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HORTICULTURE 



July 20, 1907 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



NORTH SHORE HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



The annual rose show of this 

 society was held July H'th aud 11th, 

 in a tent on the grounds of the Essex 

 Ck)unty Club, Manchester, Mass. The 

 orchid" exhibit of Lager & Hurrell was ' 

 one of the features of the show and in- 

 cluded cattleyas, laelias. oncidiums 

 and vandas. Blue Hill Nurseries 

 staged liliums in variety and Alstro- 

 meria aurantiaca. H. A. Dreer showed 

 Lobelia Kathleen Mallard and Nephro- 

 lepis Amerpohlii. 



The J. H. Troy cup offered for the 

 best collection of roses was won for 

 the third time by Fred Brasch, gar- 

 dener to Mrs. .Tames McMillan and 

 becomes his property. The silver cup 

 offered by Connolly Bros, for the best 

 group of foliage and flowering plants 

 was won by Eric Wetterlow, gardener 

 to Mrs. Lester Leland. The Julius 

 Heurlin cup offered for the best col- 

 lection of herbaceous perennials was 

 won for the second time by William 

 Swan, gardener to Mr. R. C. Hooper. 

 This cup has to be won twice. James 

 Salter gardener to Mrs. Philip Dexter 

 won the silver cup offered by Schlegel 

 & Fottler for the best collection of 

 vegetables, and William Irwin, gar- 

 dener to Mrs. Gordon Abbott, won the 

 flrst prize for best collection of vege- 

 tables, offered by Morley & Flatley 

 Co. 



The judges were Messrs. E. O. Or- 

 pet, Joseph Clark, Jr., and James Mc- 

 Gregor. 



The committee in charge of the 

 show consisted of John Baker, Thos. 

 Jack, Walter E. Allen, William Till, 

 James Salter, secretary. 

 ^,^, WILLIAM TILL. 



i ST. LOUIS FLORIST CLUB. 



A very interesting and well attended 

 meeting" was held last Thursday after- 

 noon. After all the regular opening 

 work had been attended to, the sev- 

 eral committees made their reports 

 W. C. Smith reported for the trustees 

 that thev had made all arrangements 

 for the picnic to be held next Thurs- 

 day at Romona Park. William C. 

 Young, State vice-president of the S. 

 A. F., reported on transportation to 

 Philadelphia, after which the mem- 

 bers voted to go by the Pennsylvania 

 R. R. Aug. ItSh arriving in the 

 convention city Monday at 3 P. M. 

 The fare for the round trip will be 

 $25.00, which includes a visit to the 

 Jamestown Exposition, with return by 

 way of Washington, D. C. by boat. 



Mr. Adolph Brix, a retailer, was 

 elected to membership in the club. 



Officers for the ensuing year were 

 nominated as follows; President— W. 

 0. Young, John Connon and John 

 Steidle: vice-president — George Auger- 

 muUer and Edwin Denker: secretary— 

 A. J. Bentzen, treasurer — H. C. Irish, 

 trustee, three years— Y. H. Pring and 

 Charles Schoenle. The election will 

 take place at the August meeting, 

 when other nominations can be made. 



President Irish announced that an 

 invitation had been extended by Di- 

 rector Wm. Trelease to have the next 

 regular meeing at the Missouri Bota- 

 nical Garden, which was accepted. 

 This meeting will be on Thursday 

 afternoon, August 8th. 



The question box contained some 



very choice queries. Information as 

 to "dahlia culture lead in the discus- 

 sions. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



The executive committee of the 

 American Rose Society will hold a 

 meeting at the Hotel Martinique, New- 

 York, on July 24th, to prepare a pre- 

 liminary schedule for the coming ex- 

 hibition in Chicago, 1908. 



There are prizes already offered by 

 W. A. Manda, Orange, N. J., $25.00— 

 and $25.00 for "La Detroit" and special 

 prizes of $200.00 and $100.00 for plants 

 in pots. President Robert Simpson 

 is planning for a European trip of 

 some extent, to leave this country on 

 the last of the month. At this meet- 

 ing a certificate for new varieties will 

 be decided ujjon, also a certificate for 

 life membership. 



In some of the Hudson River towns 

 the Crimson Ramblers have been ussd 

 ihe past few years as piazza plants 

 and the spread of this beautiful flower 

 has in some places made a marked 

 impression upon the value of the rose 

 as au outdoor decorafv j plant. 



BENJ. HAMMOND, Secretary. 



Fishkill-on-Hudson, N. Y. 



