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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



NOVEMBEK 11, 1909. 



B. BuBsell, D. McCrea gardener; Mrs. H. 

 Villard, M. Hayes gardener; Miss Mary 

 ~F!»wer, H. Heath gardener; Mr, Selig- 

 man, J. Brumiger gardener; J. Scott Mc- 

 Comb, H. Kielsing gardener; M. Van 

 Bnren, F. Flanagan gardener; E. "Wil- 

 son; W. H. Brown; Mr. Coster; Mrs. S. 

 Goodman; Mr. Thompson; Edwin Gould. 



The judges were J. Stewart, Thomas 

 Atkinson and E. C. Moore. 



NEW HAVEN, CONN. 



The New Haven County Horticultural 

 Society held its annual autumn exhibition 

 November 2 to 4 at Music hall, it being 

 one of the best shows in the history of 

 the organization. The display was no- 

 table both for number of entries, quality 

 of stock and the number of people who 

 attended. The exhibitor winning the 

 highest number of points was Walter 

 Angus, of Chapinville, with a total of 

 51; J. T. Burns, of Saugatuck, was sec- 

 ond, with 44. Thomas Head, superin- 

 tendent of the M. F. Plant estate at 

 Groton, had some notable entries, on 

 seven lots of stock winning six firsts and 

 one second. Many of the premiums were 

 donated by firms in the trade. 



GLENCOVE, N. Y. 



The fifth annual fall show of the 

 Nassau County Horticultural Society 

 was held in Pembroke hall, Glen Cove, 

 N. Y,, October 28 and 29. The show 

 was a record one for this society in 

 eTcry respect. Chrysanthemums were, on 

 the whole, much better this year than in 

 previous years, and there were more ex- 

 hibits than usual. Vegetables were excel- 

 lent, which gave the judges no small task 

 in awarding the premiums. A novel fea- 

 ture was introduced at this show by Mrs. 

 Stem's prize for a model flower garden. 

 M. Sims, assistant for J. Ingram, Oyster 

 Bay, showed considerable skill in his 

 model, which was awarded first prize. 

 B. Beaton, assistant for S. J. Trepass, 

 •won second with a neatly executed de- 

 gign. E. Mouquin, assistant for G. Wil- 

 son, also showed good taste in the ar- 

 rangement of his model. 



The principal winners in the chrysan- 

 themum classes were: A. Mackenzie, 

 superintendent for Paul Dana; J. E. 

 Elmslie, superintendent for W. L. Hark- 

 ness; W. Eccles, superintendent for M. 

 Schiff, and J. Eobinson, superintendent 

 for C. Hoyt, Oyster Bay. W. Eccles and 

 J. E. Elmslie showed exceptionally fine 

 blooms, Mr. Eccles' vase of Beatrice 

 May in the six white class being the 

 finest ever seen. Mr. Eccles was awarded 

 the prize for the largest bloom in the 

 show, with a bloom of that variety. He 

 also staged a fifty-foot group of mums. 



the class of stock used and the arrange- 

 ment both being fine. 



The principal exhibitors and prize 

 winners in other departments were: W. 

 Eccles, A. Mackenzie, S. J. Trepass, V. 

 Cleves, C. W. Knight, G. Wilson, J. Mac- 

 donald, J. Ingram, J. Robinson, J. F. 

 Johnston, J. Elmslie, R. Cartwright, J. 

 Ross, J. W. Everett, H. Grant (gardener 

 for H. L. Pratt), A. Eeidenbach, H. 

 Matz, F. Pettrocia, G. Highton, J. 

 O'Brien and H. Gaul. 



H. Matz was awarded a certificate of 

 merit for a floral design and a cultural 

 certificate for violets. Mr. Matz also 

 won first prize for a vase of Gerbera 

 Jamesoni. 



The judges, W. Turner, Oceanic, N. 

 J.; J. F. Huss, Hartford, Conn., and P. 

 Duff, Orange, N. J. performed their task 

 creditably. Mr. Duthie made an admir- 

 able manager of the show. W. H. M. 



POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y. 



* ' The most successful show we ever 

 lield, both in attendance and the num- 

 ber and excellence of exhibits," is the 

 report of Secretary Cottam. Fine 

 weather favored both days, which ma- 

 terially helped to swell the attendance. 

