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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



Mabch 17, 1910. 



THE AMERICAN 



ROSE SOCIEiy 



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The New York Gmventioii. 



The eleventh annual meeting of the 

 American Bo9<^ Society is in progress this 

 week at New York. The Rose Society 

 always has been fortunate in its places 

 of meeting, but never has had a finer 

 location than this year. The American 

 Museum of Natural History is one of 

 the monumental structures of the metrop- 

 olis and affords a setting in a measure 

 similar to that which the exhibition had 

 when it met in the Art Institute at Chi- 

 cago, except that much more room is 

 available. No admission fee is charged 

 at the Museum, and the public is admit- 

 ted to the rose show without cost, result- 

 ing in a much larger attendance than 

 usual. 



The exhibition was staged Wednesday 

 afternoon, March 16, and everything was 

 in perfect readiness at the hour set for 

 the formal opening to the public. The 

 heavily supplied condition of all cut 

 flower markets has operated to the ad- 

 vantage of the society in that exhibits 

 are more numerous than they otherwise 

 would be. It goes without saying that 

 the stock shown is of superlative quality 

 — no rose grower who ever has attended 

 one of the national rose exhibitions would 

 think of putting up anything that fell 

 short of the very highest quality. As 

 last year, White Killarney is the feature 

 of the show, the pink variety being the 

 only rose in any way comparing with it 

 in finish or in the interest of the trade 

 and the public. 



To F. R. Pierson fell the major por- 

 tion of the work of preparation for the 

 show and convention. When it is said 

 that he threw his undivided interest into 

 the work, nothing need be added as to the 

 results — he always gets them. Joseph A. 

 Manda, manager of the exhibition, also 

 has worked tirelessly and handled every- 

 thing in the most satisfactory manner. 

 Held at the same time and place, the 

 Horticultural Society of New York has a 

 successful spring show, classes being pro- 

 vided for all seasonable lines of plants 

 and cut flowers, and the classes well 

 filled. 



The Awards. 



The judges were: Philip Breitmeyer, 

 Detroit; S. S. Pennock, Philadelphia; W. 

 F. Gude, Washington; W. J. Palmer, 

 Buffalo. Tliey began work at 5 p. m., 

 Wednesday, March 16. The awards 

 up to the hour of publication were: 



Hardy rose plants in bloom : H. C. 

 Steinhoff, West Hoboken, first; the Breit- 

 meyer prize: 



Collections of teas or 5. T., in 5-inch 

 pots: H. C. Steinhoff, second; no first; 

 the John N. May prize. 



Collection hybrid perpetuals in 6-inch 

 pots: H. C. Steinhoff, first; the Welch 

 Bros, prize. 



Six climbing roses in 6-inch pots: H. 

 C. Steinhoff, first; Julius Roehrs Co., 

 Butfierford, N. J., second. 



Six rose plants in 7-inch pots: H. C. 

 Steinhoff, first. 



Twelve Baby Ramblers in 4-inch pots: 

 H. C. Steinhoff, first. 



Specimen rose plant: H. C. Steinhoff, 

 first. 



Specimen plant Crimson Rambler: H. 

 C. Steinhoff, first. 



Specimen plant Lady Gay, Julius 

 Roehrs Co., first. 



Specimen plant Hiawatha: Julius 

 Roehrs Co., first. 



Specimen plant Dorothy Perkins: H. 

 C. Steinhoff, first; Julius Roehrs Co., 

 second. 



Twenty-five Beauties : Brant-Hentz Co., 

 Madison, N. J., first; Gude Bros. Co., 

 Washington, D. C, second. 



Twenty-five Bride : Poehlmann Bros. Co., 

 Chicago, first; L. B. Coddington, Murray 

 Hill, N. J., second; the Langjahr prizes. 



Twenty-five Maid: Henry Hentz, Jr., 

 Madison, N. J., first; Poehlmann Bros. 

 Co., second. 



Twenty-five Kaiserin: Robert Scott & 

 Son, Sharon Hill, Pa., first. 



Twenty-five My Maryland : John Welsh 

 Young, Germantown, Pa., first; Ed. 

 Behre, Madison, N. J., second. 



Twenty- five Jardine: Wm. Geiger, 

 Philadelphia, first; Robert Scott & Son, 

 second. 



Twenty-five Gate, Gude Bros. Co., sec- 

 ond; no first. 



Twenty-five Chatenay, Robert Simpson, 

 Clifton, N. J., first; U. S. Cut Flower 

 Co., Elmira, N. Y., second. 



Twenty-five Ivory, U. S. Cut Flower 

 Co., first; Gude Bros. Co., second. 



Twenty- five Sunrise, Benj. Dorrance,. 

 Wilkes-Barre, Pa., first. 



Twenty-five Wellesley, Gude Bros. Co., 

 first. 



Twenty-five Killarney, John Welsh 

 Young, first; William G. Badgley, Chat- 

 ham, N. J., second; the W. F. Sheridan, 

 prize. 



Twenty-five White Killarney, F. B. 

 Pierson Co., Tarrytown, N. Y., first. 



Twenty-five Richmond, A. Farenwald, 

 Roslyn, Pa., first; E. Towill, Hillsdale, 

 Pa., second; the W. G. Badgley prize. 



Twenty-five "any other" rose, Robert 

 Simpson, first; Benjamin Dorrance and 

 Gude Bros. Co., seconds. 



Collection teas or hybrid-teas, cut, Gude 

 Bros, Co., first; the Robert Simpson 

 prize. 



Twelve Maid, open only to private gar- 

 deners, Wm. Hastings, Tuxedo, N. Y., 

 first. 



Twelve "any other" rose, open only 

 to private gardeners, Wm. Hastings, flrrt. 



Dorrance challange prize for display 

 of cut roses, Benj. Dorrance, first. 



Fifty White Killarney, F. R. Pierson 

 Co., first; Waban Rose Conservatories, 

 Natick, Mass., second; the Poehlmann 

 Bros. Co. prize. 



Six rose blooms, in three varieties, U. 

 S. Cut Flower Co., the Moore, Hentz & 

 Nash silver cup. 



Fifty Richmond, to A. Farenwald; the 

 H, E. Froment prize. 



Fifty Killarney, limited to growers 

 with not over 25,000 feet of glass, to 

 W. G. Badgley; the A. J. Guttman prize. 



Awards to the exhibitors in the classes 

 provided by the Horticultural Society of 

 New York included: 



Twenty cyclamens, James Stewart, gardener 

 to F. A. Constable, first. 



Specimen cyclamen, Jas. Stewart first, Mrs. 

 H. Slegel second. 



Six rhododendrons, Wm. Walte, gardener to 

 Samuel Untermeyer, first. 



Six scblzantbus, Wm. Walte first. 



Group of orchids covering 50 feet. Lager A 

 Hurrell first, Julius Roehrs Co. second. 



Specimen Cattleya Trlanse, W. A. Manda first, 

 Julius Roehrs Co. second. 



Specimen Cattleya Schroederiana, W. A. Manda 

 first, Julius Roehrs Co. second. 



Specimen cattleya, Franlc L. Moore first, Lager 

 & Hurrell second. 



Collection of cypripedlums. Lager & Hnrrell 

 first. 



American Museum of Natural History, New York City. 



(Where tiie American Rose Society Is holding its exhibition this week.) 



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