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Title: Florists' review (microform)
Identifier: 5205536_31_3 (find matches)
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: Floriculture
Publisher: Chicago : Florists' Pub. Co
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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April 10, 1913 The Florists^ Review ■'I)HFI'1H"-'.'J"'"'."W*-'"-'•■ " IB
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A Typical View in the National Flower Show Now in Progreu in New York City. (A trroup of ramblor roees from Anton Schulthels, massed a^tnst the pillars, with hyacinths flowered by James A, McDonald and W. H. Duckham In foreground.) Castle Gould, a nice collection of these also came. The rose groups from William Duck- ham and Samuel Untermyer, W. H. Waite, gardener, were both tastefully arranged. Mr. Waite won, but many good judges preferred Mr. Duckham's group. Mr. Duckham showed some fine specimen Phoenix Roebelenii and several collections of stove and greenhouse plants that denoted high culture. The .Tulius Roehrs Co., W. A. Manda and several others had some fine specimen foliage plants. The French Hydrangeas. The groups of the new French hy- drangeas Mme. Mouillere and General de Vibraye, from Louis Dupuy, were a great attraction. The trusses and in- dividual flowers of the former were of remarkable size. Mr. Dupuy also had a good group of roses, one of ericas and a number of acacias. The trade exhibit of A. N. Pierson, Inc., was a great credit to Wallace R. Pierson. Splendidly grown Adiantum Farleyense were used in profusion; also Cattleya Schrccderae, rambler roses, and cut roses in variety. Peter Henderson & Co. 's bulb garden charmed everyone. The verdant lawns and beds of single and double early tulips, as well as Darwin and other late tulips, narcissi and hyacinths, with suitable backgrounds of evergreens, formed one of the most refreshing ex- hibits in the lower hall. F. E. Pierson Co. had an extensive collection of nephrolepis. They also came out well in many competitive classes. Buxton's Killarney Pink snap- dragon here also attracted much atten- tion. The Mount Desert Nurseries, Bar Harbor, Me., had twenty-five varieties of astilbes, a number of which will be found referred to in the notes on nov- elties. Marguerites a Feature. Madsen & Christensen, Wood Ridge, N. J., and Mrs. Oliver Hoyt, Stamford, Conn., had beautiful displays of mar- guerites. Specimen plants, half a dozen in number, of Begonia Gloire de Sceaux from W. B. Thompson, E. I. Grossman, gardener, were also noteworthy, as was Mrs. H. McK. Twombly's large speci- men clivia from her superintendent, Robert Tyson. Gardenias from J. T. Pratt, J. W. Everett, gardener, were fine. C. B. Newbold, J. W. Pepper, gardener, had some of his immense Azalea Indica grandly flowered. His Cibotium Schiedei, over fifteen feet across, waa also a magnificent specimen. He also had good standard wistarias and many other plants. Knight & Struck's table of hard- wooded plants contained many gems, all finely flowered. A few of the best were Erica translucens, Fabiana im- bricata, perspicua erecta, ventricosa magnifica, rosea and cupressina; Aotus gracillima, Diosma ericoides, Boronia elatior, Agapetes buxifolia and Acacia cordata. William Tricker's exhibit.contained a few gems. Among others I was charmed to see Daphne Gwenka, Azalea Azama- shikori and Andromeda speciosa. Schlzanthus Far Excellence. Schizanthus were a strong feature here. The prize-winning six from C. K. G. Billings, James Bell, gardener, were splendidly grown. Cineraria stellata were shown in quantity, but the season was late for these. Cyclamens were not up to the standard of the Boston shows. H. Papworth, of the Metairie Ridge Nursery, New Orleans, La., had a truly remarkable display of Lilium Harrisii, which were in grand condition after their long journey. William Sim, Cliftondale, Mass., made an exhibit of pansies which almost took away the breath of many of the old- timers. He was unfortunate in being given a poor location on the third floor. His pansies should have had a promi- nent place on the main floor. A. C. Zvolanek had sixty varieties of winter-flowering Spencer sweet peas. which contained some gems. These will soon knock the old grandifloras out of the running. '-^, Bobbink & Atkins, Julius Eoelirs Co. and W. A. Manda all had extensive col- lections of coniferous evergreens, box- woods in many forms, ivies and bay trees. Mrs. H. McK. Twombly had some bay trees of remarkable size. William Ziegler, Jr., had a collection of the finest commercial-grown hydran- geas of the new French types I have yet seen. Anton Schultheis and other specialists were well to the front, as usual, with Dutch bulbous plants. L. E. Small, Tewksbury, Mass., showed a vase of bachelor's buttons that for length of stem and size of flower were quite out of the ordinary. > Flower lovers are proverbially art lovers as well, and consequently many found pleasure in a display of pictures in oil and pastel by Mary Helen Car- lisle, of London, showing famous old English gardens. W. N. Craig. THE TRADE EXHIBITS. Business End of the Big Show. The trade exhibits at the Interna- tional Flower Show in New York this week are a big feature; the number and extent are scarcely less than at the annual August conventions of the S. A. P. and, indeed, the same exhibitors, as a rule, are there, with the addition of large and costly displays by New York seed houses and others aimed to attract the patronage of the general public rather than that of the trade visitors. The high rental, causing space to be sold at from $1 to $1.50 per square foot, has, of course, resulted in most of the exhibitors in the business section keep- ing their displays from spreading over any more space than is necessary, but at that several firms are paying from $1,000 to $1,500 for their floor rent, and spending in some cases a good deal more than that on the exhibits them- selves. A number of the trade ex-

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