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HOETICULTUEE 



June 7, 1913 



modify some of the severe things about 

 those seceders; nine sounds as if their 

 hearts are all riglit even if their heads 

 be wrong. Arthur Niessen is treasurer 

 and the other members of the commit- 

 tee are Charles E. Meehan, Adolph 

 Farenwald, John R. Andre and Fred 

 Mlchell, Jr. — all live wires, and it is 

 bound to be one great day. There will 

 be a potato race, wheelbarrow race, 

 ladies' race, sack race, fat men's race, 

 ball game and lots of other things too 

 numerous to mention. The cost is two 

 dollars, which includes the river trip 

 and all et ceteras. We counted 14 

 items on the dinner menu. Bring your 

 women folks. All aboard, June 19. 



AMERICAN PEONY SOCIETY. 



The annual meeting and exhibition 

 of the American Peony Society will 

 be held in Gray's Armory, Cleveland, 

 Ohio, on June 12-14, in conjunction 

 with the Ohio Horticultural Society. 

 There will be no separate premium list 

 offered by the Peony Society. Copies 

 of the Horticultural Society's premium 

 list have been sent to all members of 

 the Peony Society. Further copies 

 may be had by writing to Mr. John N. 

 .Stockwell, room 218 Citv Hall. Cleve- 

 land, O. 



All entries should be addressed to 

 Mr. Stockwell as above. Shipments of 

 blooms should be addressed to the 

 Chairman of the E.xhibitions Commit- 

 tee at the Exhibition Hall. Gray's Ar- 

 mory. Express charges must be pre- 

 paid. Cut flowers cannot be received 

 earlier than one day before the open- 

 ing of the exhibition. Label cards not 

 10 exceed 2 by 4 inches must be fur- 

 nished by the exhibitors, but vases 

 lor cut blooms will, as usual, be pro- 

 vided at the hall. Entries must be in 

 the hands of the secretary at least 48 

 hours before the beginning of the ex- 

 hibition, and a fee of $1.00 must ac- 

 company the entry in each class. 



See the premium list for further par- 

 ticulars. All intending exhibitors are 

 advised to read the regulations care- 

 fully, as they are not exactly like those 

 which usually govern the exhibitions 

 of the Peony Society. The following 

 is a list of the prizes: 

 Class 

 ■J9 Collection of fifty herbaceous peonies. 



double, in twenty named varietie.'s. 



silver cup, 1st; $8.00, 2nd; $.5.00, 3rd. 

 30 Vase of fifty blooms, white, single, on 



long stems, arranged for effect, silver 



cup, 1st: $8.00, 2nd; $5.00, 3rd. 

 "1 Vase of~flfty blooms, light pinlc, single, 



on long stems, arranged for effect. 



silver cup, 1st: $8.00, 2nd; $5.00, 3rd. 

 '•'- Vase of fifty blooms, red or crimson. 



single, on long stems, arranged for 



effect, silver cup, 1st; SS.OO, 2nd: 



$5.00. 3rd. 

 ;: 1 Collection of twenty-five named va- 

 rieties, double, one bloom of each, 



$8.00, 1st; $600, 2nd; .$4.00, 3rd. 

 ."1 Collection of ten named varieties, 



double, three of each, $10.00, 1st: 



.$5.00, 2nd; $3.00, 3rd. 

 '■"• Best specimen bloom, white, double, 



(amateurs only), bronze medal. 

 ";1 Best specimen bloom, light pink, 



double, (amateurs only), medal. 

 ::7 Best specimen bloom, red or crimson, 



double, (amateurs only), bronze 



medal. 

 '■'■S Collection of twelve named varieties, 



single, one bloom of each, $4.00, 1st; 



$3.00, 2nd; .$2.00. 3rd. 

 '■'■'■) Collection of six named varieties, 



double, white, one flower of each, 



(amateurs only), gold medal, 1st; 



silver medal. 2nd ; bronzf medal, 3rd. 

 40 Collection of six naimd varieties. 



doulile, light pink, one flower of 



each, (amateurs only), gold medal, 



1st; silver medal, 2nd; bronze medal, 



3rd. 



41 Collection of six named varieties. 



double, dark pink, one flower of each, 

 (amateurs only), gold medal, 1st; 

 silver medal, 2nd; bronze medal, 3rd 



42 Collection of six named varieties, 



double, red or crimson, one flower of 

 .each, (amateurs only), gold medal, 

 1st; silver medal, 2nd; bronze medal, 

 3rd. 



43 Vase of twenty-five blooms, double, 



white or blush, $6.00, 1st; $4.00, 2nd; 

 .$3.00, 3rd. 



44 Vase of twenty-five blooms, double, 



pink. $6.00, 1st ; $4.00, 2nd ; $3.00, 3rd. 



45 Vase of twenty-five blooms, double, 



red or crimson. $6.00, 1st; $4.00, 2nd; 

 $3.00, 3rd. 



46 Vase of twenty-five blooms, double, 



any other color, $6.00, 1st; $4.00, 2nd; 

 $3.00, 3rd. 

 46a Collection of one hundred named va- 

 rieties, herbaceous peonies, one of 

 each. Peony Society's gold medal. 



It is hoped that there will be a good 

 attendance of the members of the 

 Peony Society. The plants in the 

 northern section which were for a 

 time very forward, have been checked 

 by the cool weather of the past few 

 weeks, and it looks now as if the dates 

 of the exhibition would tall about right 

 for the growers in the latitude of 

 Cleveland and farther north. 



