January 30, 1008. 



The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



n 



Bench of the New White Carnation, Sarah Hill, at the Establishment of the B,. K. & B. Floral G)^ Richmond, Ind. 



by private gardeners, Wm. Kleinheinz, 

 Ogontz, Pa., first. 



Peter Bisset prize, for private gar- 

 dener, Wm. Kleinheinz first. 



Peter Fisher prize for fifty Beacon, 

 Cottage Gardens Co. first; F. R. Pier- 

 son Co. second. 



Geo. H. Cooke prize for dark pink 

 sport of Enchantress, Joseph Heacock, 

 Wyncote, Pa., first, on No. 100. 



Geo. C. Shaflfer prize for fifty blooms 

 in three varieties, open only to growers 

 having less than 20,000 feet of glass, H. 

 Eichholtz, Waynesboro, Pa., first. 



S. C. Briggs prize for fifty white. Cot- 

 tage Gardens Co., first, on Lieut. Peary. 



J. J. Harty & Co. cup for largest dis- 

 play, to Chicago Carnation Co. 



John Robertson prize for twenty-five 

 Winsor, Cottage Gardens Co. first. 



Z. D. Blackistone prize for fifty white, 

 Chicago Carnation Co. first, on White 

 Perfection. 



C. A. Goldsmith prize for fifty red. 

 Cottage Gardens Co. first, on Beacon. 



W. J. Vender Heide prize, R. Witter- 

 staetter first, on Afterglow. 



Seedings were scored for certificates, 

 as follows: No. 46-205, by M; A. Pat- 

 ten, 86; President Seelye, by H. W. 

 Field, 89; No. 100, by Joseph Heacock, 

 86, but the judges added that it is very 

 like Rose-pink Enchantress; Wanoka, 

 by Wanoka Greenhouses, 86; Apple 

 Blossom, by Wanoka Greenhouses, 84. 

 The varieties Defiance, Mrs. Robert 

 Hartshorne and Climax were pro- 

 nounced not in a condition to score. 



Wednesday evening the judges pre- 

 sented a supplementary report scoring 

 W. N. Rudd's light pink seedling 89 

 points and his white seedling 86. 



Special Exhibits. 



Among the special exhibits were: 



Two splendid vases of Mrs. Jardine 

 rose, staged by W. P. Craig, Philadel- 

 phia. The judges specially commented 

 on its fragrance. 



A fine vase of Queen Beatrice rose 

 from F. H. Kramer, artistically staged 

 on a bank of adiantum. 



An especially good vase of Rhea Reid 



rose, staged by the E. G. Hill Co., Rich- 

 mond, Ind. 



A fine specimen plant of Nephrolepis 

 Superbissima, from F. R. Pierson Co., 

 Tarrytown, N. Y. 



Three fine, vases of Boston, the big 

 new single violet grown by Wm. Sim, 

 Cliftondale, Mass. 



Baur Floral Co., Erie, Pa., the pliers 

 for mending bursted carnation calyxes, 

 the demonstrator being very expert. 



Lord & Burnham Co., New York, pho- 

 tographs and printed matter on green- 

 house construction. 



Eagle Machine Works, Richmond, 

 Ind., a carnation support. 



Buxton & Allard, Nashua, N. H., the 

 Economy greenhouse bracket. 



Kroeschell Bros. Co., Chicago, exhib- 

 ited drawings and photographs showing 

 their boiler and system of heating as 

 applied in well known establishments. 



W. N. Rudd's seedlings, unnamed, a 

 big light pink and a fine white, arrived 

 Wednesday and were staged in splendid 

 shape, considering that they had been 

 in the boxes forty-eight hours. C. E. 

 Marshall also staged some good seed- 

 lings Wednesday. 



Wednesday Morning. 



At the opening hour Wednesday 

 morning Dr. B. T. Galloway was in- 

 troduced to report on the work with 

 the carnation done by the Department 

 of . Agriculture. He illustrated his re- 

 marks with a chart, and at the close 

 many questions were asked and an- 

 swered. Dr. Galloway said that the 

 work done had proven conclusively 

 that plants grown under glass all sum- 

 mer are superior in every way and give 

 a greatly increased yield. It is said 

 that bone is valueless and stable ma- 

 nure the ideal fertilizer for carnations. 

 Propagation from selected plants not 

 only maintains vigor but increases pro- 

 duction. Sandy soils tend toward 

 shorter stems than are produced on 

 clay soil. When clear water will not 

 eradicate red spider, a five-cent bar of 

 Ivory or any neutral soap shaved and 



'dissolved in a gallon of water, subse- 

 quently diluted with four gallons of 

 warm water and sprayed on with a 

 Vermorel or Climax nozzle, will do the 

 work. An hour later wash off the soap 

 and repeat every ten days until the 

 plants are dean. 



Indianapolis Next Year. 



There were lively times in the selec- 

 tion of next meeting place. After sev- 

 eral speakers had recounted the advan- 

 tages of the two cities, a ballot, with A. 

 F. J. Baur and Fred Burki as tellers, 

 showed 166 members present and 83 

 votes for Indianapolis and 83 for Pitts- 

 burg. To decide the tie and, inasmuch 

 as Indianapolis withdrew last year in 

 favor of Washington, I. S. Crall, of 

 Pittsburg, moved to make it unanimous 

 for Indianapolis. 



A discussion of the premium list re- 

 sulted in the adoption of a resolution 

 offered by W. N. Rudd endorsing this 

 year's list as satisfactory in its essen- 

 tial features. The directors later held a 

 meeting and framed up the list for the 

 Indianapolis show. 



It was announced that the session 

 Thursday afternoon would be aban- 

 doned, as President Roosevelt extended 

 an invitation to a reception at the 

 White House at 2:30 on that day. 



Joint Session. 



The Carnation Society and the Amer- 

 ican Breeders' Association held a joint 

 session under the auspices of the latter 

 on Wednesday afternoon, C. W. Ward 

 presiding. Some of the papers were on 

 animal breeding, but the program 

 called for several on plant breeding, as 

 follows: "Original Work Among 

 Native Roses," by W. Van Fleet, 

 Little Silver, N. J.; "Some Observa- 

 tions in Plant Improvement," by A. M. 

 Soule, Athens, Ga. ; ' ' Report of Commit- 

 tee on Breeding Roses," by Peter Bis- 

 set, Washington, D. C; "Development 

 of the Immune or Resistant Character 

 in Plants," by H. L. Bolley, Fargo, J^^. 

 I D.; "Report of Committee on Breeding 