 More than 2,000 tickets were sold before 

 the opening day. The admission charge 

 of 25 cents is popular and was taken ad- 

 vantage of by all lovers of the chrysan- 

 themum, which was seen at its best. Some 

 of the finest blooms ever seen by your 

 correspondent were on exhibition and the 

 whole show was all that could be desired. 



The large and handsome armory was 

 prettily decorated for the occasion. Cedar 

 trees, with a lavish use of autumn foliage, 

 together with a fine lot of standard bay 

 trees loaned by the Saltford Flower Shop, 

 made an excellent setting. Overhead 

 were draped the stars and stripes. A 

 musical feature was the placing of an 

 up-to-date Victoria machine at one end 

 of the hall, from which the latest grand 

 opera productions were given. 



Some grand Beauties occupied a long 

 table in the center. The divine flower 

 occupied a cross table, and finer blooms 

 of Enchantress, both white and pink, 

 would be hard to find. 



The trade was well represented. Valen- 

 tine Burgevin's Sons, of Kingston, 

 staged roses and carnations. The Salt- 

 ford Flower Shop had a splendid group 

 of flowering and foliage plants. The 

 Yuess Gardens Co., of Newburgh, occu- 

 pied an alcove with a display of flowering 

 and foliage plants and bulbs for commer- 

 cial use, for which a certificate of merit 

 was awarded. They also exhibited a 

 collection of new single and double varie- 

 ties of mums from Chas. H. Totty, for 

 whom they are agents for the Hudson 

 valley. A vase of blooms of Ivory, a 



lovely rose-pink shade, was shown by 

 Saltford and believed by many to be a 

 sport. It was a clever optical illusion, 

 and illustrated how well a special color 

 can be obtained to order, as it were. 



The collections of vegetables compet- 

 ing for the A. T. Boddington prize were 

 simply perfect, while the exhibit of fruits 

 made one's mouth water and required a 

 strong will power to resist the tempta- 

 tion of sampling each plate. 



William HoweU, superintendent of 

 parks, was a new exhibitor and staged 

 a highly creditable group. He was justly 

 proud of having grown a gloxinia upon 

 which he counted forty-seven blooms. 



Harold G. Cottam, the energetic secre- 

 tary, is an enthusiast on fruits and prom- 

 ises to be one of our leading pomologists 

 in the near future. 



Single chrysanthemums were well 

 shown by H. J. Osterhoudt, of the W. P. 

 Clyde estate. The best four of the Totty 

 introductions, as agreed upon by Louis 

 Wood, of Wood Bros., and the veteran 

 Eobt. W. Allen, of Hudson, are : Pretoria, 

 yellow, with green spot in center of 

 calyx; Jessie Curtis, wine color; Chas. 

 Groves, straw yellow; Mrs. J. Roberts, 

 pink. 



A West Point cadet, who irreverently 

 suggested that many of the specimen 

 blooms could be well used as swipes for 

 the new guns, received a call-down from 

 "Lou," who agreed that, while F. S. 

 Vallis, a lemon yellow flower, was big 

 enough to cover the head of any of Vas- 

 sar's sweet girls, most of the varieties 

 shown were good commercial kinds and 

 did as well on the bench as exhibition 

 blooms. A few were enumerated: Merza, 

 a grand all-around white; W. H. Mohr, 

 Mary Mason, Mrs. Wm. Duckham, Chel- 

 toni, Appleton, Golden Dome, Wm. Duck- 

 liam, Bonnaffon and Beatrice May. 



The prize winning table was a beauty, 

 though simple in arrangement — Cattleya 

 labiata, with maidenhair fern, with gar- 

 denias as favors. M. 



WHITE PLAINS, N. Y. 



The eleventh annual exhibition of the 

 Tarrytown Horticultural Society was 

 held in St. John's haU, White Plains, 

 November 4 to 6. The exhibits in all 

 the classes were excellent, and fully up 

 to the standard of the exhibits of pre- 

 vious years. The competition in many of 

 the classes was very close. In the table 

 decorations there were three tables, all 

 deserving a first prize, but, unfor- 

 tunately, the donor of the prize offered 

 only one — a silver cup. 



The F. R. Pierson Co. put up a fine 

 exhibit of new ferns, including Nephrol- 

 epis viridissima, a variety to be dissem- 

 inated later ; also Nephrolepis elegan- 

 tissima compacta, superbissima, etc. ; 

 also several fine vases of Killarney and 



Fir»t Prize Table of Lily of the Valley Staged at Chicago by Poehlmann Bros. Co. 



