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June 22, 1005. 



Mine. Calot are also good pinks and 

 Modeste Guerin is another, but several 

 shades deeper in color. Among their 

 reds were Purpurea superba, Felix 

 Crousse and Souv. de Bordeaux. These 

 showed no stamens. They also had a 

 fine lot of Japanese varieties and reds 

 showing yellow stamens. 



The G)ttage Gardens' Showing. 



C. W. Ward, of Cottage Gardens, 

 Queens, N. Y., said that he was by no 

 means pleased with the showing he was 

 able to make, but it was remarkable, 

 nevertheless. Wihen a man travels more 

 than 1,000 miles in the heat of an ex- 

 ceptionally hot week in June and stages 

 more varieties of peonies than any other 

 exhibitor he is accomplishing a consider- 

 able task. Mr. Ward has a collection 

 said to be the largest in America and 

 he cut some blooms of most of them and 

 shipped them to Chicago. They came by 

 express in the hot weather ten days be- 

 fore the show and were put into cold 

 storage. Naturally the petals were fall- 

 ing from many sorts when they were un- 

 packed. Could they have been shipped 

 in a refrigerator car they would no 

 doubt have come out much better. Under 

 the circumstances it may be said that 

 they were in excellent shape. However, 

 Mr. Wlard found himseli confronted with 

 no small task when it came to picking 

 out the good blooms and staging them. 

 By actual count he bad 180 varieties and 

 2,096 blooms to pick over, and they had 

 been cut, tagged and shipped by twos 

 and threes in all stages of development. 



His variety M. Jules Elie was one of 

 the finest pinks in the hall and the fiow- 

 ers were in remarkable shape considering 

 what they had undergone. The same 

 might be said of his white, Mont Blanc. 

 In some catalogues this is Alba sul- 

 phurea. It is a flower of lemon yellow 

 center with large white guard petals and 

 his vase for exhibition only was in ex- 

 ceptionally good shape. Another of his 

 vases for exhibition contained fifty 

 blooms of Festiva maxima, which went a 

 long way to refute the opinion which 

 some hold that this variety is not a good 

 keeper. Due de Wellington attracted at- 

 tention. Mr. Ward says it does not show 

 the yellow center petals when the plants 

 are well established. 



There were a number of very excellent 

 light pinks in the Cottage Gardens collec- 

 tion. One of the best of these is Tri- 

 umphe de Exposition de Lille. Another 

 is Mme. Ducel, which in many respects 

 resembles M. Jules Elie. Another sort 

 of this form in lilac pink is Mons. Bou- 

 charlat aine. Octavie Demay is another 

 good light pink. Rosea magna is a fine 

 white tinged with pink. Mme. Forel, 

 glossy pink, was a good one. Carnea ele- 

 gans and Mme. Calot are well known va- 

 rieties in the pink class and Sulphurea, 

 white, is m many collections. In reds 

 the collection is strong. One of the best 

 is Admiral Craighton. Dr. Cailott, Vic- 

 tor Hugo, Meissoniere, Pierre Dessert 

 were also good, and included in the list 

 are flowers of every desireu form. 



Reeves* Red. 



The one exhibit which likely attracted 

 more attention than any other was that 

 of E. A. Reeves, of Cleveland, Ohio. He 

 had but two entries, each in the class 

 for best 100 red. The notable exhibit 

 was Grandiflora rubra. He used three 

 pots to contain the 100 blooms and they 

 were a sight. The blooms were riot less 

 than six to eight inches in diameter and 

 the stems three to four feet long. The 

 color is not quite as bright a crimson 

 as Richardson's Rubra superba, which 

 constituted his other exhibit. The Grand- 

 iflora rubra was not the same as shown 

 under that name by some of the other 

 exhibitors. This variety originated with 

 a Mr. Lee, of Madison, Ohio, who re- 

 tired from business some years since be- 

 cause of advancing age. Hei sold his 

 peony collection to Mr. Reeves^ and this 

 variety was in the lot. It is a splendid 

 thing and nothing else was considered 

 for first premium. They were like a lot 

 of big chiysanthemums and set Elmer 

 Smith wishing he could get the same col- 

 or in that flower. 



Vaughan's Table. 



Vaughan 's Greenhouses, Western 

 Springs, 111., had a table of fresh cut 

 blooms conspicuous in the center of 

 which was the big first premiupi vase of 

 100 Festiva maxima. But what was clos- 

 er scanned was a vase of a half dozen 

 blooms labeled Mme. Bollet but which 

 did not correspond to that Tariety in 



other collections. Mr. Wilson said that 

 in his field notes he put an interrogation 

 point after the name and described it as 

 the pink Festiva maxima. It correspond- 

 ed to Louise de Estrees in Mr. Ward's 

 exhibit except that it was much larger. 

 It is an odd light shade between pink 

 and lilac, not far from the color of an 

 excellent neighboring bloom of Souv. de 

 Exposition de Lille. Marie Lemoine and 

 Golden Harvest were other especially 

 good flowers shown. Vaughan also had 

 a table of Baby Rambler rose and an- 

 other of cut flowers of perennials, includ- 

 ing blooms of some of the newer sweet 

 peas. 



Rosenfield's Seedlings. 



J. F. Rosenfield, Westpoint, Neb., was 

 not present but sent a whole table of fine 

 flowers, including an entry of 100 pink, 

 Floral Treasure, which took second 

 premium, and 100 red. No. 206, which 

 was second in its class. Mr. Rosenfield 

 has raised many seedlings and many 

 good ones. There were practically noth- 

 ing but his own varieties in his ex- 

 hibit. His Floral Treasure is very like 

 i^elicatissima and the old L L L Pink of 

 the Chicago market. In the view of 

 some these three would need to be grown 

 under the same conditions for more than 

 one season to determine their differences. 

 There was another fine light pink in the 

 lot, a large flower with lighter edge on 

 the petals, which had no label. Mr. 

 Rosenfield is especially strong on red 

 seedlings. No. 206 is fine and there were 

 several others under number. His Grand- 

 iflora rubra was not the same as Reeves' 

 or Ward's. 



Klehm's Nursery, Arlington Heights, 

 111., decorated the big iron fountain jn 

 the center of the hall, filling it with 

 peonies ajid adding much to the excel- 

 lence of the general view. 



The Jewell Nursery, Lake City, Minn., 

 sent a table of blooms but they arrived 

 in poor shape. Delicatissima kept best 

 of all. A good one was No. 12, dark 

 red, showing stamens. 



The Ionia Pottery Co., Ionia, Mich., 

 made a display of pots. 



Business Session. 



The business meeting of the American 

 Peony Society was held at the Audi- 



Peony Couronne dOr. Peony Marie Lemoine. 



Two of the Best White Peonies Shown, Photographed in the Peterson Exhibit. 



