The Annual Spring Flower Shows 
NEW YORK'S Fifth Annual Spring Flower Show, 
more popularly known as the International 
Flower Show, has recorded another great suc- 
cess in the annals of New York's flower shows. 
Though possibly lacking somewhat in quantity of ex- 
hibits, as compared to the shows of previous years, 
quality, however, surpassed all previous attempts. 
There was some objections voiced on the sameness of 
arrangements, but it is an easy matter for "we critics" 
to stand in the balcony after the opening of the show, 
pick flaws and point out what might have been done. 
Those who have had the experience of serving on 
committees of flower shows of the magnitude of New 
York's spring shows realize what a stupendous task it 
is to attempt to annually plan for new features. And, 
in a building such as the Grand Central Palace the 
massive pillars are a serious obstacle to the radical re- 
arrangement of exhibits each year, thotigh we have 
no doubt that the able management with its increas- 
ing experience will in time even surmount that diffi- 
culty. The private growers were a greater factor 
than ever before in this year's show and this is most 
encouraging, for the success of future shows will rest 
in a large measure more and more on the extent that 
private growers will participate in them. 
The two splendid exhibits of the park departments, 
the magnificent groups of foliage and flowering 
plants of New York City and the interesting collec- 
tion of cacti of Brooklyn added much to the attractive- 
ness of the show. The rose gardens of A. N. Pierson 
Inc., and F. R. Pierson, the Dutch garden of John 
Scheepers & Company, Inc. ; the rock gardens of A. 
N. Pierson, Inc.. ISobbink & Atkins and Julius Roehrs 
Company, were all predominating attractions which 
interested the public eye. As for the spring flower- 
ing and bulbous groups of the private growers too 
much praise cannot be bestowed on them. 
Space will not permit a detailed account of all the 
prize winners, but among the most prominent in tlie 
various classes were : 
Plants in Flower: P. W. Popp, gardener to Mrs. H. S. Darling- 
ton, who won first honors for a group of flowering plants and 
bulbs covering three hundred square feet, with J. W. Smith, 
gardener to F. V. Lewis, second honors; James Stuart, gardener 
to Mrs. F. A. Constable: William W. Vert, gardener to Howard 
Could; R. M. Johnson, gardener to W. B. Thompson; John Can- 
ning, gardener to Adolph Lewisohn; A. M. Golding, gardener to 
D. G. Reid; Robert Tyson, gardeiier to Jlrs. H. McK. Twombly: 
Robert Jones, gardener to Percy Chubb: Cliarles Riithbiin, gar- 
dener to Mrs. E. 0. Meyers, Jr. 
Roses in Pots and Tubs: R. M. Johnson, J. W. Smitli. Robert 
Jones. 
Bulbous Plants: George Ferguson, gardener to Jlrs. Payne 
Whitney; James A. MacDonald, Joseph Tansey, Thonuis Wilson, 
gardener to Mrs. J. Murray Mitchell; E. Fardel, gardener to Mrs. 
A. M. Booth; P. W. Popp. 
Orchids ; E. Edwards, gardener to Arthur N. Cooley : J. P. 
Moseman, gardener to Clement Moore; P. E. Venzie, gardener to 
Col. H. H. Rogers; R. M. Johnson, James Stuart, A. M. Golding, 
Thomas Page, gardener to William H. Walker. 
Palms and Foliage Plants: .James Stuart, A. M. Golding, Wil- 
liam Wliitton, gardener to Mrs. J. H. Flaglier; R. M. Johnson, 
R. Heidkamp, gardener to Mrs. H. W. Boettger; J. W. Smith. 
Cut Roses: A. A. Macdonald, Duke's Farm; George Ferguson, 
R. M. Johnson, William Whitton, A. J. Loveless, gardener to Wil- 
liam E. S. Griswold; .James Stuart and John Canning. 
