AUtiUST 19, lOO'.t. 



The Weekly Florists^ Re vie w^ 



51 



.Icnor in his ncijjliborliood, but had ro- 

 liied from active busiiioHs iii rocoiit 

 vears. Tlie survivinjr nioiiibors of iiis 

 ;aniily are the widow and sc\cn cliihlrcn. 



John Carson. 



.lohii Carson, a landsi^-a|)c j^ardciicr of 

 ' hicago. 111., died at his home, '221- 

 lackson boulevard, August 12. lie was 

 Morn in Ireland seventy-nine yonrs ago. 

 His widow, Anne, and four sons, Thomas. 

 I'rank VV., John and Kobcrt S., survive 

 'liin. 



Augustus Dittricb. 



Augustus Dittrich, a llorist at 3424 

 Kensington avenue, Philadelphia, met 

 vith a tragic death on the morning of 

 August 14 by stej)i)ing in front of a 

 irolley car at Broad street and Indiana 

 ivenue. Mr. Dittrich was 57 years of 



SECRETARIES OF THE S. A. F. 



In twenty-five years the S. A. I', has 



hail only five; secretaries, as follows: 



i:. (i. Ilill 18S.-. to issc. 



i:(l« ill [.ousdalf 1887 



\V. J. Stewart ^^. ISSS to llHMi 



I'. .1. HaUBwirlli 1907 



\V. N, Hudd IOCS to 19o!t 



BOWLING. 



Thursilay affernoon those not inter- 

 fsted in other (!vents 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, 

 ind found ten teams battling for the 

 •liam]>ionslup with almost old-time en- 

 thusiasm. The alleys and arrangements 

 well' excellent. Following are the scores: 



Diiivcr Total, li. 1^2. ('I>v.'l:ui(l Total, I'.US. 



'ilaiili.T . ..11,T 1.^9 12S i;. I'.alc 17:: 140 i;;9 



I'.ciiMjii 14:i 172 117 W. WanilK'c 74 lor. Ill 



I..I111S011 ...144 1(14 129 I', I-iic«lli>v.l74 li;i l.'i4 



Iviirtli 15.i 14.-! 124 A. llail lis i:i7 lis 



ValciJliiii' .ItiO 127 154 (\ Cialiam . 190 109 20:; 



lotal 



ri."> 7(;r) ti.">2 



r.'lal . . .729 U04 72.^ 



I'hila. Total, 2,(J(i".». I'iltslMiiK Total, 1,SS2. 



Wi'stcott ..!::.'> 104 11(1 .1. I.iKlwii;.. 97 i:{0 107 



Kift l.-,9 1.^7 1.''.:! r. l)i'iMas..l.i7 144 1^9 



r.iMtoii . ...144 l.'il lOS K. l,iid\vlK.121 l:!2 ]:i.". 



Knsii.iskv .127 i:!7 IOC. \y. l.oi'w... 99 102 112 



:ilis(.ii 



lut.ll 



, 1.j4 149 1(J9 \V. Laiucy.ir.S 174 101 



.719 G98 (ir.2 



Total 



, .015 0S2 5S,- 



liftniit Total. 2.027. New Yolk 'I'otal. l,9t;s. 



\. Sullivan. i:!9 119 142 .1. .Maiida . . l.'.O 1(19 145 



\I. r,l(.v...l(;2 129 120 .1. i;(...liis. .125 S7 119 



1;, Ual]aI.'V.12t; i;!0 li:; ll. Iliii|-aiil.l29 1(P9 i:ii 



It. \Vatsi)ii.l42 129 129 \. \Vilsnii.l2S 122 147 



Kusli S9 190 102 K. r..ii\ . . . 151 V.i.i 177 



total 



.6.58 703 GOO 



lutal 



.0S9 500 719 



Kaltinioiv Total, 2,:!SS. 



Khilcli 1,59 171 175 



Moss 172 115 1.5K 



IVny 1.55 178 121 



l.chi- IHI 104 151 



S.'vliol.l . 1.50 205 18S 



(•|]l.aB(. loial. 2..^70. 

 .\. Zeeli. . . . 107 1.55 i:!S 

 1;. .Vsiiiiis. . 171 145 157 

 T. Yai-nall.io:: 122 17.s 

 v. Uer);iMaii.2o7 i:!» 177 

 .1. /.eh 174 14S i:;i 



Total 



.S22 773 79:; 



liital 



'iiieiiiiiati Total. 2.2.54. St l.ouis 



\V.Seli'iiiaii.l4:{ 129 1,57 I'.eiieUe 



Wil'staefr. SI 149 H!S i;iiv . . 



