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Garden and Forest. 



[N'JMBER 299. 



each pair of leaves, which grow downward until they reach the 

 sphagnum growing on the surface of the pot. The roots then 

 strike deep into the potting material and hold the plant in 

 position, so that in appearance it is always striking to the most 

 uninterested observer. But when the large heads of brilliant 

 scarlet flowers are produced there are few Orchids that sur- 

 pass this Epidendrum in brilliance of display. It is also 

 known as E. rhizopharum. 



South Lancaster, Mass. E. O. O. 



Exhibitions. 



The New York Chrysanthemum Show. 



'T'HE annual Chrysanthemum Show of the New York Florists' 

 -*• Club was opened Monday, November 6th, in the main hall 

 of the New York Industrial Building, in Lexington Avenue and 

 Forty-third Street. This is a mammoth new building lately 

 erected for exhibition purposes. It has on the main floor 

 ample space, without the lofty roof and great tiers of seats 

 which always detracted from the flower-shows at the Madison 

 Square Garden, as their lines were beyond the efforts of the 

 decorator to hide. Entering the wide portal of the building, 

 which was marked by a profusion of evergreens, and ascend- 

 ing a few steps, one entered what at first seemed a fine hall 

 with high cylindrical glass roof. Within the lines of this space 

 were massed on either side great banks of Chrysanthemums 

 with backgrounds of foliage. At either side of the door were 

 handsome stove-plants, while in the centre space, irregularly 

 disposed, were beds of Lilies-of-the-valley, two large groups 

 of Palms, others of Crotons, and single specimens ot Tree 

 Ferns, Palms, etc., with numerous specimen Chrysanthemum- 

 plants. A closer inspection showed that this hall was only a 

 central space from which wide side spaces with lower ceilings 

 extended on either side to the side walls of the building, which 

 occupies a city block of fair size. As these side spaces were 

 well lighted, they proved to be capital places on the one side 

 for cut Chrysanthemum-blooms, on the other for the Orchids, 

 Carnations and miscellaneous plants, with sufticient room for 

 all exhibits. No flower-show previously given in New York, 

 with, perhaps, tlie exception of that in the Lenox Lyceum three 

 years ago, has been so well arranged for the enjoyment of vis- 

 itors, groupings being well done and exhibits being arranged 

 without confusion. As the Chrysanthemum shows in our 

 principal cities were all held this year during the same week 

 the exhibits were all local, and it is a pleasure to say that the 

 local growers have fully maintained their reputation, and, in 

 fact, have scored an advance. 



For specimen Chrysanthemum-plants the prizes went to 

 Pitcher & Manda. Mr. William Bayard Cutting was awarded 

 $150.00 premium for the best group of 500 square feet, and one 

 of $50.00 for one of 100 square feet of well-flowered plants. J. 

 Roehrs had, besides others, a prize for twenty-five bush-plants 

 in six-inch pots. These were dwarf, usually with three good 

 flowers, and were especially well grown, the flowers preserv- 

 ing their freshness through the week. Dailledouze Brothers 

 took the majority of prizes for cut blooms in vases and on 

 boards, other prize-winners being J. L. Powell, J. N. May, 

 A. W. Elkstrom and J. Condon. The best vase of twelve 

 white flowers was J. N. May's Queen, a white incurved flower 

 of perfect purity. "The Viviand Morel and Ada H. LeRoy were 

 the prize-taking pink flowers in two competitions, in vases of 

 twelve, as were Golden Wedding and William H. Lincoln in 

 yellows. A new crimson imported by J. N. May had the pre- 

 mium for this color, while Harry May was to the front again as 

 first of any other color. The sets of six vases with twelve 

 flowers of each variety in each vase, and twelve vases with six 

 flowers of each variety in each (Dailledouze winner in the lat- 

 ter, and J. L. Powell in the former), were better than before 

 shown here, the blooms being generally very massive, well 

 colored and finished and uniform. In this section the best 

 flowers were Niveus, Mrs. Craig Lippincott, Minnie Wana- 

 maker, Ivory, Maud Dean, Harry Widener, Colonel William B. 

 Smith, Mrs. Irving Clarke, E. Hitzeroth, Harry May, Marie 

 Simpson, Roslyn and Good Gracious. The special prize for 

 the best six flowers of any color was won with Niveus, and 

 the twenty-five flowers of Golden Wedding which won a special 

 prize offered by Peter Henderson & Co. were quite up to last 

 year's standard. They were exhibited by J. L. Powell. 



For flowers shown on boards, Dailledouze Brothers took 

 first premium for best forty-eight, best twelve, and best twelve 

 Japanese, J. Condon being first for best twenty-four varieties, 

 with only four exhibitors in each section. The best twelve 

 comprised Golden Gate, Mrs. Senator Hearst, Excellent, Queen, 

 Mrs. Craig Lippincott, Colonel William B. Smith, Viviand 

 Morel, Mrs. William Bayard Cutting, Joey Hill, W. G. Newell, 



Edward Hatch, Miss Libby Allen. Prizes for Chrysanthemums 

 shown on stems with foliage were given to Pitcher & Manda, 

 Peter Henderson & Co. and J. L. Powell. They were shown 

 in great variety, and generally in well-finished blooms. 



