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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



September 23, 1909. 



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number of queries were asked and an- 

 swered and the speaker given a hearty 

 vote of thanks. 



It was announced that at the October 

 meeting J. K. M. L. Farquhar would de- 

 liver a stereopticon lecture on bulbs. 

 The date was set as October 26, the New 

 England fruit show conflicting on Octo- 

 ber 19. Five new members were elected. 

 Refreshments were served and the first 

 fall meeting proved a rousing success in 

 every way. 



Autumn Exhibition. 



The annual fall show of fruits, vege- 

 tables and cut flowers of the Massachu- 

 setts Horticultural Society, September 17 

 to 19, brought out a fine exhibition. There 

 were no money prizes offered for flowers, 

 but they were shown in large quantities, 

 herbaceous plants, dahlias and gladioli 

 being the leading features. E. & J. 

 Farquhar & Co. were again the largest 

 exhibitors. Their fifth exhibit of herba- 

 ceous plants, the last of the season, 

 earned for them a well-merited gold 

 medal. Never have finer displays of 

 liardy flowers been made than by them 

 (luring 1909. The last group covered 500 

 square feet of floor space, and the intro- 

 duction of a pool of water and fountain 

 made a pleasing innovation. The same 

 exhibitors secured a silver medal for a 

 large table of dahlias, artistically ar- 

 ranged, a first-class certificate being 

 given to Bertha von Suttoner, a beauti- 

 ful new salmon-pink peony-flowered vari- 

 ety, with flowers six to eight inches 

 across. 



B. Hammond Tracy had hundreds of 

 fine spikes of gladioli. Maiden's Blush, 

 Princess Sandersoni, Harvard, Kathryn, 

 Fireside and Dawn being specially good. 

 William Whitman filled several tables 

 with asters, dahlias, marigolds and 

 herbaceous plants. Mrs. J. L. Gardner, 

 William Thatcher gardener, had a 

 grou]) of well-grown anthuriums and 

 other tropical plants. Mrs. E. M. Gill 

 liad her usual interesting miscellaneous 

 display, dahlias being fine. Joseph Thorpe 

 liad a splendid lot of cactus dahlias. W. 

 A. Eiggs had good peony-flowered and 

 cactus dahlias. Mrs. L. A. Towle, John 

 K. Alexander and H. F. Burt had exten- 

 sive collections of dahlias. Messrs. Alex- 

 ander and Burt each secured bronze 

 medals. Herman L. Winter had a beau- 

 tiful amateur's display of dahlias, and 

 other collections came from J. H. Flint, 

 A. E. Johnson and W. D. Hathaway, the 

 last named securing a first-class certifi- 

 cate. 



Old Town Nurseries and Bellevue Nur- 



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series each had groups of herbaceous 

 plants. Walter Hunnewell, T. D. Hat- 

 field gardener, received a silver medal 

 for twenty varieties hardy perennials, the 

 competition closing with the present 

 show. Mrs. J. C. Whitin, William Mc- 

 Allister gardener, had the best collection 

 of indoor grapes, showing two fine 



bunches each of Mrs. Pierce, Gros Guil- 

 laume, Muscat of Alexandria, Golden 

 Queen and Black Alicante. There were 

 unusually good displays of fruits and 

 vegetables. 



The sum of $5,000 will be offered in 

 prizes at the coming New England fruit 

 show at Horticultural hall, October 19 to 



