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Title: Florists' review (microform)
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Subjects: Floriculture
Publisher: Chicago : Florists' Pub. Co
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34 The Weekly Florists' Review. August 18. 1910. said to be a free bloomer. Mr, Miller and T. Y. Smith were in charge. Chas. Ebele, New Orleans, had a large low table of Phoenix Roebelenii, at least seventy-five plants. He was personally in charge and says this plant can be grown faster and cheaper in the south than under glass at the north. Chas. D. Ball, Holmesburg, Pa., showed kentias in both varieties, single and ma^e up plants; Latania Borbon- ica, Areca lutescens, Cocos Weddelli- ana, Dracaena Sanderiana and Phcenix Roebelenii, all perfect plants. Mr. Ball and his son were both on the spot. Lager & Hurrell, Summit, N. J., had a large table of established and freshly imported orchids. There were upwards of seventy-five varieties, the whole having an invoice value of close to $700. There were twenty varieties of cypripediums, fifteen of cattleyas and examples of practically all the commer- cial species. J. E. Lager was person- ally in charge. Conard & Jones Co., "West Grove, Pa., showed Lady Gay, Gardenia, Alba rubi- folia and Philadelphia Rambler field- grown roses, also viburnums, Althea Jean de Arc, Spira;a prunifolia and S. Anthony Waterer. A Boston fern was planted in the Illinois self-water- ing window box, for which the firm has the agency for several states. Robert Pyle was in charge. Lemuel Ball, Wyomissing, Pa., showed kentias, cocos, arecas, latanias, phoenix, Aralia Veitchii, Dracaena Sanderiana, D. terminalis, and crotons in several varieties. These plants have been his specialties for thirty-five years. Mr. Ball was personally in charge. George Giatras, West Hoboken, N. J., had a table of his new fern, Nephrol- epis Giatrasii, in several sizes, in charge of his brother, P. Giatras. Joseph Traudt, Canajoharie, N. Y., had a table of pot plants of new varie- gated sweet alyssum, Little Gem. Geo. A. Kuhl, Pekin, 111., had a table of ferns, including a large part of the nephrolepis family; palms and other plants grown for the wholesale trade. Jackson & Perkins Co., Newark, N. Y., showed thirty-six varieties of Dutch and French bulbs, some twenty varie- ties of field-grown roses, tree hydran- geas, tree lilacs. Hydrangea arbores- cens sterilis. Clematis Jackmanni, peo- nies, hollyhocks, etc. A. J. Fremow was in charge. Kessler Bros. & Dreyer, New York, had a table of the new nephrolepis, Dreyerii, in charge of Wm. Kessler and Geo. Dreyer. It is a compact Boston on the order of Scottii and is to be jointly disseminated next year. J. G. Harrison & Sons, Berlin, Md., showed California privet in large sizes, Coloi'ado blue spruce. Roster's spruce, berberis, shade and fruit trees. Orlando Harrison was in charge. His souvenirs consisted of fruit of a new peach shortly to be introduced. EUwanger & Barry, Rochester, had two sides of one of the halls and yet were crowded with their exhibit of some sev- enty-five evergreens in tubs, many of them large; Japanese maples and other ornamental nursery stock. Brown Bros. Co., Rochester, had a long table of evergreens in large pots, shrubs in pots, and ornamentals with balls in burlap. A large quantity of cut hydran- gea bloom was used in the exhibit. Cut Flowers. James Vick's Sons, Rochester, had an orormous display. A table of cut blooms of asters carried a vase of practically every variety which may be had in flower at this date and above it was probably the largest floral design ever made. It was a double faced sign, four feet high and thirty-six feet long, made of white asters with the words ' * Vick—Rochester in purple asters. It was estimated that over 12,500 were used in it. The balance of this table was given over to a full line of Dutch and French bulbs. A second table, the full width of the hall, car- ried an extremely large collection of cut blooms of herbaceous plants and annuals, all correctly named. The gladioli and phloxes were particularly fine. W. 1!. Dildine put in as much time as possible at the exhibit. Vick & Hill Co., Rochester, complainc! that the season prevented showing move than the early types of asters, but the display nevertheless was a large one. A. large number of plants were shown iu pots, full of bloom, and the same vari- eties were shown in vases. Queen of the Market was there in eight colors. Tlie Daybreak family was represented b\ seven colors; the latest is a light blue. Mikado, pink, which has been selected as the oflBcial flower of the city and renamed Rochester, was in evidence. A new one that looked good was White Fleece, shown both as pot plants and cut. The firms well-known strain of ruffled giant petii nias also were shown. F. W. Vick and A. F. Vick were at the exhibit whenever their official duties permitted. Arthur Cowee, Berlin, N. Y., had 332 vases of gladiolus blooms, not countinjj those shown in competitive classes. There were over 500 varieties, the display on account of the peculiar season consisting almost entirely of the Meadowvale flo rists' light mixture, with a number of novelties. Of Groff's hybrids Mr. Cowee pointed out Afterglow, Peace, Dawn, La Luna and Blue Jay as notable. A trio of fine scarlets not yet disseminated was War, Dominion and Empire. Some of the varieties never before exhibited were Aeroplane, London, Intensity, Silver Star and Lavendula. Mr. Cowee brought lii> usual staff of young lady assistants. John Lewis Childs, Floral Park, N. Y., staged 125 varieties of gladioli, cut blooms, a dozen spikes to a vase. One side of the long table was entirely Childsii varieties, most of the other side Gandavensis varieties, with one end and part of the side exclusively Lemoinei sorts, with the prominent end reserved to America, introduced by Childs, which still stands without a peer as a commercial variety. Some of the newer and good Childsii sorts shown were: Aline, white; Wild Rose, rose; Silver Sheen, white flushed pink; Scribe, mottled; Rosy
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