Identifier: floristsexchange05newy (find matches)
Title: The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general
Year: 1888 (1880s)
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Subjects: Floriculture
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : (A.T. De la Mare Ptg. and Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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first, also for six vases roses, three varieties, first, L. E.Marquisee. Largest and best display carnatioDB—First L. E. Marquisee. Fifty carnations in one vase, anyvariety, first, Peter Kay; second, L. E.Marquisee. Best single specimen plant chrysanthe-mum—First, W. Meneilly *: Son; second,E. N. Trump; third, George Ham. THE SPECIAL PKEMIUMS. Nathan Smith & Son, Adrian, Mich.,captured the White Flyer bicycle withsix grand blooms of seedling No. )8. L.E. Marquisee got specials for best twelveblooms Yellow Fellow; best twieveblooms W. H. Chadwick; best twelveblooms carnations not yet disseminated,best two plants Peter Kay (syn. JeannieFalconer), best six blooms Peter Ka.v(syn. Jeannie Falconer.) Secretary D. Campbell took specialprizes for best exhibit of exotic terns; forrarest plant in flower and for bast dis-play of orchids. W. Meneilly & Son took specialprizes for best displays of violets andpansies, and the !i20 prize for best vasetwelve blooms of salmon-pink, Japanese
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SPECIMKN RLANTS AT BOSl ON SHOW. cut blooms, six varieties, and three vasescut blooms, three varieties; BannisterBros, being second in last named class. For six single stem plants Thornden D.Campbell took first. Forvase of twelve blooms, white, L. E.Marquisee captured first honors, also torvase twelve blooms, yellow, the latterwith Jeannie Falconer. For twelveblooms, pink, Marquisee was again thewinner with Maud Dean. In the class tor twenty-tour blooms,twenty tour varieties, C. A. Philips wasfirst; Marquisee second. The winningblooms were Georgiana Pitcher, SilverCloud, Chas. Davis, Niveus, Wm. Simp-son, Mayflower, Major Bonnatfon, Inter-Ocean, Mrs. W. C. Egan, Jeannie Fal-coner, Nyanza, Lenawee, Minnie Wana-maker, The Queen, Philadelphia, Vivland-Morel, Marguerite Jeffords, Mrs. GeorgeWest, Mutual Friend, Pink Ivory, LornaDoone, Modesto, Sunderbruch and Mrs.Henry Robinson. For twenty-tour single stem plants,twenty-four varieties, C. A. Philips wasfirst, W. Meneilly & Son, second

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