JANUAHY 25, 1900. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



6J7 



THE BOSTON CONVENTION 



The American Carnation Society Holds its Fifteenth, and Most Suc- 

 cessful, Meeting and Exhibition. 



President, John H. Dunlop, Toronto, Ont. 



Vice-President, W. J. Palmer, Buffalo, N. Y. 



Secretary, Albert M. Herr, Lancaster, Pa. 



Treasurer, Fred Dorner, Jr., Lafayette, Ind. 



PLACE OF MEETING FOR I907. TORONTO, ONT. 



The fifteenth finnual exhibition of 

 the American Carnation Society is on 

 this week at Boston. As if it were the 

 exception which proves the rule, this 

 year the weather leaves nothing to be 

 desired; it is ideal. The show is the 

 most magnificent of the many splendid 

 exhibitions which the society has 

 staged. The main exhibition hall is 

 devoted to the cut flowers, which over- 

 flow into the small hall, where the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society 

 has a not large but very attractive 

 midwinter show, which adds materially 

 to the interest. 



The Carnation Society has never had 

 so good a place for its exhibition as is 

 afforded by the new building of the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 

 The lecture hall affords perfect accom- 

 modations for the business sessions, 

 while ample accommodations are pro- 

 vided for a considerable number of ex- 

 hibits from greenhouse builders, etc. 

 The red brick walls of the exhibition 

 halls are covered some ten feet high 

 with olive green paper. The tempera- 

 ture of the hall is excellently suited to 

 the purpose, keeping the flowers in the 

 best of shape. The facilities for un- 

 ])acking and staging exhibits were also 

 greatly appreciated. 



The rules required that the exhibi- 

 tion be complete at one o'clock on the 

 afternoon of Wednesday, January 24, 

 and in this instance there was no ex- 

 cuse for postponement because of snow- 

 bound trains carrying exhibits. The 

 number of blooms staged exceeds any- 

 thing in the history of the society and 

 the quality is superb, nearly all of the 

 exhibits having come from within a 

 narrow radius. The big western grow- 

 ers are not represented to any great ex- 

 tent, but the principal eastern carna- 

 tion establishments are in evidence 

 more largely than ever before and in 

 every instance show splendid stock. 

 Everyone admits that it is the best 

 show ever held. The Class A exhibits 

 include seventy vases of 100 blooms 

 each. There were eight entries for the 

 Lawson medals. As usual, some exhib- 

 itors suffered misfortune in the matter 

 of stock traveling poorly. The exhibits 

 of H. Weber & Sons Co. and John E. 

 Haines could not be staged, and Wit- 

 terstaetter's exhibit from Cincinnati 

 was not in shape to compete. 



A noteworthy feature is the way in 

 which the old standard varieties have 

 l»een completely ousted. The old fa- 

 vorites are conspicuous by their ab- 



sence. Lady Bountiful made almost 

 a clean sweep in the classes for white. 

 Enchantress was shown by more exhib- 

 itors than at any previous exhibition. 

 It is easily the leading variety of the 

 day. 



Tlio first business session was called 



[tress the city's desire to be hospitable. 

 Mayer E'tZ'/crald made a Avitty, felic- 

 itous and eloquent speecli. He spoke 

 of Boston's historical associations and 

 counseled all from beyond its border 

 to visit Fancuil Hall, the old South 

 Church, Washington chv. Concord, Lex- 

 ington, Bunker Hill and other points of 

 historic interest, from wliicli all visit- 

 ors go away better citizens. He spoke 

 of Boston's private estates, of tiio fact 

 that in the matter of well developed 

 private grounds eastern Massachusetts 

 leads the nation and that in commer- 

 cial floriculture she is in no second 

 place, especially considering the quality 

 of the product. He s])(>ke of the na- 

 ture study and gardening work being 

 done in the schools and asked that all 

 visitors so deport tiienisidves as to not 

 fall into the hands of the vigilant dis- 

 trict attorney. The Mayor was enthu- 

 siastically applanded. 



E. G. Hill made a very happy reply 

 lo the mayor's welcome and compared 

 liis Jubilee, Triumph and Armazindy 

 carnations, which were the leading va- 

 rieties at the last time the Carnation 

 Society met in Boston, with the mag- 

 nificent creations of today. 



Wm. P. Kich, secretary, tendered a 



John H. Dunlop. 



I l'resi<UMit-elect. Ameri<'an rarnatioii .Socit'tv. I 



to order at 8 p. m, Wednesday even- 

 ing, January 24. There were about 180 

 present. President James Wheeler, of 

 the Gardeners' and Florists' Club, of 

 Boston, welcomed the members of the 

 American Carnation Society and called 

 upon ^Mayor John F. Fitzgerald to cx- 



warm welcome on behalf of the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society. C. W. 

 Ward made suitable response, saying 

 that as Boston is sometimes said t(> l)e 

 exclusive and cold, so her warm wel- 

 come should be a matter of all the 

 greater pride to the society. He said 



