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NOYEMBKR 16, 1011. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



BEST VARIETIES AT NEW YORK. 



Some notes on the varieties of mums 

 that won premiums at the eightieth 

 annual fair of the American Institute, 

 New York, will be of interest. The 

 quality of the exhibits has never been 

 surpassed. 



In the first class, for twenty-five 

 blooms of one variety, Wm. Vert, gar- 

 dener to Howard Gould, Port Washing- 

 ton, L. T., scored first with F. K. Nash, 

 conceded the finest flowers in the ex- 

 hibition. Other exhibitors in this class 

 were Kobert Spiers, gardener to Mrs. 

 •Tohn E. Parsons, Lenox, ^Mass., who 

 had splendid examples of Mrs. J. C. 

 Neil; Alex. MacKenzie, gardener to 

 Percy Chubb, Glen Covo, Ij. I., whose 

 E. E. Felton were something to be long 

 remembered. 



In the class for thirty blooms, one 

 of each variety, George Middleton, gar- 

 dener to Wm. Eockefeller, Tarrytowii, 

 N. Y., was first. His collection included 

 excellent examples of Mrs. David S>'nii>, 

 Kose Pockett,* Mrs. H. Stevens, Bright - 

 hurst, C. H. Totty, Mrs. H. Partridg-, 

 Wells' Late Pink and Mrs. J. C. Neil. 

 Wm. Vert was second, his finest flowers 

 being W. Woodmason, Leslie Morrison, 

 Wm. Duckham, Pockett 's Crimson, F. E. 

 Nash, Howard Gould and Kara Dow. 

 'Wm. Turner, gardener to M. C. D. Bor- 

 den, Oceanic, N. J., had an exhibit in 

 this class that would easily score first 

 in ninety-nine per cent of the exhibi- 

 tions of the country. His blooms in- 

 cluded splendid examples of W. Mease, 

 Mrs. J. E. Dunne, Wm. Turner and 

 Mrs. David Syme. 



In the class for twenty varieties, one 

 bloom each, Mr. Middleton was again 

 first, his finest flowers being Hon, Mrs. 

 Lopes, Mrs. Partridge, Pockett 's Crim- 

 son and C. H. Totty. Robert Spiers 

 scored second, his best blooms being 

 W. M. Moir, W. Woodmason, Frank 

 Payne and Mrs. J. C. Neil. 



In the class calling for ten varieties, 

 one bloom of each, Mr. Middleton again 

 ^scored first, his best flowers being Mrs. 

 'H. Stevens, Hon. Mrs. Lopes, Mrs. 

 Syme and Mary Mason. Ewen Mac- 

 Kenzie, gardener to Miss Tselin, scored 

 second with beautifully finished blooms 

 of Rose Pockett, Mrs. J. Dunne, Mrs. 

 •I. C. Neil, Mary Mason and Leslie 

 Morrison as his finest flowers. 



In the class calling for ten white 

 Wm, Vert scored first with beautiful 

 Beatrice May. The same exhibitor 

 scored first in ten pink with magnifi- 

 cent flowers of Wm. Duckham. For 

 ten yellow John Everitt, gardener to 

 •T. T. Pratt, Glen Cove, L. L, was 

 first with possibly the finest flowers of 

 Mary Donnellan that have ever been 

 exhibited. Wm. Turner was second 

 with Cheltoni. For ten crimson, Mr. 

 Turner was first with Pockett 's Crim- 

 son. Mr. Everitt scored first for ten 

 bronze, with Mary Mason that were a 

 revelation of the possibilities of this 



variety. Ten blooms in variety was 

 won by Mr. Vert, his best examples 

 being F. E. Nash, Wm. Turner, Pock- 

 ett 's Crimson and Wm. Duckham. 



For six white John T. Burns, gar- 

 dener to Miss C. A. Bliss, New Canaan, 

 (^onn., scored first with Syme, Mr. Vert 

 coming second with the same variety. 

 For six pink Mr. Vert scored first with 

 Duckham. iind Cieo. Hale, gardener to 

 K. 1). Adams, Seabright, N. J., second 

 with the same variety. For six yellow 

 Wm. Turner got first with Mary Donnel- 

 lan, J. T. Burns coming second with 

 the same variety. For six crimson Mr. 

