January 24, 1907. 



The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



697 



entries were splendid stock, but lacked in 

 stem. 



Crimson, Cottage Gardens Co., first on 

 Creole Beauty; Jas. D. Cockcroft, second 

 on Harvard. 



Any other color, John E. Haines, first 

 on Imperial; P. R. Pierson Co., second 

 on Helen M. Gould. 



The following were the awards in 

 Class B, each color calling for vases of 

 fifty blooms each: 



White, Chicago Carnation Co., first on 

 White Perfection. 



Enchantress shade of pink, Chicago 

 Carnation Co., first on Enchantress; H. 

 Dale Estate, Brampton, second, also on 

 Enchantress. P. E. Pierson Co. also 

 exhibited a fine vase. 



The only exhibit in the class for Law- 

 son shade of pink was not labeled. 



Scarlet, Guttman & Weber, first on 

 Victory; P. E. Pierson Co., second on 

 Eed Lawson. W. P'endley, of Brampton, 

 Ont., exhibited Plamingo. 



Crimson, Chicago Carnation Co., first 

 on Harlowarden. 



The following were the awards in 

 Class C, each color calling for vases of 

 twenty-five blooms each: 



White, Chicago Carnation Co., first on 

 White Perfection; Dale Estate, second 

 on White Lawson. W. Fendley exhibited 

 Lady Bountiful. Chas. S. Strout, Bidde- 

 ford, Me., sent a fine vase of Lady 

 Bountiful, but was too late for competi- 

 tion. 



Lawson shade of pink, Dale Estate, 

 first on Mrs. Lawson; W. J. Lawrence, 

 Eglinton, Ont., second on Mrs. Lawson. 

 W. Pendley exhibited Nelson Fisher. 



Crimson, E. Crowhurst, Humber Bay, 

 Ont., first on Harlowarden; Dale Estate, 

 second on Governor Eoosevelt. W. J. 

 Lawrence and W. Pendley also exhibited. 



Any other color. Dale Estate, first on 

 Nelson Fisher; Dale Estate, second on 

 Golden Beauty. 



The awards in Class D, calling for 100 

 blooms, any variety, any color, were as 

 follows: No gold medal was awarded as 

 stock did not score high enough; silver 

 medal to Cottage Gardens for Alma 

 Ward; bronze medal to Dailledouze 

 Bros., Flatbush, N. Y., on No. 348. 

 Other exhibitors were H. Weber & Sons 

 Co., of Oakland,* Md., with Toreador; a 

 good variegated; Cottage Gardens Co. 

 with Elsa Struss, good dark pink; Cot 

 tage Gardens Co., with Mrs. Ward; F 

 E. Pierson Co., with Winsor; Dale Es 

 tate, with Excelsior; Dailledouz* Bros, 

 with White Perfection; John E. Haines 

 with Eed Eiding Hood, Imperial and 

 Pink Imperial; Chicago Carnation Co., 

 with Aristocrat and Welcome. This Avas 

 the best competition in the show and 

 needed close judging for the silver medal. 

 Alma Ward was the most generally ad- 

 mired vase in the show. 



S. A. F. medals for vases of fifty 

 flowers, any American variety, not yet 

 disseminated, were awarded as follows: 

 Silver medal to Cottage Gardens Co., for 

 Alma Ward. Bronze medal to Bassett & 

 Washburn, for No. 20. There was splen- 

 did competition in this class, the follow- 

 ing varieties being staged in fine shape: 

 Mrs. Ward, by the Cottage Gardens ; The 

 Marchioness, by L. E. Marquisee, Syra- 

 cuse; Elsa Struss, by the Cottage Gar- 

 dens; No. 23, by Bassett & Washburn; 

 Chrystal, by the Wa-no-ka Greenhouses, 

 Barneveld, N. Y. ; Pink Imperial, by J. 

 E. Haines; No. 303, by Dailledouze Bros. 



The special prize for largest and best 

 display was won by F. E. Pierson Co., 



Thomas Manton. 



(Ex-president of the Canadian Horticultural Aesoclatlon iind Chairman of the Executive. 

 Committee of the Toronto Gardeners' and FlorlatH' Association.) 



who staged over 5,000 blooms. A spe- 

 cial display of Winsor was awarded a 

 certificate. 



The cup of the Canadian Horticul- 

 tural Association for six vases of fifty 

 blooms each was won by F. E. Pierson 

 Co. 



The Steele-Briggs cup for six vases of 

 twenty-five was won by W. J. Lawrence. 



The King Construction Co. cup for 

 growers using King greenhouses was won 

 by W. J. Lawrence on Lawson. 



The Dale Estate cup for 100 blooms 

 any variety to be disseminated in 1907 

 was won by the Cottage Gardens Co., on 

 Beacon. 



The John H. Dunlop special for fifty 

 blooms white was won by • the Cottage 

 Gardens Co. on No. 2653. 



The Wm. Gammage special for a pink 

 never before exhibited, lighter than Law- 

 son but darker than Enchantress, was won 

 by Dailledouze Bros, on No. 348. 



The W. J. Lawrence prize for fifty 

 blooms, open only to growers with less 

 than 20,000 feet of glass, was won by E. 

 Crowhurst, on Enchantress. 



The John H. Dunlop prize for private 

 gardeners was won by Malachi Tierney, 

 on Enchantress. 



The George Vair special prize for 

 twenty-five red went to Guttman & 

 Weber, for Victory. 



Not for Competition. 



A certificate was awarded John Bei- 

 mels, Woodhaven, N. Y., for No. 32, 

 scoring 86 points. 



H. Weber & Sons were awarded a cer- 



tificate on Toreador, scoring eighty-six 

 points. 



A. Roper, Tewksbury, Mass., was 

 awarded a certificate on Bay State, se- 

 curing eighty-five points. 



Wm. Nicholson, Framingham, Mass., 

 arrived late with some fine blooms, in- 

 cluding Afterglow. 



M. Tierney, Highlands, N. J., was un- 

 fortunate with Mrs. Eobert Hartshorne, 

 a good red, which was damaged in 

 transit. 



.lohn Murchie, Sharon, Pa., had a good 

 red but the stem was weak. 



Fred Burki, Gibsonia, Pa., had a fine 

 dark pink but it was weak in stem. 



J. D. Cockcroft, Northport, L. I., had 

 a fine vase of fifty; a good flower and 

 stem resembling Lawson. 



W. J. Palmer & Son, Lancaster, N. Y., 

 exhibited Eed Lawson, a variegated sport 

 and a pink sport, all good commercial 

 stock. 



H. Weber & Sons Co.. Oakland, Md., 

 had three seedlings, which, arriving late, 

 could not be entered for competition. 

 They were Mabelle, Toreador and No. 

 24-02. • 



Baur & Smith, Indianapolis, had two 

 promising varieties, Alay and St. Nich- 

 olas, which arrived late. 



E. A. Stroud, of the Strafford Flower 

 Farm, Overbrook, Pa., was another of the 

 late arrivals. His varieties were Eobert 

 Craig, Mrs. M. A. Patten and Victory, 

 all fine flowers. 



B. Witterstaetter, Cincinnati, was on 

 hand with a batch of fine seedlings of 

 Aristocrat. 



