The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



July 9, 1908. 



the class to which it belonged. Eighty- 

 three voting papers were in all received 

 and the result of the ballot, which has 

 only recently been decided, is as follows, 

 the figures in parentheses being the num- 

 ber of times the variety was given first 

 place : 



Climbers Blooming; in Clusters. 



Shades of Crimson. — 1, Turner's Crim- 

 son Eambler, CI. Poly. (33) ; 2, Gruss an 

 Teplitz, H.T. (22) ; 3, Hiawatha, Wich. 

 (16). 



Shades of Pink. — 1, Dorothy Perkins, 

 Wich. (52) ; 2, Blush Eambler, CI. Poly. 

 (8); 3, Minnehaha, Wich. (6). 



White or Pale Blush. — 1, Climbing 

 Aimee Vibert T.N. (19); 2, Felicite-et- 

 Perp^tue, Evergreen (15); 3, Bennett's 

 Seedling, Ayr. (10). 



Shades of Yellow.— 1, Alister Stella 

 Gray, N. (40) ; 2, Claire Jacquier, CI. 

 Poly. (13); 3, Aglaia, CI. Poly. (12). 



Climbers Bloominsf More or Less Singly. 



Shades of Crimson. — 1, Ards Rover, 

 H.P. (22); 2, Seine Olga de Wurtem- 

 burg, H.T. (18); 3, Longworth Ram- 

 bler, H.T. (16). 



Shades of Pink.— 1, Climbing Mrs. W. 

 J. Grant, H.T. (20) ; 2, Climbing Caro- 

 line Testout, H.T. (17); 3, Papillon, 

 T. (13). 



White or Pale Blush. — 1, Madame Al- 

 fred Carri^re, H.N. (62) ; 2, Una, S. 

 (11) ; 3, Macrantha, Species (6). 



Shades of Yellow.— 1, William Allen 

 Richardson, N. (23) ; 2, Gloire de Dijon, 

 T. (13) ; 3, Madame Jules Gravereaux, 

 T. (11). 



Dwarf Roses. 



Shades of Crimson. — 1, Hugh Dickson, 

 H. P. (33); 2, Ulrich Brunner, H.P. 

 (16); 3, Richmond, H.T. (8). 



Shades of Pink. — 1, Caroline Testout, 

 H.T. (24) ; 2, Madame Abel Chatenay, 

 H.T. (21); 3, La France, H.T. (14). 



White or Pale Blush.— 1, Frau Karl 

 Druschki, H.P. (54) ; 2, White Maman 

 Cochet, T. (10); 3, Viscountess Folke- 

 stone, H.T. (6). 



Shades of Yellow. — 1, Madame Ravary, 

 H.T. (29) ; 2, Marie ,Van Houtte, T. 

 (15); 3, Souvenir de Pierre Notting, T. 

 (10). 



At the society 's exhibition in the Roj'al 

 Botanic Gardens, London, July 3, a 

 cup, the gift of Mr. Nickerson, was, in 

 accordance with the foregoing decisions, 

 awarded to each of the raisers, or their 

 representatives, of the following roses, 

 viz.: Turner's Crimson Rambler (climb- 

 ing polyantha), Dorothy Pt-rkins (Wich- 

 uraiana), Climbing Aimee Vibert (noi- 

 sette), Alister Stella Gray (noisette), 

 Ards Rover (hybrid perpetual), Climbing 

 Mrs. W. J. Grant (hybrid tea), Mme. 

 Alfred Carriftre (hybrid noisette), Will- 

 iam Allen Richardson (noisette), Hugh 

 Dickson (hybrid perpetual), Caroline 

 Testout (hybrid tea), Frau Karl Drusch- 

 ki (hybrid perpetual), Mme. Ravary (hy- 

 brid tea). 



The names of the raisers of the fore- 

 going cup roses and the years of intro- 

 duction are, we would add, as follows: 



Turner's Crimson Rambler, C. Turner, 

 1893. 



Dorothv Perkins, Jackson & Perkins, 

 1901. 



Climbing Aimee Vibert, Curtis, 1841. 



[Tbe only available record of the raiser and 

 the year of introduction of this variety Is 

 contained in Mr. Gordon's comprebensive list 

 contained In the last edition of the "Ama- 

 Jeiir's Rose Boolt." This variety was originally 

 Introduced as Alm^e Vibert scandens.] 



Alister Stella Gray, A. Hill Gray. In- 

 troduced by Messrs. Paul & Son, in 1894. 



Ard's Rover, Alex. Dickson & Sons, 

 1894. 



Climbing Mrs. W. J. Grant, E. G. Hill 

 Co., 1899. 



Mme. Alfred Carrifere, Schwartz, 1879. 



William Allen Richardson, Veuve 

 Ducher, 1878. 



Hugh Dickson, Hugh Dickson, 1904. 



Caroline Testout, Pernet fils-Dueher, 

 1890. 



Frau Karl Dnisehki, P. Lambert, 1900. 



Mme. Ravary, Pernet-Ducher, 1899. 



