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NOVRMBKR 10, 1904. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



J 247 



THE PHILADELPHIA SHOW. 



The fall exhibition of the Pennsyl- 

 vania Horticultural Society opened on 

 Tuesday evening, November 8, and was 

 as large and handsome as any display 

 ever held in that city. The general 

 feeling was that the cut blooms of 

 chrysanthemums were finer than those 

 shown in previous years, while tlie plants 

 were, as a rule, remarkably well grown. 

 The quantity of cut flowers of chrysan- 

 themums was so great that besides dec- 

 orating the stairway with the usual free- 

 dom, a large overflow was staged in the 

 lower hall, driving the vegetables, of 

 which there were, luckily, not very many, 

 almost to the rear entrance. 



The main stairway was bordered its 

 entire length by vases of handsome speci- 

 men blooms, divided in the center, at the 

 first landing, by a group of well grown 

 geraniums. The center of the main hall 

 was devoted to a Japanese garden en- 

 closed by a rustic fence, the posts sur- 

 mounted by bark baskets filled with 

 pompons, contrasting prettily with the 

 larger flowers with which the garden was 

 filled. Colored -Japanese lanterns over- 

 head lit up the scene beautifully. This 

 bit of decorative work was in Wm. Gra- 

 ham 's best style. 



The chrysanthemum plants, which filled 

 most of the hall, were well arranged 

 and of excellent quality, the very few 

 poor ones serving to bring out the good 

 points of the others. The specimens in 

 14-inch pots and the 6-inch grown to 

 one flower were especially fine. Gordon 

 Smirl, gardener to J. F. Sinnot, Rose- 

 mont, showed a great number of blue 

 ribbon winners. 



The stage was devoted to an interest- 

 ing collection of rare foliage plants 

 shown by Henry A. Dreer, Riverton. 

 Against the walls were groups of foliage 

 plants containing many fine specimens, 

 some much too crowded for best effect. 

 A group of ten crotons in ten varieties 

 were well grown and superbly colored. 



Julius Roehrs, Rutherford, N. J., was 

 first with a handsome collection of com- 

 mercial orchids in bloom. Lager & Hur- 

 rell, Summit, N. J., were second. Mr. 

 Roehrs also showed a grand specimen 

 Cattleya labiata with twenty-nine blooms. 



The cut chrysanthemums were wonders. 

 The twelve blooms in twelve varieties 

 with which F. Ibbotaon won the blue rib- 

 bon, were warmly praised as being the 

 finest ever seen here. His varieties were 

 Merza, white ; Queen Alexandria, bronze ; 

 J. Falconer, yellow; T. Carrington, red; 

 F, A. Cobbold, pink; Nellie Pockett, 

 white; Leila Filkins, pink; F. S. Vallis, 

 yellow; W. R. Church, red and gold; 

 M. Inglis, yellow; W. Duckham, pink; 

 Ben Wells, white. There were many 

 other exhibits of ehoice blooms. 



The foyer was filled with a well- 

 grown lot of foliage plants and some 

 specimen dracscnas in variety were espe- 

 cially noteworthy. Down stairs a table or 

 more of pompons were effectively ar- 

 ranged. A half-dozen full-grown pots of 

 tiny blooms surmounted by an immense 

 cut bloom of the modem Japanese type 

 marked the evolution. Henry F. Michell 

 Co. had a clever device showing mush- 

 rooms growing in a bed for which their 

 spawn had been used. The evergreens 

 and autumn leaves decorated the lobby. 



Phil. 



Clarksviu-e, Tenn. — James Morton 

 and the ladies of the Episcopal church 

 are holding a very successful flower show 

 this week. 



William Duckham. 



(President-elect, Chrysanthemum Society of America.) 



RED BANK, N. J. 



The seventh annual exhibition of the 

 Monmouth County Horticultural Society 

 was held in the Town Hall at Red Bank, 

 N. J., November 1 and 2. It was, artis- 

 tically and financially, the greatest suc- 

 cess this society ever had. The blooms 

 were at their best and of immense size. 

 The judges remarked that they were the 

 best blooms they ever judged and as gooa 

 as they think will be staged this year. 

 A feature of this show is to have the 

 high school scholars admitted free, accom- 

 panied by their teachers, and we thin» 

 this is about the best advertisement an 

 exhibition can have. The large hall was 

 not sufficient to hold all the exhibits, bo 

 the audience room down stairs was like- 

 wise filled. On the second day we had 

 some celebrated visitors, including Statt 

 Senator Francis, U. S. Senator Keane and 

 the Republican candidate for Governor, 

 who was presented with a bouquet. 



In groups of chrysanthemums H. Mc- 

 Carron, gardener for W. F. Havemeyer, 

 received first prize, H. A. Williams, gar- 

 dener for Selmar Hess, and N. Butter- 

 bach, gardener for C. N. Bliss, equal sec- 

 ond prizes. For best three specimen bush 

 "slants, H. A. Williams was first, and H. 

 A. Kettel, gardener for James Loeb. sec- 

 ond. For one specimen bush plant H. A. 

 Xettel was first and H. A. Williams sec- 

 ond. For six specimen bush plants anem- 

 "»ne varieties, H. A. Kettel was first and 

 ^T. H. Hale, gardener for E. D. 

 Adams, second. For group of or- 

 namental foliage plants arranged 



for effect Mr. Butterbach was 

 first and H. A. Kettel second. For speci- 

 men palm Mr. Kettel was first, Mr. But- 

 terbach second. For specimen foliage 

 plant not palm Mr. Hale was first and 

 Mr. Butterbach second. For six single 

 sj^>ecimen plants suitable for dinner table 

 decoration Mr. Hale first and Mr. Kettle 

 second. For six specimen ferns Mr. Wil- 

 liams was first and Mr. Butterbach sec- 

 ond, the awards for specimen fern being 

 in the same order. 



On cut blooms Wm. Turner, gardenei 

 for M. C. D. Borden was first for thirty- 

 six blooms in six varieties, for twenty- 

 five blooms in distinct varieties, for 

 white, yellow, pink, crimson and "any 

 other color ' ' in the classes for six 

 blooms. G. H. Hale was first for twenty- 

 five blooms arranged for effect, for six 

 Carnot, for six bronze, and second on 

 several others. N. Butterbach was first 

 for twelve blooms in twelve varieties. 



Mr, Hale was first on tweleve Beau- 

 ties, Mr. Butterbach second; on twelve 

 Brides Mr. Butterbach was first, Mr. 

 Kettle second. On Maids Mr. Tierney 

 was first, Mr. Butterbach second. On 

 "any other" Mr. Hale was first, Mr. 

 Butterbach second. 



On vases of twelve carnations Wm. Tur- 

 ner was first on white, pink, red and 

 crimson. On "any other," Mr. Logan 

 was first. 



On violets Geo. Suhn was first for 

 both single and double, "Wm. Dowlen 

 being second for the former and Oliver 

 Mcintosh for the latter. 