The headquarters for the Peony So- 

 ciety will be Hotel Statler. 



A. P. Saunders, Sec'y. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



The American Rose Society has 

 been invited to have as full a repre- 

 sentation as possible of its member- 

 ship to attend the final exhibition and 

 judging of the Hartford Rose Garden. 

 It will be held sometime during the 

 month of June. The judges named by 

 President Farenwald for the service 

 are as follows; Wallace R. Pierson, 

 Cromwell, Conn., Eber Holmes, Mon- 

 trose, Mass., and John F. Huss, Hart- 

 ford. Conn. 



The Rose Garden at Hartford was 

 adopted last year and encouraged as 

 far as it could be by the Executive 

 Committee, and a summer meeting of 

 the society. The reports that come 

 from the Hartford Park Department 

 are most encouraging for the work 

 there done. The garden is in Eliz- 

 abeth Park, 



The new officers chosen at the an- 

 baal meeting held in April assume 

 their duties on the first of July, and 

 are as follows: Wallace R. Pierson. 

 Cromwell, Conn., president; Robert 

 Pyle, West Grove, Pa., vice-president; 

 Harry O. May. Summit, N. J., treas- 

 urer; executive committee, J. H. Dun- 

 lop, Toronto, Ont.; S. S. Pennock, 

 Philadelphia, Pa.; August F. Poehl- 

 mann. Morton Grove, 111.; Eber 

 Holmes, Montrose, Mass., Frank R. 

 Pierson, Tarrytown, N. Y.; Robert 

 Simpson, Clifton, N. J., the secretary 

 holding over. 



Bexj.\min Hammond, Sec. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



The next meeting of the Gardeners' 

 & Florists' Club of Boston will beheld 

 June 24th instead of June 17th and 

 will be Ladies' Night. President Ken- 

 nedy intends organizing a' Ladies' Aux- 

 iliary. 



The St. Louis Florist Club will hold 

 its regular monthly meeting June 12 

 at 2 o'clock at Shaw's Garden. Mem- 

 bers are to meet at 1.30 P. M. at the 

 main entrance of the garden. Tower 

 Grove and Floral Boulevard. 



An exhibition' of peonies, orchids, 

 irises and miscellaneous hardy her- 

 baceous flowers will be held on June 

 7 and 8 at Bronx Park, in the Museum 

 Building of the New York Botanical 

 Garden, under the auspices of the Hor- 

 ticultural Society of New York; $200 

 in premiums. 



The North Shore (Chicago) Florists' 

 and Nurserymen's Association of 

 which Fred Stollery is president, Her- 

 man Schiller, secretary, and Louis 

 Witbold, treasurer, was organized re- 

 cently. Its efforts so far have been 

 mainly to secure uniformity of prices 

 on the north shore. 



The annual Peony and Rhododen- 

 dron Exhibition of the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society will be held at 

 Horticultural Hall, Boston, on Satur- 

 day and Sunday, June 7 and 8. A 

 special exhibition of peonies, including 

 schedule classes, 192 to 207, will be 

 held on June 14 and 15. The Rose 

 and Strawberry Exhibition will occur 

 on, June 21 and 22. 



The long-promised joint exhibition 

 of the Newport Garden Association 

 and the Newport Horticultural Society 

 will take place on Wednesday and 

 Thursday, June 25 and 26, at Harbour 

 Court, the estate of Mrs. John Nicho- 

 las Brown. The exhibition will be open 

 to the public at 2 P. M. on Wednesday 

 and will close at 8 P. M. on Thursday. 

 Admission on Wednesday, $1.00; 

 Thursday, 25 cents. The premium list 

 is very comprehensive and in addi- 

 tion to the classes usually covered in 

 a summer show there are prizes for 

 borders and beds of hardy herbaceous 

 plants which will undoubtedly bring 

 out some very showy and unique ef- 

 fects. The cash prizes amount to 

 about $1,200. 



An exhibition of peonies will be held 

 at the Art Institute, Chicago, June 12 

 and 13, 1913, under the auspices of 

 The Horticultural Society of Chicago. 

 Silver and bronze medals' and liberal 

 cash prizes offered in the 39 classes. 

 Entries may be made by mail, ad- 

 dressed to the Secretary of The Horti- 

 cultural Society of Chicago, from whom 

 copies of the schedule may be ob- 

 tained. Exhibitors must designate by 

 title and number the classes they de- 

 sire to enter and are requested to 

 make their entries three days in ad- 

 vance. 



To insure uniformity exhibition 

 cards shall not exceed 10 x 12 inches 

 in size. They shall be white, with the 

 words. "Grown by" or "Shown by" in 

 plain black letters. The name and ad- 

 dress of the exhibitor and the name of 

 the private gardener, if desired, shall 

 appear on the cards. No entry fee 

 will be charged. Exhibits by express 

 should be addressed to R. J. Haight. 

 Secretary, Horticultural Society of 

 Chicago, Art Institute. Chicago, 111., 

 and all charges invariably prepaid. Ex- 

 hibits cannot be received earlier than 

 the day preceding the opening of the 

 exhibition. 



The rules governing the 1913 Spring 

 Flower Show of The Horticultural So- 

 ciety of Chicago will be observed so 

 far as they apply. 



