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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



NOVBUBEB 11, 1909. 



** Part of the Roses and Carnations at tfie Chicago Exhibition, November 2 to 7» 1909. 



Beauty prize in the rose classes the day 

 before, was the principal event of the 

 show from a trade standpoint. Nic 

 Zweifel, C. C. Pollworth Co. and Manke 

 Bros, all showed splendid stock. White 

 Perfection was easily the leader in its 

 color, and the finish on Zweifel 's 100 

 blooms of this was exceptional, and 

 Pollworth 's Perfection in the class for 

 fifty blooms also gave Chicago growers 

 a new conception of Milwaukee prowess. 

 Mr. Zweifel 's Winsor also were notable 

 for the season, and local growers admired 

 this vase as much as anything in the 

 show. Among the new sorts Zweifel 's 

 100 blooms of Bright Spot showed that 

 the variety has been well named. Good 

 growers predict a future for this. It 

 defeated in the class for 100 blooms, 

 dark pink, two splendid entries of After- 

 glow and Lawson. 



Among the other new varieties Dorothy 

 Gordon, sent from Philadelphia by the 

 Joseph Heacock Co., attracted much at- 

 tention. The growers all seem to like its 

 looks. It was not entered for competi- 

 tion. Neither did Shasta compete, but a 

 vase fii it was exhibited by Baur & 

 Smith, Indianapolis. The Chicago Carna- 

 tion Co. won the premium for 100 any 

 other color, with its new variety Con- 

 quest, and Sangamo, which A. C. Brown 

 and the Chicago Carnation Co. are jointly 

 disseminating, carried oflf the premium 

 for 100 light pink. Mary Tolman was 

 exhibited by A. E. Hunt & Co., Evans- 

 ton, 111., and the Chicago Carnation Co. 

 Charles Knopf Floral Co., Eichmond, 

 Ind., had its new pink. Admiration, and 

 a seedling of promise. No. lA. The 

 Miami Floral Co., Dayton, O., showed 

 Miami Queen, a pink which is to be ,^is- 

 seminated this season, and No. 140, a 

 pink, the result of crossinsr Enchtotress 

 and Nelson Fisher, but this latter had 

 traveled badly. Bassett & Washburn 

 showed a new pink, No. 36. 



The awards on carnations were as fol- 

 lows : 



Fifty White Lawson, Poehlmann Bros. 

 Co., first. 



Fifty White Enchantress, C. C. Poll- 

 worth Co., first; Chicago Carnation Co., 

 second. 



Fifty White Perfection, C. C. Poll- 

 worth Co., first; Chicago Carnation Co., 

 second. 



Fifty Victory, Nic Zweifel, first; C. C. 

 Pollworth Co., second. 



Fifty O^P. Bassett, Bassett & Wash- 

 burn, first. 



Fifty Beacon, C. C. Pollworth Co., 

 first; Manke Bros., second. 



Fifty Winsor, Nic Zweifel, first; C. C. 

 Pollworth Co., second. 



Fifty Enchantress, Nic Zweifel, first; 

 C. C. Pollworth Co., second. 



Fifty Mrs. Lawson, Manke Bros., first. 



Fifty Eose-pink Enchantress, Chicago 

 Carnation Co., first; Des Plaines Floral 

 Co., second. 



Fifty Afterglow, Chicago Carnation 

 Co., first. 



Fifty any other flesh pink, Poehlmann 

 Bros. Co., first on May Day. 



Fifty any other light pink, Poehlmann 

 Bros. Co., first; Des Plaines Floral Co., 

 second, both on Winona. 



Fifty any other dark pink, Des Plaines 

 Floral Co., first on Aristocrat. 



Fifty Variegated Lawson, Poehlmann 

 Bros. Co., first. 



Fifty flesh pink, introduction of 1909, 

 Poehlmann Bros. Co., first on May Day. 



Fifty dark pink, introduction of 1909, 

 Chicago Carnation Co., first. 



