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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



May 25, 1011. 



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contained some interesting exhibits. 

 The severe drought greatly reduced the 

 displays of bulbous and other hardy 

 flowers, which are this season of poorer 

 quality than^ij^il. K. & J. Farquhar & 

 Co. had aflTeXtensive named collection 

 of Darwin and other late tulips, also 

 V fine cut spikes of Lilium Brownii leu- 

 Xcanthemuni, the new Buddleia magnif- 

 jca. the hardy border carnation, Com- 

 tesse Knuth, with apricot-colored flow- 

 ers, and narcissi. The Blue Hill l^urs- 

 eries had a fine collection of named 

 lilacs, thirty - three varieties. Mrs. 

 Frederick Ayer, George Page gardener, 

 also had a fine lot of lilacs and Iris 

 Germanica Florentina. Mrs. A. W. 

 Preston, J. L. Smith gardener, received 

 a silver medal for a fine specimen of 

 Hydrangea hortensis. Mrs. E. M. Gill 

 had a fine assortment of seasonable 

 hardy and greenhpuse flowers. 



In the class for six show pelargo- 

 niums there were four entries, Will- 

 iam Whitman, M. Sullivan gardener, 

 being first and third, and Mrs. J. L. 

 Gardner, William Thatcher gardener, 

 second. 



For six zonal pelargoniums Daniel 

 Whyte, gardener to Winthrop Ames, 

 won with some fine specimens. Prince 

 Olaf being specially good. E. A. Clark, 

 Alex. McKay gardener, had the best 

 six herbaceous calceolarias. The same 

 exhibitor had a fine vase of American 

 Beauty roses. Dr. C. G. Weld, W, C. 

 Rust gardener, had a fine hybrid Lailio- 

 cattleya, L. C. Hyeana x L. C. Can- 

 hamiana, a decided advance on each of 

 the parents, also Calceolaria Stewarti, 

 golden yellow in color. Mrs. Cornelia 

 Warren, Henry Stewart gardener, had 

 a fine Cattleya citrina and George Page 

 a good specimen of Oncidium spha- 

 celatum. 



Mrs. J. L. Gardner had a nice group 

 of cattleyas and other orchids. Dr. 

 C. G. Weld's new Lajlio-cattleya re 

 ceived a first-class certificate. Miss 

 Cornelia Warren received cultural cer- 

 tificate for Cattleya citrina. 



From the Arnold Arboretum came 

 a large and interesting collection of 

 cut floTtering shrubs, including lilacs 

 in great variety, cornus, forsythias, 

 genistas. Azalea Ka3mpferi, loniceras, 

 exochordas, cercis, spirajas, cerasus, 

 mains, etc. We hope to see further 

 exhibits of this character during the 

 season. 



Various Notes. 



The Boston Flower Exchange has 

 formed a baseball team composed of the 

 following: A. E. Walsh, M. F. Ruane, 

 I>ed Solari, James Murray, William 

 McAlpine, Frank Edgar, James Fileson, 

 Frank Sim and John Cure. Their first 

 game will be played June 3 with W. H. 

 Elliott's, Madbury, N. H., team. 



Hospital tag day at Lynn, May 19, 

 used up large quantities of carnations. 

 The Halifax Garden Co. sold 15,000 

 alone, to go there. These tag and 

 hospital days are good things for the 

 flower market, coming, as they usually 

 do, at a season when flowers are abun- 

 dant and demand not at all good. 



William Sim is picking some 15,000 

 sweet peas daily. The Spencer vari- 

 eties with him promise to have a shorter 

 blooming season than usual. He has set 

 out 8,000 pots of early sweet corn and 

 has also a large acreage planted di- 

 rectly outdoors. He has most of his 

 houses now filled with tomatoes and 

 will commence picking in a day or two. 

 The tomatoes follow the single violets. 



N. Ireland, at one time in charge of 

 the bedding plant department of Dob- 

 bie & Co., Rothesay, Scotland, and 

 lately with Forest Hills cemetery, left 

 this week to be foreman for A. Cowee, 

 Meadowvale Farm, Berlin, N. Y. 



