JUNB 21, 1900. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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General View of the American Peony Society's Exhibition at Boston, June 15 and 16. 



novelties, was a center of attraction. 

 Mr. Shaylor has spent a lot of money 

 on peonies and has one of the finest 

 collections in the country, 



George Hollis put up a grand collec- 

 tion of seedlings, some of which are 

 destined to become popular commercial 

 sorts. His single Japanese sorts seemed 

 to be very popular with visitors. 



The show was a little early for many 

 of T. C. Thurlow's best sorts, Newbury- 

 port being about a week later than Bos- 

 ton. Many of his choicest varieties will 

 no doubt be seen at the rose show on 

 June 22 and 23. 



For a purely amateur exhibit James 

 McKissick. of West Newton, showed 

 splendidly, having the cream of the 

 English and French varieties. 



The big china vase class is one worth " 

 perpetuating. AVe think, however, a 

 vase filled with one shade of color much 

 preferable to mixed ones. 



Many wishes were expressed that the 

 Peony Society would soon elect to come 

 to Boston again. The flower it repre- 

 sents appeals to rich and poor alike, 

 for all can grow it, something which 

 cannot be said of roses, carnations and 

 chrysanthemums. W. N. Craig. 



Report of tlie Secretary. 



The present membership is thirty- 

 eight, not including two honorary mem- 

 bere. 



Since the last meeting I have had 

 some correspondence with Prof. Whelzel, 

 of Ithaca, in regard to the fungus which 

 attacks the peony stems and leaves, and 

 specimens were sent him last fall. He 

 Js making a study of this disease and 

 expects to publish a report in regard to 

 it. Any facts or observations in con- 

 nection with this fungus that may have 

 been observed by any members or others 



would be of value to him in this study 

 and would be appreciated by him. 



The exhibition in connection with the 

 meeting at Chicago was held in one of 

 the large banquet halls of the Auditor- 

 ium hotel and was a very successful one, 

 doing great credit to all concerned. The 

 hall Mas well filled with exhibits, en- 

 tirely of a commercial nature, although 

 amateur classes were offered in the 

 schedule. There were several displays 

 other than peonies, including herbaceous 

 plants and Baby Rambler roses from 

 Vaughan 's Seed Store and a display of 

 pottery from the Ionia Pottery Co. 



This show proved the practicability of 

 exhibiting flowers which have been 

 shipped from a distance and placed in 

 cold storage. While they are in no 

 way equal to freshly cut specimens, it 

 makes it possible to preserve early varie- 

 ties for late shows, thereby making the 

 exhibition more interesting. As nearly 

 every flower exhibited was named, it ! 

 made a very instructive exhibition for i 

 the identification of varieties and in 

 many cases illustrated the confusion 

 existing in the nomenclature of the < 

 flower. 



A feature which was entirely lacking 

 was the display of flowers grown es- 

 pecially for exhibition purposes. While ! 

 this is perhaps a matter which usually 

 concerns the amateur, it is one which 

 should receive the attention of the com- 

 mercial grower as well. He would find 

 himself amply repaid by making a 

 plantation of a few specimen plants of 

 each of his varieties, giving them extra 

 attention in the way of feeding, water 

 and staking. Many of the flowers in 

 the Peterson collection approached the 

 excellence of bloom which is to be ob- 

 tained only in the above way, as well as 

 several flowers in the Ward displays. 



The most remarkable single display 



was made by E. A. Reeves, of Cleve- 

 land, 0., who exhibited 100 blooms of 

 the so-called Lee's Grandiflora rubra. 

 Although there was a question as to the 

 identity of this variety, there was none 

 as to its quality. The flowers were well 

 developed specimens borne on stems 

 fully four feet in length, with mag- 

 nificent foliage and immense, full double 

 blooms of a deep, rich crimson color. 

 A. H. Fewkes, Sec'y. 



LADY ALEXANDRA DUFF. 



In the year 1901 I sent to Kelway & 

 Son for five plants. They flowered only 

 imperfectly the following year, but I 

 was afraid on account of these imper- 

 fect flowers that they were wrong. I 

 immediately wrote them to send me five 

 more plants in my shipment of that 

 year. The next year, when the first five 

 were two years old, they produced flowers 

 of Festiva maxima. The second lot flow- 

 ered well in 1904 and I showed them at 

 the exhibition of the Massachusetts Hor- 

 ticultural Society, in June, and they 

 awarded me a first-class certificate for 

 them. 



At the rose show of this same society 

 which followed the peony show in one 

 week, Messrs. T. C. Thurlow & Son 

 showed a peony under that name which 

 they had imported from Kelway & Son, 

 which I had on my grounds under two 

 names — one imported from Kelway & 

 Son in the year 1901 as Princess of 

 Wales, and another one as James Kel- 

 way, later. I also have had the same 

 peony from another grower in America 

 as the .Tames Kelway. At the last peony 

 show, William Whitman 's gardener, of 

 Brookline, Mass., showed a Duchesse de 

 Nemours (Calot) under the name of 

 Lady Alexandra Duff, imported direct 

 from Kelway & Son. 



