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HORTICULTURE 



August 29. 190S 



AFTER ADJOURNMENT 



The current issue of our esteemed 

 contemporary, the Countrj Gentleman, 

 informs its readers that F. H. Traend- 

 ly was elected president of the S. A. F.. 

 at Niagara Falls, last week. "Brother 

 Tucker," you are "awaj off." And 

 who told you there were "very scanty 

 audiences" at Niagara Falls? We 

 might add that the Society of Ameri- 

 can Florists was organized at Chicago, 

 not Cincinnati, in 1884, but held its 

 first com in inn in Cincinnati in 1885. 



The Chicago Daily Tribune has been 

 conducting a prize garden contest, and 

 in its issue of August 20 published 

 pictures of the prize winning porch 

 and veranda arrangements, all very 

 creditable to their owners and sug- 

 .gestive as to the possibilities in mak- 

 ing beautiful homes even amid the 

 most dispiriting surroundings. The 

 moral disfigurement and stupidity 

 which some men have in their make-up 

 -was illustrated in the case of one 

 landlord who, when he saw how attrac- 

 tive his tenant had made his home, 

 promptly raised the rent. 



CARNATION SPLENDOR. 



"The American Florists' Association is 

 in session at Niagara Falls. Good; it will 



be rare sport to have the man who makes 

 the price of violets fight it out with a 

 Falls hotel keeper or hackman.."— -Brockton 

 (Muss i Times. 



There appears to be no evidence of 

 any more attempt at extortion at 

 Niagara Falls than might be expected 

 .at any populous centre where the con- 

 vention might be located. We are glad 

 to record this fact for Niagara proved 

 to be an ideal place for a convention 

 and, if the expressed opinions of many 

 of the attendants this year have any 

 value, it will not be long before the 

 S. A. F. makes its appearance at 

 Niagara again. 



"The obvious lesson to be drawn from 

 this fact (good attendance at meetings! 

 is that a business session, conducted under 

 strict parliamentary rules, will Invariably 

 holi] au audience." — Florists' Exchange. 



We don't quite agree with our con- 

 temporary as to the reason for the 

 well-attended sessions at Niagara. 

 First, the weather was delightfully 

 cool and the hall comfortable at all 

 times: second, there were few coun- 

 ter attractions in the place to draw 

 away the attendants; third, the sport- 

 ing contests were all relegated to the 

 fourth day. If attendance has been 

 unsatisfactory at any past conventions 

 ;and if it be true that "a business ses- 

 sion conducted under strict parlia- 

 mentary rules will invariably hold an 

 audience," it follows that past presi- 

 dents have been either inefficient or 

 remiss. Happily the "amendment to 

 the amendment" fiend, as well as the 

 hostile disturber, was conspicuously 

 absent this year, for which President 

 Traendly is. presumably, grateful and 

 the "strict parliamentary rules" experi- 

 enced no great strain. 



Our talented correspondent, Mr. Al- 

 fred Rehder of the Arnold Arboretum, 

 has gone away for two weeks', vaca- 

 tion, hence the absence of his notes 

 from our columns. He will resume his 

 valuable contributions on his return. 



This new variety was introduced last 

 season without any great flare by 

 Stevenson Bros., of Govanstown, Mary- 

 land, but it is very probable that the 

 coming season will bring Splendor to 

 the front as one of the best all around 

 varieties of the day. 



While not what is termed a fancy 

 variety, as to size, it ranks well with 

 such sorts as Aristocrat, Afterglow, 

 and doing a little better than Winsor. 



In color it is an even silvery pink 

 shading between Afterglow and Win- 



sor. The blooms have excellent form, 

 with an attractive finish which has al- 

 ready made many friends with the 

 buying public. 



The growth is all that can be desired, 

 being very free, starting in early to 

 produce finished flowers on long stems 

 and continuing throughout the season 

 without any cropping. It is a heavy 

 feeder sftiA takes kindly to heavy soil. 



As a grower in the field, Splendor 

 is ideal, making a handsome shapely 

 plant in a verv short time. 



LOUIS REUTER. 



ROSE CONRAD F. MEYER. 

 During the discussion following W. C. 

 Barry's able paper on Out-Door Roses, 

 a question was asked by Mr. Rudd as 

 to whether the rose Conrad Meyer had 

 proved to be a perpetual bloomer. Mr. 

 Barry said that it had given some 

 evidence that it was, but he was not 

 prepared to positively so assert. He 

 had found that it should not be severe- 

 ly pruned. A. L. Miller and Antoine 

 Wintzer both expressed a favorable 

 opinion of the variety. Mr. Wintzer 

 had not found it a very free bloomer, 

 but after being established two or 

 three years its blooms were very fine 

 specimens. He also liked Sir Thomas 

 Lipton, which he stated to be almost 

 as vigorous as Rugosa itself, producing 

 from two to five hundred blooms on 

 three-year-old field plants. Mr. Wint- 

 zer deprecated the fact that such an 

 enormous number of new tea roses are 

 being pushed on the market every 

 year. 



We find in The Garden (London) 

 the following note in reference to the 

 rose in question: 



Rose Conrad I'. Meyer not flowering sat- 

 isfactorily. (C. L. A.)— This Rose is apt to 

 grow so vigorously that unless grown as a 

 pillar plant or pegged down it will not 

 Dower very freely. You might remove a 

 lew inches from the flowerless shoots at 



once, but we <1 t think you will get 



many blooms from them this year; it will 

 help to ripen them, however, ami they 

 should bloom next year. In pruning nest 

 year leave tin- growths made tliis rear 

 from :; feel to 4 feet in length, and if neces- 

 sary loop them up to sticks. Some of the 

 growths bend over arch-like and others hor- 

 izontally Keep them about two feet from 

 the ground. A g<>..<l plan to check the exu- 

 berant growth is to lift the plants with a 

 spade and place them again into the same 

 position, making the s,,il firm about their 

 roots. This should be done in October. 

 In rose Sowers very freely on standards, 

 and we have had it bloom grandly this 

 year upon the plants put out two years 

 age In pruning we retain rue wood al- 

 most the entire length that it made last 

 year. Some of the plants might be trained 

 in a fan shape upon a trellis formed with 

 i hi ti, boo canes. The check to the flow of 

 Che sap would induce it to flower. 



