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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



NOVEUBBB 9, 1005. 



with Fiancee, Eoosevelt and Enchantress, 

 beating Cottage Gardens, with'^"' — 



Craig, Alma Ward and Bnchantree^j" '' 



Violets were won by E. Vince in the > 

 singles and I. Seligman in the doubles. 



J. H. Troy was awarded sipecial prizes 

 for dracsenas, boxwood, palms and other 

 plants; John Lewis Childs, for palms, 

 crotons and other stove plants. 



The spineless cactus was on view, as 

 was also the seedless apple and several 

 other things with greater or le;BS claims 

 to abnormality. EUwanger & Barry, 

 Rochester, N. Y., showed hundreds, of 

 plates of apples and pears that were 

 very fine, and there were very large ex- 

 hibits of nuts, fruits, vegetables and 

 miscellaneous stuff that hardly come in 

 the range of floriculture, so I will not 

 go into detail. 



C. D. Sehaeffer, gardener for Bichard 

 Mortimer, Tuxedo, New York, was 

 awarded the Gardeners' Chroniqje silver 

 cup for the finest individual exhibit in 

 the show, his large exhibit of specimen 

 plants gaining him this honor. The ex- 

 hibits in every class were good and few 

 who have not seen it hav« any idea of 

 the size of the show as a whole. Dr. 

 Hexamer and his staff deserve every 

 credit foi" being able to gather such a 

 mass of material, and it is the sincere 

 wish, I am sure, of everyone to hope 

 they may long continue. 



Chakles H. Totty. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The fall exhibition of the Pennsylvania 

 Horticultural Society opened in Horti- 

 cultural Hall last Tuesday evening, a 

 peaceful scene of beauty in striking 

 contrast to the exciting election scenes 

 outside. The stairway was adorned by 

 specimen foliage plants of great size 



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id ^^nd cut chrysanthemum blooms, 



lUxWilliam Duckham, the new yelWwj 

 being near her William, which had the 

 t)lace of honor in the center. The chrys- 

 anthemum plants in the main hall were 

 uniformly gofld, presenting a fine ap- 

 pearance, with a group arranged with 

 Japanese and pompon flowers and foli- 

 age in the center. 



The cut blooms of chrysanthemums 

 were wonderful, an army of perfect 

 flowers in every shade, of color. These 

 overflowed the foyer into the main hall 

 and downstairs into the lower hall. An 

 •American seedling, a white somewhat re- 

 sembling Colonel Ap^etqn- in form, was 

 very fine. Another featjire was an ex- 

 hibit of twenty-five English varieties. 



Dracffina GodseflSaiia won the silver 

 medal for the best foliage pldnt in the 

 exhibition. Fious pandurata and Croton 

 Dayspring were of rare excellence. 



The new rose, Etoile de France, was 

 seen here for the first time, also a new 

 form of Cattleya labiata. Some speci- 

 men heliotropes grown on stems three 

 feet long were a novelty. 



The ferns upheld their reputation, the 

 Boston type and its descendants being 

 more than usually prominent. Phil. 



BAY SHORE, N.Y. 



The second annual exhibition of the 

 Bay Shore Hp/.ticultural Society was 

 held October Ifi't^ 26 in Carlton opera 

 house, which was' filled to itp capacity 

 with the exhibits, which wisre 'largely 

 from the private estates of the neigh- 

 borhood. So conspicuous was one name 

 on the list of premium winners that it 

 brought to mind a famous phrase and 

 it might easily have been said that 

 here was another case of "James H. 

 Hyde and associates." Following were 



the principal exhibitors and their gar- 

 deners: James H. Hyde, M. J. Connel- 

 lan; Benjamin Stephens, M. Mullen; 

 Aiiss C. S. Taylor, Thomas McKinley; 

 Edwin Hawley, <iohn Williams; Bichard 

 Hyde, Stephen Tott; W. L.. Andrews, A. 

 Bochen; Edwin Thorne, John Tobin; 

 Miss M. M. Bourne, Louis Kratz, Jr.; 

 Thomas Adams, B. Dietrich; Mrs. E. S. 

 Knapp, K. Paprocki. E. P. Strong, pres- 

 ident ojf the society, an amateur, beat 

 out the professionals in a number of 

 classes. Special mention should be 

 made of the collection of vegetables 

 staged by John Tobin; 310 varieties 

 were included. .„.^'t 



The F. E. Pierson .Cd;, Tarry- 

 town, sent a collection of fifty varieties 

 of dahlias. 



The judges on flowers and plants 

 were I. L. Powell and J. T. Scott, Tar- 

 rytown; on vegetables, Alfred AUum, 

 Hempstead, and William L. Campbell, 

 New York. . . 



TARRYTOWN.N.Y. 



The show at Tarrytown, November 1 

 to 3, was the seventh annual and was 

 quite up to the high standard of former 

 years. According to visitors from other 

 sections, it was easily the best show held 

 within a considerable distance of New 

 York, and for quality of blooms it was 

 claimed to be ahead of New York itself. 

 The principal winners in chrysanthemum 

 cut blooms were Girand Foster, Lenox, 

 Mass., Edwin Jenkins, gardener; Samuel 

 Untermyer, Yonkers, John Featherstone, 

 gardener; Wm. Bockefeller, Geo. Mid* 

 dleton, gardener; Joseph Eastman, Wm. 

 Scott, gardener; and Frederick Potter, 

 Ossining, Wm, G. Roberts, gardener. The 

 best blooms shown were Lady Hopetoun, 

 Wm. Duckham, Cheltoni, Emily Mileham, 



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View of the Exhibition at Bay Shore, N. Y., October 24. 