-Gustave Olson, of Woburn, has one of 

 the finest sweet peas now arriving in 

 the market, something in this way of 

 Christmas Pink, but much larger flow- 

 ers. It is a seedling of Mr. Olson's 

 own raising. 



Sidney Hoffman was unfortunate 

 enough to have his right arm broken 

 wnile cranking up his machine near 

 the Park Street Flower Market May 16. 



Penn's, on Bromfield street, is push- 

 ing ahead the alterations on the store 

 one door nearer Washington street, 

 which will be occupied in addition to 

 the present store. Constantly increas- 

 ing business demands more space. 



Perry Green, of Quincy, grows the 

 small-flowered gladioli, such as Peach 

 Blossom and Blushing Bride, well, the 

 stems being splendid. They sell readily 

 at the Boston Co-operative Market. 



Charles Evans, of Watertown, has a 

 fine new Peerless delivery car in which 

 he is bringing in loads of well-grown 

 hydrangeas and Baby Rambler roses 

 just now. 



Spraying operations against the elm 

 beetle, gypsy moth and brown-tail 

 moth started in earnest this week here- 

 abouts and several hundreds of tons of 

 arsenate of lead will be used in the 

 efl'ort to keep them under control. 



The Boston Sunday Herald, May 21, 

 had an appreciative two-column illus- 

 trated article on E. H. Wilson and his 

 several trips to China during the last 

 eleven years. 



A. A. Pembroke is bringing in some 

 splendid Mrs. Francis King and Shake- 

 speare gladioli to the Boston Flower 

 Exchange. His carnations are still of 

 excellent quality. 



The announcement made in this col- 

 umn in the issue of May 11 relative ^o 

 Messrs. Griffin and Head is stated by 

 Mr. Griffin to be incorrect. Mr. Griffin 

 intends to run his business alone, as he 

 is well qualified to do. 



The devastation caused to growing 

 crops by cutworms is serious in this 

 section at present. Several growers find 

 Paris green and sweetened shorts the 

 best bait for the pests. Market grow- 

 ers have suffered severely from their 



PEONY EXHIBITION. 



The annual exhibition of the Ameri- 

 can Peony Society will be held in con- 

 nection w^th the peony show of the 

 Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, in 

 Horticultural hall, at Philadelphia, 

 Wednesday and Thursday, June 15 and 

 16. Exhibits must be staged by 3 p. m. 

 on the opening day. They may be sent 

 express prepaid to David Rust, Horti- 

 cultural hall. Broad street, below Lo- 

 cust, Philadelphia. . The committee in 

 charge is: Chairman, Bertrand H. Farr, 

 Reading, Pa.; J. H. Humphreys, care 

 Andorra Nurseries, Chestnut Hill, Pa.; 

 S. Mendelssohn Meehan, care Thomas 

 Meehan & Sons, Germantown, Pa.; Har- 

 ry C. Sim, care Henry A. Dreer, River- 

 ton, N. J.; J. J. Styer, Concordville, 

 Pa. The premium list of the American 

 Peony Society is: 



COMMERCIAL CLASSES. 



Class 1. Largest and best collection of named 

 varieties, one flower of each, first, $25; second, 

 $15. Offered by American Peony Society. 



Class 2. Best fifty blooms, one variety, named. 



white, first, $10; second, $5. Offered by B. H. 

 Farr, Reading, Pa. / 



Class. 3. Best fifty blooms, one variety, named, 

 (l«rk pink or rose, first, $10; second, $5. Offered 

 by Andorra Nurseries, Chestnut Hill, Pa. 



Class 4. Best fifty blooms, one variety, named, 

 fiesh or saioion-plnk, first, $10; second, $5. 

 (/ffered by Wtage Gardens Co., Queens, N. Y. 



Class 5. Best fifty blooms, one variety, named, 

 .rlmson, first, $10; second, $5. OffaiijLby Tbos. 

 Meehan & Sons, Germantown, Pa. W9 

 AMATEUR CLASSES. 



Open to amateurs and private gardeners only. 



Class «. Largest aud best collection of not less 

 than twenty-five varieties, named, one of each 

 variety, first, $15; second, $10. Offered by 

 T. A. Havemeyer. 



Class 7. Best collection of not less than twelve 

 varieties, named, one of each variety, opeD- Only 

 to e.xhlbltors not residing within 100 miles of 

 Philadelphia, first. $10; second, $5. Offered by 

 Henry A. Ureer, Philadelphia. 



