November 19, 1890.] 



Garden and Forest. 



567 



The special award of a silver medal to T. D. Hatfield, Mr. 

 Hunnevvell's gardener, was an appropriate recognition of his 

 skill as a cultivator of Chrysanthemums. A similar medal, and 

 one equally well merited, was awarded to S. J. Colman. 



The seedlings were numerous, but few of them were of suf- 

 ficient distinctness and value to supplant old favorites. The 

 Society's silver medal for the best seedling of 1889 was won 

 by Arthur H. Fewkes with a variety named Beacon. It was a 

 large loose flower, with petals incurving slightly and pure 

 white. In the same class Mr. S. J. Colman was second with 

 Albert Henry, a very large flower (fully eight inches across), 

 of the Edwin Molyheux style of petal, but only slightly in- 

 curved, and nodding instead of erect, thus showing the centre 

 conspicuously. Mr. James Wheeler was third with Mrs. 

 Joseph H. White, a large flower, with petals inclining to a 

 horizontal position, broad, white-margined and deeply tipped 

 with pink. The Appleton medal was awarded to HenryA.Gane 

 for seedlings, and Mr. T. H. Spaulding's seedling, D. D. Far- 

 son, received honorable mention. 



Mr. George B. Gill exhibited a sport from St. Patrick (Bee- 

 thoven), with pale yellow petals slightly tipped with red. It was of 

 good form, and sufficiently full and distinct to deserve perpetua- 

 tion. The poor lasting qualities of the flowers of Mrs. Alpheus 

 Hardy were well brought out during this exhibition. Even 

 upon the plant they do not stand like many other well known 

 white varieties. 



A silver medal was awarded to Richard Gardner, gardener 

 to Cornelius Vanderbilt, Newport, Rhode Island, for a new 

 hybrid Calanthe. This plant is the result of crossing C. Veitchii 

 and C. vestita rubro-oculata, the latter being the seed-bearing 

 parent. The flowers are much larger than those of either 

 parent, and of a much purer white color than those of the 

 latter, with large pale rose blotch at the base of the lip. 



Boston. 



B. 



The Autumn Exhibition in Philadelphia. 



THE exhibition of Chrysanthemums in Philadelphia last 

 week was admirable for the size and vigor of the plants, 

 for the abundance and perfection of the cut blooms, and for 

 the richness, variety and distinctness of the seedlings dis- 

 played. It was so well balanced throughout that no special 

 department deserves praise which should not be accorded in 

 equal measure to all the rest, and it is difficult to characterize 

 the show or any part of it without the use of superlatives. 

 The arrangement of the plants in the large hall was very 

 effective. The long- tables of Ferns, Palms and other plants 

 with a luxuriance of foliage not only helped, to soften the 

 o-litter of the flowers, but the collections themselves were of 

 rare merit. The plants exhibited by Thomas Long, gardener 

 to A. J. Drexel, contained many rarities, which were attractive 

 in themselves and arranged with rare skill. Among the choice 

 plants in this collection were specimens of Heliconia aicrea 

 striata, Aqlaonema pictum, Spathiphyllum pictum, Dichori- 

 sandra musaica and Livistona Sinensis aitrea. Hardly less 

 interesting was the table of Palms, Ferns, etc., of Charles 

 D. Ball, Holmesburg, Pennsylvania, which contained nothing 

 but plants taken directly out of the nursery stock. Among 

 them there were no expensive rarities, but their vigor and 

 health and tasteful grouping made them very effective. The 

 collection of the same class of plants grown for ordinary pur- 

 poses by Mr. H. A. Dreer was equally meritorious, and the 

 assortment of decorative plants by William Joyce, gardener to 

 Mrs. Baldwin, was well worthy to be found in such good com- 

 pany. Besides these masses, the centre of the hall contained 

 many noteworthy specimen Palms exhibited by Thomas 

 Hughes, the gardener to George W. Childs. 



But as this was a Chrysanthemum show the interest centered 

 upon these plants and their blooms. Probably no one ever 

 saw a better group of Chrysanthemums than those which took 

 the prize for a collection of twelve plants in twelve varieties, 

 and which were shown by James Verner, gardener to A. 

 J. Drexel. These plants averaged more than six feet in 

 diameter, and upon one of them 300 first-class blooms were 

 counted. As a matter of record it may be well to give the 

 names of this prize list : Miss Mary Wheeler, Grandiflorum, 

 Robert Crawford, Mrs. A. Blanc, Robert Bottomley, Mrs. 

 Frank Thompson, Mrs. W. Sargeant, Puritan, Lilian B. Bird, 

 Mrs. Irving Clarke, Mr. Frank Wilcox. Every one of these 

 plants were models in form and in natural gracefulness, in the 

 perfection of flowers and the health of their foliage. Scores 

 of other plants deserved special mention, but there was no 

 question as to the superiority of this remarkable group. These 

 prize plants were all grown with a single stem branching near 

 the ground, and of course they are more difficult to grow than 



where several shoots are allowed to come from the same root. 



