November 23, 1892.] 



Garden and Forest. 



563 



The Storer prize for best white seedling was won by Fred- 

 erick Walz, with The Oaeen ; this also won the premium for 

 best white at Madison Square last weelc, and is a most beau- 

 tiful novelty. The Schmidlapp prize was awarded to E. G. 

 Hill & Co. for best pink, named A. T. Ewing, a broad ribbon 

 petaled variety of great substance, the color arranged in bands 

 on creamy white. The Hinkle prize was won by the same 

 firm for best crimson variety, IVlrs. J. W. Crouch, a large in- 

 curving sort, with broad petals of purplish crimson. 



E. G. Hill & Co. also won the Florists' prize, with Robert 

 Mclnnes, an immense, perfectly double Wheeler of the bright- 

 est red and gold. These two also won first in their respective 

 classes last week at New York. 



The Longworth prize, best yellow, was won by Harry Sun- 

 derbruch, raised by Frederick Walz. This variety appeared else- 

 where also in beautiful bush form, showing it a good sort for 

 pots as well as specimen blooms. 



National Society certificates were also awarded to Peter Hen- 

 derson & Co. for their Golden Wedding, winner of the Garden 

 AND Forest cup, the Cutting cup and another capital prize at 

 Madison Square. To Frederick Dorner, for Mrs. C. H. Duhme, 

 a feathery white of the greatest beauty ; for Autumn Queen, a 

 tine globular yellow ; for Sarah Hill, a golden yellow of great 

 substance. E. G. Hill & Co. received certificates for Mayme 

 Rj^ar, a Japanese Anemone ; Robert Mclnnes, the double 

 Wheeler, which recently received first prize at Madison Square ; 

 forjudge Hoitt, an enormous pink Anemone, and Maud Dean, a 

 rosy pink, very large and of fiat incurving form. Mr. Walz re- 

 ceived certificates for Theodore Bock, a lovely rounded pink, 

 Vesuvius, a beautiful amber-yellow with touches of reddish 

 brown, and also for the prize-winner among whites — his beau- 

 tiful White Queen. Several other seedlings of great merit 

 were passed by this year which certainly will be heard from 

 again. Every entry made in this class was of great merit, and 

 the table was most remarkable as containing not one freak or 

 curiosity — form, fullness, size, color, stem, foliage being 

 finely exemplified in each case. 



The pot-plants were arranged with effective taste in Horti- 

 cultural Hall, which is reached from Music Hall by a covered 

 corridor. Winding walks were bordered by bands of Crow- 

 foot and Laurel tacked to the floor, and enclosed the various 

 e.xhibits. The general effect was that of a garden in full bloom, 

 the centre-piece, a grand pyramid of Palms, very restful to the 

 eyes. A most instructive class was the eighteen market-plants, 

 which were a good object-lesson, and a necessary one, to many 

 a florist present ; one group averaged about two feet in height, 

 and carried from sixty to seventy perfect blooms of medium 

 size ; most notably beautiful were Ivory, L. Canning, M. Boyer, 

 W. H. Lincoln, Puritan, Ada Spaulding, Princess Beatrice and 

 E. G. Hill. In another entry for this premium were George W. 

 Childs, Mrs. Craig, Hicks Arnold and Minnie Wanamaker, all 

 in extra good form. 



For the best collection of twelve plants in twelve varieties 

 the winning exhibit contained Miss M. Wheeler, E. G. Hill, 

 T. C. Price, G. F. Moseman, Mrs. Humphrey, Mrs. Fottler, 

 Domination, Kioto, Grandiflorum, Ada Spaulding, Delie and 

 Rosebank. There seems to be an increasing interest in well- 

 grown pot-plants, and many florists were busy with note-book 

 and pencil among the finest specimens. For five finest whites 

 in bush form the winning plants were Domination, R. Bot- 

 tomly, M. Wanamaker, Mrs. Humphrey and L. Canning. The 

 finest specimen white in the show was Minnie Wana- 

 maker, and this noble variety again won admiration in the best 

 fifty plants, one variety, grown to a single flower, but was closely 

 followed with fifty specimens of Ivory grown in the same style. 



There were five entries in the class calling for 100 plants, not 

 more than four of a kind, grown to a single flower in seven- 

 inch pots. Here, again, the competition was very close. The 

 sorts which at once caught the eye were Princess of Chrysan- 

 themums, Harry Widener, Kioto, Baronald, V. Morel, F. 

 Thomson, Eda Prass, R. Maitre, JN-Irs. Langtry, International, 

 L. B. Bird, Mrs. Simpson and C. H. McCormick. 



Four magnificent groups of Cannas, composed of fifty 

 plants or clumps each, made a blaze of color against the dark 

 gray wall. The McFadden group was almost exclusively 

 Madame Crozy ; E. G. Hill's group contained some ten of the 

 latest Crozy novelties ; very conspicuous were J. D. Cabos, A. 