 Turner scored first with Pockett 's Crim- 

 son, and it is a notable fact that this 

 varietv was head and shoulders above 



Nic Greivelding. 



any other crimson in the exhibition. 

 For six bronze Mr. Turner scored first 

 with Glenview. 



In the class for six blooms Japanese 

 incurved, white, the spectacular blooms 

 of the show were exhibited. These 

 were staged bv Alex. Robertson, gar- 

 dener for E. h!^ Wells, Montclair, N. J., 

 the variety being Wm. Turner, and it 

 seemed to be the consensus of opinion 

 that these were the finest flowers that 

 have ever been staged at the Institute 

 and possibly anywhere in the country. 

 This variety is destined to make its 

 way. It is a greatly improved Merza, 

 differing not so much from that variety 

 save in the fact that it is much larger-, 

 it has the same incurving petal and 

 is snow white. It was unanimously de- 

 cided by all present that this exhibit 

 was the finest vase in the entire exhibi- 



tion, ranking in the same class with 

 Nash. Mr. Robertson also scored an 

 easy first for six yellow with F. S. 

 Valiis. Other splendid exhibits were 

 six W. AVoodmason, exiiibited by Mr. 

 V'crt, and six Ramapo by ('arl D. 

 Schafer, Tuxedo, N. Y. Chas. H, Totty 

 staged vases of F. T. Quittenton, Wm. 

 Turner, Felton and several seedlings, 

 including F-G;"), afterwards named An- 

 nie L. Angus; F-91, nanieil Mrs. Harry 

 Turner, and G-26, named Mrs. Peter 

 Duff. The same exhibitor also staged 

 some 1~)0 varieties of singles, pompons 

 and outdoor kinds. The finest singles 

 included Sylvia Slade, deep crimson 

 with a white zone; !^[rs. Sam Atanton, 

 a lovely light pink; Miss Hilda Wells, 

 crimson with a white zone; Miss Mary 

 Pope, possibly the best of the novelties, 

 a lovely light pink, and Alexander Row- 

 bottom, a splendid white. 



In the specimen plant classes Peter 

 Duff, gardener to Mrs. J. Crosby Brown, 

 Orange, N. .1., scored first all through. 

 His specimen white was Lady Lydia, 

 his yellow Mrs. R. Hooper Pearson, and 

 his finest standard, which was a splen- 

 did example of the craftsman's art, 

 was Garza. In the class for six plants, 

 one variety, Harry Turner, superin- 

 tendent for S. ITntermyer, Yonkers, won 

 first with Mrs. David Syme. 



Taking the show as a whole, the 

 striking feature was that there was 

 not a single flower of Col. Appleton 

 staged in the yellow classes. T. Eaton 

 and Yellow Eaton were alike conspicu- 

 ous by their absence. This possibly 

 might have been accounted for in the 

 case of the two latter by their not be- 

 ing ready, but it does not explain the 

 passing away of Appleton from the ex- 

 hibitions. F. E. Nash, as an American 

 seedling, was par excellence, but out- 

 side of this American varieties were 

 poorly represented. Merza must cer- 

 tainly give place to Wm. Turner as the 

 exhibition white, and it would seem as 

 though W^ells' prediction that Turner 

 will displace Syme will be fulfilled an- 

 other year, when the former variety is 

 more generally distributed. 



C. H. Totty. 



A WISCONSIN FLORIST. 



The accompanying illustration shows 

 N. Greivelding among his chysanthe- 

 mums in his range at Merrill, Wis. 

 Mr. Greivelding was born in Luxem- 

 burg, a province of Belgium, and came 

 to this country in the spring of 1892. 

 He worked in the greenhouses of the 

 John A. Salzer Seed Co.. at La Crosse, 

 for seven months and then started in 

 business for himself at Sparta, with 

 only one greenhouse. At the end of 

 five years he sold out to Miss Miriam 

 Jewett and moved to Merrill, where ho 

 ' built two houses. After three years, Ne 

 sold the ground to the county and 

 bought near the city hall. 



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