THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SO- 

 CIETY OF ENGLAND. 



A fine display was again made by 

 the trade and fellows of the society. 

 with the result that the hall in Vin- 

 cent square was occupied in nearly 

 every part. The crush of visitors was 

 very great lo^vards the close of the 

 afternoon. 



Orchid Novelties. 

 I will take certificated orchids first 

 as representing the highest form of 

 the novelties brought to the notice of 

 the society and visitors. Messrs. 

 Charlesworth & Co. showed Odonti- 

 oda Lutetia derived from a crossing 

 of a species of Odontioda with 

 Odontoglossum luteo-purpureum. The 

 blooms are 2 1-4 inches wide, the 

 spikes 8 inches in length, on which 

 were eight expanded blooms. Ifr is a 

 brilliant flower of scarlet color, with 

 a mottling of golden yellow. Awards 

 of merit were made to Brasso-Cat- 

 tleya Cooksoni, obtained by crossing 

 Brasso-Iaelia Gratorex and Cattleya 

 aurea, the latter greatly employed in 

 making crosses in consequence of the 

 unique influence of the color. The 

 sepals of the hybrid are orange suf- 

 fused with red; lip rosy purple suf- 

 fused faintly with orange. This is 

 the most striking feature of the bloom. 

 Mr. de B. Crawshay, an amateur of 

 Odontoglossum proclivities, showed 

 Trichopilia suavis, a native of Ck)sta 

 Rica. The flowers are white, the In- 

 terior of the throat yellow and having 

 spotting of violet rose on the front and 

 sides. The blooms have the fragrance 

 of hawthorn. Mr. Crawshay showed 

 Odontoglossum Cariniterum, and was 

 awarded a Botanical Certificate. It 

 was a small flower, with a white 

 lip and bro-rni sepals and petals. 

 Dendrobium Slelpomene. a flower of 

 primrose color, with a brownish pur- 

 ple blotch on the lip. This exhibitor 

 had also D. Leechianum and various 

 Cypripediums, including C. Beekmanni. 

 He was awarded a Silver Banksian 

 medal. 



Mr. R. G. Thwaites received an 

 award of merit for Dendrobium Ches- 

 singtonensis King Cup, a botanist's or- 

 chid. 



\n award of merit fell to Mr. H. A. 

 Tracy for Cycnoches Peruvianum, the 

 plant having five well developed ra- 

 cemes. 



Sir Jeremiah Colman contributed to 

 the show a number of so-called botan- 

 ical orchids, and among them Bulbo- 

 prhyllum comaosum, Dendrobium 

 Mortii, and D. Lady Colman a variety 

 of D. nobile, in which every part of the 

 flower and its marking are much en- 

 larged, especially the lip. 



Lieut. Colonel Holford was awarded 

 a first-class certificate for Cattleya 

 Trianae Sir Trevor Lawrence, in which 

 the sepals and petals are of an un- 

 usually bright tint and the lip of a 

 rich shade of velvety purple. 



M. Maurice Mertens, of Ghent, Bel- 

 gium, show-ed a choice collection of 

 Odontoglossoms. for which he was the 

 recipient of a Silver Banksian medal. 

 Miscellaneous. 

 Messrs. J. Veitch and Sons showed 

 an old-fashioned hardwood plant in 

 Crowea augustifolia, which found 

 many admirers among the visitors. 

 Messrs. W. Cutbush & Son showed the 

 rare Tulipa Kaufmannii. The flowers 



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are as regards the upper half of white, 

 the lower half yellow, and the outer 

 petals are flamed with sc-arlet. The 

 firm showed ,\donis Amurensis; a 

 hardy, light purple flowered Azalea, 

 named Yodogama of .Japanese origin, 

 the blooms appearing pairwise and 

 very abundant; and Rhododendron 

 Smithi, a plant with yellow blossoms, 

 and excellent for forcing. 



Carnations. 



American and English varieties of 

 carnations formed an exhibition of 

 themselves-. Of the first named there 

 were blooms of most of the standard 

 varieties; of English origin, Fortuna, 

 a yellow bloom inclined to buff. The 

 bloom is fringed, and is 2 to 2 1-2 

 inches in diameter, and the calyx does 

 not split. Snowball is a large white 

 bloom, round and full of petals, very 

 nearly smooth. Its best flowering sea- 

 son is early spring. It is not a true 

 tree carnation, but a cross between 

 that and a border variety. 



FREDERICK MOORE. 



A PROPOSED NEW ENGLAND 

 FRUIT SHOW. 



The First New England Conference, 

 called by the Governors of the New 

 England States, was held in Boston, 

 Nov. 23, 24. 1908. 



