March 27, 1909 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 

 Buffalo's Feast. 



The banquet which the Buffalo Flor- 

 ists' Club tendered the American Rose 

 Society was held on Thursday evening 

 instead of Friday, as at first an- 

 nounced, on account of out-of-town 

 guests leaving on Friday morning. 

 President Poehlmann called the meet- 

 ing to order and resolutions were read 

 on the death of Louis M. Noe and E. 

 V. Hallock. W. F. Kasting acted as 

 toastmaster. He was seated between 

 the Mayor of Detroit and the Mayor of 

 Morton Orove, and remarked upon its 

 being a Democratic banquet, but not 

 politically; this allusion by the toast- 

 master being warmly received. Mr. 

 Poehlmann made entertaining remarks 

 pertaining to the society and the ex- 

 cellent show that was had in Buffalo, 

 and warmly congratulated the commit- 

 tee and the Buffalo Florists' Club on 

 the able manner in which the affair 

 was conducted. A rising vote of thanks 

 was extended to the Buffalo Florists' 

 Club, and the president further stated 

 that he hoped to see the club members 

 and brother florists of Buffalo and ad- 

 joining cities and towns at the next 

 convention in New York the coming 

 year. 



Thuisday, March 17th, being the 

 62nd birthday of Mr. Robert Craig, 

 the secretary was instinicted to tele- 

 graph congratulations to him. 



Benj. Hammond, secretary of the 

 American Rose Society, was next 

 called upon and made a characteristic 

 speech full of hopeful augury for the 

 future of the society and its patrons. 



Alex. Montgomery, past president 

 and one of Boston's leading rose grow- 

 ers, next made an interesting address 

 on cultural and society topics. , 



Robert Simpson, another ex-presi- 

 dent, made brief remarks regarding the 

 work of the society, stating that new 

 members are continually coming in 

 and better exhibits are being shown 

 every year, which proves that the so- 

 ciety is growing rapidly and that much 

 interest is being manifested in the ex- 

 cellent shows which have been held. 



The "Florist Mayor" of Detroit, 

 Philip Breitmeyer, responded to the 

 toastmaster's congratulatory introduc- 

 tion with characteristic tact and effect. 



.1. A. Valentine, president of the S. 

 A. F., wasyUext heard from, and his 

 remarks were warmly received. F. R. 

 Pierson, vice-president elect of the so- 

 ciety, contributed a brief talk about 

 the coming show next year. He stated 

 ,that every effort will be made to make 

 it equal the Buffalo exhibition, and in- 

 cidentally referred to the agitation for 

 tariff revision on bulls. 



Our report of the prize awards at 

 the Rose Show in Buffalo last week 

 omitted to mention the Traendly & 

 Schenck special premium for vase of 

 fifty American Beauties which was 

 won by the Brant & Hentz Floral 

 Company. The prizes for fifty Killar- 

 ney were contributed by the Erie 

 Floral Company; for fifty Richmond, 

 by F. R. Pierson; for twenty-five 

 American Beauty, by W. J. Palmer & 

 Son: for collection of Teas and Hybrid 

 Teas, by Robert Simpson; for arrange- 

 ments of twelve roses in vase, by J. 

 A. Valentine, and for thirty-six Kil- 

 larneys by E. C. Ludwig. 



HORTICULTURE 



NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY 



ASSOCIATION OF PLANT 



GROWERS. 



On March 15th, 1909, the members of 

 the New York and New Jersey Asso- 

 ciation of Plant Growers visited the 

 establishments of their members on 

 Long Island to inspect the Easter 

 crops. There were eighteen in number, 

 and they travelled over the entire Long 

 Island section in Mr. W. H. Siebrecht's 

 automobile touring car. 



One of the objects for which the as- 

 sociation was incorporated is to foster 

 the trade and to diffuse information as 

 to pot plant growing. With this ob- 

 ject in view the happy party called at 

 almost every member's place on Long 

 Island, and examined the plants in 

 stock for the Easter trade. It was a 

 very instructive day for the members 

 and the information which was gath- 

 ered made it well worth the time 

 which was lost during their absence 

 from their own establishments. The 

 association has followed this practice 

 for two years and has found it so profi- 

 table that it intends to continue the 

 same indefinitely. The party started 

 at the place of Herman Dreyer at Elm- 

 huist, and from there proceeded to 

 College Point and visited Anton Schul- 

 theis, and after seeing all the houses 

 in that establishment they passed to 

 Whitestone and visited Louis Dupuy, 

 Pankok & Schumacker and the Hinode 

 Florist Company. From there a long 

 run was made to Jamaica, L. I., where 

 they visited A. L. Miller's green- 

 houses, and from there the party pro- 

 ceeded to Brooklyn, where at Piel 

 Bros, a bounteous course dinner was 

 awaiting them. After dinner they pro- 

 ceeded to the establishment of John 

 Scott in Flatbush, thence to Peter 

 Wagner, Charles Zeller & Sons on 

 Clarkson street, and also on Lefferts 

 street, Brooklyn, thence to the houses 

 of Louis Schmutz and Frank Manker. 

