. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. August 2S, 1921 The Florists^ Review 25. At the Conventioa of the Canadian Florists' and Gardeners' Association, at Peterboro, Ont. geranium cuttings was enormous, there being more than 45,000 lost in Beaute Poitevine alone. B. F. Barr extended a general invita- tion to any members of the craft who might be passing through Lancaster, Pa., to join with the Florists' Club in a corn roast at the Barr homestead the eve- ning of Thursday, August 25. Mrs. Barr was to assit in doing the honors. W. M. PENNOCK ON NEW ROSES. Writes of Bagatelle Awards. Samue
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. August 2S, 1921 The Florists^ Review 25. At the Conventioa of the Canadian Florists' and Gardeners' Association, at Peterboro, Ont. geranium cuttings was enormous, there being more than 45,000 lost in Beaute Poitevine alone. B. F. Barr extended a general invita- tion to any members of the craft who might be passing through Lancaster, Pa., to join with the Florists' Club in a corn roast at the Barr homestead the eve- ning of Thursday, August 25. Mrs. Barr was to assit in doing the honors. W. M. PENNOCK ON NEW ROSES. Writes of Bagatelle Awards. Samuel S. Pennock, last week elected president of the Society of American Florists, had the honor Juno 15 of being the American representative on the board of judges at the Bagatelle rose gardens, Paris. At the meeting of the jurors that day Mr. Pennock was elected vice-president representing the United States. In a lengthy letter telling of his trip abroad, Mr. Pennock describes the roses which took the awards at Paris. He writes: "The rose that stood out head and shoulders above any other rose was Pernet-Ducher's hybrid tea gold medal rose of last year, Souvenir de Claudius Pernct, named in honor of his son, whom he lost in the war. Mixed in the bed were also a few plants of Per- net-Ducher's hybrid tea rose, Mme. Wil- liam Marcel Dalanney, a medium pink, with full, large flowers. "Claudius Pernet is certainly a won- derful rose, a rich canary yellow, fading out as it gets older to a lighter shade; large, full; long, well-shaped bud and as large as any hybrid tea rose in the gar- den. These flowers were borne on fairly long stems, well foliaged, holding their heads perfectly erect. It certainly was •''• joy to see this bed; it was well worthy of the name it bore. It is too bad that this rose is not a forcer, but the con- sensus seemed to be that it was not and would go to sleep in the winter. In fact. I saw it growing at W. T. H. Kordes' father's greenhouse, in Elmsh
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