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HORTICULTURi: 



April 3, 1909 



H. Gaethje, John Staack; secretary, 

 John Temple; treasurer. \Vm. Knees. 

 The meeting on April S wil be held 

 with Wm. Knees in Moline. 



The Boston Market Gardeners' Asso- 

 ciation were the guests ot Walter E. 

 and Edwin Lenk, at their greenhouses 

 in Halifax, Mass., on March 20. After 

 a tour ot the eight immense houses 

 they were conducted to the shipping 

 room where a banquet was served, 

 followed by the regular business meet- 

 ing. Prof. Haskins of the Hatch Ex- 

 periment Station spoke on "Fertiliz- 

 ers" and Prof. Pickett ot N. H. Agri- 

 cultural College on the "Relation of the 

 Experiment Station to the Farmer and 

 Market Gardener." The party left on 

 a special at five o'clock. 



ST. LOUIS SPRING SHOW. 

 On Wednesday, Thursday and Fri- 

 day of the past week the St. Louis 

 Horticultural Society held their third 

 annual spring flower show with good 

 success. Although the exhibition was 

 not as large as promised those in the 

 trade who viewed it say that it was a 

 real pretty show and the stock, both 

 plants and cut flowers, on exhibition 

 was of the best quality. The city park 

 department had the largest display, 

 having eight separate groups in dif- 

 ferent parts of the hall; those of 

 course were not for competition. 



Fred H. Weber was the only one 

 who showed "made-up" retail work, 

 he entering in all classes and taking 

 all the first prizes. Wm. Schray & 

 Sons, Koenig Floral Co., C. Young & 

 Sons Co., showed some extra fine 

 blooming bulb stock and competed in 

 all classes. Among those who showed 

 cut flowers were Chicago Carnation 

 Co., W. J. & M. S. Vesey, John Steidle, 

 J. F. Ammann and A. C. Brown. F. C. 

 Weber and Theo. Miller showed cut 

 stock in designs, making very attrac- 

 tive displays, but not for competition. 

 Vaughan's Greenhouses and Geo. 

 Kuhl showed some well-grown plants. 

 Visitors present from outside the city 

 were W. J. Vesey, Fort Wayne, Ind.; 

 Geo. Kuhl, Pekin, 111.; Albert Hey, 

 Western Springs, 111.; J. F. Ammann, 

 Edwardsville, and A. T. Pyfer, Joliet, 

 111. The judges were Andrew Meyer, 

 Sr., R. F. Tesson and Albert Hey. 



A band of music during the evening 

 made things pleasant tor the visitors. 

 On the opening day the rain-storm 

 kept many away but on the last two 

 days the weather was fine and the 

 evening attendance was large. 



The awards as handed out by the 

 judges were as follows: 



Collection of Bulbous Plants In bloom. 

 Wm. Schray & Sons, first; Koenig Floral 

 Co., second. 



Fifty, foliage and blooming plants, Wm. 

 Schray & Son, first; C. Young & Sons, 

 second. 



Ten geraniums in bloom, Koenig Floral 

 Co., first; C. Young & Sons Co., second. 



Mignonette, Geo. B. Windier. 



Specimen plant in bloom, Wm. Schray & 

 Sons, first; C. Young & Sons, second. 



Lily of the valley, Wm. Schray & Sons. 



Pansies, Wm. Schray & Sons. 



Five vases of carnations, 5 varieties, 23 

 flowers each, John Steidle, first, with 

 Beacon. Harlowarden, Enchantress, Rose 

 Pink Enchantress and White Perfection: 



Chicago Carnation Co., second, with 

 Beacon, A. Carnegie, Enchantress, White 

 Enchantre-ss and White Perfection. 



Fifty white carnations, Chicago Carna- 

 tion Co., first, with White Perfection; W. 

 J. & Nt. S. Vesey, second, with White 

 Lawsou. 



Fifty light pink, W. J. & M. S. Vesey, 

 first, with Pink Lawsou; Chicago Carna- 

 tion Co., second, with Splendor. 



Fifty dark piuk, Chicago Carnation Co., 

 first, with Aristrocrat; W. J. & M. S. 

 Vesey, second, with Lawsou. 



Fifty red, Chicago Carnation Co., first. 

 with Victory. 



Fifty" any other color, W. J. & M. S. 

 Vesey, first, with Winsor. 



Twenty-five pink roses, John Steidle, 

 first, with Klllarney; J. F. Ammann, 

 second, with Chatenay. 



Twenty-flve white roses, W. J. & M. S. 

 Vesey, first, Bride; J. F. Ammann, second, 

 Bride. 



Twenty-five red roses, J. P. Ammann, 

 first, Richmond. 



Lily of the valley, F. H. Weber, first. 



Violets, F. H. Weber,. 



Basket of spring flowers, F. H. Weber, 

 first; Koenig Floral Co., second. 



Table decoration of spring flowers, F. H. 

 Weber. 



Display of hardy shrubs to bloom, Wm. 

 Schray & Sons, first; Koenig Floral Co., 

 second. 



RHODE ISLAND PREPARES FOR 

 NEW ENGLAND FRUIT SHOW. 

