AUODST 19, 1909. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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dener in his neighborhood, but had re- 

 tired from active business in recent 

 years. The surviving members of his 

 family are the widow and seven children. 



John Carson. 



John Carson, a landscape gardener of 

 Chicago, 111., died at hia home, 2212 

 Jackson boulevard, August 12. He was 

 born in Ireland seventy-nine years ago. 

 His widow, Anne, and four sons, Thomas, 

 Frank W., John and Eobert S., survive 

 him. 



Augustus Dittrich. 



Augustus Dittrich, a florist at 3424 

 Kensington avenue, Philadelphia, met 

 with a tragic death on the morning of 

 August 14 by stepping in front of a 

 trolley car at Broad street and Indiana 

 avenue. Mr. Dittrich was 57 years of 

 age. 



SECRETARIES OF THE S. A. F. 



In twenty-five years the S. A. F. has 



had. only five secretaries, as follows: 



B. G. Hill 1885 to 1886 



Edwin Lonsdale 1887 



W^. J. Stewart 1888 to 1906 



P. J. Hauswlrth 1907 



W. N. Rudd 1908 to 1908 



BOWLING. 



Thursday afternoon those not inter- 

 ested in other events were taken for a 

 trolley ride by the Cincinnati florists, but 

 most of the visitors looked in at the al- 

 leys where the bowling was in progress, 

 and found ten teams battling for the 

 championship with almost old-time en- 

 thusiasm. The alleys and arrangements 

 were excellent. Following are the scores : 



Denver Total, 2.132. Cleveland Total, 2,118. 



Glauber ...115 159 128 U. Bate 173 140 139 



Benson 143 172 117 W. Warnbee 74 105 111 



Johnson ...144 164 129 F. Friedley.174 113 154 



Kurth 163 143 124 A.Hart 118 137 118 



Valentine .160 127 154 C. Graham. 190 169 203 



Total ...715 765 652 Total ...729 664 725 



Phlla. Total, 2,069. rittsburg Total, 1,882. 



Westcott ..135 104 116 J. Ludwlg.. 97 130 107 



Klft 159 157 153 P. Demas. .137 144 130 



Burton 144 151108 E. Ludwlg. 124 132 135 



Rosnosky ..127 137 106 W. Loew... 99 102 112 



Gibson 154 149 169 W. Carney. 158 174 101 



Total ...719 698 652 Total ...615 682 585 



Detroit Total, 2,027. New York Total, 1,968. 



N. Sullivan. 139 119 142 J. Manda . . 156 109 145 



.M. Bloy...l62 129 120 J. Roehrs..l25 87 119 



R. Rahaley.126 136 113 H. Bun'ard.129 109 131 



R. Watson. 142 129 12fl A. Wilson. 128 122 147 



Rush 89 190 162 R. Berry... 151 133 177 



Total ...658 703 666 Total ...689 560 719 



Baltimore Total, 2,388. Chicago Total, 2,370. 



Kiutch ....159 171175 A. Zech. . . .167 155 138 



Moss 172 115 168 G. A8mus..l71 145 167 



Perry .155 178 121 T. Yarnall.163 122 178 



Lehr 180 104 151 V. Bergman.207 134 177 



Seybold ... 156 205 188 J. Zech 174 148 134 



Total . . .822 773 793 Total .. .822 704 784 



Cincinnati Total. 2,254. St. Louis Total, 2,049. 



W.Sch'man.l43 129 157 Beneke ....183 146 1.39 



Wifstaefr. 81 149 168 Giiy 138 137 117 



Critchell ..166 165 137 Weber 91117 94 



Sunderbruchl56 166 163 Wilson 170 121 146 



Jackson ...127 164 201 Kuehn 167 141162 



Total ...675 753 826 Total ...729 662 658 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY 



The American Carnation Society met 

 at Cincinnati August 19, with President 

 Herr in the chair and some twenty mem- 

 bers present, including Messrs. Baur, 

 Burki, Fisher, Patten, Dailledouze, Pier- 

 son, Hill, Heacock, Washburn, Poehlmann, 

 Lemon, Witterstaetter and Gammage, A 

 tentative program for the Pittsburg con- 

 vention was framed up, and the premium 

 list was revised. There was considerable 

 discussion, mostly in favor of a combined 

 meeting of the Carnation and Rose So- 

 cieties. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



The American Rose Society held a 

 meeting August 19, with President A. F. 

