NOVBMBEB 21, 1912. 



The Florists^ Review 



9 



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THE AUTUMN 



FLOWER SHOWS 



CLEVEIiAin). 



As things have turned out, the flower 

 show at Cleveland November 14 to 17 

 was probably the most successful of 

 the year. It was given under the aus- 

 pices of the Ohio Horticultural Society, 

 a body of flower lovers, with the assist- 

 ance of the Cleveland florists. It was 

 the first show at Cleveland in sixteen 

 years. While much effort had been ex- 

 pended on the arrangements, the results 

 exceeded expectations. The show 

 brought out a larger quantity of ma- 

 terial than had been expected, all of 

 excellent quality, and the attendance 

 was so large that, instead of closing 

 Saturday night, as had been intended, 

 the show was opened Sunday afternoon 

 for four hours, and there was a total 

 attendance of 38,000. 



The chrysanthemums were staged on 

 the opening day, November 14, with the 

 second day given specially to carna- 

 tions, and the third day to roses. The 

 chrysanthemums were excellent, repre- 

 senting the best stock of the leading 

 growers of the middle west and some 

 of the extreme east. C. H. Totty 

 brought, among his numerous exhibits, 

 six blooms of Queen Mary, a large re- 

 flexed white, these same six blooms 

 having been exhibited in London, Eng- 

 land, October 29, by W. Wells & Co., 

 who afterward shipped them to Mr. 

 Totty. They arrived in New York in 

 excellent condition, and, being brought 

 to Cleveland, stood the four days on 

 exhibition, showing only a little bruis- 

 ing around the edge of the flowers. 

 Both in carnations and roses the com- 

 petition was extremely keen and the 

 prizes were well distributed. 



As has been noted at other exhibi- 

 tions given by the trade, no matter 

 how much attention was attracted by 

 the growers' exhibits, the retailers' dis- 

 plays proved the center of attraction. 

 It all goes to show that fine flowers are 

 many times more attractive to the pub- 

 lic when finely arranged. The Cleve- 

 land retail florists appreciated their 

 opportunity to interest the public, and 

 those of the trade visitors who have 

 attended many shows agreed that they 

 never have seen a retail section that 

 beat what was to be seen at Cleveland, 

 either in the number or quality of the 

 exhibits. In the class for tables of 

 chrysanthemums there were six entries. 

 In the class for brides' bouquets there 

 were eight entries. In the class for 

 corsage bouquets there were ten entries, 

 and seven handle baskets were shown. 

 Knoble Bros., J. M. Gasser Co., Jones- 

 Russell Co. and Smith & Fetters Co. 

 each .had display booths in which to 

 demonstrate their ideas of the artistic 

 arrangement of flowers. There were 

 no premiums to be awarded to these 

 booths, and it is well that there were 

 not, for it would have been a difficult 

 matter to h|ive decided between them. 

 Each boolfch was maintained with fresh 

 stock from day to day. 



Soses. 



The roses were staged on the final 

 day, but really constituted the most 

 notable showing of the exhibition. The 

 quality was splendid; there was not one 

 entry which was not worth a prize, and 

 there were fifty-eight vases for the 

 judges to consider. The sweepstakes 

 in the classes for twenty-five blooms 

 went to Double Pink Killarney, a really 

 notable bunch of blooms on 4-foot 

 stems. Totty 's Mrs. Shawyer took the 

 sweepstakes in the classes for fifty 

 blooms, and the exhibit was fine. The 

 showing of new roses included three. 

 Mrs. Charles Eussell carried off the 

 premier honors, but the vases of Milady 

 and Mrs. Shawyer shown by Pierson 

 and Totty also were of much interest 

 to the growers. The awards in the rose 

 classes were: 



Twenty-five Beauty — Poehlmann Bros. Co., Chi- 

 cago, first. 



Twenty-five Double Pink Killarney — J. M. 

 Gasser Co., Cleveland, first; Poehlmann Bros. 