Carnations: A. M. Golding, D. F. Roy, gardener to H. K. Con- 
verse; William Reid, gardener to S. and A. Colgate; Robert Jones 
and William Vert. 
Sweet Peas: William Whitton, David Francis, gardener to Mrs. 
Charles P.radley; William W. Vert, J. W. Smith, Robert Grun- 
nert, gardener to W. W. Reiss. 
pOSTON'S Spring Flower Show was the most suc- 
cessful one ever held by the Massachusetts Hor- 
ticultural Society, with paid admissions of nearly 
twenty thousand in addition to numerous members' 
tickets and thousands of school children and students 
admitted free. It was certainly demonstrated beyond 
a shadow of a doubt that publicity pays. Boston's and 
New England's champion advertising man was en- 
gaged and he certainly drew the crowds to the flower 
show. Passing two thousand free tickets on the open- 
ing day to representative people, the exhibition, which 
was a splendid one in all departinents was further 
boomed and Boston gained a publicit}' lesson which 
it will not readily forget. 
A period of five days is a fairly long one for plants 
and flowers to stand up in Al condition, but at this 
show nearly all exhibits were as fresh at the close as 
the opening, thanks to well ventilated halls and a 
minimum of artificial heat. It could not be said by 
visitors on even the closing day that exhibits were 
"all in" to quote a common phrase, but five days is 
as long a period as a show can be continued and kept 
fresh without plants and cut floweis being changed, 
and in a condition which would satisfy visitors. 
To Mr. James Wheeler, as show manager, much o^ 
the success of the exhibition is due, his arrangements 
of the exhibits being excellent and his idea of having 
a corp of competent gardeners act as an "information 
Bureau" kept the latter body busily occupied. 
R. & J. Farquhar Company's Flemish garden, with 
its bulb borders, verdant leaves, masses of flowering 
shrubs and other features was a very pleasant feature. 
F. J. Dolansky's group of orchids made a notable dis- 
play and Julius Roehrs Company also had a very fine 
collection. Thomas Roland staged a wonderful col- 
lection of Acacias and Ericas in perfect condition 
The groups of flowering and foliage plants by .A. N. 
Davenport and W. W. Edgar Company were remark- 
ably good. 
Prize winners among the private growers were : 
Donald MeKenzie, gardener to E. B. Dane, who received first 
prize for the finest orchid group; William C. Rust, gardener to 
Mrs. C. G. Weld, secured second, with Henry Stewart, gardener 
to Miss C. Warren, and J. T. Butterworth also successful com- 
petitors in the orchid classes. 
In Flowering Plants: E. H. Wetterlow, gardener to Mrs. Lester 
Leland; William C. Rust, John S. Doig, gardener to J. M. Sears; 
W. H. Jolly, gardener to G. A. Clark; M. Sullivan, gardener to 
William Whitman; A. E. Parsons, gardener to H. S. Greer; Peter 
Arnott, gardener to E. S. Webster; W. N. Craig, gardener to E. D. 
Brandogee, and Henry Stewart all made interesting e.xhibitB. 
Honors went to Duncan Finlayson, gardener to Larz Anderson, 
for palms; W. N, Craig, for lilacs and forced shrubs; W. C. Rust 
and Henry Stewart, for hard wooded plants. 
In carnation classes A. E. Davies, gardener to W. H. Welling- 
ton; W. C. Rust, and George Page, gardener to Mrs. Frederick 
Ayre, showed some fine flowers. 
ANY one who would have suggested a few years ago 
■^ that a rose show of the scope of the American 
Rose Festival held in Philadelphia, under the auspices 
of the American Rose Society were possible, would 
have been regarded as an extreme imaginist, but those 
who beheld the sight of roses, roses, everywhere, and 
nothing but roses, will not soon forget it. To William 
Kleinheinz, gardener to Joseph Widener, belongs the 
credit for the splendid show management, its artistic 
arrangement and general preparedness. 
The contest for honors was principally among com- 
mercial growers as private growers were much in the 
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