JULY 25, 1912. 



The Florists^ Review 



General View of Goatt's Picpued Foliage Plant, Hammond, Ind. 



in a similar temperature, but My 

 Maryland requires more heat in win- 

 ter. In order to get strong plants, 

 which will furnish you a good Christ- 

 mas crop, you should get your benches 

 or beds prepared and plant young 

 stock as soon as possible. C. W. 



ENGLISH ROSE SOCIETY. 



Annual Show. 



The annual rose show was held in the 

 Boyal Botanic Gardens, London, July 9, 

 on a glorious summer day. The gardens 

 were thronged with thousands of visit- 

 ors, listening to and enjoying the music 

 in the open air and pushing their way 

 through the tents with difficulty to see 

 the roses, the crowd surging thickly 

 around the tents containing the novel- 

 ties and special blooms. It was a great 

 show, with the leading growers present 

 in strong force. 



The principal novelty was Mrs. An- 

 drew Carnegie, a hybrid tea raised by J. 

 Cocker & Sons, Aberdeen. It was the 

 sensational rose of the day and it proba- 

 bly has a good future as a commercial 

 variety. It is a cross between Frau 

 Karl Druschki and Niphetos, possessing 

 all the good qualities of the Druschki 

 flower; of a pleasing lemon tint; 

 scented; full and free. Eosarians gen- 

 erally were loud in their praises of it 

 and the judges awarded it the society 's 

 gold medal. A second gold medal went 

 to another hybrid tea, Old Gold, from S. 

 McGredy & Son, Portadown, Ireland, a 

 good decorative variety, with fiery cop- 

 per and orange shades or a lovely com- 

 bination of golden tints. 



Good Novelties. 

 Though failing to win the coveted 

 gold medal, quite a large array of seed- 

 ''Jigs, some of them exceptionally good, 

 ran up pretty closely and gained the sil- 

 y^ gilt medal. The list included the 

 lollowing hybrid teas: Mrs. F. W. Van- 

 jerbilt, after the style of Betty, with 

 ^Her flower and more intense in shade; 

 ^i'«. E. Part, pale, creamy pink, with 

 glowing carmine on reverse of petals; 

 j^ady Mary Ward, glowing orange tints, 

 ''f form, medium size, reminding one 

 ?i the tints in Lyon rose. The forego- 

 ing three were from S. McGredy & Son. 

 ^'•'x. Dickson & Sons, Newtownards, 

 l^cre scored with Queen Mary, a strik- 

 jng novelty, after the style of Juliet, 

 ^I't not quite so large; bright yellow on 

 ^^'^^■rse of petals. 



Hugh Dickson, Belfast, had two nov- 

 elties in the honors list — Mrs. Cooper, 

 rich salmon rose, full and free, good 

 form, and Mrs. Charles Hunting, rich 

 buflf, shaded pink, fine form. 



Lowe & Shawyer, Uxbridge, won ap- 

 proval, also, with two promising com- 

 mercial varieties — Mrs. Alf ord, a superb 

 rose on fine stems, after the style of 

 Mme. A. Chatenay, more creamy in 

 color, fine shape, and Mrs. Charles Reed, 

 rich cream, overlaid with pink, fine 

 shape and quite free. Sunburst, exhib- 

 ited by Beckwith & Son, Hoddesdon, in 

 addition to all the foregoing, also re- 

 ceived a silver gilt medal. 



Competitive Classes. 



The championship prize for seventy- 

 two blooms, distinct varieties, was 

 awarded to Alex. Dickson & Sons. It 

 was a grand display and contained re- 

 markably fine blooms of George C. 

 Wand, Mrs. E. Mawley, Horace Vernet, 

 Earl of Warwick, A. K. Williams, etc. 

 R. Harkness & Co., Hitchin, were placed 

 second, and D. Prior & Son, Colchester, 

 third. 



The best individual blooms in the 

 show, for which silver medals were 

 awarded to the exhibitors, were White 

 Maman Cochet, George Dickson, A. K. 

 Williams, Avoca and Horace Vernet. 



There were 109 competitive classes, 

 all well contested, and the leading prize 

 winners included B. R. Cant & Sons, 

 Colchester; G. Prince, Oxford; G. & W. 

 H. Burch, Peterborough; W. & J. 

 Brown, Peterborough; J. Burrell & Co., 

 Cambridge; G. Paul & Son, Cheshunt; 

 Hobbies, Ltd., Dereham; Stuart Low & 

 Co., Bush Hill Park, and W. Easlea, 

 Eastwood. Bee. 



THEY DO IT HEBE NOW. 



Ever since florists discovered the 

 many uses and value of prepared foliage 

 for wreaths and decorations of all 

 kinds, Europe has been looked to as the 

 source of supply, and the jobbers have 

 been kept busy importing to meet the 

 demand. Now all is changed, for Ham- 

 mond, Ind., is the possessor of the up- 

 to-date plant shown in the accompany- 

 ing illustrations, where prepared oak 

 sprays, magnolia and cycas leaves, 

 ruscus, beech sprays, etc., are manufac- 

 tured in large quantities for the job- 

 bing trade. All except the oak leaves 

 are shipped in, being put through the 

 process upon arrival at Hammond. 



Not far from this plant, however, is 

 a forest of oak trees covering such an 

 immense tract that although 3,000 

 pounds of sprays are being cut daily, 

 no decrease in quantity of foliage is 

 perceptible except on close inspection. 

 Ove Gnatt, proprietor of the factory, 

 if such it may be called, keeps about 

 twenty-five men cutting oak sprays 

 every day and expects to obtain over 

 300,000 pounds this season. Another 

 twenty-five men are employed at the 

 plant, which covers a plot of ground 

 120x200 feet. In front of this is an- 

 other lot, 120x300, which is also owned 

 by Mr. Gnatt and which he expects to 

 use in the near future for an exten- 

 sion of the establishment. 



In the center of the plant is the cook- 

 ing room, 40x50, which also shelters six 

 large vats used in dyeing the foliage. 

 Many colors are used; magnolia leaves 

 are done in green and brown, with red 

 for Christmas; oak sprays are in red, 

 dark red, green and leather brown, the 

 latter color proving one of the most 

 popular; ruscus receives all colors, even 

 including white, while cycas is confined 

 to the favorite green. Surrounding the 

 cooking room is an ample driveway, 



A G>rner of the G>okin2 Room at the Hammond Foliage Perpetuatory. 



(Ove Knatt, the proprietor, stands at the rlRht, In front of the dye tanks.) 



