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November IC, 1005. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



1485 



Table of Baskets Exhibited at the St. Louis Show, November 8 to IX* 



best chrysanthemum plant in the exhibi- 

 tion. 



Certificate for superior culture awarded 

 to Edgar T. Scott, Arthur Mallon, Jr., 

 gardener, for heliotrope. 



Special mention to Julius Roehrs Co., 

 Rutherford, N. J., for collection of or- 

 chids. 



Special mention to Edgar T. Scott for 

 two window boxes filled with chrysan- 

 themums. 



Special mention to Lager & Hurrell, 

 Summit, N. J., for orchids. 



Silver medal to Henry A. Dreer for 

 a collection of rare plants. 



Special mention to F. R. Pierson Co., 

 Tarrytown, N. Y., for Nephrolepis 

 elegantissima. 



SpeciAl prize to Wm. Graham for floral 

 decoration. 



Certificate of merit to W. Wells, Mers- 

 tham, Surrey, England, for a collection 

 of cut blooms of chrysanthemums, this 

 collection being composed of novelties 

 and oddly formed flowers, the original 

 stock of plants being from the Imperial 

 Gardens, Tokio, Japan. 



Certificate of merit to Charles H. Tot- 

 ty, Madison, N. J., for new varieties of 

 chrysanthemums. 



Certificate of merit to Geo. F. Baer, 

 Ferdinand Heck, gardener, for two vases 

 of new chrysanthemums. 



Certificate of merit to F. R. Pierson 

 Co., for new bronze chrysanthemum, 

 Glenview. 



Special mention to Geo. Field, Wash- 

 ington, D. C, for collection of orchids 

 and vase of roa«a, Utoil* de France. 



Special prize to Joseph S. Clark, Edw. 

 W. Cox, gardener, for column of fruit 

 and vegetables. 



The Philadelphia exhibition, from the 

 standpoint of number of exhibits, was 

 a great success, some classes, aotably 

 the Wells gold medal competition, bring- 



ing out ten or more competitors. The 

 show managers could have filled an addi- 

 tional hall with cut flowers had such 

 been available, so closely did the cut 

 flowers have to be packed to get them 

 all in. The quality was the best that 

 Philadelphia has ever shown. This was 

 generally conceded. 



R. Vince, gardener to R. D. Foote, 

 Morristown, N. J., was the chief exhib- 

 itor and took first in every class he en- 

 tered. He won the Wells gold medal, 

 the Pierson cup, the Totty prize, the 

 May prize and several others in the 

 regular schedule. It is a tribute to the 

 varieties of recent introduction to say 

 that with the exception of Appleton all 

 the flowers shown by him were varieties 

 introduced the past two years. A. Her- 

 rington won the C. S. A. silver cup with 

 W. Duckham, which makes his third 

 time of winning this coveted trophy. 

 Thomas W. Head won the Buckbee cup 

 with Mrs. W. Duckham, was second in 

 the gold medal competition and for the 

 Totty prize. 



A very interesting exhibit was the 

 Wells exhibit, which came over from 

 England and consisted of some twenty- 

 four varieties, the most prominent of 

 which were E. J. Brooks, Merstham 

 Oimson, Mrs. G. Heaume and others of 

 the season's novelties that have been 

 spoken of in these columns. The flow- 

 ers were fresh and good, Merstham 

 Crimson particularly so, showing splen- 

 did color. E. J. Brooks was a monster 

 flower, also Beatrice May. Mr. Wells 

 desexyes »very erttdit for his eHierpris» 

 in going to the expense and trouble of 

 sending an exhibit over every year to 

 help along the national society. 



C. H. Totty had some thirty-four nov- 

 elties on exhibition, most of which were 

 duplicates of the varieties sent over by 

 W. Wells, Mrs. John E. Dunne, Mrs. H. 

 Partridge, Mrs. F. F. Thompson and 



Mary Ann Pockett being especially com- 

 mented on. 



F. R. Pierson Co. had on exhibition 

 Glenview, an immense variety certifi- 

 cated last year, and several other seed- 

 lings. They would have competed had 

 not several boxes of flowers been 

 smashed by the express company. 



E. G. Hill Co. was ably represented 

 by Mr. Lemon, who won the class for 

 twelve varieties, flve of each, and scored 

 well in other classes. It is a tribute to 

 western enterprise and packing that his 

 flowers traveled perfectly. 



Elmer D. Smith was on hand, good 

 natured and genial as ever, but unfor- 

 tunately for him most of his flowers 

 had been ruined by being left in a 

 warm room all night when they would 

 have been better oflE in the boxes. He 

 won the Pennsylvania silver medal for 

 the best seedling in the show and also 

 his own prize for best American seed- 

 ling. 



The meeting was slimly attended on 

 the second day, but some good work 

 was done, and the future is bright. Mr. 

 Duckham, in his unavoidable absence, 

 was re-elected president. His address 

 contained several valuable suggestions, 

 not the least important of which was 

 as to ways and means of increasing the 

 membership and usefulness of the so- 

 ciety. Wm. Kleinheinz was elected vice- 

 president and is the right man in the 

 right place, for he is an enthusiast on 

 mums and an excellent cultivator gen- 

 erally, as any one knows who ever saw 

 hi» splendid w«rk at Ogontz, in grow- 

 ing gardenias, roses and carnations. Mr. 

 David Fraser, of Pittsburg, was elected 

 secretary and that he will make a good 

 one goes without saying. 



It would be highly discourteous to 

 close without paying a tribute to the 

 genial and wholesouled hospitality 

 shown at all times by the members of 