 A meeting was held at the rooms of 

 the State Board of Agriculture at the 

 State House, Providence, R. 1., March 

 23 to organize a State Branch of the 

 New England Fruit Show which is to 

 be held in Horticultural Hall, Boston, 

 October 19-24 next, and the following 

 gentlemen were elected as an exhibi- 

 tion committee to represent the State 

 of Rhode Island: 



R. M. Bowen of Providence, chair- 

 man; John J. Dunn of Providence, 

 secretary and treasurer; Profi A. E. 

 Stene for Washington county; William 

 Williams, Bristol county; Thomas G. 

 Mathewsou, Kent county; Louis G. K. 

 Clarner, Providence county, and James 

 Robertson for Newport county. 



Mr. R. M. Bowen was also previously 

 elected vice-president of the com- 

 bined New England organization in 

 connection with the Fruit Show. An 

 effort will also be made to hold a 

 Corn exhibition in connection with the 

 Fruit Show. J. R. 



EXHIBITION NOTES. 



The paid attendance on one day 

 alone — Friday. March 26 — at the Bos- 

 ton Spring Show., exceeded by 20 per 

 cent., the entire receipts for the four 

 days' show one year ago and so lively 

 was the popular interest that it was 

 decided to keep the exhibition opten for 

 another week. New exhibits have 

 been placed in the general classes and 

 the Japanese Garden is even more at- 

 tractive than it was last week, many of 

 the wistarias and other flowering 

 shrubs having come into fuller bloom. 

 Among the new exhiljits this week is 

 a remarkable display of sweet peas 

 from William Sim, the equal of which 

 has never been staged in this country. 

 The public interest continues unabated 

 and it seems now assured that the 

 affair will net a clear profit to the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society of 

 at least $5000. 



Exhibition matters seem to be look- 

 ing up in an encouraging way in 

 various other places. We learn from 

 the Milwaukee papers that the Mil- 

 waukee Florists' Club is planning for 

 a mammoth show to be held Noveml^er 



14 to 18, next, at the Auditorium, for 

 which a premium list of $5000 is be- 

 ing prepared. Our Milwaukee breth- 

 ren seem to realize the necessity of 

 having something out of the stereo- 

 typed run to bring out the public. Ac- 

 cording to our information this is to 

 be accomplished possibly by the pres- 

 ence of Luther Burbank and some of 

 the products of that widely-advertised 

 gentlemen. 



The preliminary list of premiums 

 offered by the Horticultural Society 

 of Lake Forest, 111., for the third 

 annual exhibition, to be held in the 

 third week of July, 1909, has just beea 

 received. It is a very comprehensive 

 schedule, with no less than 173 classes 

 proveded for vegetables, fruit, plants, 

 flowers, floral arrangements, models of 

 landscape garden work, etc. J. W. 

 Scharfenberg, Lake Forest, is sec- 

 retary. 



The North Shore Horticultural So- 

 ciety is also early in the field with a 

 neat schedule of prizes for two ex- 

 hibitions to be held at Manchester, 

 Mass., in July and August. Besides 

 the regular cash prizes a big list of 

 special premiums donated by friends 

 of the Society, is offered, including val- 

 uable cups and medals. John D. Mor- 

 rison is secretary. 



And still another preliminary pre- 

 mium list has come to our desk. The 

 Detroit Florist Club announces that it 

 will hold a Fall Flower Show in Wayne 

 Pavilion, November 10 to 13. "The 

 schedule comprises over one hundred 

 classes, cash premiums throughout, 

 only three of which are open to com- 

 petition outside of the membership of 

 the Club. 



SOME NEW ROSES. 



Of these worth growing mention may 

 be made of Evangeline, a hybrid Wlch- 

 uraiana (Walsh); flowers white, car- 

 mine tipped, coming in clusters, with 

 petals 2 inches across. The leaves are 

 of coppery tint and large size. 



Goldfinch (Paul & Son, 1907); a deep 

 golden yellow flower shaded with violet 

 changing to pale canary, and produced 

 in abundant trusses. The plant is 

 rather rampant in growth. 



Starlight (Paul & Son, 1908); a sin- 

 gle-flowered variety, with blooms hav- 

 ing much prettiness, and which are 

 large in size; white suffused with pink 

 of a velvety texture. 



Tausendschon (Schwartz. 1906); one 

 of the most beautiful of Polyantha va- 

 rieties, with flowers of the tint of 

 peach bloom, which changes to rosy 

 carmine as it ages. It is fragrant and 

 produces about a dozen blooms In a 

 truss. F. M. 



NEW PARK COMMISSIONER FOR 

 BOSTON. 



Mayor Hibbard has announced the 

 appointment of Robert Swain Peabody 

 to succeed Charles E. Stratton as a 

 member of the board of park commis- 

 sioners for the city of Boston. He is 

 a graduate of Harvard, is a former 

 president of the American Institute 

 of Architects and is president of the 

 Boston Society of Architects. 



In a moment of absent-mindedness 

 last week we recorded Mr. Julius 

 Roehrs as en route lor the Ghent 

 quinquennial exhibition. The Berlin 

 exhibition is what we ought to have 

 said, of course. 



