Maucii 30, mil. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



The Lower Floor of Mechanic's Building, in a Maze of Allied Trade Exhibits. 



pink from Oottage Gardens, a v.hite 

 from L'ttlefield & Wyman and a erinison 

 from Samuel Kinder. 



The new varieties staged ]ater in- 

 cluded Pocahontas, crimson, and St. 

 Nicholas, scarlet, from Baur & Smith, 

 and the Alma, variegated, from G. II. 

 Sinclair, Holyoke, Mass. Charles 

 Weber, Lynbrook, N. Y., staged 

 Brooklyn, a heavily fringed dark pink. 



The Awards. 



The judges on carnations were C. W. 

 Johnson, R. Witterstaetter, Wm. Nichol- 

 son, Eugene Dailledouze, Joseph Hill 

 and E. A. Stroud. Their awards were: 



One liuiidred white, CottaRO (iaiilens ('o., 

 ytiociiR. N. Y.. first on Alma Ward: M. A. I'at 

 ten & Ci).. Ti'«kKl)iiry, Mass.. spooiid <iii SliaKta: 

 I.ittlefiold & WyiiiMii, North AhiiiKtou, .Mass., 

 thh'd on I'crtectloM. 



One Iinndrt'd fl<'sli pink. .Tohn Burr. Xatick. 

 Mass., first: I'cter FUlier. Kills. Mass.. si'cond: 

 S. J. Oodrtard, Franilnghani, Mass., third; all 

 on Pink IlellKht. 



One hundred liifht pink. John Rurr, first on 

 Wlngor; .losepli Heaeoek Co.. W.viur>te. I'a., see- 

 ond on Dorothj Gordon; Peter Fisher, third on 

 Wlnsor. 



One hundred dark pink. Cottage Gardons Co.. 

 first on Mrs. C. W. Ward; Charles Webt-r, L.vu 

 l)rook, L. I., second. 



One hundred red. U. A. Patten, first; S. .7. 

 Ooddard, second: Peter Fisher, third; all on 

 Beacon. 



One hundred crimson, W. V. Howard. Mllford. 

 Mass.. first on Harry Fenn; Wanoka ({reen 

 liouses, Bariieveld. N. Y.. second wltli Sultana; 

 .tames Wlieeler, Natkk Mass., third on a seed- 

 ling. 



One hundretl vellcw or .yellow variegated. .M. A. 

 Patten, first- on Hnttle Starrltt. 



One iiundred wliite variegated. .M. A. Patten, 

 first on Mrs. C. W. Barron; Wanoka Green- 

 houses, second on Rainbow; John Barr, third on 

 Mr*. B. P. Cheney. 



Fifty White Perfection. S. J. Goddard, first; 

 PeUoe" Bros.. Waitliam, second. 



Fifty White Knchantress, Peter Fisher, first; 

 Pelrce Rros., second. 



Fifty anv otiier white. M. A. Patten, first on 

 Shatta. 



Fifty Enchantress. Peter Fisher, first; William 

 Nicliolsin, second. 



Fifty Pink Dellglit, Peter Fisher, first. 



Fifty anv other fiesh pink. Peter Fisher, first; 

 C. S. Strout, HIddeford, -Me., second; both uii 

 Mplo<ly. 



Fifty Rose-pink Enchantress, Pelrce Bros., 

 second. 



Fittv Winsor, A. A. Pembroke. Beverly, Mass., 

 first; .M. A. Patten, second. 



Fifty Winona, M. \. Patten, first; Pelrce 

 Bros., second. 



Fifty any othef light pink. N. F. Comley, 

 I.exingtju, .Mas^.. second on Mary Tolman. 



Fifty Afterglow, William Nicholson, first. 



Fifty any other dark pink, S. J. Goddard, first 

 on Helen Goddard. 



Fift.v Victory. F. R. Plerson Co., Tan-ytowii, 

 first; C. iS. Strout, second. 



Fifty Beacon, John Barr, first; S. J. Goddard, 

 second. 



Klfty any other scarlet. L. E. Small, Tcwks- 

 biu'y. Mass., first on Scarlet (ilow. 



Fifty Harry Fenn, W. D. Howard, first. 



Fift.v any other crimson, Llttlefieid & Wyninn, 

 first; M. A. Patten, second on Sarali Nicholson. 



Fiftv Mi-s, M. A. Patten, William Nicholson, 

 first. 



I'i'ty yellow variegated. M. A. Patten, first 

 on Hattle Starrltt; Henry Schrade, second on 

 Cunarybird. 



Fifty any other color, M. A. Patten, first oiv 

 .\pple Blossom. 



Best new white. M. A. Patten, first on Gene- 

 vieve; Robert .Main, second on Dorothy Dempster. 



