;■ V 



JuxB 8, 1911. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



13 





I i; *; • 



— -."*»«-r.«r^i m, .•*ssw;s;;;rrt 



'«•'•• •>Mji»i;g-t,K rrr.? »■"«:"''•«•<■ f»»J 



**' 



a v.% 







i - I 







V * "V ■ ' 



•'■ ... ■ >• , r -^ 



:^>..^V> -' " 



r.^''-'- -^ ' 



.:^^ 



"Five Acres of Carnations Under One Roof," 



John Waterer, Bagshot, was in strong 

 force with a massive rhododendron 

 bank in which Corona was the newest 

 feature. Pink Pearl, Prometheus and 

 other telling subjects were well dis- 

 played. 



Azaleas of the mollis type — a richly 

 golden colored mound — were delight- 

 fully displayed by E. & G. Cuthbert, 

 Southgate. 



James Veitch & Sons, Ltd., were in 

 the front rank with all classes of stove 

 and greenhouse plants. 



Hardy Flowers and Novelties. 



In hardy flowers the exhibitors were 

 mahy, the collections grand, and the 

 rock garden style of exhibiting greatly 

 admired. Among the notable exhibit- 

 ors of these were Bakers, Wolverhamp- 

 ton; Amos Perry, Enfield; Kelway & 

 Son, Langport; E. "Wallace & Co., Col- 

 chester; W. Artindale & Son, Sheffield, 

 and Carter & Co., London, with a 

 Japanese garden. 



Few certificates were given to new 

 subjects of commercial value; the ma- 

 jority went to fanciers' or specialists' 

 flowers. Among new or recently intro- 

 duced subjects shown were Adiantum 

 Glory of Moordrecht, or the Glory 

 fern, from A. A. Fabius, Eedlands; a 

 new perpetual flowering pink, named 

 Progress, from C. H. Herbert, Acochs 

 Green; three fine zonal pelargoniums, 

 His Majesty, Winter Cheer and Fiscal 

 Reformer, from W. H. Page, Hampton, 

 and a collection of trollius, fine seed- 

 lings, from Cocker & Sons, Aberdeen, 



Bee. 



Tampico, HI. — Fred Shanks, of this 

 town, is planning to erect a greenhouse 

 in the coming fall and grow general 

 stock for the trade. 



AN ANGLO-AMERICAN DINNER. 



The British horticultural traders who 

 visited the United States in March met 

 in London for a reunion dinner, May 

 24, and invited a number of friends so 

 that they might entertain them with 

 stories of their travels. The walls of 

 the dining hall in Anderton's hotel 

 were decorated with the British and 

 American flags; so were the menu 

 cards, and from beginning to end the 

 proceedings were thoroughly Anglo- 

 .4.merican. The menu, however, was 

 British; there were no cocktails and no 

 clam chowder, no iced water and no 

 American Beauties. 



J. S. Brunton discharged the duties 

 of chairman and toastmaster and pro- 

 posed the toasts of "King George V" 

 and ' ' President Taf t, ' ' which were most 

 enthusiastically responded to. He then 

 briefly introduced the speakers in suc- 

 cession, namely, Messrs. Cull, Engel- 

 mann. Graves, Gunn, Prickett, Pratley 

 and South, and America was their 

 topic. Each dealt with a different 

 phase of the trip and J. Simpson 

 summed up by proposing the toast of 

 "American Horticulture," with special 

 reference to the florists' clubs that 

 took the Britishers in hand. It was 

 hoped that Julius Roehrs, who was in 

 London earlier in the day, would attend 

 and respond to the toast. J, Dimmock 

 was commissioned to secure his pres- 

 ence, but both are busy men and both 

 eluded the feast, to the disappointment 

 of assembled guests. In their absence, 

 W. Wiells, of chrysanthemum fame, 

 who visited America a year or two 

 ago, was called upon to fill the breach 

 and, for the timfe being posing as an 

 American, he replied in racy style. 



J. Brown proposed the toast of "The 

 Ladies," delighting the company with 

 his American experiences in which 

 ladies played a part, and American 

 ladies were, of course, "embraced" in 

 the toast. In proposing "The Press," 

 W. H. Page also included the American 

 horticultural press and J. H. Dick re- 

 plied. Altogether, America was fairly 

 booming throughout the various 

 speeches, but at the finish all agreed 

 "there's no place like home." J. 

 Pinches proposed the toast of "The 

 Chairman" and the reunion dinner 

 was voted a great success. Bee. 



NATIONAL SWEET PEA SOCIETY. 



The following additional prizes have 

 been added to the schedule for the ex- 

 hibition to be held in Philadelphia at 

 the end of this month. The prize list 

 now amounts to neatly $600 in cash and 

 cups. 



RET.VILERS' SECTION. 



Class .SC. Table decoration of sweet peas, 

 first. Sl.">; second, $10. 



Class .3 7. Basket of sweet peas, first, 

 ?10; second, %5. 



Class ,18. Bride's bouquet of sweet peas, 

 first, if 10; second, $5. 



Class ;?0. The Stumpp & Walter Co.'a 

 prize for the best three vases of Aurora 

 Spencer, Countess .Spencer and King Edward 

 Spencer, first, S5; second, $3; third, $2. 



Class 40. The John Lewis Chllds prize 

 for the best vase of mixed sweet peas, not 

 more tlian 100 sprays, for amateurs only, 

 lirst. $.">; second, $3; third, |2. 



Class 41. The Aphlne Mfg. Co.'s prize 

 for the best six vases, fifty blooms each, 

 sweet peas, open to florists only, first, $10. 



Class 42. The Sutton & Sons prize (Read- 

 ing, England), cup of the value of $25, for 

 the best table of sweet peas, to be arranged 

 on a space 4x3 feet and not to exceed three 

 feet in height; for amateurs and gardeners 

 only. 



Class 43. Watkins & Simpson's prize, 

 for the best six vases Spencer or Unwin 

 sweet peas, first, >10. 



H. A. Bunyard, Sec'y. 



