. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 1236 The American Florist. July S, greatly added to the appearance and won him the $25 silver cup. J. B. Trevor of Yonkers, N. Y., staged a fine lot of long stemmed flowers. The out-of-town exhibitors were able to do a little better than the local growers as they came from a cooler clime and their flowers with few exceptions showed more substance and rather bet- ter stems. The entries for the best vase mixed, were surely a harlequin of color, but hopelessly massed. Some one should invent a vase that would show the
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 1236 The American Florist. July S, greatly added to the appearance and won him the $25 silver cup. J. B. Trevor of Yonkers, N. Y., staged a fine lot of long stemmed flowers. The out-of-town exhibitors were able to do a little better than the local growers as they came from a cooler clime and their flowers with few exceptions showed more substance and rather bet- ter stems. The entries for the best vase mixed, were surely a harlequin of color, but hopelessly massed. Some one should invent a vase that would show these lovely flowers off to ad- vantage. The Burpee upright vase holder being a bamboo standard about three feet in height set in a foot or block and containing a number of zinc cornucopia holders attached to the sides from bottom to top showed the flowers oft to great advantage as each bunch of twenty-flve or more stood out individually and gave the flowers a light airy appearance adding much to the decorative effect. The society allowed, in addition to the flowers themselves, which were to be free of the branches or vines, use of foliage of the sweet pea or other green. Twenty-five sprays in one variety in a collection was declared the ideal number and overcrowding so as to interfere with the proper showing of individual flowers was declared to be a fault. The awards were as follows : Finest collection of sweet peas—Miss M. T. Cockroft, (Adam Paterson, gar- dener), first; Herbert L. Pratt, (Henry Gaut. gardener), second. Best vase of one variety of Spencer type introduced in 19ii—John W. Pep- per (Wm. Robertson, gardener), first. Best vase of Grandiflora type—S. M. Goldsmith (Wm. R. Seymour, gar- dener), first; Herbert L. Pratt, second. Best vase of Spencer variety mixed^ Miss M. T. Cockroft, first. Best vase of Magnificent mixed—• Mrs. Geo. H. McFadden, first. Collection of sweet peas, 25 varieties not less than 25 stems—John W. Pep- per, first. Best va- J Ruby Spen
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