May 22, 1909 



HORTICULTURE 



729' 



NEWPORT HORTICULTURAL SO- 

 CIETY. 



At the meeting of this society held 

 on the evening of May 11th three 

 tropaolum plants were on exhibition 

 in competition tor prizes offered by 

 IVIr. L. L. Lorrillard. The first prize of 

 |12 was awarded to Andrew Dorward, 

 gardener for Mrs. T. J. Emery, for a 

 very large and handsome specimen in 

 bnsh form; a double red for a centre 

 surrounded by a double yellow. The 

 second prize of $S was awarded •'> 

 Stewart Ritchie for a very pretty plnin 

 of double yellow trained in pyrauiiil 

 shape. The third plant was the vaii- 

 ety Jarrattii trained in balloon shapi'. 

 The accompanying pictures give :in 

 idea of how all looked. 



ST. LOUIS FLORIST CLUB. 



This club held its May meeting un 

 the afternoon of May 13, with thir- 

 teen present, in Bowman's Hall. 

 After the regular opening exercises 

 had been disposed of, President 

 Young called for reports from all 

 committees. 



The trustees reported that they wish 

 more time to find a suitable meeting 

 hall and at next meeting they would 

 make a favorable report. They were 

 by a vote instructed to make all ar- 

 rangements tor the club's annual out- 

 ing to take place some time in .July. 

 As the club has gone out of the show 



li liii'ii Nasturtium, First Prize. 

 Xewpcii-t Horticultural Society. 



business the trustees were ordered to 

 sell to the highest bidder all belong- 

 ings of the club for holding flower 

 shows, which have been in storage for 

 the past two years. 



The communication from the St. 

 Louis Horticultural Society asking the 

 club's co-operation and the offer of a 

 special prize for the best fall show 

 will be taken up for discussion at the 

 June meeting of the club. 



The president appointed W. C. Smith 

 to take charge of the club delegation 

 to the S. A. F. convention, look after 

 transportation and other details to 

 make the members comfortable in 

 their trip to Cincinnati and return. A 

 large delegation of members have 

 pledged themselves to make the trip. 

 Fied Weber, treasurer, reported plenty 

 of money on hand. The matter of 

 life membership was taken up anil 

 fully discussed and assigned to the 

 .lune meeting. Before adjournment. 

 Mr. J. F. Windt and Henry Johan an- 

 nounced that both had become grand- 

 fathers since the last meeting, so attei 

 the adjournment the members feasted 

 at their expense and hearty congratu- 

 lations were extended. 



Tinlneil Nasturtium, Second Prize, 

 Newport Horticultural Society. 



NATIONAL DAHLIA SOCIETY. 



The recent issue of this Society's 

 schedule of prizes tor 1909 reminds us 

 that the London Dahlia Union and the 

 National Dahlia Society of London are 

 now one. The amalgamation took 

 place early in the year, and the show 

 arrangements are practically the same 

 as before. There will be one held on 

 the 2nd and 3rd of September at the 

 Crystal Palace and another on 21st 

 and 22nd September in the Royal 

 Botanic Society's Gardens. Regent. -< 

 Park. Accompanying the schedule is 

 the 1909 supplement to the official 

 catalogue which contains lists of the 

 new dahlias to be sent out in 1909 and 

 revised selections in the different sec- 

 tions of this popular flower. Mr. B. F. 

 Hawes and Mr. H. H. Thomas the 

 old secretaries of the two societies thus 

 united have been appointed joint secre- 

 taries of the N. D. S. 



C. H. P. 



NEW JERSEY FLORICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



W. A. Manda addressed the society 

 at their regular monthly meeting on 

 the nth, which was observed as a 

 special rose night. The speaker stated 

 that his special attention had been 

 given to out-door grown rather than 

 greenhouse stock and then, dividing 

 his topic into classes, made a rapid 

 survey of the best vaiieties now in 

 general use in the vai-ious departments 

 of horticulture. Among the interest- 

 ing points that he brought out were 

 the facts that the Cherokee rose will 

 not cross; that dry leaves and hemlock 

 boughs make the best protection in 

 winter; that by the use of barbed wire 

 fencing a more effective display may 

 be made where Wichuraiana is em- 

 ployed. He spoke also of the inspira- 

 tion that recent shows had been under 

 the guidance of the Rose Society and 

 of the forth-coming shows in England 

 next year. 



John Hay'es told of a grafted rose 

 which had been growing for between 

 thirty-five ana forty years under 

 glass at "The Terraces." Rev. Louis 

 H. Lightipe, botanist to the society, 

 spoke of the vigor of the Cherokee 

 rose in the southern states particular- 

 ly around Jac'Rsonville, Fla. He also 

 described the process of freezing where 

 the stem splits the same as a water- 

 pipe and if covered and permitted to 

 thaw in the dark, no bad result will 

 follow. The floral display was from 

 neighboring estates and quite up to the 

 usual standard. W. A. Manda and 

 John Haves were the judges for the 

 evening. JOS. B. DAVIS. 



Tin inert Nasturtium, Third Prize, 

 Newport Horticultural Society. 



