. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 14 The Florists' Review June 11, 1914. hankie's fine vase of M. Jules Elie, which won first prize in its class, was an object of much admiration. A. P. Saunders, secretary of the society, brought some good stock from Clinton, N. Y., and did his part to fill the ama- teur classes, but was alone in this effort, as no other amateur entrant appeared. The Arrangements. The lack of amateur participants and Peony exhibitors face disadvantages that members of the other flower so- cieties do not have to contend with in their exhibitions, and the aid of cold
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 14 The Florists' Review June 11, 1914. hankie's fine vase of M. Jules Elie, which won first prize in its class, was an object of much admiration. A. P. Saunders, secretary of the society, brought some good stock from Clinton, N. Y., and did his part to fill the ama- teur classes, but was alone in this effort, as no other amateur entrant appeared. The Arrangements. The lack of amateur participants and Peony exhibitors face disadvantages that members of the other flower so- cieties do not have to contend with in their exhibitions, and the aid of cold storage to keep their blooms does not nearly offset these. The difference in locality of a score of miles may mean an appreciable difference in the bloom- ing time, and while the exhibitors of greenhouse grown flowers may time their stock almost to the minute, the grower of peonies must depend to a. Some Peterson Nunery Prize-winners at the American Peony Society's Show. the small number of the professional exhibitors—there were six—was due,' according to some, to the lack of pub- licity given the show beforehand, es- pecially in the public press. Be this as it may, the other arrangements were well taken care of by the representa- tives of the three organizations who were back of the undertaking, the American Peony Society, the Horticul- tural Society of Chicago and the Chi- cago Florists' Club. The judges ap- pointed for the occasion were Thomas Wallis, of Rose Hill cemetery, Chi- cago; W. A. Rieman, of Vincennes, Ind., and Secretary A. P. Saunders, of Clinton, N. Y. Iarg3 extent on chance. Frosts, the weather, etc., cannot be taken into ac- count beforehand, however much they affect the final outcome. Then, too, shipping is usually a more hazardous undertaking with peonies than with other flowers, and one show, therefore, cannot draw competitors from so large a territory as an exhibition of another kind. Taking into account these diffi- culties which face peony exhibitor
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