Class 8. Best collection of white varieties, 

 named, one bloom each, first, $(>; second, $4. 

 Offered by W. .\tlee Burpee & Co., Philadelphia. 



Class 9. Best collection of dark pink or rose 

 varieties, named, one bloom of each, first, $6; 

 second, $4. Offered by Robt. Scott & Son, 

 Sharon Hill, Pa. 



Class 10. Best collection of salmon and flesh 

 pink varieties, named, one bloom of each, first, 

 $6; second, $4. Offered by Tbos. Meehan & 

 Sons, Germantown, Pa. 



Class 11. Best collection of tricolor varieties, 

 named, one bloom each, first, $6; second, $4. 

 Oftered by Peter Henderson & Co., New York. 



Class 12. Best collection of crimson varieties, 

 named, one bloom each, first, $6; second, $4. 

 Offered by Geo. H. Peterson, Fairlawn, N. J. 



Class 13. Best six blooms of any one variety, 

 named, first, $0; second, $4. Offered by W. W. 

 KUne, Reading, Pa. 



OPEN CLASSES. 



Class 14. Best six blooms of Duehesse de 

 Nemours, first. $2.50. Offered by F. H. Wild 

 Mural Co., Sarcoxle, Mo. 



Class 15. Best vase of twenty-five pink 

 peonies of one variety, first. $5. Offered by 

 Henry F. Michell Co., Philadeiphia. 



Class 16. Best twelve pink varieties, six 

 blooms eacli. first, $10. Offered by S. G. Harris, 

 Xarrytowii, N. Y. 



Class 17. Best collection of .Japanese varieties, 

 one bloom each, first. $5. Offered by Henry P. 

 Miehell Co., Philadelphia. 



Class 18. Best new American seedling peony, 

 not in commerce previous to 1908, name of 

 originator to be given, first, $10. Offered by 

 .\ndorrn Nurseries, Chestnut Hill, Pa. 



Later information is that the date 

 of the show is changed to Thursday, 

 June 8, and Friday, June 9, owing to 

 the extremely warm weather advancing 

 the crop rapidly. Entries should be 

 made to the secretary, A. H. Fewkes, 

 Newton Highlands, Mass., on or before 

 Monday, June 5. Officers are: Presi- 

 dent, Bertrand H. t'arr, Reading, Pa.; 

 vice-president and acting chairman of 

 arrangements, J. H. Humphreys, Andor- 

 ra Nurseries, Chestnut Hill, Pa.; sec- 

 retary, A. H. Fewkes, Newton High- 

 lands, Mass. 



Two sessions of the American Peony 

 Society will be held Friday, June 9, 

 at Horticultural hall, one in the morn- 

 ing and the other in the afternoon. 

 While weather conditions are unfavor- 

 able at this time, it is hoped that the 

 change in date will meet with general 

 approval and that exhibitors from all 

 sections of the country will come and 

 bring their flowers, thus insuring a 

 successful meeting despite adverse con- 

 ditions. Phil. 



PRIZES FOR GLADIOLI. 



The following is the schedule of 

 prizes for gladiolus blooms, to be ex- 

 hibited at the convention in Baltimore 

 in August, 1911: 



Best and largest collection of blue shades In 

 lots of six separat<~ Colors, not less than twenty- 

 five spikes, silver cup, donated by Vaughan's 

 Seed Store. 



Six spikes any white variety, fifty bulbs of 

 Gladiolus White Lady, donated by M. Crawford. 



Twelve varieties not now on the market, $10, 

 donated by Peter Henderson & Co. 



Collection of ten varieties, six spikes each, 

 IfhK donated by W. Atlee Burpee & Co. 



Vase of twelve spikes of Golden Queen, $5, 

 donated by E. E. Stewart. 



Vase of twelve spikes of President Taft, $5, 

 donated by E. E. Stewart. 



Vase of new seedlings, not less than twenty- 

 five varieties, never before exhibited, $5, donated 

 by B. F. White. 



Vase of twenty-five spikes of one white variety, 

 $5. donated by E. H. Cushman. 