 Poehlmann in the chair. Secretary Ham- 

 mond and a dozen members present. 

 Routine matters concerning the invest- 

 ment of the permanent fund, medals, 

 rules for the next exhibition, etc., were 

 acted on. The subject of a joint meet- 

 ing with the Carnation Society had favor- 

 able but not final consideration. 



BAR HARBOR, ME. 



Flower Show. 



The second annual exhibition of the 

 Bar Harbor Horticultural Society was 

 held in the Building of Arts, August 14 

 and 15, and was a magnificent success. 

 The exhibits were fully twice as numer- 

 ous as a year /ago, and in addition to the 

 beautiful hall itself, the spacious lawns 

 in front were utilized for many specimen 

 hydrangeas in large tubs, as well as other 

 plants, while in the rear a large awning 

 over the lawn gave shelter to groups of 

 plants, fruits and vegetables. It would 

 be hardly possible to select a more beau- 

 tiful site for a flower show, located well 

 up on a mountain side, with mountains 

 and mountain gorges, beautifully wood- 

 ed, forming an amphitheater. 



For the best group of stove or green- 

 house plants arranged for decorative ef- 

 fect, John I. Kane, Kenneth McLean 

 gardener, won with a charming arrange- 

 ment in which gloxinias, crotons, Pan- 

 danus Veitchii, adiantums and fittonias 

 were chiefly used. Second place went to 

 John S. Kennedy, W. T. Burton gar- 

 dener, who used fancy caladiums, Fran- 

 coa ramosa, streptocarpus . and tuberous 

 begonias principally. Among specimen 

 plants, Joseph Pulitzer, W, E. Ekstrom 

 gardener, had a magnificent standard 

 Allamanda Hendersoni, nine feet across, 

 also Allamanda Williamsii, ten feet high. 

 These secured for Mr. Ekstrom the first 

 of the special prizes offered for. the most 

 meritorious exhibit in the show, second 

 place going to John S. Kennedy for his 

 splendid Muscat of Alexandria and Black 

 Hambro grapes, and the third special 

 to E. C. Cushman, John Remick gar- 

 dener, for large apecimen fuchsias and 

 fibrous begonias, the latter being speci- 

 mens in tubs, eight feet high and nearly 

 as much across. 



Gloxinias, tuberous begonias and ach- 

 imines were largely and finely shown by 

 J. S. Kennedy; A. C. Gurney, C. L. 

 Shand gardener; Joseph Pulitzer, and 

 others. Collections of greenhouse ferns 

 were excellent, adiantums being remark- 

 ably good, including specimens averaging 

 four to five feet across; A. C. Gurney, 

 E. C. Cushman and Joseph Pulitzer were 

 among the successful exhibitors of these. 

 Such specimen fuchsias as those shown 

 by E. C. Cushman and William Miller, 

 from the Mount Desert Nurseries, are 

 not to be ' met with at any other show 

 in America. 



There were over a score of big speci- 

 men hydrangeas arranged on the lawns, 

 each carrying hundreds of heads of 

 blooms, the best coming from Joseph 

 Pulitzer. 



Cut flowers, as usual, were abundantly 

 shown, and of a high quality, such as 

 cannot be produced at inland points. 

 Sweet peas were superb, also phloxes, 

 pentstemons, antirrhinums, aconitums, 

 gladioli and annuals in great variety. 

 Baskets arranged for effect were numer- 

 ous. In the amateur class, Mrs. Louis 



B. McCagg won, with a beautiful ar- 

 rangement of annual lupines and gyp- 

 sophila. In the open class, Mrs. T. 

