personal care and supervision. 

 He is of uncertain age, being not nearly 

 so old as he looks, his careworn expres- 

 sion (?) being due to hard study, try- 

 ing to beat his own record in growing 

 big mums every year. He is a good 

 shot, a first-class bowler and his popular- 

 ity in the community where he resides 

 was well expressed in a local newspaper 

 tht other day when it referred to him as 

 "our esteemed fellow townsman.'' 



Charles H. Tottt. 



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Cut Blooms at the Monmouth G)unty Society's Exhibition, Red Bank, N. J. 



