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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



NOVKMBKU 11, 1909. 



B. Russell, I). McCrea gardeuer ; Mrs. H. 

 Villard, M. Hayes gardener; Miss ]Mary 

 Flower, 11. lleatli gardener; -Mr, Selig 

 niaii, J. Brumiger gardener; J. Scott Me- 

 Conib, H. J\iel.^ing gaideuer; M. ^'an 

 Bnien, F. Flanagan gardener; E. Wil- 

 son; \V. II. Brown; Mr. Coster; Mrs. 8. 

 Gocidnian; Mr. Thompson; Edwin (ionld. 



The judges were J. Htewarl. Tlionias 

 .Xtkinsdii and K. C. Moore. 



NEW HAVEN, CONN. 



T(i< New Haven County Horticultural 

 Society hcM its annuiil aulunm e.xliibition 

 Novciniier i' tn -1 at .Music hall, it being 

 one el' the liest shows in the history ot 

 the urganizatiun. The disjilay was nn- 

 tal.k both for number ol' entries, quality 

 (tV vtiick and the number of iieople who 

 atleiidi'd. The fxliiliitin' winning- tlic 

 liigiK'^i iiuniliiT uf ]i(du1s was Walter 

 Angii-, di' <,'haiiin\ ille, with a total uf 

 .01; .1. T. lluins, uf 8augatuck, was sec- 

 oiul, with ) 1. Tlionuis Head, superin- 

 tctnii'iit of till' M. F. Plant estate at 

 (jrntioi. iiail Slime notable entries, on 

 seven kits ni stuck winning six lii'sts and 

 one second. Many of the piemiums were 

 ddfiated li\' firms in the trade. 



GLENCOVE, N. Y. 



The- fiftii annual fall show of the 

 Nassau County Horticultural Society 

 was held in I'embroke hall, Cicn Co\e, 

 N. y.. October L'S and 29. The show 

 »vas a record one for this society in 

 every resjiect. Chrysanthemums were, on 

 thf -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. 

 Stern'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 jirize. 

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

 Tvon second with a neatly executed de- 

 »igB. E. Mouquin, assistant for G. Wil- 

 son, also showed good taste in the ar- 

 Tangement of his model. 



The jirincijial winners in the chrysan- 

 Ihemum classes were: A. Mackenzie, 

 superintendent for Paul Dana; J. E. 

 Elmslie, superintendent for W. L. Hark- 

 ness; W. Ecc-les, superintendent for M. 

 Schiff, and ,1. Koldnson. superintendent 

 f(iT C. Hoyt, Oyster Bay. W. Eccles anil 

 J. E. Elmslie showed exceptionally fine 

 blooms, Mr. Eccles ' vase of Beatrice 

 May in the six white class being the 

 finest e\fi- scin. Mr. l-lccles was awarded 

 the pri/c for tlic largest bloom in the 

 slidu, wiili a bloom of tiiat variety. He 

 also -la^rd .-1 lilty fiKit group of mums. 



the class of stock used and the arrange- 

 ment both being line. 



The )irinci])al exhibitors and prize 

 winners in other depaitnu'Uts were: \V. 

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

 • leves, C. W. Knight, C. Wilson, J. Mac 

 donald, .1. Ingram, J. Bobinsou, J. !•". 

 .lohnston. ,1. J-]]mslie, R. Cartwright, J. 

 K'oss. ,1. \V. Kverett, H. Grant (gardener 

 lor H. H. Pratt), A. Reidenbach, II. 

 Matz. J'. I'ettrocia, G. Highton, J. 

 ! ) 'Mrien ami H. Ciaul. 



H. Matz was awartlod a certificate of 

 merit for a tloral design and a cultural 

 ceitilicate for \iolets. i\Ir. Matz also 

 won lirst piize fur a \ase of Gei-l)era 

 .lamesoni. 



The judijis. \\'. Tui'ner. Oceanic, X. 