 It took considerable time to go 

 through each establishment, and when 

 the rounds had been made it was after 

 six o'clock and the party had enjoyed 

 sufficient fresh air in the automobile 

 to gather up a good appetite for the 

 supper which was served to them in 

 the Consumers' Park. 



The following members w^ere in the 

 party: Julius Roehrs, Sr., Herman 

 Dreyer, Louis Dupuy, Frederick H. 

 Drcssel, Frank Manker, Herman Maen- 

 ner, A. L. Miller, .Tohn Miessem. Pan- 

 kok & Schumacker, Herman C. Stein- 

 hoff. Herman Schoelzel, Anton Schul- 

 theis, John Scott, Louis Schmutz, Peter 

 Wagner, Alfred L. Zeller, and William 

 11. Siebrecht, Jr., the secretary and at- 

 torney for the association. Mr. H. H. 

 Lorenz had charge of the automobile. 



BUFFALO FLORISTS' CLUB. 



The legulai- meeting of the Buffalo 

 Florist Club will be held on Tuesday, 

 ,\pril 6th, at their rooms and an urgent 

 request is made by the secretary that 

 every member be present as installa- 

 tion of officers is one of the important 

 features. It is being rumored about, 

 that the ofticers-elect are to tender a 

 champagne banquet after the meeting. 



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ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SO- 

 CIETY OF LONDON. 



The meeting of this society held in 

 the hall, Vincent Square, Westminster, 

 on Tuesday, March 9th, was literally 

 packed with exhibits from the trade 

 and amateur cultivators and profes- 

 sional gardeners. The attendance of 

 fellows of the society and general pub- 

 lic was exceedingly great from noon 

 onward to the close of the show at 

 6 P. M. 



Orchids were not so numerous as on 

 the previous occasion, and some of the 

 novelties were the same. J. Veitch & 

 Sons, Royal Exotic Nursery, Coomhe, 

 Wood, Langley and Feltham, all ol 

 them in London or within a few miles 

 of it, contributed hybrid Cypripediums 

 of C. vlllosum and C. Euryalis, which 

 possessed a good deal of variety in 

 shape, purplish-brown spotting or 

 streaks of that tint on the dorsal sepal, 

 all having also more or less white on 

 it? margin. The petals and pouch are 

 of various brown tints, tinged with 

 crimson, and the fiowers of varying 

 size. A Laelio-Cattleya callistoglossa 

 presented very large blooms and a 

 grand lip of a deep purple color. Other 

 orchids shown by this firm consisted 

 of fine varieties of Odontoglcssum cris- 

 pum_, Od. Pescatorei, a Dendrobium 

 Ophir, a hybrid between Den. aureum 

 and Den. signatum. partaking in color 

 — a primrose yellow — of the first 

 named parent, and also of its fragrance 

 something between violets and prim- 

 roses. 



The flowers of the hybrid have a 

 slight purple stain and a number ol 

 striations in the throat. F. Sander & 

 Sons exhibited extensively orchids in 

 flower. These included Cattleya Tri- 

 anac Queen Alexandra, with two very 

 large white blooms having an orange 

 stain in the lower half of the throat; 

 C. T. elegantissima, with a pleasing 

 fringed edge to the lip and a large 

 sized flower; Laelio-Cattleya Bletchley- 

 ensis Imperiale, having a deep purple 

 colored lip, and all other parts of the 

 flower of paler tints. A hybrid be- 

 tween Zygopetalum Perrenoudii and 

 Aganisia lepida, and having the name 

 Zygonesia Sanderii, came from the 

 Sander firm, the Zygopetalum parent 

 being the prepotent one, as appeared 

 by the decidedly blue tint of the lip, 

 and other features. Odontoglossum 

 Harvengtense var. had a yellow ground 

 and a white margin, beside brown 

 blotches on all the limbs of the flower. 

 Od. Helenus, derived from a cross of 

 Od. Harvengtense and Od. Coradinei, 

 is a beautiful flower having a slight 

 suffusion of pink on the lower half ol 

 the petals, and a ground color of lem- 

 on yellow on all other parts. The 

 sepals are spotted with brown — a re- 

 markable flower of three inches in 

 width. There were several other hy- 

 brids having Od. Harvengtense as a 

 parent. Laelio-Cattleya Firebrand, a 

 cross of L.-C. Highburyensis and C. 

 Trianae, has yellowish-rose petals and 

 a rosy purple lip and throat of a crim- 

 son tint. 



A very extensive collection of vari- 

 ous orchids came from the gardens of 

 Sir J. Colman, many of them rare in 

 cultivation and admirable examples of 

 cultivation. I noted among the plants 

 Dendrobium tetragona, Den. speciosum 

 fusifoime, Sophro-Laelia Marriot- 

 tiana, Phaio-Calanthe, the plants hav- 



