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The Florists' Review 



March 19. 1914. 



BOSTON SPRING SHOW. 



A Fine Display of Plants. 



The spring exhibition, which closed 

 ii^ Boston March 15, was in many par- 

 ticulars the finest ever seen there. 

 Never have hard-wooded plants been 

 of greater excellence. All other pot 

 plants were remarkably good. The 

 showing of cut flowers, however, was 

 n6t up to the mark. The rose men, as 

 usual, made a miserable showing, there 

 b^ing only two entries for over $300 

 worth of premiums. The carnation 

 men did better, but ought to have made 

 a much finer showing. 



Thomas Roland's wonderful group of 

 hard-wooded plants, which was awarded 

 a special diploma, was easily the great- 

 est feature of the show; every, plant 

 was a specimen in perfect condition. It 

 included some beautiful plants of aca- 

 cias, Baileyana, longifolia, pubescens 

 and heterophylla among them; also 

 such charming sorts as A. hispidissima, 

 paradoxa, paradoxa pendula, spiralis, 

 lineata and Drummondii. Finely flow- 

 ered ericas were used for a bordering. 



and Cattleya Trianaj third. The new 

 hybrid phalsenopsis, leucorrhoda, and 

 Cattleya intermedia alba were among 

 the certified varieties. 



Eric H. Wetterlow, gardener to Mrs. 

 Lester Leland, who hfid the finest cy- 

 clamens in the show, and these are al- 

 ways well done at the Boston shows, 

 also showed some genistas, Erica melan- 

 thera and boronias trained as bas- 

 kets, chairs and tables. 



Rhododendron Pink Pearl and White 

 Pearl were featured in a number of 

 groups and were evidently popular with 

 the visitors. William Thatcher, gar- 

 dener to Mrs. J. L. Gardner, and Mar- 

 tin Sullivan, gardener to W. Whitman, 

 had some grand cinerarias and schizan- 

 thus. These exhibitors, with J. L». 

 Smith, gardener to A. W. Preston, and 

 Alex. McKay, gardener to E. A. Clarke, 

 showed Dutch bulbs of grand quality. 

 Among the large trumpet narcissi Van 

 Waveren's Giant, King Alfred, Va- 

 nilla, Glory of Leiden and Trumpet 

 maximus were noteworthy. Among 

 tulips Pink Beauty, Duchess of Parma, 

 Joost van Vondel, white; Flamingo, 

 Murillo, Gouronne d'Or and Queen of 



Thomas Roland's Splendid Group oi Hard-wooded Plants at the Boston Show. 



the Netherlands were extra good, while 

 a few of the finest hyacinths were King 

 of the Yellows, Kohinoor, La Victoria, 

 Queen of the Blues, Moreno, La Grand- 

 esse, Lord Derby and King of the Blues. 



The group of roses, genistas and aza- 

 leas from W. W. Edgar Co. was extra 

 fine. The cyclamens from the Fottler, 

 Fiske, Rawson Co. were splendid com- 

 mercial plants, being stocky and heav- 

 ily flowered. 



The vases of Killarney Queen and 

 Mrs. Russell roses on 6-foot stems, from 

 Waban Conservatories, were grand. 

 Their new rose, Mrs. Moorfield Storey, 

 awarded*a silver medal, is o* a lovely 

 soft pink shade. It kept fresh right 

 through the show and was greatly ad- 

 mired. Hadley, from the Montgomery 

 Co., took everyone's eye. Its delight- 

 ful perfume could be detected some 

 distance away. 



A. A. Pembroke had the field almosl 

 to himself in the carnation classes. His 

 White Wonder, White Enchantress, Be- 

 nora. Pink Delight and Rosette were 

 extra fine. In the class for 100 blooms, 

 Albert Roper's new variety. Miss Alice 

 Coombs, beat Pembroke's Benora. Pat- 

 ten & Co. had fine Princess Dagmar. 

 Matchless, from Cottage Gardens Co., 

 loomed up well, as did Pink Supremo 

 from J. Leach & Son, and Improved En- 

 chantress from R. D, Kimball. William 

 Sim's sweet peas were a^ fine as ever. 

 In the antirrhinum class, Nelrose won 

 over Buxton's Pink. Both were well 

 shown by Geo. E. Buxton. James 

 Wheeler's yellow marguerites were 

 splendid. Walter Angus had an ex- 

 tensive collection of camellias; these 

 are becoming quite popular again. 



S. J. Goddard had a fine honorary 

 display of carnations, including Yellow- 

 stone, Rosette, Benora, Pink Delight, 

 White Wonder and Gloriosa. 



There were twelve entries for the 

 best dinner table decoration, most of 

 the large retailers competing. Society 

 ladies officiated as judges. P. E. 

 Palmer's first prize table had a charm- 

 ing and simple centerpiece of yellow 

 daffodils and Acacia pubescens. For 

 corsages he used daffodils and violets. 

 Hoffman, who was second, used Azalea 

 mollis in light shades. MacMulkin was 

 third, with a pretty arramgement of 

 Prunus triloba and light pink Azalea 

 Indica. 



melanthera, codonodes, persoluta alba 

 and persoluta rosea being included; 

 also boronias, chorizemas, epacris, light- 

 colored camellias and other subjects. 

 Mr. Roland had also three large iind 

 superbly fiowered plants of Erica me- 

 lanthera, which stood at intervals on 

 the lecture hall fioor. These were eight 

 to nine feet high and six to seven feet 

 across, probably the most wonderful 

 specimens of this heath ever exhibited. 

 They were awarded a gold medal. 



There were splendid collections of 

 hard-wooded plants from Larz Ander- 

 son, Duncan Finlayson, gardener; Miss 

 C. Warren, H. Stewart, gardener; 

 Thomas E. Proctor, James Marlborough, 

 gardener; Walter Hunnewell, T. D. Hat- 

 field, gardener; W, W. Edgar Co., and 

 others. 



The orchid groups by F. J, Dolan- 

 sky, Edward MacMulkin and Larz An- 

 derson were noteworthy. The last named 

 group contained a beautiful collection 

 of cymbidiums. Dendrobium nobile 

 won for the best specimen orchid, 

 Ccelogyne cristata alba being second. 



Group at the Boston Spring Show Staged by Duncan Finlayson. 



