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HORTICULTURE, 



October 19, 1907 



NATIONAL CHRYSANTHEMUM SO- 

 CIETY. 



Early Flowering Exhibition. 

 The English chrysanthemum season 

 for 1907 was inaugurated on the 2nd 

 of October under most favorable con- 

 ditions, for the N. C. S. once again 

 held its annual display of early chry- 

 santhemums, etc., at the Crystal Pal- 

 ace, the opening day being an ideal 

 one so far as weather was concerned. 

 The weather brought out a nice com- 

 pany of visitors and old friends to 

 view the show, which was an excel- 

 lent one in many respects, although 

 we do not think the attempt at artistic 

 arrangement of the show as a whole 

 was quite up to the standard of some 

 previous years, nor do novelties in the 

 early section appear to have been 

 raised in any appreciable number 

 since the last exhibition. 



A gold medal was deservedly award- 

 ed to Hobbies' Limited, who set up a 

 very fine display on a table of great 

 length, broken in the middle by a 

 huge semi-circular group of peony- 

 flowered dahlias. On one side of this 

 group, which was remarkable for the 

 great size and brilliancy of the color- 

 ing of the flowers staged, was a fine 

 collection of cactus dahlias; on the 

 other side was a choice collection of 

 cut roses. 



T. S. Ware & Son received a similar 

 award for an imposing display, in 

 which cactus dahlias largely figured, 

 relieved here and there by big clus- 

 ters of Michaelmas daisies and early 

 chrysanthemums, the best of the latter 

 being of Perle Rose. Polly, Horace 

 Martin, Goacher's Crimson, Miss Mil- 

 ler, Roi des Blancs, Perle Chatillon- 

 naise, Marie Massee and many others 

 of equal merit. 



Wm. Wells Co. also carried off a 

 gold medal for a decorative group of 

 a high order of merit both as regards 

 quality of bloom and tasteful arrange- 

 ment. The early chrysanthemum 

 alone figured here as the prime 

 motive. Carrie. Blush Beauty, Perle 

 Rose, Champ d'Or, Nina Blick, Vesuve, 

 Hector, Roi des Jaunes, were only a 

 few of the varieties staged, and around 

 the front of the half oval-shaped 

 group were dotted at intervals neat 

 little bunches of single-flowered sorts 

 such as Nelly King, Juno, Roderick, 

 Surrey, Charming, Good Hope, Wind- 

 sor, etc. 



H. J. Jones was awarded a silver 

 gilt medal. He had a grand group 

 arranged with a back screen of dark 

 green drapery, in front of which were 

 some tall bamboo supports containing 

 15 to 20 colossal blooms of Money- 

 maker. Mrs. A. T. Miller and Mrs. W. 

 Beadle. Ferns, bamboos and a few 

 Michaelmas daisies interspersed at in- 

 tervals materially enhanced the value 

 of this high class for floral composi- 

 tion. 



Eric Such had an immense collection 

 of early chrysanthemums, for which 

 he also received a silver gilt medal. 

 We noted specially Perle Rose, LeVac- 

 tole. Perle Chatillonnaise. Horace 

 Martin. Queen of earlies, Perfection, 

 Goacher's Crimson, Carrie, Champ de 

 Neige and many more. 



Othi^r awards were made for early 

 chrysanthemums to Henry Cannell & 



Son, R. H. Bath and others. The 

 competitive classes were numerous 

 and well filled, the chief of these be- 

 ing for a floral display of chrysanthe- 

 mums and foliage in a semi-circular 

 space of 14 ft. by 7 ft. There were 

 three competitors for this, Messrs. 

 John Reed Sons being awarded first 

 prize. 



Dinner tables decorated with chry- 

 santhemums, wreaths, sprays, vases, 

 baskets, epergnes and other floral de- 

 vices were well represented, and a 

 very fine collection of fruit, chiefly 

 apples in many varieties, was staged 

 by Messrs. Spooner. who also had a 

 silver gilt medal. The veteran grow- 

 er, Norman Davis, sent some grand 

 cut blooms of Mrs. R.H. Pearson. Mrs. 

 Norman Davis and some new seed- 

 lings that were quite up to the Novem- 

 ber standard of show bloom, and also 

 some vivid blue-toned varieties of 

 Aster amellus, most striking in size 

 and color, named Onward Major, C. 

 Davis and Erandis. 



First class certificates were award- 

 ed to H. J. Jones tor a new decorative 

 variety called Minnie Carpenter, and 

 to Wm. Wells & Co. tor a huge white 

 Japanese, Le Gygne. 



Some Dahlias at the National Chrys- 

 anthemum Society. 



Althou.^h the October show of the 

 X. C. S. is essentially one to encourage 

 the growing and exhibition of the 

 early flowering chrysanthemum, yet 

 dahlias and Michaelmas daisies iu 

 great variety are to be found among 

 the numerous miscellaneous groups 

 sent by the trade. 



