November 14, 1894.] 



Garden and Forest. 



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included what seems an important novelty in a plant of Mrs. 

 Leslie Ward, similar to Hicks Arnold, but a deeper orange. 

 For the best seedling plant, William Boyce, gardener to Charles 

 Hibbard, was awarded first premium. The flower is large, 

 white, tinted with pink, the petals whorled. The best specimen 

 plant of white was a plant of Puritan ; the best yellow flower- 

 ing plant, W. H. Lincoln, and the best specimen plant of any 

 other color, Hicks Arnold. The prize for the best three plants, 

 three varieties, introduced to commerce during 1894, was 

 given to Mary Bell, a showy crimson flower, the outer side of 

 the petals a lighter shade of the same tone ; it is of compact 

 form, but lacks depth. Yellow Queen, second in this collec- 

 tion, is a light yellow, of medium size, with longer outer petals ; 

 and Major Bonnaffon, more incurved than Yellow Queen and 

 deeper in color, was the third. 



The sensation of this year's show was the new white Chrys- 

 anthemum, Philadelphia, grown by Hugh Graham, and a 

 seedling of Marguerite Graham, said to be crossed with Mrs. 

 Craige Lippincott. The color under artificial light is pure 

 white, but in sunlight it shows a faint lemon tint ; the petals 

 are incurved, in some flowers twisted regularly around the 

 flower at the middle, and enclosing the stem for a con- 

 siderable distance, so that the form is completely globular. 

 The petals are ribbed and the flower has good substance. 

 Philadelphia received a silver medal, the Blanc prize for best 

 seedling and first prize for vase of fifty blooms, and it has 

 already taken prizes in many other cities. A large white 

 unnamed seedling of good form, exhibited by T. H. Spauld- 

 ing, Orange, New Jersey, was awarded a silver medal. Silver 

 Cloud was another new seedling, a flower of large size and 

 good depth, flesh-white in color. Mrs. Charles F. Berwind 

 was one of the most distinct new seedlings, incurved, red 

 inside and pink outside. It is noteworthy that Katherine 

 Leech and Annie Monahan, which were prize flowers of last 

 year, were onlv occasionally seen, and such promising varie- 

 ties of 1893 as Dr. Herbert M. Howe and Mrs. W. A. Reed 

 were not shown at all, and there was not one specimen plant 

 of such a standard variety as Kioto. Some beautiful flowers 

 of the clear yellow Eldorado were shown by Thomas Mona- 

 han. Esmeralda was one of the best among the deep pink 

 flowers, and Harry Balsley was the best light pink. Edward 

 Hatch, Dorothy Toler and Viviand Morel were the other best 

 pinks. Minerva was one of the very best pale yellows, and 

 Eugene Dailledouze was always one of the best flowers in 

 every collection in which it appeared. Golden Wedding, Mrs. 

 Craige Lippincott and Major Bonnaffon were also frequently 

 seen in admirable form. The exhibition was particularly rich 

 in white flowers, and most of the prize seedlings were of this 

 color. The drift of public taste may be seen in the fact that 

 there were no Pompons on exhibition, and no Anemone- 

 flowered varieties, although prizes were offered for both these 

 classes. 



It ought to be added that the prime value of the show lay in 

 the affluence of its display and in the high average excellence 

 of the individual flowers. Cut flowers of the very first quality 

 were shown by the thousand, many of them not being entered 

 for competition, but from what seemed a general desire to 

 make the display rich and impressive. Of course, the Chrys- 

 anthemums overshadowed the other features of the exhibi- 

 tion, although there were Roses enough to make a fair show 

 in themselves, with choice Orchids from Pitcher & Manda and 

 Edwin Lonsdale, and great stretches of Carnations, the most 

 noteworthy being the new seedlings shown by John May, and 

 Delia Fox, a variety raised by Myers & Samtman. 



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Chrysanthemums at Boston. 

 HE Chrysanthemum Show of the Massachusetts Horticul- 

 tural Society, last week, was generally pronounced better 

 in arrangement, and, therefore, more effective as a spectacle, 

 than any ever held in Boston. .This arrangement was simple, 

 the cut flowers being confined to the lower hall, where there 

 was nothing else but Chrysanthemums, while the specimen 

 plants were grouped in the centre of the upper hall. The 

 large Chinese vases standing on the floor, and filled with cut 

 flowers with long stems, were very taking ; admirable, too, in 

 their way, were the plain brown earthenware cylindrical jars 

 used as receptacles by the Waban Nursery Company. The cut 

 flowers seemed to be more uniformly large and regular than 

 ever before, and when massed in vases they certainly produce 

 striking decorative effects, however ugly and unnatural the 

 tall, single-flowered plants are individually. 



The cut flowers exhibited by E. M. Wood & Company were 

 uniformly admirable, and certainly no better collection has 

 ever been made by one exhibitor. The six prize vases with 



ten blooms each showed flowers of E. Dailledouze, Mrs. 

