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HORTICULTURE 



$23 offered by Traendly & Scbenck, New 

 York. 



F. loS. Fifty Blooms of Bride. $25 of- 

 fered by Kinll Buettnt'r, Park lUdge, III. 



F. 1.59. Fifty Blooms of Liberty. $25 

 offered by John Davis Co., Chicago. 



F. 160. Fifty Blooms of Kaiscrln Augus- 

 ta Victoria. .1:25 offered by The Glode Coal 

 Co., Chicago. 



F. 161. Fifty Blooms of Golden Gate. 

 $25 offered In J. A. Budlong, Chicago. 



F. 102. 1 uty Blooms of Ivory. $25 of- 

 fered by J. F. VVik-ox, Council Bluffs, Iowa. 

 F. 163. The best one hundred Blooms of 

 Pink Roses in the show. $50 offered by 

 Poehlmanu Bros. Co., Chicago. 



F. 164. Fifty Blooms of Red Roses, 

 Richmond and American Beauties excluded. 

 $25 offered by Poehlmann Bros. Co., Chi- 

 cago. 



F. 165. One Hundred Blooms of Rich- 

 mond. $50 offered by Poehlmann Bros. Co., 

 Chicago. 



F. 166. One Hundred Blooms of Kate 

 Moulton. First prize, .$25, offered by Wie- 

 tor Bros., Chicago. Second prize, $20, of- 

 fered by Geo. Reinberg, Chicago. 



F. 167. One Hundred Blooms of Uncle 

 John. $25 offered by Wietor Bros., Chi- 

 cago. 



P. 168. One Hundred Blooms of Mad. A. 

 Chatenay. Silver Cup, value $25, offered 

 by Vaughan's Seed Store, Chicago. 



F. 169. Fiftv Blooms of American 

 Beauty. $50 offered by The Mogg Coal Co., 

 Chicago. 



F. 170. One Hundred Blooms of Bride. 

 $25 offered by The Pulverized Manure Co., 

 Chicago. 



F. 171. One Hundred Blooms of Sunrise. 

 $25 offered by The Florists' Review, Chi- 

 cago. 



F. 172. Twenty-five Blooms of Brides- 

 maid exhibited by growers having less than 

 50,000 square feet of glass. $25 offered by 

 Basset & Washburn, Chicago. 



F. 173. T-nenty-flve Blooms of Bride ex- 

 hibited by growers having less than 50,000 

 square feet of glass. $25 ottered by Basset 

 & Washburn, Chicago. 



F. 174. One Hundred Blooms of Mrs. 

 Potter Palmer. .$50 offered by S. Freeman 

 & Sons, Chicago. 



F. 175. The best new Rose not In com- 

 merce and never exhibited before the Amer- 

 ican Rose Society, vase to contain not less 

 than twelve and not more than twenty-flve 

 Blooms. Silver Cup, value $25. offered by 

 F. R. Pierson, Tarrytown, N. Y. 



F. 176. Fifty Blooms of American 

 Beauty. Cyclopedia of American Horticul- 

 ture by Prof. L. H. Bailey, value $30, of- 

 fered by The American Florist Co., Chi- 

 cago. 



F. 177. Best Twenty-five Blooms of Pink 

 Roees not disseminated prior to 1908. Sil- 

 ver Cnp, value $15, offered by J. B. 

 Deamud Co., Chicago. 



F. 178. Twenty-five Blooms of Brides- 

 maid. $10 offered by W. W. Barnard Co., 

 Chicago. 



F. 179. Twenty-five Blooms of Rich- 

 mond. $10 offered by Geo. Keller & Son, 

 Chicago. 



P. 180. Twenty-flve Blooms of Sunrise. 

 $10 offered by Leonard Kill, Chicago. 



F. 181. Twenty-five Blooms of Uncle 

 John. .$10 offered by F. R. Newbold, New 

 York. 



F. 1R2. Twenty-five Blooms of Killarney. 

 $10 offered by Kroeschell Bros. Co., Chi- 

 cago. 



F. 183. Twenty-five Blooms of Bride, 

 $10 offered by A. Dietsch Co., Chicago. 



F. 184. Fifty Blooms of Mad. A. Chat- 

 enay. $10 offered by Welland & Ollnger, 

 New Castle, Ind. 



F. 185. Fifty Blooms of American 

 Beauty. Two tons of Florist Bone offered 

 by Darling & Co., Chicago. 



P. 186. Twelve named Varieties of Hy- 

 brid Perpetuals in pots. $10 offered by 

 Kroeschell Bros. Co., Chicago. 



F. 187. Twenty-five Blooms of Killar- 

 ney. $10 offered by Holten & Hunkel, Mil- 

 waukee, Wis. 



F. 188. Exhibit of cut Roses, four varie- 

 ties. Twelve Blooms of each variety, open 

 to Private Gardeners only. $25 offered tiy 

 Harry O. Mav, Summit, N. J. 



F. 189. Two Hundred Lily of the Val- 

 ley. First prize $10, offered by H. N. 

 Bmns, Chicago. Second prize $S, offered 

 by PoehIn\ann Bros. Co., Chicago. _ , 



F. 190. Vase of One Hundred American 

 Beauties. Silver Cup, valued at $10, of- 

 fered hv Crane & Co., Chicago, III. 



P. 191. Best Fiftv Blooms of new Rose 



never before exhibited for competition. 

 Silver Loi'ing Cup, valued at $20, offered 

 by Heller Bros. New Castle, III. 



