. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. May l-'. I'.t21 The Florists^ Review 29. Looking Through the Section at Howard & Smith's Greenhouses Where 15,000 Cinerarias Are Grown for Seed. was referred to a committee for con- sideration and report. Exhibits. Anthurium Sergt. Manda, shown by.« the Joseph Manda Co., West Orange, N. J., was awarded a silver medal. A collection of cut orchids, shown by James Goodier, superintendent for F. E. Dixon, Elkins Park, Pa., was awarded a silver medal. A new orchid, Lajliocattleya Helena Dixon, parentage Lajliocattleya C. G. Roebling x Cattleya Gaske
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. May l-'. I'.t21 The Florists^ Review 29. Looking Through the Section at Howard & Smith's Greenhouses Where 15,000 Cinerarias Are Grown for Seed. was referred to a committee for con- sideration and report. Exhibits. Anthurium Sergt. Manda, shown by.« the Joseph Manda Co., West Orange, N. J., was awarded a silver medal. A collection of cut orchids, shown by James Goodier, superintendent for F. E. Dixon, Elkins Park, Pa., was awarded a silver medal. A new orchid, Lajliocattleya Helena Dixon, parentage Lajliocattleya C. G. Roebling x Cattleya Gaskelliana alba, shown l)y James Goodier, was awarded a silver medal. A collection of orchid plants, hybrids, shown by S. G. Milosy, gardenor for George Schlegel, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, N. Y., was awarded a silver medal. Vases of Antirrhinum Orlando and Didisous cu'rulea (blue lace flower), shown by Roman J. Irwin, New York, were awarded a vote of thanks. J. n. P. better than words can Ihe excellence of the strain. In all, 15,000 are grown, for it is a well known fact that these extra choice flowers do not produce st) nia^jy seeds per flower or per plant as the smaller and commoner ljfci)es. For their accommodation this 8,000 SOME SUCCESSFUL STRAINS. New Race of Cinerarias. It is a pleasure to chronicle a real ad- vance in anything pertaining to florists' flowers and the cinerarias shown in the illustration on this page are much in advance of those usually seen. Right at the start, it should be mentioned that this is no aggregation of other types, no mixture of other strains, but a straight new race of cinerarias, the fruit of ten years' work. For that is the length of tim-p that Fred 11. Howard, the president of Howard & Smith, Los Angeles, Cal., lias given his close personal attention to the improvement of florists' flower seeds, and the cineraria was one of the earliest plants to receive this attention. The writer has already referred to these plants, but the illustration sho
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