^t the last show the two leading 

 types of dahlias were unquestionably 

 the Cactus and Peony-.Piov>ered kinds, 

 and the slyle of setting them up was 

 in most cases very effective. They are 

 often built up in masses of one color 

 each in the form ol semi-circular py- 

 ramids, with smaller clusters in vases 

 inteispevsed, ferns, palms and foliage 

 plants being introduced sometimes in 

 from, sometimes at the back, and at 

 other times intervening. 



Plobbjes, Limited, staged in the Cac- 

 tus section nice blooms of Mrs. Mc- 

 Millan, W. Marshall, Primrose, Ruby 

 Griusted. 'out in the Peony and Decor- 

 ated section they bad an immense dis- 

 play of huge flowers of King Leopold, 

 Nicholas II, Dr. Van Gorkem, P. H. 

 Jansen, Earon de Grancy, Queen Wil- 

 helmina, Kaiseiin Aug. Victoria, No- 

 dora Duncan and several others. 



T. O. Ware Xr. Son are well known as 

 dahlia specialists, and they, too, sent 

 a fine collection of cut blooms of Cac- 

 tus dahlias and Peony-flcwered. In 

 the former class Daisy Easton, Ivan- 

 hoe, Hamlet, Mrs. H. Shoesmith, Mrs. 

 Seale, Iris, Rev, Arthur Hall, Lady 

 Fair, F. Cadman were especially note- 

 worthy, while in the latter Baron de 

 Grancy, Souvenir de Gustave Dowson, 

 Glorv de Baron, La Riante, etc.. ex- 

 cited more tiian usual interest among 

 the visitors. C. HARMAN PAYNE. 



October 7, 1P07. 

 Horticulture: 



Please discontinue ad. Plants are 

 all sold. 



Yours respectfully, 



BLANKS.MA BROS. 

 Grand Rapids, Mich. 



THE PLACE OF SYSTEMATIC 



PLANTING IN IMPROVEMENT 



WORK. 



Address by E. J. Canning before the Mas- 

 sachusetts Conference on Itural Pro- 

 gress, at Amherst. 



Systematic planting is the planting 

 of trees and shrubs according to a pre- 

 conceived or definite plan, whether it 

 is for the home ground, public parks 

 and buildings, school grounds or city 

 streets. 



In all improvement work a definite 

 plan to follow is equally as important 

 as are plans for the erection of build- 

 ings, and I believe a competent land- 

 scape gardener is equally as important 

 if not more so, than the architect of a 

 building:: especially in the selection of a 

 home site and in the planning of th& 

 grounds around the home. He caa 

 often save the intending builder of a 

 home many times the cost of his fee 

 in the selection of a home site alone, 

 because his practiced eye can see at 

 a glance wheie expensive grading may 

 be avoided, besides taking advantage 

 of and making the most of all the 

 natural features a tract of land may 

 possess. He is usually a better judge 

 of the type of house best adapted for 

 any particular site; the exact position 

 the house should occupy; the best,, 

 easiest and least costly means of ap- 

 proach, and the possibilities of mak- 

 ing a landscape picture of the home 

 grounds by the proper selection and 

 grouping of trees and shrubs, together 

 with the cost of carrying out his plans 

 before any improvement work is at- 

 tempted. And yet it is notorious that 

 even in these days when so many 

 books and magazine articles have been 

 written upon this important topic, that 

 tliere are many people who will spend 

 much time and money in perfecting 

 plans for a dwelling, and often exhibit 

 excellent taste in the interior decora- 

 tion or furnishing of Their homes, and 

 yet give scant consideration to the 

 setting of the home, and would never 

 think of employing a competent land- 

 scape gardener who in the majority 

 of cases could save the owner much 

 money besides insuring a more valua- 

 ble property. Anyone who has only 

 the most superficial ideas of landscape- 

 gardening in going through the resi- 

 dence section of any large city can. 

 easily see whether the home grounds 

 have been carefully planned or not. 



Examples of a Wise Policy. 



There are, however, many shrewd 

 and far-sighted people who can and 

 do appreciate the work of the land- 

 scape gardener. The trustees of col- 

 leges and other institutions eraploy 

 la.ndscape gardeners for the proper 

 locating or grouping of tlieir buildings,, 

 as well as the laying out of their 

 grounds. 



In 1S93 the trustees of Smith Col- 

 lege employed the Messrs. Olmsted, 

 of Brockline, the well known firm of 

 landscape gardeners, to prepare plans 

 for the establishment of a botanic 

 garden upon the college campus. These 

 plans have been faithfully carried out 

 (except in one or two minor details 

 due to changing conditions) and have 

 proved highly satisfactory, each year 

 seeming to emphasize more and more 

 how far-sighted and carefully their 

 plans were prepared. 



Theie are many instance.? in this 

 Connecticut Valley where manufactur- 



