June 19, 1909 



horticulture: 



867 



G. H. Peterson, and irises and lilies 

 by John Lewis Childs. 



important changes were decidea 

 upon in (he classification for next 

 year's schedule after considerable in- 

 teresting debate. 



After dinner speeches were made by 

 the new president and Mr. Ratchelor 

 and by Nicholas Hallock, former own- 

 er of the tract now occupied by Cot- 

 tage Gardens Co. 



THE BEST PEONIES. 



Mr. George C. Thurlow of Cherry 

 Hill Nurseries, West Newbury, Mass., 

 acceding to our request for a list of 

 the most desirable varieties of peonies 

 for effective garden display and for 

 cut bloom writes as follows: 



There are so many really good va- 

 rieties that I doubt if two different 

 growers could be found who would 

 give the same list. 



I have selected these varieties from 

 a list which I had previously com- 

 piled and from notes which I made 

 ■ at Queens last week. In making these 

 selections I am influenced by the fol- 

 lowing: 



1st. Varieties which are very flor- 

 iferous. 



2nd. Varieties which have strong 

 stems to support the flowers. 



3rd. Varieties which will open 

 readily during a rainy season. (Some 

 really fine flowers will during a wet 

 season become waterlogged and not 

 open at all.) 



4th. Varieties which are lasting as 

 cut flowers. 



5th. Varieties which in a mass 

 planting will give a good color effect. 

 The peony can be used for landscape 

 work with good results, either among 

 shrubbery or alone. Their foliage is 

 good when tliey are out of blossom 

 and some of the early flowering plants 

 may be used with them, such as daf- 

 fodils or narcissus. 



There are a number of fine varieties 

 which I do not include in this list, 

 desirable for the grower who is get- 

 ting a collection for study or for the 

 value of the individual flower, such as 

 some of the tri-color varieties or 

 anemone flowered or single and semi- 

 double. There are also some very flne 

 new varieties which will probably 

 prove ahead of some in the list given. 

 but I have not as yet made enough 

 study of them to really decide as to 

 their relative value at the present 

 time. 



Best Double White or Cream. 

 Festiva Maxima, Duchess de Ne- 

 mours (Calot), Alad. de Verneville. 

 Couronne d'Or, Avalanche, Festiva, 

 Mons. Dupont, Mad. Crousse, Baron- 

 ess Schroeder, Marie Lemoine. 



Best Flesh or Light Pink. 



La Tulipe, Marguerite Gerard, Mad. 

 Emile Lemoine, Germain Bigot, Mad. 

 Emile Gallee Pottsi Alba, Grandiflora 

 (Richardson), Eujiheniia. 



Best Rose Pink. 

 L'Esperance, Modeste Guerin, Rosea 

 Superba, Mad. Ducel, Mons. Jules Elie, 

 La Coquette, Etta. Lamartine. 



Best Red or Crimson. 

 Eduard Andre, Dr. Caillot, Felix 

 Crousse, Henry Demay. Louis Van 

 Houtte, Thurlow's Double Red, Mons. 

 Martin Cahuzac, Marechal MacMahon, 

 Marechal Valliant. Plutarch. 



NEW YORK 

 FLORISTS- 

 CLUB. 



The last meeting 

 of this club for 

 the season was 

 held on Monday 

 evening. 14th in- 

 s t a n t, President 

 Turner in the 

 chair and fl f t y 

 members present. 

 There was no spe- 

 cial topic for dis- 

 c u s s i o n but a 

 great variety of 

 important matters 

 were brought up 

 and it was late 

 before the v e r y 

 interesting sessioTi 

 came to a close. 

 These topics w e 

 shall touch upon 

 only briefly. 

 Resolutions were 

 presented by Rob- 

 ert Schultz on I he 

 death of Herman 

 Dreyer, and b y 

 AV. E. Ma' shall 

 on the death o f 

 John Scott. John 

 B i r n i e reported 

 for the Committee 

 on plant market, 

 speaking of the 

 busy mornings 

 and crowded 

 streets and inade- 

 quate accommo- 

 dations now ' ob- 

 tained. Mr. Nu- 

 gent reported that 

 a proniifing proposition for desirable 

 {|uarters for a general market had on 

 investigation proved to be spurious. 

 The old committee was discharged with 

 thanks and a new committee consist- 

 ing of A. L. Miller, A. Schultheis, H. C. 

 Steinhoff, John Birnie and F. H. 



Violet Blue 

 Rose 



A Remarkable Novelty 



THE NEW Rambler (Violet Blue), 

 hailed by the German rose growers 

 as the forerunner of a genuinely corn- 

 flower blue rose, is a seedling of Crimson 

 Rambler, very vigorous and hardy. 



For descriptions of this great novelty, 

 as well as many others, send for Booklet. 



Ellwanger & Barry 



Mount Hope Nurseries 

 Rochester, N. Y. 



Ti'aendly was constituted with instruc- 

 tions to wait on the Board of Alder- 

 men and present the needs of the plant 

 growers. 



The transportation committee report- 

 ed on available trains and rates by 

 vaiious lines to the Cincinnati con- 



W.M. BuLT, & Sons" Orchid Group 



iit Tciiiplf Slinw. L<iiulon. 



