. The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general. yellow, with just a line edge of pur-plish-red. Merza is grand: all the craft here areenthused over its beautiful finish and dainty second prize for three blooms went to the FifthAvenue Floral Company, for Timothy Eaton, W. , and Yellow Eaton. Of cut blooms, to be judged by the commercialscale, there were four classes. The first class was forsix blooms, cut from three plants; in this class JohnH. Williams was first with Major Bonnaffon, andfor commercial pur
. The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general. yellow, with just a line edge of pur-plish-red. Merza is grand: all the craft here areenthused over its beautiful finish and dainty second prize for three blooms went to the FifthAvenue Floral Company, for Timothy Eaton, W. , and Yellow Eaton. Of cut blooms, to be judged by the commercialscale, there were four classes. The first class was forsix blooms, cut from three plants; in this class JohnH. Williams was first with Major Bonnaffon, andfor commercial purposes this splendid yellow is un-surpassed. The scond prize went to E. Metzmaierfor Golden and W. H. Chadwick; and W. H. Chad-wick secured the third award for the Fifth AvenueFloral Company. This variety fully repays the ex-tra trouble required to grow it, for it is by no meansan easy doer; its size and color are both magnifi-cent. The next commercial class was for twoblooms cut from one plant, and the Franklin ParkFloral Company, with two elegant W. H. Chadwick,was first; the second prize going to the Fifth Ave-. Chrysanthemtim 34-3-05 Growers, Nathan Smith & Son. nue Floral Company for the same variety. Thethird commercial class was for nine blooms cutfrom three plants, and with Golden and W. , E. Metzmaier was first; the second prizewent to John H. Williams with Major last class to be judged by the commercial scalewas for three blooms cut from one plant, and againthe beautiful W. H. Chadwick secured both theprizes; Sherman Stephens taking first, and the FifthAvenue Floral Company the second award. The special prizes offered by Graff Brothers andM. B. Faxon brought out the very keenest competi-tion. Graff Brothers prize was for the best dozenblooms in the show, to be judged by the commercialscale. The committee awarded this prize to theFranklin Park Floral Company for six GojdenChadwick and six W. H. Chadwick. The M. B. Faxon prize was for the best vas
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