At this Conference Prof. John Craig 

 of Cornell University delivered an ad- 

 dress on "New England's Opportunity 

 in Orchards," which was followed by 

 suggestions and discussions by the del- 

 egates present. This subject matter 

 was referred to the agricultural depait- 

 nients of the several New England 

 States and a representative conference 

 was held at the office of the Massachu- 

 setts State Board of Agriculture, Dec. 

 5th. 



At this meeting it was resolved, 

 That this conference recommend to the 

 New England States that a New Eng- 

 land Fruit Show, to be participated in 

 by the States of New England, be held 

 in October, 1909, at Boston, and that a 

 representative of the State Board or 

 Commissioner of Agriculture, and one 

 representative from each State Horti- 

 cultural or Pomological Society, and 

 such others as they may appoint, form 

 a committee for the organization and 

 management of this project. 



It was voted to recommend to each 

 State that, where necessary, a special 

 appropriation be made for the collec- 

 tion of State exhibits, and that a com- 

 mittee be appointed from each State 

 in charge of the exhibit from that 

 State. It was further voted that the 

 matter of local arrangements be left 

 to the Massachusetts State Board of 

 Agriculture and the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society and that they be 

 reouested to cnll a meeting of the 

 above committee at the earliest possi- 

 ble date. 



Such a meeting has been held and 

 arrangements have been made for hold- 

 ing the New England Fruit Show at 

 Horticultural Hall, Boston, on Octo- 

 ber 19 24 next. 



Obituary 



J. Metz. 

 J. Metz, a retail florist at 182 East 

 lltith St., New York, died on Febru- 

 ary 27. at an advanced age. A widow 

 and five children survive him. Mr. 

 Metz has been well and favorably 

 known in the trade for many years. 

 His daughter, who has been buyer for 

 the store since he became unable to 

 attend to it, is the recipient of gen- 

 eral condolence and sympathy in the 

 \\ holesale flower district 



J. B. O'Nell. 



J. B. O'Neil. well known to the trade 

 as "Bert" O'Neil, passed away at the 

 home of his father in Elgin, 111., on 

 :March 5. He had been ill for over 

 a year and though he made a brave 

 fight for lite tuberculosis claimed 

 him. 



Mr. O'Neil was traveling salesman 

 several years for Vaughan's Seed 

 Store and was a young man of much 

 business' ability. He had very many 

 friends among the trade who sincerely 

 regret that his career has been cut off 

 in this sad manner. 



The funeral services of E. V. Hal- 

 lock, the late president of the New 

 York Florists' Club, whose sudden 

 death was recorded in our last issue, 

 were held at the family residence in 

 Queens. N. Y.. on Saturday, the 6th 

 inst. The house was filled with sor- 

 rowing friends, of whom a very large 

 number were members of the flower 

 and seed trade and the New York 

 Florists' Club. Among those from a 

 considerable distance were Mr. and 

 Mrs. J. C. Vaughau and M. Barker, of 

 Chicago; W. Atlee Burpee, of Phila- 

 delphia, and W. J. Stewart, of Boston. 

 The floral tributes were many and 

 very beautiful. The interment was in 

 Greenwood cemetery. Mr. Hallock 

 was 58 years of age. Two sisters and 

 two daughters survive him. His wife 

 died a little more than two years ago. 



State regulation of horticulture and 

 sale of fruit is provided for in a bill 

 which passed the Washington Senate 

 at its session in Olympia on Feb. 26. 

 In it the office of a horticultural com- 

 missioner is created and deputies in 

 13 districts will be appointed. 



Richard A. Malone, father of Mrs. 

 Thos. V. Galvin of Boston, died at his 

 home in Lancaster, Pa., on March 2, 

 ■Tged 74 years. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Brooklyn, N. Y.— Andrew Leis, a 

 gardener, committed suicide on March 

 3 at Hotel Elberon. 



Twenty-five thousand acres of land 

 in the French and Italian Riviera are 

 cultivated in the interest of a single 

 French perfumery firm which uses up 

 2.t00,000 pounds of rose leaves and 

 600.000 pounds of orange blossoms an- 



The third annual meeting of the 

 New England Conference on Rural 

 Progress was held in Boston on March 

 5. and it was decided to hold a fruit 

 show on an extensive scale in Horti- 

 cultural Hall on Oct. 10-24. Wilfrid 

 Wheeler of Concord. Mass., is secre- 

 tary of this enterprise. 



The Amesbury and Salisbury Agri- 

 cultural and Horticultural Society 

 (Mass.) was addressed on March 5 by 

 Miss Mary E. Cutler, of HoUiston, on 

 "Profitable Market Gardening." 



