August 15, 1908 



HORTICULTURE. 



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a comprehensive report of work done 

 and suggestions to be offered. The 

 work of the show must be pushed 

 from now until November. On re- 

 ceipi of this notice please communi- 

 cate with the chairman of your sub- 

 committee and assist him in preparing 

 his report. 



Chairman George Asmus of the pub- 

 licity committee urges that all intend- 



CHAS. H. KEITSCH, 

 Superintendent of Exhibition. 



ing exhibitors in the national flower 

 show who have new varieties of carna- 

 tions, chrysanthemums, roses or any 

 other flower to enter, or noveltes of 

 any nature, provide the publicity com- 

 mittee with photographs of the same 

 at the earliest possible moment, In 

 order that the novelty may be written 

 up for the newspapers to the benefit 

 of the show and the exhibitor. Con- 

 siderable advantage may be gained by 

 judgment in the choice of names for 

 new varieties. It is suggested that 

 newspapers show greater interest in 

 new varieties that are named for 

 women of social prominence, and by 

 choosing the name of such a woman 

 in his own locality for his novelty, the 

 exhibitor would confer a graceful com- 

 pliment upon a possible customer and 

 also help along the show. This may 

 seem a small matter but it is likely 

 to have large effect upon gate receipts. 

 Photographs of the women for whom 

 new varieties are named should be sent 

 to the publicity committee wherever 

 possible. Photographs of flowers for 

 newspaper use should be made as 

 large as possible, showing no back- 

 ground and detail as clear-cut as can 

 bo made. 



J. H. BURDETT, Sec'y. 



Routes Selected by Various Delega- 

 tions. 



From New York: Delaware. Lacka- 

 wanna and Western Railroad. Special 

 train. 



From Boston: Boston and Albany 

 and New York Central. 



From Philadelphia: Pennsylvania 

 Railroad via. Harrisburg and Northern 

 Central Railroad. 



Baltimore and Washington: North- 



ern Central, joining Philadelphia party 

 at Harrisburg. 



Chicago: Wabash Railroad. Special 

 train. Several concessions in the way 

 cf stop-over privileges, choice of boat 

 routes, etc. 



St. Louis: Big Four Railroad. 

 Knickerbocker Special. 



Cincinnati: Cincinnati, Hamilton & 

 Dayton Railroad to Detroit, thence by 

 boat to Buffalo and rail to Falls. 



Detroit: Steamer to Buffalo, thence 

 by rail to Falls. 



HORTICULTURE AT THE CONVEN- 

 TION. 



HORTICULTURE'S office will be 

 located in the Cataract Hotel close to 

 the entrance to the meeting hall. A 

 good supply of this issue of the paper 

 will be on hand for free distribution 

 and w e shall be glad to have out- 

 friends call and exchange greetings. 

 Some one will be in attendance dur- 

 ing regular business hours to receive 

 subscriptions and advertisements or 

 attend to any other business connected 

 with the publication. Give us a call. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY MEETS 

 AT NIAGARA FALLS. 



A meeting of the members of the 

 American Rose Society will be held 

 during the convention of the Society 

 of American Florists at Niagara Falls 

 to transact any business that may 

 come up. The officers elected at the 

 annual meeting last March will take 

 the places of the outgoing officials. 

 August Poehlmanu of Morton Grove, 

 111., succeeds Robert Simpson of Clif- 

 ton. N. J., who has held the presi- 

 dency for the last two years. W. F. 

 Kasting becomes vice-president, suc- 

 ceeding Philip Breitmeyer of Detroit. 



The effort to make the American 



CHARLES SANDIFORD, 

 President Buffalo Florists' Club. 



Rose Society financially solid has met 

 with response from one and another 

 and one of the members has promised 

 that if the general membership does 

 not respond fully on or before the 

 date of this meeting he will see that 

 the total balance of the deficiency is 

 made good. 



BENJAMIN HAMMOND, Sec. 

 Fishkill-on-Hudson. N. Y.. 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY. 



On Sat unlay, August 8, the sched- 

 uled exhibition came off and was of 

 excellent quality throughout. Follow- 

 ing are the awards: 



Perennial Phloxes: — 1st, Win. Whit- 

 man; 2d, George Hollis; 2d, T. C. 

 Thin low & Co.; 4th, Bellevue Green- 

 houses. Annuals: — 1st, Wm. Whit- 



JOHN WALSH. 

 Pres. Canadian Horticultural Asso. 



man; 2d, Mrs. J. L. Gardner; 3d, Mrs. 

 E. M. Gill. 



First Class Certificates of Merit, 

 Cultural: — Wm. Whitman, Lilium 

 tigrinum. 



Honorable Mention: — R. & I. Far- 

 quhar & Co., Dahlia Mrs. Charles 

 Lanier and Cactus Dahlia Queen Wil- 

 helmina; F. J. Rea, Delphinium hy- 

 bridum var. Petsimon; B. H. Tracy, 

 Seedling Gladiolus. 



Vote of Thanks: — R. .4 1. l'\iniuhar 

 & Co., display of Lilium auratum, 

 dahlias am! he Liaceous plants. 



Other exhibits worthy of note were, 

 herbaceous plants from F. .1. Rea, 

 Bellevue Greenhouses, Wm. Whit- 

 man, Mrs. A. \V. Blake and Blue Hill 

 Nurseries. The ftuit section was well 

 filled by a number of prominent 

 ei'S of pears, apples, blackberries 

 ami peaches. 



MT. DESERT FLOWER SHOW. 



The Mt. Desert Flow-er Show, held 

 under the auspices of the Flower Show 

 Association, took place August 6 and 

 7. at the Building of Arts, Bar Harbor, 

 Me. This proved to be one of the 

 greatest successes ever made at Bar 

 Harbor, being the first flower show 

 ever held there and said to be the first 

 ever held in the State of Maine. No 

 show was ever located in a more 

 beautiful spot, the building situated at 

 the base of a pine-covered ridge on 

 the north and, to the south, east and 

 west the mountain scenery with its 

 valleys and gorges is grand. 



The committee, to whom great 

 credit is due for the wonderful suc- 

 cess of the affair, is comprised of 

 ladies and gentlemen, all summer resi- 

 dents. 



To Robert Cameron, Botanical Gar- 

 dens. Cambridge. Mass.. who had 



