March 20. 1909 



HORTICULTURE 



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NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



GARDENERS' AND FLORISTS' 



CLUB OF BOSTON. 

 The regular March meeting on the 

 evening of the 16th was well attended 

 and interesting throughout. Com- 

 munications from the Co-operative 

 Flower Market, inviting the club 

 members to visit their exhibition on 

 Sunday, and from the North Shore 

 Horticultural Society to attend their 

 meeting on March 19, were received 

 and accepted and an invitation for the 

 club to visit in a body the green- 

 houses of the W. W. Edgar Company 

 on Saturday, April 3, to see the Easter 

 plant display, was referred to the 

 executive committee to make arrange- 

 ments accordingly. Harry A. Bar- 

 nard, traveling in the interests of 

 Hugh Low & Co., London, was intro- 

 duced as a welcome visitor in Boston 

 and In a very few moments had his 

 audience fairly hypnotized by his 

 very clever and entertaining elo- 

 quence. He gave unstinted praise for 

 the excellence of the culture espe- 

 cially in carnations that he had seen 

 during the few days he had been in 

 America and for the cordiality with 

 which he had been received by the 

 fraternity. His little speech was 

 brimful of pleasantry and humor and 

 was applauded to the echo. 



Robert Cameron was then intro- 

 duced and read a grand paper on the 

 subject most close to his heart always 

 — a plea for the more general use of 

 hardy perennial plants in parks, ceme- 

 teries and rural estates. Mr. Cam- 

 eron prefaced his paper with a most 

 feeling and tender reference to the 

 fact that he was filling the sad va- 

 cancy caused by the sudden death of 

 E. V. Hallock of New York, who was 

 to have been the lecturer of the even- 

 ing. He referred to Mr. Hallock's 

 death as a great loss to the entire 

 horticultural world and voiced the 

 sympathy felt here for our sister organ- 

 ization in New York, which had lost a 

 noble president and faithful friend. 



Mr. Cameron's paper was brilliant 

 in its composition, satirical in places 

 and reasonable and convincing 

 throughout. We hope to be able to 

 reproduce it in our columns in due 

 time. It brought out a goodly response 

 in discussion and a standing vote of 

 thanks was accorded its gifted author. 

 On the exhibition table were some 

 interesting displays, including Eupa- 

 torium Windmannianum and mush- 

 rooms from T. Coles, Canna Tarry- 

 town from Eber Holmes, Schizan- 

 thus Wisetonensis, and its dwarf va- 

 riety and S. grandiflora from Duncan 

 Finlayson and an array of eighteen 

 vases, distinct varieties, of sweet peas 

 from Mr. Sim, among which Green- 

 brook and Pink Beauty and several 

 seedlings were especially noticeable, 

 and for which a report of merit was 

 awarded to Mr. Sim, the other ex- 

 hibitors being accorded a vote of 

 thanks. The identity of the canna 

 shown as Tarrytown was the topic 

 of some discussion and it is in order 

 for the introducer, F. R. Pierson, to 



straighten out the uncertainty exist- 

 ing in the minds of some of the Bos- 

 ton experts. 



Seven new members were taken in- 

 to the fold. 



On. motion of James Wheeler it was 

 voted to send letters of sympathy to 

 the family of the late E.' V. Hallock 

 and to the New York Florists' Club. 

 Considerable discussion arose over a 

 proposal to donate $25 for a special 

 prize at the Music Hall Market ex- 

 hibition and was not carried. F. W. 

 Fletcher drew the attention of mem- 

 bers to the proposed increase in the 

 tariff on greenhouse glass and it was 

 voted to send strong protests on the 

 subject to all Massachusetts congress- 

 men, also to the Ways and Means 

 Committee in Washington. 



LENOX HORTICULTURAL SO- 

 CIETY. 



The regular meeting of the Lenox 

 Horticultural Society was held Satur- 

 day, March 6th, President A. Jenkins 

 occupying the chair. Messrs. George 

 W. Allwood and D. Ferguson were 

 elected members. Annual and peren- 



IlARRr A. Barnard, 



Rppresentative of Hugh Low & Co., Lon- 

 don; a visitor at the Gardeners' 

 and Florists' Club, Boston. 



nial exhibition will be held July 28th, 

 and the fall exhibition Oct. 26-27. 

