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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Mabch 30, 1911. 



Pierson Co. 's nephrolepis were superl^Jy 

 grown; N, elegantissima compacta was 

 especially good. 



^. A. Manda had no less than five 

 carloads of exhibits and captured as 

 maiy premiums as anyone in the ex- 

 hibition. He showed in more classes 

 than any other exhibitor. The speci- 

 men Anthurium Andreanum from Mrs. 

 Lester Leland, Eric "Wetterlow gar- 

 dener, and William Thatcher's big 

 Phyllotajnium Lindeni were splendidly 

 grown. Farquhar's thirty-six cycla- 

 mens, which took first prize, were mod- 

 els of cultural skill and a prominent 

 New York retailer remarked that if 

 he could procure such plants in that 

 city they would meet with a*big sale. 



Mayor Fitzgerald, in the course of his 

 remarks at the formal opening in the 

 Paul Kevere hall, said, "I sometimes 

 think that the love of flowers comes 

 down to usirom an ancestral sojourn in 

 Paradise and is older and more natural 

 than original sin itself." His Honor 

 of Boston always has the happy knack 

 of saying something pleasing to his 

 audiences. W. N. Craig. 



THE TRADE EXHIBITION. 



A Conlprehensiye Display. 



The trade display in connection with 

 a flower show was a new feature. The 

 great size of the hall and the need for 

 all the revenue that was legitimately to 

 be had inspired the management to un- 

 dertake what proved to be second only 

 to the largest of August convention 

 showings by the houses seeking patron- 

 age. While the showing was nearly all 

 by eastern houses, and some of the 

 prominent supply dealers, who are in 

 the midst of their Easter rush, were not 

 represented, the display on the whole 

 was comprehensive and much larger 

 than was expected when the idea of 

 such an adjunct was first adopted. The 

 allied trades occupied the entire lowest 

 floor. None of the western greenhouse 

 material houses was represented, but 

 the eastern firms all came in strongly, 

 there being several with elaborate in- 

 stallations who have not been seen at 



an S. A. F. affair in years. The boiler 

 men, too, were strongly represented. 

 The supply houses were put on a bal- 

 cony, where they had large, light quar- 

 ters, excellently adapted to their needs. 

 The plantsmen were placed on the main 

 floor, along with the general exhibits, 

 but they were held to the same rules as 

 the other exhibitors and staged their 

 stock so attractively that few outside 

 the trade appreciated that these ex- 

 hibits had any different character from 

 the others. 



Plants. 



Henry A. Dreer, Philadelphia, did not 

 make a large display, as at the August 

 conventions, but showed a number of 

 specialties, including Cyrtomium Koch- 

 fordii, Ananas sativus variegatus, and 

 Marguerite Mrs. F. Sander, all of which 

 are new. Cibotium Schiedei and Cocos 

 Weddelliana, the latter in the larger 

 sizes only, also were shown. The ex- 

 hibit was in charge of J. J. Karins and 

 J. Hay. 



Eobert Craig Co., Philadelphia, had 

 a trade display that held equal interest 

 with any of the competitive groups. 

 Perhaps most notable was a table of 

 fifty seedling crotons, every one dis- 

 tinct from any variety now in com*^ 

 merce and many of excellent promise. < 

 These are to be disseminated this year. 

 The display of samples of the general 

 stock of crotons contained sixty vari- 

 eties, for the Craigs are the largest 

 growers of crotons in America. The 

 most conspicuous plant in the groups 

 of this exhibitor was Pandanus Pride 

 of Lindhurst, a gold and green sport 

 of Sanderi that originated with John 

 Dodds, gardener to John Wanamaker, 

 and which is to be disseminated by 

 Craig. One of the Craig groups con- 

 tained Dracffina Massangeana, D. ter- 

 minalis, D. fragrans, Areca lutescens, 

 Phoenix Eoebelenii, the entire Boston 

 family of ferns, featuring Harrisii, 

 Pandanus Veitchii, Ficus pandurata 

 and Easter stock of hydrangeas, spi- 

 raeas, rambler roses, etc. The display 

 was in charge of R. A. Craig, W. P. 

 Craig and Duncan Macaw. . 



Not content with entering in compe- 

 tition in most of the fern classes, the 



F. R. Pierson Co., Tarrytown, N. Y., 

 staged in the trade display a large 

 table of the descendants of Boston. 

 The list included the following sorts: 

 Boston, Scholzeli, Superbissima, Elegan- 

 tissima improved, Piersoni, Whitmani, ' 

 Todeaoides, Elegantissima, Elegantissi- 

 ma compacta, Amerpohlii, Scottii, Gia- 

 trasii, Harrisii, a new dwarf .Boston, 

 Viridissima, new, and Muscosa, newest 

 of all save for two that are so new 

 they have not been named. The ex- 

 hibit was in charge of J. R. Pothering- 

 ham and Theodore Trevellian. 



A. N. Pierson, Cromwell, Conn., in 

 the main hall had a large table on 

 which was grouped an extremely large 

 line of commercial stock,, principally 

 plants grown specially for Easter, in- 

 cluding azaleas, rhododendrons, rambler 

 roses, hydrangeas, spiraeas, gardenias, 

 orchids, lilies, etc.; also such begonias 

 as Lorraine, Prima Donna and Glory 

 of Cincinnati; palms, ferns, crotons, 

 cibotiums, Farleyense, ficus. Asparagus 

 Hatcheri, bedding stock and eight vari- 

 eties of young rose stock, both grafted 

 and own-root, the whole finished off 

 with vases of cut flowers of Red Kil- 

 larney. Prince de Bulgarie, Lady Crom- 

 well, Dark Pink Killarney and other 

 roses. W. R. Pierson was in charge, 

 with several assistants. 



Aside from the splendid group of or- 

 chids and many other things entered 

 for competition, Julius Eoehrs Co., 

 Rutherford, N. J., made a large trade 

 exhibit, including commercial sizeS" of 

 crotons, dracaenas, palms, pandanus, 

 boxwood in all forms, bay trees, bego- 

 nias and many other things. In charge 

 of Julius Roehrs, Jr., and R. Muller. 



The Yokohama Nursery Co., New 

 York, had a table of 250 plants in 

 thirty varieties of dwarf evergreens. 

 In charge of A. Kakuda. 



C. Keur & Sons, Hillegom, Holland, 

 had a booth enclosed by boxwoods in 

 many forms, at which they showed 

 their bulbs as flowered by their Boston 

 customers. J. Keur was in charge. 



Lager & Hurrell, Summit, N. J., in 

 addition to its entries, had a trade ex- 

 hibit including a large variety of or- 

 chids, finely flowered, also a number of 



Walsh's Wonderful Roses, Staged at the National Flower Show, Boston, March 25, to April 1. 



