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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



March 25, 1909. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



Aftermath of Buffalo Meeting. 



The tenth annual meeting of the soci- 

 ety was concluded Thursday evening, 

 March 18, with an informal dinner at 

 the Iroquois hotel, Buffalo, tendered by 

 the Buffalo Florists' Club. 



The re-election of President Poehl- 

 mann and all other officers, except the 

 vice-president, was by acclamation. It 

 is the practice to take the vice-president 

 from the locality chosen for the next 

 meeting, so F. R. Pierson was selected as 

 the representative of New York city, 

 where the meeting of 1910 will be held. 

 The executive committee consists of Wm. 

 F. Kasting, Peter Bisset, Philip Breit- 

 meyer, E. G. Hill, P. Welch and A. 

 Farenwald. 



Eobert Scott & Son, Sharon Hill, Pa., 

 were given a special award for a splen- 

 did exhibit of Rose Mrs. Jar dine. 



The "Waban Rose Conservatories were 

 given a special medal, as well as a cer- 

 tificate, for White Killarney. Their 

 blooms were of exceptional quality. 



In addition to the O. P. Bassett and 

 Dorothy Gordon carnations, mentioned 

 last week, Indianapolis sent its two nov- 

 elties, Shasta, white, from Baur & Smith, 

 and James Whitcomb Riley, yellow, from 

 Bertermann Bros. Co. F. R. Pierson Co., 

 Tarrytown, showed No. 50, pink; No. 60, 

 crimson; dark pink sport of Winsor and 

 variegated sport of White Lawson. W. 

 A. Manda showed his seedling carnation, 

 called Pink Pearl. The carnation novel- 

 ties thus were quite a feature of the rose 

 show. 



The Rose Society has at length put its 

 foot down and set an example to other 

 societies. The new rule is that no special 

 premiums shall be oHfered until they have 

 been deposited with the society. It doubt- 

 less applies to the considerable number 

 of medals that were offered to the soci- 

 ety, free, during the Buffalo meeting. 



R. O. King thought that the comments 

 on the big rose house at North Wales, 

 made at the Chicago meeting last year, 

 have recently been pretty effectively an- 

 swered by the decision of the owners to 

 put up another and still larger house on 

 the same lines, 17.2x700 feet. 



The public attended in goodly numbers 

 and much interest was manifested. The 

 exhibit of the F. R. Pierson Co. 



was the center of attraction, indicating ■ 

 that attention to artistic staging might 

 well be given whenever the public is ca- 

 tered to at flower shows. The White Kil- 

 larney in glass vases, the new nephrol- 

 epises and the mirrors made an effective 

 combination, especially attractive be- 

 cause the competitive exhibits were in 

 the regulation indurated fiber vases. 



F. R. Pierson says the exhibition was 

 one of the finest the society ever has 

 had. The material in his own exhibit 

 was worth $500. It was not a competi- 

 tive display, so there was absolutely no 

 other offset than the advertising va'ue 

 of so notable a group. Mr. Pierson 

 never does anything by halves. 



The more people looked at the show 

 the more they were impressed by the 

 high quality of the stock. While many 

 classes did not fill, there was strong com- 

 petition in others, particularly Beauties 

 and Killarney. 



THE BOSTON EXHIBITION. 



Show of the Co-operative Market. 



The first annual prize exhibition of the 

 Boston Cooperative Flower Market, held 

 in the Music Hall market March 20, 

 proved a grand success, and a splendid 

 lot of plants, cut flowers and floral de- 

 signs were staged. The executive com- 

 mittee, on whose shoulders fell the bur- 

 den of the show, were John McFarland, 

 North Easton ; John Barr, South Natick ; 

 Robert Montgomery, Natick; Albert 

 Roper, Tewksbury, and Albert Batley, 

 Maynard. They deserve much credit for 

 the excellent exhibition. 



The judges, who performed their duties 

 promptly and satisfactorily, were: Roses, 

 A. R. Hutson, William Malloy and A. 

 Cartwright; carnations, L. J. Renter, D. 

 Carmichael and T. Capers; miscellaneous 

 exhibits, William Walke, Daniel Whyte* 

 Thomas Greaves and Samuel Neil ; floral 

 designs, F. H. Houghton, Albert Scott, 

 F. Roberts. 



The Roses. 



Roses made a fine display, decidedly 

 better than the Park Street market had 

 three weeks earlier. Robert Montgomery 

 captured firsts for twenty-five Killarney, 

 twenty-five Richmond and twenty-five 

 Bride, and was second for twenty-five 

 Bridesmaid. W. R. Morris was first for 

 twenty-five Bridesmaid and second for 

 twenty-five Bride. Mr. Montgomery cap- 



tured the Braman-Dow special for Kil- 

 larney and Julius Zinn's cup for Rich- 

 mond. F. R. and P. N. Pierson took the 

 salesman's cup for fifty American Beau- 

 ties with splendid flowers. For fifty Bal- 

 larney, W. H. Elliott took first with mag- 

 nificent flowef 8, much finer than he staged 

 in Buffalo, according to visitors at the 

 show there. They were the feature 

 among the rose exhibits. For fifty Bride, 

 Montrose Greenhouses were first; W. E. 

 Morris, second. For fifty Bridesmaid, 

 W. R. Morris, first; Montrose Green- 

 houses, second. The Schlegel & Fottler 

 cup for the best new rose introduced in 

 1909 went to the Waban Rose Conserva- 

 tories for a fine vase of White Killarney. 

 S. J. Reuter & Son had good vases of My 

 Maryland and Mrs. Jardine, and W. H. 

 Elliott of the old Safrano. 



Carnations. 



There was a large display of carna- 

 tions, some very good blooms being 

 staged. For fifty white, Patten & Co. 

 led with White Perfection; Elijah Cart- 

 wright, second, with Lady Bountiful. H. 

 L. Shedd won for scarlet with Beacon; 

 John Barr, second, with the same variety. 

 For fifty light pink, out of ten entries, 

 John Barr was in the lead with excellent 

 Winsor; Littlefield & Wyman, second, 

 with Enchantress. The last named ex- 

 hibitors had the best fifty dark pink, 

 showing Lawson with splendid stems and 

 flowers; John Barr, second, with Lawson. 

 Wilfrid Wheeler, with Fenn, had the best 

 crimsons; B. P. Winch, second, with the 

 same variety. John Barr and Patten & 

 Co. had the finest variegated, each show- 

 ing Variegated Lawson. 



The T. J. Grey cup, for 100 flowers of 

 an undisseminated seedling, went to A. 

 Roper, for Bay State. Patten & Co. had 

 the best fifty flowers of a seedling white, 

 with a fine vase of Genevieve. L. E. 

 Small won for seedling red, showing an 

 unnamed crimson. Peter Fisher had the 

 best fifty ddrk pink seedlings, with his 

 No. 505, a full double flower. John Barr 

 led in the light pink class, with an 

 unnamed variety. A. Roper captured the 

 prize for fifty scarlet, also for fifty varie- 

 gated, the latter with Bay State. The 

 Breck special, for 100 carnations, any 

 color, went to John Barr, for a fine vase 

 of Beacon. The special of the A. T. 

 Stearns Co., for 100 carnations, mixed in 

 six varieties, was taken by S. J. God- 



The Notable Exhibit of White Killarney Staged at Buffalo by the F. R. Pierson Co., Tarrytown, N.',Y. 