Since issuing the above list, fui'tlier 

 special piizcs have been offered, as fol- 

 follows: 



A special groweis' prize for the men who 

 actually grew the fiowers. by Peter Rein- 

 berg of Chicago, a first prize of $23, second 

 $15, third $10. A sweepstake by the Horti- 

 cultural Society of Chicago, of a silver 

 medal. A. L. Randall Co. offers a prize of 

 .$10 as a sccfmd fur Ivory, and there was 

 omitted in the printed list a prize by H. A. 

 Michell Co., Philadelphia, for the best dis- 

 play of 5ii Kate .Moultons, a silver vase, 

 valued at .$25. 



A. L. Rant'.all Co., 21 E. Randolph 

 street, will receive and take care of any 

 flowers sent for exhibition. 



BENJAMIN HAMMOND, 

 Secretary. 

 Fishkill-on-Hudson, N. Y. 



THE MICHELL TROPHY. 



"We present a picture of the Henry 

 F. Mitchell Co. trophy, for the best 

 fifty roses, Kate Moulton, exhibited at 

 the anual convention of the American 

 Rose Society. Chicago. Ill . Mai-ch 25 

 to 27. 



It will be noticed that it is a pi-ac- 

 tical, useful vase, having a base of six 

 and a quarter inches and an openins 

 at the top of six inches, so that it will 

 take, not only considerable stems, but 

 will hold a goodly quantity of water. 

 The height is twelve inches. 



The tvophy. which was designea and 

 made by a Philadelphia company, has 

 a beautiful hand-chased representation 

 ->f the Kate Moulton rose on the ti-ont. 

 It is finished in French gray and is 

 one of the most beautiful of the many 

 beautiful prizes contributed from tin-c 

 to time by the H. F. Michell Co. 



March 21, 190S 



ROSES AT WESTERLY, R. I. 



A good example of profitable rose- 

 growing is to be seen in the houses of 

 S. J. Renter Co. at Westerly, R. I. 

 Most of the standard varieties, with 

 the exception of American Beauty, and 

 many of the newer aspirants are 

 grown here and all are grafted stock 

 from one to four years old except 

 Chatenay, which Mi". Reuter finds 

 grows much better on its own roots. 

 The latter is especially luxuriant and 

 at the present time is producing 

 blooms of phenomenal size on stems c f 

 unusual length. This rose requires a 

 large quantity of water when in active 

 growth. 



Among the roses to be given a good 

 trial here during the coming season 

 are My Maryland and Cardinal, John 

 Cook's two beautiful seedlings, also 

 Mrs. Jaidine and Mrs. Potter Palmer. 

 The latter is expected, of course, to 

 do as well as Chatenay has done. Miss 

 Kate Moulton has been grown during 

 the past season, but with indifferent 

 success, ;ind being so nearly like Chat- 

 enay will be discarded. 



While on the subject of Mr. Renter's 

 establishment we might mention the 

 superb carnations grown there — 150,- 

 000 plants altogethei-. Young stock 

 that has been in small pots and is 

 now ready for a shift is being planted 

 out in cold frames, where it will re- 

 main until moved to houses or field. 



The old range of 17 houses — most of 

 them small — covering altogether about 

 CD.OOO sq. ft., will be taken down this 

 coming season and five large, modern 

 houses of equal capacity in the aggre- 

 ,gate will be ei-ected in their place. 

 Two additional boilers of 150 horse- 

 power have recently been installed. 



ROSE APPLE BLOSSOM, 



An attempt is being made on the Conti- 

 nent to boom this variety, but I may say 

 I am already ac<iuaiiited with it. 



Readers of the H. T. J. naturally desire 

 to be up-to-date but at the same time have 

 no wish to spend money on new things of 

 uo improvement on already existing varie- 

 ties, and I think I should inform you that 

 as early as last year my firm (Messrs. 

 Hugh lA>\y & Co.) Invested somewhat heav- 

 ily in "Apple Blossom." As however, this 

 variety tTU'ned out so uusatisfactorily, my 

 firm have not offered it to the English 

 trade. 



From my own observation I should say 

 "Apple Blossoan" was no improvement on 

 already existing Polyantbas, and now that 

 we have the perpetual flowering "Baby 

 Dorothy." whidi has larger heads and 

 largei- individual flowers of better color, 

 there is no rcxim for "Apple Blossom." 



Most nnrser.vmen will agree with me it 

 would be an adA'antage to reduce the num- 

 ber of old' and inferior varieties of roses, 

 and rose growers sliould take a leaf from 

 the Carnation growers' book, for as soon 

 .IS a variety becomes out of date they 

 '■ease lo propagate it. and so put their 

 inonc.A- on tlie riglit horse. — Ijji«-rence J. 

 Cook, ill iloi-t. Ti-aile Journal, London. 



In the light of the above communi- 

 caton the views of an American plant 

 gi'ower of extensive experience — Anton 

 Schultheis, of College Point, N. Y.— 

 may prove interesting. Mr. Schultheis 

 is very ranch impressed with the 

 pretty little .\pple Blossom rose as a 

 subject for gi-eenhouse forcing and es- 

 pecially as an Easter plant. Its con- 

 tinuou.s Idooniing propensities, the 

 color and fragrance of the flowers so 

 aptly stiggested in the name Apple 

 Dlossoiu ai'e. in Mr. Schultheis opinion, 

 a sulficient assui-ance of the coming 

 popularity of this novelty which will 

 make an excellent companion for the 

 crimson l^owered "Baby Rambler." 



