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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



KOVEMBEB 14, 1907. 



The Dreer special was won by Harry 

 Turner, gardener to Howard Gould, x-ort 

 Washington, L. I., as was also the Pier- 

 son silver cup for ten white, ten yellow 

 and ten pink. Mr. Turner is an exhibitor 

 who will have to be reckoned with in fu- 

 ture, his Duckhani in the twenty-five 

 flowers of one variety and in ten pink 

 being splendid stock. 



The gold medal of W. Wells for six 

 M. Hankey was won by C. H. Totty, with 

 W. H. Waite, Yonkers, N. Y., close be- 

 hind for the silver medal and Thomas W. 

 Head the bronze. 



The Boddington prize for ten Beatrice 

 May was won by John Downing, Morris 

 Plains, N. J., and the Totty prize by 

 Nathan Smith & Son. 



The Lord & Burnham gold medal was 

 won by C. H. Totty, with W. W. Moir, 

 a grand new Australian white. 



For the largest blooms in the show 

 Tliomas Proctor won first for yellow and 

 any other color with F. S. Vallis and 

 Mrs. John E. Dunne, .las. Fraser, Cedar 

 Court, Morristown, N. J., taking the 

 white with Mrs. D. V. West, and A. H. 

 Wingett the pink, with Lady Hopetoun. 



I am not attempting to enumerate all 

 the classes in the exhibition, but merely 

 to pick out the chief points of interest. 

 The Vaughan cup for best specimen 

 plants was won by Peter Duff, who got 

 five first prizes in these classes. William 

 Turner, Oceanic, N. J., averaged a high 



was first on yellow, with Mary Donnellan, 

 and in pink with O. H. Broomhead. 



The standard varieties that scored 

 most in the winning classes were W. 

 Duckham, Morton F. Plant and M. Han- 

 key, in pink ; Clay Frick, Merza, Mrs. 

 D. V. West, Nellie Pockett, Beatrice May, 

 whites; C. Montigny, Appleton, Mrs. W. 

 Duckham, F. S. Vallis, in yellows; Mrs. 

 John E. Dunne, Mrs. J. A. Miller, Mrs. 

 Partridge and Mrs. G. Heaume, in the 

 any other colors. 



W. Wells, of Merstham, England, had 

 on exhibition some twenty varieties. 

 These showed the effects of their jour- 

 ney across the Atlantic somewhat and did 

 not do the exhibitor justice. Pockett 's 

 Surprise will surprise many, I have no 

 doubt, later. Mrs. L. Thorne, as a yel- 

 low, showed promise. Modesty compels 

 me to forego at this time describing the 

 two kinds Mr. Wells has named after 

 your humble servant and his spouse, but 

 we will hope they will do in our climate. 

 These imported flowers are always inter- 

 esting to the public and many are skep- 

 tical of the fact that they really have 

 traveled 3,000 miles. 



The plants staged were beautiful speci- 

 mens, W. H. Waite taking several pre- 

 miums in these classes, as well as Peter 

 Duff. John McNicol, Lawrence, L. I., 

 got first of twelve plants, twelve varieties, 

 and for the class for market plants. 

 James Bell, gardener to Prof. Osborn, 



Carnation Sarah A. HilL 



quality of stock all through, running first 

 in twenty varieties, ten white, ten yellow 

 and others in the classes for sixes. 



C. H. Totty won the thirty varieties, 

 one flower of each, with Thomas Proctor 

 a close second. For the ten in variety, 

 long stems, conditions were reversed and 

 Mr. Proctor got first to Totty 's second. 

 Tlj« classes of six were won mostly by 

 George Hale, Seabright, N. J.; Thomas 

 W. Head, Groton, Coan., and A. H. Win- 

 gett; Lenox, Mass. 



In the new varieties Chas. H. Tottv 



(iarris^on, N. Y., also was a prize winner 

 in the 6-inch c!asses. 



W. W. Kennedy, Red Bank, N. J., re- 

 ceived certificates for several singles, as 

 did also Charles H. Totty and George 

 Hale. 



The judges were Eugene Dailledouze, 

 W. N. Craig and Robert Cameron, and 

 their work was done promptly and well. 



The Meeting. 



The business meeting of the C. S. A. 

 was not attended so numerou.sly as it 



should have been, but the tone of the 

 speakers' remarks was hopeful and we 

 may see a boom in the society during 

 1908, with the reelection of President 

 Loveless. His remarks at the opening 

 showed careful study of the conditions 

 confronting the society and the best ways 

 and means for enlarging the scope of, 

 and increasing the interest in the society. 

 If the committee on affiliation can evolve 

 a plan to get the other societies inter- 

 ested by certificates or medals at the fall 

 shows, it might be productive of good 

 results. As President Loveless very truly 

 said, the work is localized and confined 

 largely to the particular territory v^ere 

 the society happens to hold its meetings, 

 as it is at present conducted. The same 

 holds good, unfortunately, in other soci- 

 eties of a like character and the C. S. A. 

 need not feel discouraged on that account. 

 The C. S. A. will doubtless join hands 

 with the S. A. F. at Chicago in 1908 and 

 will make that show a splendid success. 

 The meeting place was left in the hands 

 of the executive committee with power 

 and the election of August Poehlmann 

 for vic3-president seems to point to Chi- 

 cago in 1908. The appointing of a com- 

 mittee to draft a scale for judging pom- 

 pons and singles is a good, thing and this 

 broadening out of the society, while it 

 may entail lots of work on the officers, 

 will bear fruit at a later date. The secre- 

 tary and treasurer also were reelected. 

 Charles H. Totty. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The fall exhibition of the Pennsyl- 

 vania Horticultural Society was opened 

 in Horticultural hall Tuesday evening, 

 November 12, The center of the main 

 hall was filled with well-grown specimen 

 chrysanthemums in large pots, the plants 

 being taller than usual, averaging fully 

 four and one-half feet in height. They 

 were well furnished with good flowers 

 and foliage. There were few new varie- 

 ties, most of the exhibitors pinning their 

 faith on well-known, standard sorts. The 

 sides of the hall were adorned by six 

 groups of foliage plants of choice qual- 

 ity, competitors for the new Walker 

 prize. Between them were the 6-inch 

 chrysanthemums grown to single stem. 

 Most of these exhibits showed high cul- 

 tural skill. 



The stage was filled by the Henry A. 

 Dreer Co. collection of foliage plants, 

 new and standard varieties. To the 

 right again was a dainty table of orchids 

 in bloom, with foliage plants arranged 

 for effect. Next to this was a great dis- 

 play of pompon chrysanthemums in good 

 variety. These pompons, with the sin- 

 gles, formed a larger proportion of the 

 flowers in the exhibition than in past 

 seaj^ons. 



The foyer was filled with well-grown 

 ferns, specimens from private collections, 

 and rare stove plants. Between these 

 and the main hall were the cut chrysan- 

 themums; not so large a collection as in 

 former years, but oif high quality and 

 showing to great advantage. In these 

 classes the Walker prize again proved 

 popular, bringing out four splendid en- 

 tries of sixty flowers each, in twelve 

 varieties. 



Three seedlihgs of unusual promise are 

 on trial. Next to them is perhaps the 

 finest pair of vases of white in the hall. 

 Both are Nellie Pockett. 



In the lower hall evergreens, ferns, 

 begonias, vegetables, seeds, bulbs and im- 

 plements are being arranged for judg- 

 ing as these notes are written. Phil. 