I rilchell . .KM! 105 i:i7 WCl.ei- 



SiiMderl>niclil.5(i 150 lo:! \Vils<.n . 



Ia.ks..ii ...127 154 201 Kiieliii . 



total 



.075 7.5.-! 82<i 



Total 



. . si;:; 704 7s 1 



Tntal. 2.019. 



. . is:! 140 i:;9 



. i:;s i::7 117 



. . 91 117 91 



. .170 121 140 



. .107 141 102 



. .729 002 05S 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY 



The American (Jarn;ition So<iety met 

 It Cincinnati August 19, with President 

 llerr in the chair and some twenty mem- 

 'lors present, including Messrs. Baur, 

 I'.iirki, Fisher. I'atfen, l):(illed(nize, Pier 

 -'in. Hill, Hcacoek, W.a.shburn, I'oehlmann, 

 l.emon, Witterstaetter and Gammage. A 

 'intative program for the Pittsburg con- 

 tention was framed up, and the premium 

 list was reviseil. There was considerable 

 discussion, mostly in favor of a combined 

 meeting of the Carnation and Rose So- 

 lieties. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



The .\ineiican K'ose Society held a 

 meeting August J'.t, wilii Picsidcnt .\. I". 

 I'oehlmann in tin; chair. Secretary Ilaiii- 

 mond and a dozen members pi(>sciit. 

 h'outiiie matters ciniceiiiiiig the iiiNCst- 

 meiit of the permanent ruiid. medals. 

 rules for the next e.xhihilioii, etc., were 

 acted on. The suliject of a .jniiit meet- 

 ing with tiic Carnation Soeiety h:id favoi' 

 aiile but not final consideration. 



BAR HARBOR, ME. 



Flower Show. 



The second annual e.xliibition of the 

 liar Harbor Horticultural Society was 

 held in the Building of Arts, August II 

 and 15, and w;is a magnificent success. 

 The exhibits Avere 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 grou[)S of 

 ]ilants, fruits and vegetables. It would 

 lie hardly ]iossil)le 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. 



i"'or the best group of stove or green- 

 house jilants 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. liurton gar- 

 dener, who used fancy caladiums, Fran- 

 coa ramosa, streptocarjjus and tuberous 

 begonias principally. Among specimen 

 plants, Joseph Pulitzer, W. F. Fkstroin 

 gardener, had a magnificent standard 

 Allamanda ITendersoni, nine feet across, 

 also Allamanda Williamsii, ten feet high. 

 These secured for Mr. Fkstrom the first 

 of the special jirizes offered for the most 

 meritorious exhibit in the show, second 

 place going to John S. Kennedy for his 

 splendid Muscat of Alexandria ;md lUack 

 Hambro grapes, and the third special 

 to E. < '. Cushman, John Reniick g;ir- 

 dener, for large specimen fuchsias and 

 fibrous begonias, tlio latter being si>eci- 

 mens in tubs, eight feet high and nearly 

 as ninidi across. 



(iloxinias, tuberous begonias and aeh 

 imines were; largely and finely shown li\ 

 .T. S. Kennedy; A. C. (jiirney, < . 1.. 

 Shand gardener; Josejih Piditzcr. ;iiid 

 others. Collections of greenhouse ferns 

 were excellent, adiantums being riMuark 

 ably good, inchuling si»ecimens averaging 

 four to five feet across; A. C. (Iiiriiey. 

 F. C. Cushman and Joseph Pulitzer were 

 among the successful exhiliitois of these. 

 Such specimen fuchsias as those shown 

 by K. (', (hishinan and William Miller, 

 from the Mount Desert \urseiii's. ait> 

 not to be met with at ;iny ciher show 

 in .\niericii. 



TlKM'e were over ;i score ol' big sjieci 

 men hydrangeas arrangeil on tlie lawns. 

 each carrying hundreds ot' heiuis ot' 

 blooms, the best comiriLr 1'ioin .los(^|ili 

 Pulitzer. 



Cut flowers, as usual, were abundantly 

 shown, and of a high ipiality, such as 

 cannot be produced at inland points. 

 Sweet peas were superb, also phloxes, 

 pentstemons, ;mtirrliinums, aconitums, 

 gladioli ami annuals in great variety. 

