March 10, 1906 



HORTICULTURE 



very practical talk, agreeing with Mr. 

 Hill as to the outlook and the florists' 

 duty. Although prominently identi- 

 fied with the sporting element, he felt 

 that nine-tenths of every florist's ca- 

 reer must be hard work, and urged 

 that all should "get busy" on the new 

 lines now offering. E. G. Gillett spoke 

 for Cincinnati and said many nice 

 things about Dayton, all of them true, 

 and promised a great treat for all who 

 should visit the convention next sum- 

 mer. 



Among the local speakers were S. 

 Karpf, secretary of the National Bowl- 

 ing Association; George Shaw and 

 Mr. Newman, of the Dayton Paper 

 Novelty Company; Mr. Storrs. of the 

 Dayton Fruit Tree Label Co.; Mr. 

 Lutz, of Aul Bros.; Mr. Bartholomew 

 and Mr. Shaeffer, all of whom ex- 

 pressed the most cordial, hospitable 

 sentiments. Mr. Karpf made a most 

 inspiring speech, promising that al- 

 though under democratic administra- 

 tion Dayton would take the lid off for 

 the S. A. F. next August. 



NEWPORT HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



The regular meeting of the society 

 was held last Tuesday evening, Presi- 

 dent Alexander MacLellan in the 

 chair. 



The president submitted his report 

 as a delegate to a meeting of the 

 Rhode Island Society for Rural Prog- 

 ress. The president of the College 

 of Agriculture, Mr. Butterfleld, is very 

 enthusiastic in the movement, and is 

 confident that a great deal can be ac- 

 complished by the society, composed, 

 as it is, of prominent men from all 

 parts of the State. There are pros- 

 pects of the Newport Horticultural 

 Society's grant from the State being 

 considerably augmented this year, 

 which, if they materialize, will enable 

 the society to considerably extend its 

 work. 



After the meeting adjourned a group 

 of members were heard in discussion 

 over matters relating to the late car- 

 nation exhibition at Boston. The sen- 

 timent was voiced that it was a splen- 

 didly representative show. 



LENOX HORTICULTURAL SO- 

 CIETY. 



The regular meeting of the society 

 was held March 3, President S. Carl- 

 quist in the chair. This was carnation 

 night, but owing to such incessant 

 wet weather all day, there were not 

 many flowers on exhibition. W. J. & 

 M. S. Vesey, Fort Wayne. Ind.. sent. 

 at the suggestion of Mr. A. F. Bodding- 

 ton, some of their new carnation Glen- 

 dale, which unfortunately arrived very 

 badly bruised and shaken up. They 

 were accorded a vote of thanks. 

 Among the exhibits were some very 

 fine White Lawson. Nelson Fisher, 

 Flamingo and Enchantress. A letter 

 was read from W. J. Stewart, secre- 

 tary of the American Rose Society, 

 cordially inviting all the members to 

 attend their annual exhibition in Bos- 

 ton. March 23. 24. A special meeting 

 was held March 5. to pass upon the 

 new rose, Miss Kate Moulton, from 

 Minneapolis Floral Co., Minneapolis, 

 Minn. It was awarded a first-class 

 certificate. The next meeting. March 

 17, will be rose night. 



GEORGE FOULSHAM. Secretary. 



TARRYTOWN HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



The regular monthly meeting was 

 held on Tuesday evening. February 27. 

 President Mooney in the chair. The 

 W. K. Wilkes prize, a set of flower 

 vases, was won by Mr. Langle of 

 White Plains, with a bunch of the Far- 

 tjuhar violet; he also showed a prom- 

 ising new variety, a sport front the 

 above. Other exhibits were Alma 

 Ward, Robert Craig, and an unnamed 

 pink by C. W. Ward; F. R. Pierson 

 Co.. a vase of Wdnsor; David MacFar- 

 lane. a new variety of tomatoes, some 

 of the fruit stock having ten to twelve 

 ripe tomatoes on them. A discussion 

 on the questions left over from the 

 January meeting followed. 



FLORISTS' CLUB OF WASHINGTON. 



At the meeting of the Florists' Club 

 of Washington, March 6, Peter Bissd. 

 who has been secretary for two years, 

 was elected president. Mr. Bisset was 



Peter Bissett 



born in Auchtermuchty, 1< itVshire, 

 Scotland, on April 24. 1869, and in 

 early boyhood was inspired with a 

 love for the profession in which he has 

 made such creditable advancement. 