The American firm, Jackson & Per- 

 kins Co., Newark, N. Y., has reason to 

 feel pleased that Dorothy Perkins stood 

 third in the list, Mme. Alfred Carri^re 

 and Frau Karl Druschki only receiving 

 more- votes. Dorothy Perkins stood high- 

 est in the list of ramblers and climbers 

 of all colors, receiving nearly twice as 

 manv votes as Crimson Rambler. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



The resolution adopted at Chicago, to 

 fix the time for the oflScial year on July 

 1 instead of January 1, places at the 

 liead as president August F. Poehlmann, 

 of Morton Grove, 111., and as vice presi- 

 dent William Kasting, of Buffalo, where 

 the next annual meeting is to be held. 

 The treasurer, Harry O. May, of Summit, 

 N. J., and the secretary, Benjamin Ham- 

 mond, of Fishkill, N. Y., were re-elected. 



The executive committee is as follows: 

 Peter Bisset, Washington ; Patrick Welch, 

 Boston; E. G. Hill, Richmond, Ind. ; 

 Adolph Farenwald, Roslyn, Pa,; J. J. 

 Curran, Salem, Va. ; P. J. Lynch, West 

 Grove, Pa.; Philip Breitmeyer, Detroit. 



During President Simpson's term it 

 was the effort to put the society on a 

 solid financial foundation. The invested 

 permanent fund has reached $2,950, with 

 another $50 in sight. Heretofore when 

 a new set of officers has come in there 

 has been a series of bills to be paid. In 

 order to place the society clear at the 

 beginning of its new financial year, J. A. 

 Valentine, of Denver, placed in the hands 

 of the secretary the sum of $20 and the 

 executive committee wrote a letter to a 

 number of rose cultivators, requesting 

 contributions of $10. These letters were 

 sent out the last of June and responses 

 have been coming so that, without being 

 a burden or tax on. any few members, the 

 society proposes to start out in its west- 

 ward move clear handed. 



The next meeting, as a matter of gen- 

 eral convenience, will be held at Niagara 

 Falls during the S. A. F. convention, 

 when the formal transfer of office will 

 take place from Mr. Simpson to Presi- 

 dent Poehlmann. 



The bulletin of 1908 is being pre- 

 pared, and there have come requests for 

 this bulletin from societies and libraries 

 far and wide. 



Benj. Hammond, Sec'y. 





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THE RETAIL 



FLORIST 



SPRAY OF PINK SWEET PEAS. 



The illustration on page 5 shows 

 one of the series of funeral designs by 

 C. H. Fox, Columbia avenue and Twen- 

 ty-first street, Philadelphia. It is a 

 graceful arrangement, especially adapt- 

 ed to use where a suitable floral tribute 

 is desired for youth. The combination 

 of sweet peas and asparagus is grace- 

 ful and at this season inexpensive. The 

 bunch is tied with satin ribbon. Mr. 

 Fox thinks that pink is especially, happy 

 where the idea of youth is to be 

 brought out. The variety used in this 

 case was Blanche Ferry. Phil. 



THE STANDING CRESCENT. 



The illustration on page 6 shows 

 an excellent arrangement of yellow roses, 

 marguerites, valley and maidenhair fern 

 in a standing crescent, using a dove in 

 place of the ordinary star. This was 

 a tribute from- the store of Hoyt Bros. 

 Co., Spokane, Wash., to the memory of 

 an employee for many years in one of 

 the local flower stores there, and shows 

 that the firm's designer is the possessor 

 of keen artistic perception. 



THE BALL DECORATION. 



The illustration on page 7 is from 

 a photograph made at the recent date 

 on which the Yuess Gardens Co. decorated 

 the Armory at Newburgh, N. Y., for the 

 annual military ball of the Tenth Sepa- 



rate Comj)any. The illustration shows 

 but a portion of one end of the hall, 

 but the decoration was equally elaborate 

 throughout the rooms. 



The Yuess Gardens Co. turns its hand 

 to anything in the horticultural line and 

 reports an excellent season. The cut 

 flower end has been good, with a splen- 

 did Decoration day business and fine 

 trade in June, due to many weddings 

 and other social work. The bedding 

 season kept them on the jump and in 

 the seed department a larger business 

 was done than in any previous year. 



AN ELABORATE DECORATION. 



The international horse show is a great 

 event at the Olympia, London, and this 

 year it owed no small amount of its pop- 

 ularity to the marvelous floral decora- 

 tions carried out by William Whiteley, 

 Ltd., Hillingdon Heath and London. The 

 dull and cheerless Olympia was trans- 

 formed into a beautiful garden, varying 

 not with the seasons, but varying daily 

 as a different style of decoration present- 

 ed itself to the visitors each morning. 

 One day it was a garden of roses, another 

 day an old English garden, another day 

 an Italian garden and so on throughout 

 the week or ten days of the show. 



The scheme of decoration was prob- 

 ably the largest ever carried out by a 

 single firm and some idea of its magni- 

 tude may be gleaned when we state that 

 Messrs. Whiteley used 15,000 scarlet 