A table decoration in white Ivory Chrysanthemums took the 

 first prize for W. A. Brower & Sons, its competitor in pink be- 

 ing considered rather too massive and overdone. 



Pitcher & Manda made an especially fine display of 

 Cypripediums and miscellaneous Orchids, for which they 

 took first premiums. Mr. J. E. Brown, of Bellport, Long 

 Island, had a fine specimen plant of Cattleya labiata, of rich 

 color. Lahning & Winnefeld, of Hackensack, New Jersey, 

 made a display of Cyclamens, well-flowered for the season. 

 F. Sanders & Son, London, have a silver medal for a new 

 foliage-plant, Strobilanthus Dyerianus. H. W. Wipperman 

 gained first prize for a large group of Palms. Mr. J. B. Col- 

 gate, of Yonkers, showed well-colored groups of Crotons and 

 handsome Marantas. Mr. J. B. Keller and Pitcher & Manda 

 divided the honors in a bed of handsome Dracaenas. Mr. J.E. 

 Brown's semicircular bed of foliage-plants was one of the 

 main attractions, being especially brightened by finely colored 

 specimens of Alocasia Macrorhiza. From the Oasis Nur- 

 sery Company were fine flowers of hybrid tuberous Be- 

 gonias, single and double. Roses were not in great profu- 

 sion. Meteors were fine. Madame Testout was in better 

 form than before shown, and Mrs. William Whitney gained a 

 silver medal for Mr. May. Carnations were well shown in 

 many handsome specimens, Daybreak, Lizzie McGowan, Edna 

 Craig, Buttercup and Portia being leading kinds. Further notice 

 of the exhibition will be given next week. 



Chrysanthemums in Boston. 



T' 



'HE Chrysanthemum Show at Boston, last week, was the 

 best one ever held by the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society, and while improvement was seen in every class, it 

 was especially strong in specimen plants. What is the reason 

 that New York exhibitions are always inferior to those of Bos- 

 ton and Philadelphia in this respect ? We never have seen in 

 this city anything like the collections of twelve named plants 

 in the three prize-winning groups shown by Walter Hunne- 

 well, N. T. Kidder and Arthur Hunnewell. The general ad- 

 vance in skill among gardeners was well shown in all these 

 plants, for although the plants which won first prize were bet- 

 ter than any before grown by Mr. T. D. Hatfield, who for some 

 years has carried off the honors as a cultivator, those in the 

 second group followed hard after his, and those in the 

 third were close upon the second. They were all marvelous 

 plants, and some of them showed a finish which is rarely 

 equaled. Some judges considered the best plant in the hall 

 to be one of Louis Boehmer, in Mr. Kidder's collection, but 

 a specimen of Ivory, in a collection of six shown by Walter 

 Hunnewell, although not very large, was a remarkably well- 

 grown, compact and short-jointed plant. 



Of course, there were wonders in the way of long-stemmed 

 cut-flowers, perhaps the best being a vase of Mrs. Jerome 

 Jones, with remarkable large dark green foliage, showing that 

 the plants had been hurried forward in a short time. They 

 were shown by Mr. John Simpkins, and his gardener, James 

 Brydon, deserves mention, not only for his skill with these 

 plants, but for the great mass of mixed blooms on long stems 

 in one of the fi ve large vases of the Society, as well as for the ex- 

 hibit of flowers of six Japanese varieties, six incurved varieties 

 and twelve Japanese varieties, each of which won a first prize. 

 Among other cut flowers, vases of Golden Wedding, Niveus, 

 Joey Hill, Harry May and Harry Balsley, exhibited by E. M. 

 Wood & Co., of Natick, were all notably good, and so was the 

 vase of Viviand Morel, which took the Simpkins' cup. C. V. 

 Whitten took the Hatch prize for the best yellow Chrysanthe- 

 mum with William H. Lincoln. 



Among the seedlings the first prize for a red one was taken 

 by Mr. J. H. White for a distinct but unnamed mahogany-col- 

 ored variety, which was decidedly good. The best of the 

 whites was considered Mutual Friend, shown by Mann Broth- 

 ers. T. D. Hatfield showed the best pink, called Peach Blos- 

 som, which is in the way of V. H. Hallock. Mr. Hatfield also 

 showed the best yellow in A. H. Fewkes, which is a grand 

 flower in the style of W. H. Lincoln, but it appeared to be even 

 better than that standard variety. Another distinct seedling 

 was shown by James Brydon, named Portia, a very pale pink 

 of exquisite form ; Pitcher & Manda, the new flower named 

 after its originators and described last week in these columns, 

 received a special prize. 



Among the miscellaneous exhibits was a fine yellow seed- 

 ling Canna, similar to Florence Vaughan, and shown by A.H. 