 Baskets arrangeil for efTect were numer 

 ous. In the amateur class. Mrs. liOuis 



B. .Mc('agg won, with a beautiful ar- 

 rangement of ;iniiual luiiines and gyp- 

 sopliila. In the open class, Mrs. T. 

 ('anipbell was in the lead, with a charm- 

 ing basket of pink Siiirley poppies ami 

 pentstemons. Second place was takeii 

 liy Mrs. .1. 'J'. Bowen, who used white- 

 jdiysostegia, gyj)so{)hila iind jialo yellow 

 siuMpilragons very effectively. Two tables 

 weie fill(Ml with the baskets. 



I'ruits W(Me splendidly siiow ti hy 

 (ieorge \V. Vanderbilt, Jvlwarii Kirk 

 gardener, .1. S. Kennedy, A. C. Guruey 

 and others, and there was also a large- 

 display of Ncgetables. Among the suc- 

 cessful exhibitors in these and the plant 

 and flower classes, in addition to those- 

 already named, were: George S. Rob- 

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

 Schieffelin, T. 1''. Anthony gardener; 

 I'ldgar Scott, A. Mitclicll gardener; 

 (ieorge S. Bowdoin, P>ernar(l Morris gar- 

 dener; Louis B. McC.'agg, Ilarri.son Stiles 

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

 mait gardener; D. C. Blair, Eiigene 

 Mitchell gardener; Misses Morrill, C. W. 

 Heath gardener; .T. W. Anchincloss, W. 

 Seaver gardener; Miss N. II. Dchone, 

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

 rison, Washington Grant gardener; 

 Henry Ij. I-hio, W. T. Chandler gardener; 

 Alfred M. Coats, John Brown gardener; 

 and ]\rrs. Fdward Coles, Fdward Mc- 

 (lr;inaghall gardener. 



.\niong miscellaneous, not competitive, 

 exhibits were orchids and foliage ()lants 

 from Julius Roehrs Co., awarded a cer- 

 tificate of merit; a fine collection of 

 gladioli from B. Hammond Tracy, Wen- 

 ham. ;\rass. ; gladioli and tlahlias from 

 W. W. Raw son & Co., of Boston; a lieau 

 tit'ul group of gloxinias, siiecimeii fuch- 

 sias, tuberous begonias, Nei>hrolepis 

 Whitmani and new N. Milleri from 

 Mount Desert Nurseries (William Miller 

 uKinager) ; and a large vase of a new 

 doui)le scarlet dahlia from C. L. ShancL 

 All thes(> received certificates of merit. 

 The State of Maine Entomological De 

 partment had a largo exhibit of injurious 

 insects, which jiroved of much interest. 

 K'obert Cameron had charge of the ar 

 rangemcnts for exiiibitions. The judges 

 were: Duncan Finhivson, T. I'. Hat- 

 field, W. N. Craig, F". O. Orpet, .!. T. 

 Chuke and A. P. Mer(>ilith. Among other 

 \isitors t'rom a distance were; W. F. 

 Dreer, Philadelphia; M. Fuld, fioston^ 

 Mass.; B. II. Tracy, Wenham, .Mass.; 

 William .Miller, West Lynn, Mass., and 

 .\. C. Kitchie, Southboro. Mass. The 

 weather was perfect on both days and 

 the attendance large, everyone, seem- 

 ingly, in I>ar Harbor visiting it 



The Mount Desert Nurseries, (ieorge 

 r.. Dorr proprietor, tendered a banquet 

 to visiting iiorticulturists and gardeners 

 and florists at liar Harbor on th(! eve 

 ning of .\ugust 14, at the Keho Valley 

 clulihonse, nearly 100 ;ittending. Will- 

 iam .Miller acted as toastmaster, and 

 speeches were made b.v all the visitors, as 

 well as ;i number of local orators. The 

 local horticultur.al socii^ty, formed in the 

 f;ili of BIOS, now numbers 200 members 

 ;ind i-i in a (lourisliing condition. 



W. N. <R\i«. 



K.XKTKR, N. If. — Joiiii If. I'erkins has 

 resigned hi.s position with W. S. Perkins, 

 to take charge of !■]. 1']. .Arnold's green- 

 house, at Greene, U. 1. William TolandS 

 has accepted a |)osition as grower with 

 W. S. Perkins; he wfirked at thi same 

 ph'ice twenty years ago. W. .S. Perkins 

 li;is been spending a few d.'ivs with his 

 son ;it Greene, K. T. 