 Jerome Jones, Viviand Morel, H. Balsley, Golden Wedding 

 and Mrs. Phipps. A vase of ten flowers of Inter-ocean, one 

 of the best of this year's novelties, won another prize for 

 E. M. Wood & Company. This flower is a soft pearly 

 pink, and it may generally be described as a light-colored 

 Viviand Morel. Other good introductions of the year, 

 which seem to be genuine advances on the older varie- 

 ties, are, in yellow, Major Bonnaffon and Eugene Dailledouze ; 

 and in white, Mrs. J. G. lis and Mutual Friend. James Brydon, 

 gardener of Hon. John Simpkins, once more gave evidence of 

 his skill by exhibiting a superb vase of fifty long-stemmed 

 blooms in splendid form. His vase of six Japanese incurved 

 blooms and one of Eugene Dailledouze were also admirable, 

 and so were his prize blooms in the class for twenty-five 

 distinct varieties. A new exhibitor, Mr. W. Slack, of Stam- 

 ford, Connecticut, won the second prize in this competition 

 with an admirable lot. 



For twelve specimen plants the prize went for the fifth time 

 in succession to Walter Hunnewell, Esq., T. D. Hatfield, gar- 

 dener. Perhaps Mr. Hatfield has grown'larger plants in some 

 former years, but he never showed a lot so uniform in size and 

 finish as these remarkable specimens. The best of the twelve 

 seemed to be Arethusa, a bright rose ; W. H. Lincoln, the well- 

 known yellow ; G. W. Childs, crimson, and Portia, a pale pink, 

 which many visitors considered the handsomest plant in the 

 hall. The second prize went to N. T. Kidder, Esq., for 

 another admirable lot of plants grown by Mr. William 

 Martin, his gardener. Groups for effect were unusually 

 good, the three prizes being awarded in orderto the Bussey In- 

 stitute, John L. Gardner and W. H. Elliott. The plants in the last 

 collection were admirably grown forcommercial use, and each 

 plant was perfect, but the group failed in effect on account of 

 the absence of other plants to blend with the Chrysanthemums. 

 The Bussey Institute group, arranged by Mr. C. J. Dawson, 

 was unusually attractive. 



Flowers of the Louis Boehmer type seemed unusually 

 abundant, and to a certain extent they were a blemish on the 

 exhibition. The colors are usually indefinite and weak, the 

 flowers are neither good in form nor substance, and they al- 

 most always show the centre in a disagreeable way. 



A Flower-show in New York. 



■THE music-room of the Eden Musge provides a good setting 

 -*- for a flower-show, where fine individual exhibits, rather 

 than great masses- of flowers, are to be viewed. Messrs. Sie- 

 brecht & Wadley, the well-known florists, have arranged an 

 exhibit in this hall, to continue ten days, and, in addition to 

 their own rich collection of plants and flowers, have drawn on 

 the treasures of a number of private gardens. I found on my 

 visit during the first day of the show that the side walls, which 

 are fully mirrored, had been draped with luxuriant vines of 

 Wild Smilax, and at the base of these were arranged tables 

 containing handsome specimens of Ferns and other foliage- 

 plants, among which were distributed exhibits of Orchids, 

 Chrysanthemums and seasonable flowers. Masking the front 

 of the stage was a well-arranged bank of Ferns, Orchids, An- 

 thuriums, etc., which was a most attractive feature. The 

 beautiful golden-yellow Oncidium varicosum Rogersii, with its 

 graceful sprays, was employed here with great effect. The 

 finest individual plant of this variety was from the garden of 

 Mr. G. Amsinck. Noticeable plants in the collection were 

 Laelia autumnalis alba, and a large, deeply colored form of 

 Vanda ccerulea, for which there does not seem to be a varietal 

 name. A finely flowered specimen of the usual form came 

 from the garden of Mrs. Frederick Goodridge. Distributed 

 over the floor-space were many specimen Tree Ferns and 

 Palms, about the bases of which were congregated masses of 

 Chrysanthemums, grown in differing styles. There were 

 standard plants, well flowered, from Mr. W. E. Dodge, the new 

 pink Erminelda being especially noticeable for fine colors. 

 Mr. G. Amsinck sent seventy specimens grown to single stems 

 in six-inch pots, not of the largest size, but well grown. Two 

 masses of naturally grown plants from Mrs. E. R. Laidew, 

 Glen Gove, New York, were very pleasing in contrast to the 

 usual formality, There were also good standards and natu- 

 rally grown plants from Mr. J. Hood Wright. The best speci- 

 men blooms were shown by Mr. J. J. McComb, of Dobb's 

 Ferry, some new varieties of large size and very creditable. 

 Yellow Queen, Lillian Russell, Golden Gate, Excellent and 

 Viviand Morel were the best. 



Mr. Ernst Asmus exhibited well-finished flowers in large 

 vases. Siebrecht & Wadley exhibited a new Chrysanthemum, 