 Co., second. 



Twenty-five Double White Killarney— J. M. 

 Gasser Co., first; Poehlmann Bros. Co., second. 



Twenty-five Killarney Queen — Poehlmann Bros. 

 Co., first; J. M. Gasser Co., second. 



Twenty-five Richmond — J. M. Gasser Co., first; 

 Poehlmann Bros. Co., second; Lake View Rose 

 Gardens, Jamestown, N. Y., third. 



Sweepstakes, best twenty-five blooms entered 

 In the above classes — J. M. Gasser Co., the Slgler 

 cup, on Double Pink Killarney. 



Fifty Beauty — Poehlmann Bros. Co., first; F. R. 

 & A. M. Pierson, Scarboro, N. Y., second. 



Fifty Doubl« Pink Killarney— J. M. Gasser Co., 

 first; Poehlmann Bros. Co., second. 



Fifty Double White KlUarney— J. M. Gasser 

 Co., first; Poehlmann Bros. Co., second. 



Fifty Killarney Queen — Poehlmann Bros. Co., 

 first. 



Fifty Richmond— J. M. Gasser Co., first; Poehl- 

 mann Bros Co., second; Lake View Rose Gardens, 

 third. 



Fifty Killarney— J. M. Gasser Co., first; Poehl- 

 mann Bros. Co., second; Lake View Rose Gar- 

 dens, third. 



Fifty White Killarney— J. M. Gasser Co., first; 

 Poehlmann Bros. Co., second; Cleveland Cut 

 Flower Co., third. 



Fifty My Maryland — Poehlmann Bros. Co., 

 first; J. M. Gasser Co., second. 



Fifty any other variety-jrChas. H. Totty, first, 

 on Mrs. Shawyer; J. M. Gasser Co., second, on 

 Bulgarie; Poehlmann Bros. Co., third. 



Sweepstakes, best fifty blooms entered in above 

 classes — Chas. H. Totty, the Cowell & Hubbard 

 cup, on Mrs. Shawyer. 



Seedling roses, best twenty-five blooms not in 

 commerce — Alex. Montgomery, Waban, Mass., the 

 Bowler & Burdick cup, on Mrs. Chas. Russell. 

 Mrs. Geo. Shawyer and Milady also were shown. 



Carnations. , , 



An autumn exhibition seldom sees a 

 better showing of carnations. The 

 stock came from the best growers in the 

 country, all the way from Long Island 

 to Chicago. There was such keen com- 

 petition that the prizes were divided 



Booth of Kaoble Bros., One of Several at the Cleveland Flower Show. 



Twenty-five Killarney — J. M. Gasser Co., first; 

 Poehlmann Bros. Co., second; Cleveland Cut 

 Flower Co., Cleveland, third. 



Twenty-five White Killarney — J. M. Gasser Co., 

 first; Poehlmann Bros. Co., second; Cleveland Cut 

 Flower Co., third. 



Twenty-five My Maryland — J. M. Gasser Co.. 

 first; Poehlmann Bros. Co., second; Cleveland 

 Cut Flower Co., third. 



Twenty-five any other variety — Chas. H. Totty, 

 first, on Mrs. Shawyer; J. M. Gasser Co., second, 

 on Bulgarie; Poehlmann Bros. Co., third, on 

 Bulgarie. 



more evenly than usually is the case at 

 a flower show. The following are the 

 awards: 



Fifty white — Chicago Carnation Co., Chicago, 

 first, on White Wonder; E. O. Hill Co., Rich- 

 mond, Ind., second, on White Wonder; F. C. 

 Bartels, North Olmsted, 0., third, on White En- 

 chantress. 



Fifty flesh pink— Chicago Carnation Co., first, 

 on Pink Delight; Cleveland Cut Flower Co.. 

 Cleveland, second, on sport of Enchantress: F. C. 

 Bartels, third, on Pink Delight. 