 Campbell was in the lead, with a charm- 

 ing basket of pink Shirley poppies anci 

 pentstemons. Second place was taken 

 by Mrs. J. T. Bowen, who used white 

 physostegia, gypsophila and pale yellow 

 snapdragons very effectively. Two tables 

 were filled with the baskets. 



Fruits were splendidly shown by 

 George W. Vanderbilt, Edward Kirk 

 gardener, J. S. Kennedy, A. C Gurney 

 and others, and there was also a large 

 display of vegetables. Among the suc- 

 cessful exhibitors in these and the plant 

 and flower classes, in addition to those 

 already named, were: George S. Bob- 

 bins, J. F. Bunker gardener; Williana J. 

 Schieffelin, T. F. Anthony gardener; 

 Edgar Scott, A. Mitchell gardener; 

 George S. Bowdoin, Bernard Morris gar- 

 dener; Louis B. McCagg, Harrison Stiles 

 gardener; Joseph T. Bowen, A. E. Chil- 

 man gardener; D. C. Blair, Eugene 

 Mitchell gardener; Misses Morrill, C. W. 

 Heath gardener; J. W. Auchincloss, W. 

 Seaver gardener; Miss N. H. Dehone, 

 N. V. Wilson gardener; Mrs. John Har- 

 rison, Washington Grant gardener; 

 Henry L. Eno, W. T. Chandler gard«ier; 

 Alfred M. Coats, John Brown gardener; 

 and Mrs. Edward Coles, Edward Mc- 

 Granaghall gardener. 



Among miscellaneous, not competitive, 

 exhibits were orchids and foliage plants 

 from Julius Roehrs Co., awarded a cer- 

 tificate of merit; a fine collection of 

 gladioli from B. Hammond Tracy, Wen- 

 ham, Mass.; gladioli and dahlias from 

 W. W. Rawson & Co., of Boston; a beau- 

 tiful group of gloxinias, specimen fuch- 

 sias, tuberous begonias, Nephrolepis 

 Whitmani and new N. Milleri from 

 Mount Desert Nurseries (William Miller 

 manager) ; and a large vase of a new 

 double scarlet dahlia from C. L. Shand. 

 All these received certificates of merit. 

 The State of Maine Entomological De- 

 partment had a large exhibit of injurious 

 insects, which proved of much interest. 



Robert Cameron had charge of the ar- 

 rangements for exhibitions. The judges 

 were: Duncan Finlayson, T. D. Hat- 

 field, W. N. Craig, E. O. Orpet, J. T. 

 Clarke and A. P. Meredith. Among other 

 visitors from a distance were: W. P. 

 Dreer, Philadelphia; M. Fuld, Boston, 

 Mass.; B. H. Tracy, Wenham, Mass.; 

 William Miller, West Lynn, Mass., and 



A. C. Ritchie, Southboro, Mass. The 

 weather was perfect on both days and 

 the attendance large, everyone, seem- 

 ingly, in Bar Harbor visiting it. 



The Mount Desert Nurseries, Georg» 



B. Dorr proprietor, tendered a banquet 

 to visiting horticulturists and gardeners 

 and florists at Bar Harbor on the eve- 

 ning of August 14, at the Keho Valley 

 clubhouse, nearly 100 attending. Will- 

 iam Miller acted as toastmaster^ and 

 speeches were made by all the visitors, as 

 well as a number of local orators. The 

 local horticultural society, formed in the 

 fall of 1908, now numbers 200 members 

 and is in a flourishing condition. 



W. N. Craio. 



ExETEE, N. H. — John R. Perkins has 

 resigned his position with W. S. Perkins, 

 to take charge of E. E. Arnold's green- 

 house, at Greene, R. I. William Toland 

 has accepted a position as grower with 

 W. S. Perkins; he worked at the same 

 place twenty years ago. W. S. Perkins 

 has been spending a few days with his 

 son at Greene, R. I. 