Fifty red, introduction of 1909, Bas- 

 sett & Washburn, first on O. P. Bassett. 



100 white, Nic Zweifel, first; Poehl- 

 mann Bros. Co., second; Chicago Carna- 

 tion Co., third, each with White Perfec- 

 tion. 



100 flesh pink, Chicago Carnation Co., 

 first, with Enchantress ; F. Dorner & Sons 

 Co., second, with Pink Delight. 



100 light pink, Chicago Carnation Co., 

 4rst, with Sangamo; Poehlmann Bros. 

 Co., second, with Winona. 



100 dark pink, Nic Zweifel, first, with 

 Bright Spot; Poehlmann Bros. Co., sec- 

 ond, with Afterglow; Poehlmann Bros. 

 Co., third, with Lawson. 



100 red, Chicago Carnation Co., first, 

 with Beacon; Bassett & Washburn, sec- 

 ond, with O. P. Bassett. 



100 any other color, Chicago Carnation 

 Co., firpt, with Conquest. 



Saturiji^ the seedling carnations were 

 on view, "but their number was few. In 

 the class for twenty blooms white, F. Dor- 

 ner & Sons Co., La Fayette, Ind., was the 

 only exhibitor, with No. 68-05, which 

 scored 86 points and later took the sweep- 

 stakes cup for best seedling entered in 



any of the seven classes. Dorner & Sons 

 Co. also had the only red, Hoosier Lad, 

 which scored 85 points. In the class for 

 flesh pink the Chicago Carnation Co. en- 

 tered Mary Tolman, which scored 79 

 points. In the class for light pink the 

 Chicago Carnation Co. put up Sangamo, 

 which scored 85 points. For dark pink 

 N. Zweifel showed Bright Spot, which 

 scored 85 points. All scoring 85 or more 

 were given the society's certificate of 

 merit. 



New Chryianthemumt. 



There was light competition in the class 

 for chrysanthemum cut blooms of seed- 

 lings, sports and undissepiinated impor- 

 tations. In the class for six white, E. G. 

 Hill Co. was first for a variety exliibited 

 as No. 97, but later named Eloise Pap- 

 worth, which scored 88 points on the com- 

 mercial scale and 87 on the exhibition 

 scale. In the class for six pink lighter 

 than Morel, F. Dorner & Sons Co. was 

 first with a variety No. 1-08, which scored 

 83 points on the commercial scale and 77 

 on the exhibition scale. For six any other 

 color, E. G. Hill Co. was first with a lav- 

 ender sort designated as No. 109, which 

 scored 85 points on the exhibition scale. 

 The sweepstakes cup awarded to the best 

 exhibit in the above classes went to the 

 Hill Co. for Eloise Papworth. E. D. 

 Smith & Co. exhibited a red seedling des- 

 ignated as 410-9-08 and a white seedling 

 known as 42-4-08. 



Private Gardeners' Exhibits. 



The private gardeners had their day 

 November 5. The awards were : 



Ten geraniums in bloom, Robert T. Mueller, 

 gardener to A. S. Trude, first. 



Specimen palm, R. T. Mueller, first. 



Croton, John Cook, UnlTersIty of Chicago, 

 first; R. T. Mueller, second. 



Dracaena, R. T. Mueller, first. 



Pandanns, R. T. Mueller, first; John Cook, 

 second. 



Best decorative plant other than the above, 

 John Cook, first; R. T. Mueller, second. 



Boston fern, John Cook, first; Peter Scbllt, 

 t»eaaA: 



Flowering plant, R. T. Mueller, first; John 

 Dahl, seeoml. 



Norel plant, John Cook, first. 



Speelmen chrysanthemum plant, R. T. Muel 

 IcT, tnt: Joseph Ko«krzcwski, second. 



Standard chrysanthemum plant, R. T. Mueller, 

 Itrut; Joseph Koskrsnraht, second. 



"Bitlt stMiAird chrrsnntbpmuni plant, R. T. 

 Maattc*» lint; Xosepb Koaknewski, second. 