 He came to this country in 1889, and 

 In]- the past fourteen years has had 

 charge of Twin Oaks, the beautiful 

 home of Hon. Gardiner G. Hubbard. 



PITTSBURG AND ALLEGHENY FLO- 

 RISTS* AND GARDENERS' CLUB. 



It was ruse night at the meeting 

 March 6, and the display was so large 

 and of such fine quality that the mem- 

 bers were eager to hurry through the 

 routine business and discuss I he rosi 

 The Minneapolis Floral Co. exhibited 

 a large vase of Miss Kate Moulton. ft 

 is a far cry from Minneapolis to Pitts- 

 bum, but this young lady made the 

 long journey in good shape. Good 

 stem, good foliage and the slightly dif- 

 ferent shade of pink at the ends of the 

 curved petals give it a very pleasing 

 effect in artificial light. W. H. Elliott 



of Brighton, Mass., sent six plants 

 each, grafted, of Wellesley and Killar- 

 ney in pots. It was much regretted 

 that cut blooms of Wellesley were not 

 shown, as this rose while popular in 

 the East, has not been shown as grown 

 in Pittsburg. W. A. Manda of South 

 Orange, N. J., sent a box of cut blooms 

 of the Cherokee rose — a new rose to 

 many here and very attractive; Jno. 

 L. Wyland, De Haven, Pa., a vase each 

 of Bridesmaid, Bride. Richmond and 

 Mine. Abel Chatenay. the Richmond 

 and Chatenay attracting special atten- 

 i ion. The Richmond was grafted 

 stock. H. L. Blind & Bros.. West View, 

 Pa., showed Richmond on own roots; 

 a vase of Killarney, Bridesmaid and 

 Bride, grafted stock; blooms of Ameri- 

 can Beauty; and Baby Rambler and 

 Crimson Rambler in pots. The Pitts- 

 burg Rose and Carnation Co., Gib- 

 sonia, Pa., showed vases of Perles, 

 Mme. Cusin, very free blooming; Bon 

 Silene, handled only in the bud; Kil- 

 larney, Bridesmaid. Bride, Chatenay 

 ami Richmond. The Florists' Ex- 

 change of Pittsburg — vases of Brides- 

 maids, Ivory, Chatenay and very fine 

 Queen of Edgely; David Fraser, gar- 

 dener wih H. C. Frick. fine Killarney; 

 S. J. Hatch of Pittsburg, carnations; 

 ( i i: J. W. Ludwig of Allegheny, Gen. 

 McArthur rose and carnations in va- 

 riety. Neil McCallum, in his paper on 

 "Outdoor Roses," spoke enthusiastical- 

 ly of roses as he had seen them grow- 

 ing out of doors in Australia. The sub- 

 ject for the April meeting will be 

 "Eastern Plants and Flowers." 



H. P. JOSLIN. 



NEW JERSEY FLOR ICU LTU R AL 

 SOCIETY. 



Trentham, so recently given by the 

 Duke of Sutherland to the English 

 people for purposes of higher educa- 

 tion, was presented pictorially and 

 descriptively to the society by George 

 Austin on tile evening of March 2 at 

 their regular monthly meeting. The 

 speaker, who hail a personal acquaint- 

 ance with the place of more than 

 twenty years, described its situation 

 upon the Trent river, its enormous ex- 

 tent, being five times the size of Cen- 

 tral Park. New York, the planting of 

 its beds, management, accommodation 

 of its gardeners, their pay and condi- 

 tion, and answered the many ques- 

 tions upon the maintenance of perpet- 

 ual flowering in its parterres, its three 

 miles of glass-covered walks, and fruit 

 all grown out of season, with none 

 mown higher than a man might reach 

 to pick. 



The monthly floral display main- 

 tained its usual excellence and was 

 representative of its best growers 

 There were orchids from Lager & 

 Ihirrell, Julius Roehrs Company and 

 Thomas Jones, a display from tie 1 

 houses of William Barr, grown by A. 

 W. Bodwell. which filled an entire 

 table, the Nicotiana Sanderae rising 

 above the group of dendrobiums, 

 < attleyas and eypripedums and lycas- 

 tas; carnations from the Colgate, 

 Runkle and Hathaway estates; roses 

 from Col. Potter; antirrhinum, stocks 

 ami carnations from A. C. Van Gaas 



k. grown by William Bennett; a 



specimen Adiantum cuneatum, from J. 

 Crosby Brown, grown by Peter Duff. 

 The judges were Edward Rochers. 

 George von Qualen and A. L. Caparn. 

 J. B. DAVIS. 