The blooms were shown in the small hall, which contained 

 besides them some Roses and other decorations. Among the 

 best of the decorations was a bank of Orchids, all well-grown 

 and well-flowered plants, and most tastefully arranged by Mr. 

 Evans, of Rowlandvillc. The twenty-five blooms of Chrysan- 

 themums, one of a kind, which were shown by F. R. Sykes ; 

 the hundred blooms, one of a kind, shown by William Tricker, 

 with the fifty blooms in fifty varieties, and fifty blooms in 

 twelve varieties, both by the same exhibitor, were pronounced 

 better than any similar groups ever before shown in this city. 

 Some of the collections of cut sprays, especially a vase con- 

 taining some half dozen blooms of Lilian B. Bird, were remark- 

 ably good. Twelve blooms of the new yellow Henry E. YVide- 

 ner, shown by Ernest Asmus, were noteworthy for their 

 immense size as well as for their perfection of growth. The 

 aggregate diameter of the twelve was said to be more than 

 ten feet. The twelve varieties selected by Mr. Tricker for his 

 prize lot of fifty flowers were John Collins, Lilian B. Bird, El- 

 dorado, Dawn, Mrs. Wanamaker, Grandiflorum, Excellent, 

 Miss Mary Wheeler, Kioto, Mrs. A. Carnegie and Etoile de 

 Lyon. This is the first time the last named flower has been 

 exhibited in Philadelphia, and although these specimens had 

 not reached the size the flower is said to have attained in 

 Europe, it attracted much attention for its good form and good 

 color. 



Among the winners of the principal prizes besides those 

 already named were Coles & Whitley, Joseph Heacock, Hugh 

 Graham's Sons, J. W. Colflesh, John M. Cleary, Henry B. Sur- 

 man, John Shaw, Charles W. Trotter and E. A. Schneider. A 

 special premium was awarded to Julius Roehrs for a new 

 Hybrid Perpetual Rose and a certificate of special merit was 

 given to E. D. Sturtevant for two unopened flowers of the rare 

 Aristolochia grandijlora. The flowers at this stage have a 

 striking resemblance to the figure of a swimming water-fowl, 

 so that the common name of "Duck-plant" applied to this 

 Aristolochia is quite appropriate. 



Seedling Chrysanthemums were shown in large numbers, 

 and some of very high quality. Some of the large growers do 

 not seem to have as many novelties as usual, but evidently a 

 constantly increasing number of persons are raising a few 

 seedlings, and as a result we find each year some very valu- 

 able flowers of marked individual character, not only for exhi- 

 bition kinds, but in the fancy varieties, of which the French 

 growers have given us so many. The American raisers have 

 been remarkably successful within a very few years in secur- 

 ing very distinct breaks and a number of varieties of very well 

 defined character. The finely imbricated Chinese kinds for 

 some reason have not been done well in the United States, the 

 climate seeming, in the eastern states at least, to be unfavorable 

 to them. Evidently we shall soon have a number of round in- 

 curved kinds fully equal to exhibition requirements, and we shall 

 need to make a new class for such as Mrs. Isaac D. Sailer, with 

 which Mr. W. K. Harris won the "Veteran Prize." "Japanese 

 incurved" might be an appropriate name for the class. The 

 flower is a perfectly incurved, flesh-colored ball, very full, and 

 with somewhat narrow florets. Even the bush of these shown 

 was furnished with flowers massive enough to grace the exhibi- 

 tion boards. Mr. John Thorpe was hampered by his distance 

 from the exhibition hall, but his new seedling, George W. Childs, 

 with its soft, rich crimson and large petals, will be enjoyed by 

 many for its rare and much desired shade, as well as its satis- 

 factory form. His reflexed seedling, Ernest Asmus, is quite 

 unique — a bronzy chrome. Peter Henderson & Co. gained a 

 silver medal for Annie May. This Mower, which originated with 

 Mr. J. Forsterman, Newtown, Long Island, is a very full primrose 

 yellow, with a bright apricot centre, large and distinct, slightly re- 

 flexed. Mrs. T. Monohan had a number of good flowers, and 

 prizes were given to Mrs. I. G. Whilldin, a primrose yellow 

 form of Source d'Or. Black Beauty, of the same grower, also 

 had a prize. It is a deep, full crimson, with lighter reverse 

 well incurved. Mrs. Louis Childs Madeira was a golden yel- 

 low Chinese incurved, with a most remarkable solidity, and 

 if well grown it may possibly be very valuable. 



Mr. W. K. Harris and Mr. Robert Craig each scored the 

 same number of points on six plants of new seedlings, so 

 nearly were the two fine collections balanced. Mr, A. H. 

 Fewkes, Newton Highlands, Massachusetts, exhibited a few 

 seedlings of promise. Waban, a rose-colored incurved, in 

 the way of Mrs. C. W. Wheeler, was excellent, as was another, 

 a small ball of sulphur yellow, with orange centre. 



James Brydon, gardener to Mi - . J. Simkins, Yarmouthport, 

 Massachusetts, exhibited some perfectly grown blooms and 

 seedlings, etc. E. A. Wood, West Newton, and H. A. Gane, 

 of the same city, staged very satisfactory seedlings, as did H. 