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

 Dull', (Jraii^e. X. .1. performed tlieir task 

 creilit.ably. Mr. Hutliie made an aduiir 

 alili' manager ol' tiie show. W. II. M. 



POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y. 



■'The nu st successful simw \\c' excr 

 lield. both in attemlance anil the iium- 

 lier and excellence of exiiibits.'' is the 

 leport of Secrttary CottJim. Fine 

 weather fa\(ired both ilays, which ma- 

 terially helped to swell the attendance. 

 .More than L'.DUO tickets were sold before 

 the opening day. The admis-ion charge 

 of l';j cents is popular and was taken ad- 

 vantage of by all lovers of the chrysan- 

 tiienuim, whi(di ^\:ls seen at its best. Some 

 of the finest Idooms ever seen by your 

 correspondent were on exhibition and the 

 whole show was all that could be desired. 



The large ami handsome armory \\as 

 jirettily decorated for the occasion. Ceilar 

 trees, with a lavish use of autumn foliage, 

 together with a fine lot of st.'indard bay 

 trees loaned by the Salt ford Flower Shoji, 

 made an excidlent SL'tting. Overhead 

 were draped tiie stars and slri[ies. A 

 musical featiire was the {>lacing of an 

 up-to-date \'ictoria machine at one end 

 of the hall, from \vhich the latest grand 

 opera productions \vere 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 jdnk, 

 would be hard to fiml. 



The trade was well represented. Valen 

 tine Burgexin's Sons, of Kingston, 

 staged roses and carnations. The Salt- 

 ford I-'lo\ver Slioji had a sjdendiil group 

 of flowering ;ind foliage plants. The 

 Vuess C!;irdens ('o., of Xewliurgh, occu- 

 pied ;in ;ilco\-e 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 

 \aliey. .\ vase ol' liiooins of I\orv. il 



lovely ro.-:e-pink shade, was shown by 

 Saltford and beUeved by many to be a 

 sport. Jt was a clever optical illusion, 

 and illustrated how well a si)ecial color 

 can be obtained to order, as it were. 



The collections of vegetables compet- 

 ing for the A. T. lioddington prize were 

 simply ])erfect, while the exhibit of fruits 

 made one's mouth water and required a 

 striuig will power to resist the tempta- 

 tion of samjiling each plate. 



William Howell, .'superintendent of 

 parks, was a new exhibitor and staged 

 a iiighly creditable group. He was justly 

 jiroud 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 chrvsanthemums were well 

 shown by H. j". Osterhoudt, of the W. P. 

 <Tyde estate. The lie.st four of the Totty 

 introductions, as agreed upon by I^ouis 

 Wood, of Wood iJros., and the veteran 

 liobt. W. Alien, of Hudson, are: Pretoria, 

 yellow, with gieen 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 

 Idooms could be well used its swipes for 

 the new guns, received a call-down from 

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

 N'allis, a lemon yellow flower, was big 

 enougli 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. II. Mohr, 

 Mary Mason, Mrs. Wm. Duckham, Chel- 

 toui, Appleton, Golden Dome, Wm. Duck- 

 ham. IJonnairon and Bt'atrice May. 



The prize winning table was a beauty, 

 though simple in arrangement — Cattleya 

 labiata, with maideiditiir fern, with gar- 

 denias as favors. M. 



WHITE PLAINS, N. Y. 



The eleventh annual exhibition of the; 

 Tarry town Horticultural Society was 

 heliT in St. .lohn's hall. White 'Plains, 

 November -1 to 0. The exhibits in all 

 the (lasses were excellent, and fully up 

 to the standard of the exhibits of jire- 

 vions years. The comjietition 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 ofl'ered 

 onl.y one — a silver cup. 



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

 exhibit of new- ferns, inchuling Nephrol- 

 epis viridissima. a ^ariety to be disseni- 

 inateil later; also Xei)hrolepis elegan- 

 tissima coin|iact;i, superbissima, etc.; 

 also several line vases of Killarnev and 



First Prize Tabic of Lily of the Valley Staged at Chicago by Poehlmann Bros. Co. 