 Bouvier, H. A. Dreer, Miss Sarah Hill, F. Thomayer, Capitaine 

 Suzzoni, Duchess Mortemarte and Nardy Pere. These won 

 the very liberal premium of $150, the McFadden group taking 

 second. The other two groups had been injured in transit; 

 but a point to note on Canna exhibits is that the blooms im- 

 prove each day of the show, as the buds unfold and replace 

 the fragile beauties, which are always injured more or less, 

 despite the most careful packing. 



Roses- and Carnations, which reign eleven months in the 

 year, were shown in grand style on Wednesday. American 

 Beauty was in especially fine form, grand bunches on long 

 stems forming a centre for each exhibit. American Belle, the 

 new sport, was also shown in fine condition, and was most 

 critically examined by every florist present. Nanz & Neuner 

 showed white La France in great perfection. Madame Caro- 

 line Testout arrived too late to enter the lists, but was con- 

 stantly the centre of an admiring crowd. 



The grand surprise of the show, however, came when Mr. 

 Peter Herbe, of Mount Healthy, set up his Carnations. He 

 showed several seedlings of immense size, one of the Anna 

 Webb type fully three inches across ; a second of reddish pink 

 fully as large and of magnificent build, which was awarded 

 first premium. These two seedlings are most remarkable, 

 notwithstanding the fact that one shows a rather weak calyx, 

 and the other a slender stem. They mark a distinct departure 

 in this exquisite family. Mr. Dorner's seedlings were out in 

 lovely array, with bright clear colors and good stiff stems, and 

 they made a beautiful display of some ten fine novelties. Mr. 

 Witterstaetter showed Daybreak in absolute perfection, its only 

 rival being Edna Craig, which stood up bright and crisp as 

 crystal. 



We cannot close without a passing word for the display of 

 Ferns and Palms. Finer examples of the Adiantums are sel- 

 dom seen than those in the Huntsman collecfion, some of 

 them nearly three feet across. Extraordinary specimens of 

 Pteris argyrea were seen, and Critchell made a grand dis- 

 play of neat medium-sized plants in some forty varieties, which 

 proved a most interesting study for the lover of this beautiful 

 family. There were three grand displays of Palms beside the 

 centre-piece. Areca lutescens, A. Verschaffelti, Chamjerops 

 filamentosa and a Phosnix rupicola were magnificent. 



The two tables of Cyclamens by Mrs. McFadden and Julius 

 Peterson were surrounded constantly by admiring crowds. 

 Every plant was m great perfection both as to foliage and 

 bloom, and the effect was only second in point of beauty to the 

 singularly rich and rare Orchid display made by John Rose, of 

 Rosebank. 



Recent Publications. 



Field- Farings. By Martha McCulIoch Williams. Harper & 

 Brothers. 



This neatly bound and printed book adds another to the 

 numerous "nature studies " which have become such a prev- 

 alent modern fashion. In thirty-two separate sketches we 

 find sympathetic descriptions of many varied phases of earth 

 and sky. Beginning with "Snowfall," and ending with 

 "Come Christmas Day," this out-of-door calendar of the 

 year records pleasant and profitable rambles by tinkling 

 brooks and through green meadows, and quiet walks in 

 brown fields and deep woodlands. There is no attempt to 

 discuss scientific questions or to draw profound moral lessons, 

 but a " Vagrant Chronicle of Earth and Sky," the not alto- 

 gether unaffected sub-title of the book, reveals a habit of 

 close observation and of delightful familiarity and friendship 

 with nature, animate and inanimate. The keen enjoyment 

 of country life under the open sky is shared by the reader, for 

 the descriptions have an evident basis of real experience 

 which is at once satisfying to the lover of nature, and im- 

 pressive and inviting to such as are content with a merely 

 passive enjoyment through wanderings by book. 



The chapter on " New Ground " shows an appreciative un- 

 derstanding of the forests, and suggests an attractive field of 

 study for women. The gaining of new ground for the 

 husbandman by the woodsman is vividly described, and a 

 practical knov^'ledge of the quality and uses of timber of 

 various trees is shown. Foxes, minks, weasels, wood-ducks, 

 wild turkeys and other inhabitants of water and woodland are 

 described in their favorite haunts and at various times and 

 seasons. To the restful, quiet walks, in which the reader 

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 ter "In at the Death," and the hunter, teamster, farmer, ( 

 woodsman and fisherman all play their part in these pic- 

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 gested in descriptions of a land of snow in winter, of plant- 

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 Sycamor£ and Magnolia trees, and orioles, humming-birds, 

 'possums and 'coons. . 



The chief charm of the book is not, however, in its account 

 of the song of birds, the patter of summer rain or the silent 

 caress of enfolding snow, nor in the happy sketching of the 

 habits of wild plants and animals. Its deeper merit consists' 

 in an insight into the poetical and practical significance of 



