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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



November 17, 1904. 



and a fine collection of orchids. They 

 were awarded first prize for their dis- 

 play of plants and special mention for 

 some seedlings. 



Bad counting and a failure to label 

 some of the exhibits cost several exhib- 

 itors a chance at the big premiums. In 

 the class for 100 Beauties there were 

 seven entries but two were short count. 



Of the St. Louis boys Messrs. Koenig 

 and Meinhardt deserve special mention 

 for the way. they stuck by the job from 

 beginning to end. 



Nearly all the exhibits were sold to 

 St. Ijouis florists, Messrs. Weber and Os- 

 tertag being large purchasers of plants. 



THE PHILADELPHIA SHOW. 



The specimen chrysanthemum plants 

 and those in the larger-sized pots in- 

 cluded many old and some new varieties 

 of merit. Among the best were Meraa, 

 white, very fine; Wm. Duekham, laven- 

 der, which seems a good, all-around 

 sort, though a trifle soft for cut 

 flowers, and Major Bonnaffon, yellow, 

 a very fine specimen. In groups A. J. 

 Balfour was very well done. Mutual 

 Friend, white, Peter Kay, yellow, and 

 Geo. "W. Childs, red, are seemingly still 



blooms were Nellie Pockett, Bigelow, 

 L(Td Salisbury, Rustique, Mile. Liger, 

 Yellow Eaton, La Fusion, Mrs. E. 

 Thirkell, Lucy Evans, Queen Alexan- 

 dria, J. Falconer and M. Inglis. 



The geraniums considered worthy of 

 a plaoe at the head of the main stair- 

 way were Mary Beston, white; Andrew 

 Lang, red; Mrs. Chas. Nolan, salmon; 

 AlphoBse Ricard, red; Mark Twain, 

 Gertrude Pierson, pink; Marquis De 

 Castellane, salmon, and Cyclops, deep 

 color white eye. 



The decorative plants were a very im- 

 portant feature of the display. The 

 F. R. Pierson Co., Tarrytown, captured 

 the society's gold medal for their im- 

 proved Piersoni, a very fine thing. 

 Thos. Long maintained his reputation 

 as a skillful fern grower with many 

 fine specimens. John Thatcher showed 

 some splendid decorative plants, in- 

 cluding many rare specimens. The 

 .Henry A. Dreer group on the stage 

 also contained, besides well-grown com- 

 mercial plants, many novelties and 

 species not often seen outside the 

 largest private collections. To name 

 all these would be superfluous. The 

 specimen dracspnas were, however, 

 worthy of special note. 



Cattleya Labiata Shown at Philadelphia by Julius Roehrs. 



The Wm. Graham Co. exhibited a new 

 trailing chrysanthemum with yellow 

 flowers of pompon size, with good foli- 

 age, brought from their place at Olney, 

 quite a curiosity which may be very 

 useful in decorative work. Jno. N. 

 May, Thos. Meehan & Sons and^H. A. 

 Dreer showed good collections of pom- 

 pons. 



The rose exhibit brought out strong 

 competition in the Beauty class. Geo. 

 Burton was easily first with twenty- 

 five splendid blooms. Leo Niessen was 

 greatly pleased with this success. "I 

 think," he remarked to Phil, who stood 

 near at hand, "that will look very 

 well on the front page of the Review." 

 The Liberties from Edw. Towill were 

 excellent, while the Kaiserins from i^. 

 & H. Mergenthaler showed high cul- 

 ture, as did their Brides and Maids. 

 Two new claimants for popular favor 

 were Wellesley, a soft pink from the 

 Waban Conservatories, Natick, Mass., 

 and Thos. Field, a La France-like pink 

 from Geo. Field, of Washington, D. C. 

 A pretty plant of the new Baby Ram- 

 bler attracted much attention. 



The feature of the carnation display 

 was the new bright red seedling Robt. 

 Craig, from the Cottage Gardens Co., 

 Queens, N. Y., which captured the Craig 

 cup for the best variety not yet dis- 

 seminated. Fiancee, from the Chicago 

 Carnation Co., attracted favorable com- 

 ment. Cardinal, from the E. G. Hill 

 Co., Richmond, Ind., was too late to be 

 judged. It is a handsome flower, color 

 as implied by its name, an improved 

 Estelle. The carnation exhibit as a 

 whole was unusually fine for this sea- 

 son of the year, the quality of bloom 

 and length of stem nearly equaling the 

 February standard. 



The attendance was ex<;ellent through- 

 out, including many visitors from out 

 of town. The arrangements reflect 

 great credit on Mr. Rust and his as- 

 sistants. The judging was conscienti- 

 ously and carefully done. 



The Awards. 



The following were the awards on chrysan- 

 themum plants: 



J. F. SInnott, Gordon Smirl gardener, was 

 first on six plants In six varieties, on two 

 plants In two varieties, on specimen plant new 

 variety, on specimen plants white and yel- 

 low, on four plants Japanese. In four varieties, 

 on three plants, pink. In three varieties, on 

 plant of Mrs. F. Thomson, on plant of Miss 

 Anne Thomson, on four plants In four varie- 

 ties, on three plants In three new varieties, 

 on three plants, yellow. In three varieties; 



the best of their color, though 8. T. 

 Wright, red, reflexed orange, is a finer 

 flower and makes a very showy plant. 

 In the classes for plants in 6-inch pots 

 grown to single stems Merza, Nellie 

 Pockett and Neville showed great size 

 and substance. Minerva, Yellow Eaton, 

 Col. Appleton and Gold Mine w«>re also 

 good. John McCleary won first with 

 Cheltoni, lemon yellow; Dr. Engue- 

 hard, pink; S. T. Wright, classed as 

 red, and Wm. Duekham. Besides the 

 prize winning group of F. Ib))otson 

 mentioned last week, other noteworthy 

 cut blooms were Eatop, white and yel- 

 low, Col. Appleton, Viviand-Morel, an 

 old favorite, and Brutus, terra cotta, 

 a very large flower with splendid foli- 

 age. This variety was also very eflfec 

 tive grown to single stem. Bright- 

 hurst, a seedling of pleasing pink color, 

 was shown for the first time. There 

 were two plants of Marion Henderson, 

 one with eighty-six, the other with 

 eighty-nine blooms, trained to resemble 

 an oval plateau. Other well-grown cut 



John Hobson's Group of G-otons at Philadel{^ia. 