NEW BEDFORD HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



At a special meeting of the New- 

 Bedford Horticultural Society, on last 

 Tuesday evening, it was decided to 

 hold a horticultural exhibition in Odd 

 Fellow-s Hall on August 27, 28 and 

 29, when the city of New Bedford will 

 devote a week to rejoicing over the 

 visits to the old home of her wander- 

 ing children. 



It was decided to offer a silver and 

 a bronze medal for the best floral dis- 

 play in the trades' parade. 



James Garthly, of Fairhaven, ex- 

 hibited some superb specimens of 

 stocks— Beauty of Nice and Far- 

 quhar's Giant. 



NEW LONDON COUNTY HORTI- 

 CULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The exhibition at Norwich, Conn., 

 by this society was a success in point, 

 of size and excellence. Otto Ernst, 3. 

 J. Reuter, the Geduldig estate w-ere 

 among the principal commercial ex- 

 hibitors of plants and flowers. J. I'. 

 Sorenson showed fine Hamburg grapes 

 and cucumbers. The private estates 

 of New London and adjacent places 

 were well represented. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



The eighth annual meeting of the 

 Texas Nurserymen's Association will 

 be held at College Station, August 23, 

 24, 25. 



The next meeting of the Albany 

 Florists' Club will be held at Slinger- 

 lands, N. Y., with Fred Goldring, on 

 August 1. 



The Utica Florists' Club, N. Y.. held 

 its meeting on July 11 at Ilion with 

 Theodore Schesch, who entertained 

 them at the Beethoven Maennerchor 

 Hall with a turkey dinner. 



The Elberon Horticultural Society 

 will hold their second annual flower 

 show in the New Casino, Long Branch, 

 N. J., on July 24 and 25. The prize 

 list is now ready and includes 56 

 prizes. 



NEWPORT HORTICULTURAL SO- 

 CIETY. 



The rose show of the Newport 

 Horticultural Society was held on 

 Tuesday and Wednesday, July 9th aud 

 luth in Masonic Hall. It was success- 

 ful as a rose show and as an exhibi- 

 tion of plants, although it has usually 

 been the case that no special effort 

 w-as made to make the June show- as 

 it has been called anything much but 

 a rose aud strawberry show. This 

 year straw-benies might just as well 

 not have been mentioned in the 

 schedule for all that the show- was 

 helped by them, in tact _ there was 

 only one exhibit but it was a good 

 one from Samuel Speers. Roses were 

 much later this year than for many 

 years past hence the cause of the 

 postponement of the show from Juue 

 26 to the date on w-hich it came off. 



The center of interest this year at 

 the show was the class for a collection 

 of roses for prizes oft'ered by S. G. 

 Harris, Tarrytown. N. Y. For this 

 prize there were three exhibits staged, 

 that of James Robertson was far ahead 

 of the other two both as a collection 

 and in quality of blooms. Hugh Wil- 

 liamson took second and Alex. Adam 

 third. In the class for a display of 

 roses Colin Robertson was easily first 

 and John Marshall, second. 



In the smaller clases for roses James 

 and Colin Robertson were pretty 

 nearly even in honors with the ad- 

 vantage slightly in favor of the 

 former who had on exhibition as hne 

 blooms as were ever seen in Newj)ort. 

 The plant classes were fairly well 

 contested all through and the class 

 for table plants keenly. There were 

 four exhibits sta.ged in this class and 

 the judges had hard work to decide 

 which were the best three. 



The groups of plants were effective- 

 ly done especially those of Colin 

 Robertson the winner in both classes 

 for groujis. 



Crotons and dracaenas were well 

 shown; palms w-ere excellent in color 

 and of immense size. Specimen feins 

 were in good shape; Nephrolepis Whit- 

 manii took first and second; this fern 

 also took first in a tern cish. Made 

 up work of cut Jlowers was not largely 

 in evidence. F. L. Zeigler had a 

 show basket of Jack roses which took 

 Srst in its class. 



Henry A. Dreer had on exhibition 

 the new di;ubl9 Lobelia Kathleen 

 Mallard. This will without any 

 doubt catch on quickly as it is a thing 

 nearly every one can make use of one 

 way or another, it will be good for 

 bedding and irood also as a pot plant. 

 The same firm had m exhibition 

 Nephrolepis Todeaoides and N. Amer- 

 I)ohlii, both distinct and possessed of 

 superior merit and attractiveness. 



Julius Roehrs has as usual a 

 catching disjjlay of decorative foliage 

 plants. This firm had also a number of 

 good plants of Lobelia Kathleen Mal- 

 lard so that it will be seen that more 

 than one lirm has stock of this novelty 

 to offer. 



Messrs. Lager & Hurrell had a col- 

 lection of orchids which attracted 