Best new pink, Cottage Gardens Co.. first on 

 No. ."»]S; Henry Elchliolz, second on Princess 

 Charming; W, D. Howard, third on W'Insor 

 sport. 



Best new red. E. G. Hill Co.. RIclimond, Ind.. 

 first on Bonfire: William Kleinheinz, second on 

 Dinipio Weldener. 



Best new crimson, Samuel Kinder, Bristol, 

 R. 1., first on No, l.".. 



Best new variety of any other color, M. A. 

 I'atten. first on Mrs. Barron. 



Sweepstakes for al>ove five classes. .M. A. Pat- 

 ten. S. A. F. silver medal for (Jenevleve and 

 bronze mfdal for Jlrs. Barron; K. (J. Hill Co., 

 third on Bonfire. 



The Americtin Carnation Society's silver medal 

 went to Peter Fisher for Benora. variegated; 

 bronze medal to Wanoka Greenhouses for Rain- 

 bow; certificate of merit to Scott Bros.. Elms- 

 ford. N. Y.. for William Eccles, scoring eighty- 

 five points; I'l'-limiiiarv certificate to William 

 Kleinheinz for Dimple Weidener, scoring clghtv- 

 ftvp points. 



The Ilitchlngs silver cup for best vase In the 

 classes fir 100 blooms went to the Cottage 

 <Jarden« l"o. for Mrs. Ward. 



Ttie Dorner special for IMnk Delight went to 

 S. J. Goddard. 



'I he Kroesdiell gold medal for dozen largest 

 flowers wont to C. S. Strout. 



The Heccock cup for IX>rothy Gordon went to 

 S. J. Go<ldard. 



Fifty Copcpiest, N. F. Comlev. second. 



Fiftv Shasta. .M. .\. Patten, second. 



Fiftv Scarlet (Jlow, L. E. Small, first. 



Fifty Dorothy (Jordon. Wm. Nicholson, second. 



Fifty Bon Ami, M. A. Patten, first. 



THE ROSES. 



Rose Society's Part Well Done. 



Of the special flower societies cooper- 

 ating with the S. A. F. in the National 

 Flower Show it fell to the American 

 Rose Society to set the pace for the 

 others, the roses being put on for an 

 opening attraction. If v/eather condi- 

 tions interfered with the plantsmen, the 

 crop conditions were in favor of the 

 cut flower men, for they had plenty of 

 htock and staged it in far greater quan- 

 tity than at any previous show in the 

 history of the society. The display 



was in charge of Eber Holmes and was 

 ably handled. The exhibits were not 

 ' 'ii.' nu'nerous. but were of extremely 

 fine quality. The classes for Killarney 

 and White Killarney, of course, brought 

 out the keenest competition, there being 

 nine entries in the former and six in 

 the latter. Scarce as Beauties have 

 been, there were five entries and it was 

 H feather in the cap of Bassett & 

 Washburn that their flowers, after hav- 

 ing traveled 1,100 miles and been for- 

 ty-eight hours in the box, should have 

 taken second prize. Poehlmann Bros. 

 Co. was second for White Killarney. 

 These two were the only western ex- 

 hibitors of roses. 



Of special interest were the new 

 roses, and they also were unusually 

 numerous, although some of them, like 

 Hill's Rose Queen and Totty 's Hilling- 

 don, v/ere conspicuous by their absence, 

 their owners using every bit of avail- 

 able wood for propagating. Most nu- 

 merous were the sports of Killarney 

 and White Killarney. These were 

 shown by Robert Scott & Son, S. J. 

 Renter & Son, A. N. Pierson, F. R. Pier- 

 son Co., Waban Rose Conservatories^ 

 and others. In practically every case 

 they show an increase in the number of 

 petals and added size of flower and 

 vigor of growth. A. N. Pierson put up 

 Prince de Bulgarie and Robert Scott & 

 Son had Melody as a center of attrac- 

 tion for the growers looking for roses 

 of a new color. Myers & Samtman 

 showed a fine vase of Hilda, the deeper 

 l)ink sport of Marjiand, and there were 

 several others that will be heard from 

 at a later date. 



The rose plants were an even greater 

 feature than the cut roses. No such 

 displaj-s as those of Thomas Roland 

 and M. H. Walsh have ever been seen 

 in America. Walsh's plants were some 

 of them nine feet high and literally 

 smothered in bloom. He showed many 

 • iM- or his oVn raising, but prob- 

 ably the best of them was Mrs. M. H. 

 Walsh, double white with dark, lustrous 

 green foliage; it gives every promise 

 of taking a leading place among the 

 ramblers. Mr. Roland staged his 

 plants as a rose garden, with a pergola, 



