April 10, 1913 



The Florists^ Review 



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A Typical View in the National Flower Show Now in Progreu in New York City. 



(A trroup of ramblor roees from Anton Schulthels, massed a^tnst the pillars, with hyacinths flowered by James A, McDonald and W. H. Duckham In foreground.) 



Castle Gould, a nice collection of these 

 also came. 



The rose groups from William Duck- 

 ham and Samuel Untermyer, W. H. 

 Waite, gardener, were both tastefully 

 arranged. Mr. Waite won, but many 

 good judges preferred Mr. Duckham 's 

 group. Mr. Duckham showed some fine 

 specimen Phoenix Roebelenii and several 

 collections of stove and greenhouse 

 plants that denoted high culture. The 

 .Tulius Roehrs Co., W. A. Manda and 

 several others had some fine specimen 

 foliage plants. 



The French Hydrangeas. 



The groups of the new French hy- 

 drangeas Mme. Mouillere and General 

 de Vibraye, from Louis Dupuy, were a 

 great attraction. The trusses and in- 

 dividual flowers of the former were of 

 remarkable size. Mr. Dupuy also had a 

 good group of roses, one of ericas and a 

 number of acacias. 



The trade exhibit of A. N. Pierson, 

 Inc., was a great credit to Wallace R. 

 Pierson. Splendidly grown Adiantum 

 Farleyense were used in profusion; also 

 Cattleya Schrccderae, rambler roses, and 

 cut roses in variety. 



Peter Henderson & Co. 's bulb garden 

 charmed everyone. The verdant lawns 

 and beds of single and double early 

 tulips, as well as Darwin and other late 

 tulips, narcissi and hyacinths, with 

 suitable backgrounds of evergreens, 

 formed one of the most refreshing ex- 

 hibits in the lower hall. 



F. E. Pierson Co. had an extensive 

 collection of nephrolepis. They also 

 came out well in many competitive 

 classes. Buxton's Killarney Pink snap- 

 dragon here also attracted much atten- 

 tion. The Mount Desert Nurseries, Bar 

 Harbor, Me., had twenty-five varieties 

 of astilbes, a number of which will be 

 found referred to in the notes on nov- 

 elties. 



Marguerites a Feature. 



Madsen & Christensen, Wood Ridge, 

 N. J., and Mrs. Oliver Hoyt, Stamford, 

 Conn., had beautiful displays of mar- 



guerites. Specimen plants, half a dozen 

 in number, of Begonia Gloire de Sceaux 

 from W. B. Thompson, E. I. Grossman, 

 gardener, were also noteworthy, as was 

 Mrs. H. McK. Twombly's large speci- 

 men clivia from her superintendent, 

 Robert Tyson. 



Gardenias from J. T. Pratt, J. W. 

 Everett, gardener, were fine. C. B. 

 Newbold, J. W. Pepper, gardener, had 

 some of his immense Azalea Indica 

 grandly flowered. His Cibotium 

 Schiedei, over fifteen feet across, waa 

 also a magnificent specimen. He also 

 had good standard wistarias and many 

 other plants. 



Knight & Struck 's table of hard- 

 wooded plants contained many gems, 

 all finely flowered. A few of the best 

 were Erica translucens, Fabiana im- 

 bricata, perspicua erecta, ventricosa 

 magnifica, rosea and cupressina; Aotus 

 gracillima, Diosma ericoides, Boronia 

 elatior, Agapetes buxifolia and Acacia 

 cordata. 



William Tricker's exhibit. contained a 

 few gems. Among others I was charmed 

 to see Daphne Gwenka, Azalea Azama- 

 shikori and Andromeda speciosa. 



Schlzanthus Far Excellence. 



Schizanthus were a strong feature 

 here. The prize-winning six from C. K. 

 G. Billings, James Bell, gardener, were 

 splendidly grown. Cineraria stellata 

 were shown in quantity, but the season 

 was late for these. Cyclamens were not 

 up to the standard of the Boston shows. 

 H. Papworth, of the Metairie Ridge 

 Nursery, New Orleans, La., had a truly 

 remarkable display of Lilium Harrisii, 

 which were in grand condition after 

 their long journey. 



William Sim, Cliftondale, Mass., made 

 an exhibit of pansies which almost took 

 away the breath of many of the old- 

 timers. He was unfortunate in being 

 given a poor location on the third floor. 

 His pansies should have had a promi- 

 nent place on the main floor. 



A. C. Zvolanek had sixty varieties of 

 winter-flowering Spencer sweet peas. 



which contained some gems. These will 

 soon knock the old grandifloras out of 

 the running. '-^, 



Bobbink & Atkins, Julius Eoelirs Co. 

 and W. A. Manda all had extensive col- 

 lections of coniferous evergreens, box- 

 woods in many forms, ivies and bay 

 trees. Mrs. H. McK. Twombly had 

 some bay trees of remarkable size. 



William Ziegler, Jr., had a collection 

 of the finest commercial-grown hydran- 

 geas of the new French types I have 

 yet seen. 



Anton Schultheis and other specialists 

 were well to the front, as usual, with 

 Dutch bulbous plants. 



L. E. Small, Tewksbury, Mass., 

 showed a vase of bachelor's buttons 

 that for length of stem and size of 

 flower were quite out of the ordinary. 

 > Flower lovers are proverbially art 

 lovers as well, and consequently many 

 found pleasure in a display of pictures 

 in oil and pastel by Mary Helen Car- 

 lisle, of London, showing famous old 

 English gardens. W. N. Craig. 



THE TRADE EXHIBITS. 



Business End of the Big Show. 



The trade exhibits at the Interna- 

 tional Flower Show in New York this 

 week are a big feature; the number 

 and extent are scarcely less than at the 

 annual August conventions of the S. A. 

 P. and, indeed, the same exhibitors, as 

 a rule, are there, with the addition of 

 large and costly displays by New York 

 seed houses and others aimed to attract 

 the patronage of the general public 

 rather than that of the trade visitors. 

 The high rental, causing space to be 

 sold at from $1 to $1.50 per square foot, 

 has, of course, resulted in most of the 

 exhibitors in the business section keep- 

 ing their displays from spreading over 

 any more space than is necessary, but 

 at that several firms are paying from 

 $1,000 to $1,500 for their floor rent, and 

 spending in some cases a good deal 

 more than that on the exhibits them- 

 selves. A number of the trade ex- 