 Schedules are printed and can be had 

 upon application to the secretary. A. 

 J. Loveless was awarded a diploma for 

 a display of amaryllis flowers, some of 

 them being very rich in color, and he 

 gave a short talk on their culture. 

 Following the question, "What is the 

 cause of disease in Lilium Harrisii?" 

 a very interesting discussion took 

 place, but no definite conclusion was 

 arrived at. Several instances were 

 cited where large growers had thrown 

 away thousands of diseased plants. 



Rose and Carnation night Saturday, 

 April 3rd, and it is safe to say that 

 competition in the various classes will 

 be keen, as carnations are grown quite 

 extensively in and around Lenox. 

 After business is dispensed with there 

 will be a smoker, when members who 

 ■were not asked to sing at the dinner 

 will have a chance to display their 

 vocal talent. 



MORRIS CO. GARDENERS' AND 

 FLORISTS' SOCIETY. 



The evening of March 10 was our 

 "Carnation Night" and L. J. Renter of 

 Westerly, R. I., was our essayist. Mr. 

 Renter's fame as a carnation grower 

 preceded him here, and to this may be 

 credited in a great measure the full 

 house we had. We had to borrow 

 chairs from the outside to accommo- 

 date the extra visitors. A very de- 

 lightful talk on Carnations was given 

 us, the speaker being entirely familiar 

 with every point of the subject. He 

 contrasted solid benches and raised 

 benches and was partial to the solid. 

 He uses both at the present time. He 

 told us of his way of treating cuttings 

 in the sand, which was new to most 

 of us. His house is so arranged that 

 as soon as the cuttings are rooted he 

 can decrease or shut off the bottom 

 heat from a batch without interfering 

 with the one next to it. A rising vote 

 of thanks was tendered him. 



We had not as many novelties as 

 other years but what we had was good 

 and so were the standards. A big 

 vase of Alma Ward from Cottage Gar- 

 dens, Queens, L. I., took every eye 

 and everyone who could carried away 

 a bloom. It got our certificate long 

 ago. Vote of thanks given. A display 

 of Dorothy Gordon from Joseph Hea- 

 cock, Wyncote, Pa,, received a well- 

 merited certificate of merit. 



Red seedling No. 1 from John S. 

 Green, Morristown, got certificate of 

 merit last year; vote of thanks. Ruby 

 from S. J. Renter & Son, was voted "A 

 fine full flower: committee would like 

 to see it in larger quantities to judge 

 for certificate." Through delay in 

 transit President Taft from Scheiden 

 & Schoos, Chicago, came too late to be 

 judged. Three vases of carnations, 

 Robt. Craig, Enchantress and Winsor 

 from A. R. Whitney, H. B. Vyse, gar- 

 dener, received cultural certificate. 

 Vase mixed carnations from A, C. Van 

 Gaasbeck, Orange, N. J., John Dervan, 

 gardener; cultural certificate. Carna- 

 tions Variegated Lawson, Winsor and 

 Lawson from G. E. Kissell, Charles 

 Steele, gardener, got a cultural certifi- 

 cate. Carnations Enchantress, After- 

 glow and Mixed from Florham Farms, 

 A. Herrington, Supt., got cultural 

 certificate. 



From Florham Farms were a plant 

 of Cattleya Luddemanniana alba, flow- 

 ering the first time in this countrj-; first 

 class certificate of merit. Collection of 

 Catt. Luddemanniana, showing some 

 very fine and distinct types; cultural 

 certificate. Collection of stocks — 

 Queen Alexandra, Beauty of Nice and 

 Crimson King; cultural certificate. 



Dr. Leslie D. Ward, Andrew R. Ken- 

 nedy, gardener, had a fine lot of well- 

 grown cinerarias of a very fine strain; 

 cultural certificate. M. B. Metcalf, 

 Orange, N. J., Geo. Wraight, gardener, 

 had a lot of fine stock Empress 

 Elizabeth; coiltural certificate. Totty's 

 Amaryllis "Crimson King" showed a 

 remarkable flower. 



Among the visitors was H. A. Bar- 

 nard of the Hugh Low Nurseries, 

 London, Eng. He had at 6 o'clock that 

 evening completed his 48th year with 

 the firm, and he looks good for 2.5 

 more. He made a telling speech. 



