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THE GARDENERS' MONTHLY 



[November, 



hibited little new. Perhaps the re-appearance of 

 the good old coxcomb in Mr. Walter Cole's collec- 

 tion may be so termed. But the single Dahlias in 

 the collection of Fergusson's Sons were truly 

 grand. Nothing that has appeared for many 

 years has been so little over-praised as these. 



Conrad Kirchner had a new seedling carnation 

 of some merit, but without a name. It was a light 

 salmon with a few flakes of darker tint here and 

 there. 



In fruits there was a remarkable paucity for 

 this famous Society. The Globe peach on exhibi- 

 tion showed it to be much later than we supposed 

 when we had it first before us. A grand collec- 

 tion of hot-house grapes from David Allen, gar- 

 dener to R. M. Piatt, of Boston, made up however 

 for the absence of much that might be mediocre. 

 We are sorry that the weights or measurements of 

 the bunches were not displayed with the fruit. 

 The bunches had however nothing remarkable in 

 size to one who has seen a Pennsylvania exhibit 

 for many years, but the berries were remarkable 

 for size, and in a perfect and thorough ripening 

 we have rarely seen their equal. We do not re- 

 member anything so superb for many a long day. 

 Some much larger bunches were on exhibition 

 from Mr. G. Huster, gardener to Mrs. Heyl, and 

 from Mr. Duncan Rhind ; the latter had Black 

 Barbarossa, about 2 feet long by i wide. Fer- 

 gusson Sons had a very nice collection of hot- 

 house grapes, and we were reminded of the old 

 controversy as to the distinctness of Prince Albert 

 from Black Barbarossa by a bunch of each side 

 by side. The former has a somewhat looser bunch. 

 The February Meeting. — It should not be for- 

 gotten that silver and gold medals for the best 

 twelve and best six Hyacinths grown in glasses 

 by ladies only, will be awarded at the meeting of 

 Feb. 1 6, 1 886. One need not be a member of the 

 Society to be a competitor for these premiums. 



New York Horticultur.\l Society's Chrys- 

 anthemum Show. — This will be on the 4th, 5th 

 and 6th of November, in Horticultural Hall, 26 

 West 28th Street. It is expected over 700 varie- 

 ties will be on exhibition, and one grower promises 

 to have a flower for inspection, 21 inches in cir- 

 cumference. Mr. Jas. Y. Murkland, 18 Cortlandt 

 St., is Secretary, and can give further particulars. 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society. — 

 At the recent annual meeting for the election for 

 officers, Dr. Henry P. Wallcott was elected Presi- 

 dent for the ensuing year. 



Judging by a newspaper slip kindly sent to us 

 by the Secretary, the fifty-seventh annual meeting 

 must have been one o( the most successful. The 

 list of premiums awarded alone occupies nearly 

 two columns of the newspaper. Among the pe- 

 culiarities of general interest we note the common 

 names of some rare greenhouse plants. The Devil 

 flower is Alaecia cristata. Baby flower is Odonto- 

 glossum grande, the lip looking like a young 

 child ; and the Dove plant, Peristeria elata. 

 These are Orchids from Mr. Ames' collection. 

 Two new foliage plants, Croton chelsoni, and 

 Alocasia Sanderiana, are produced, desirable aside 

 from their being novelties. They were from 



David Allan, gardener to R. M. Pratt. The same 

 gentleman had a magnificent collection of hot- 

 house grapes, among which a white Syrian 

 weighed 6 lbs. i oz., and an Alnwick seedling 

 5 lbs. 5!< oz. In the collection of miscellaneous 

 cut flowers, the number is 1 mited to 100 kinds in 

 bottles. H. B. Watts had first premium for these, 

 James Cartwright second, and Edwin Sheppard 

 third. In Dahlias, the premium was awarded to 

 I Edwin Sheppard for the best single named variety, 

 but what th^t variety was, is not stated, nor 

 through the long list of premiums awarded can 

 we glean any information of quality or kinds that 

 would be very instructive to our readers. 



In Pears, however, we note that Mr. John Mc- 

 ! Clure's 12 specimens of Bartlett weighed 7 lbs. 3 

 ' oz., 12 from Mrs. Mary Langmaid, 6 lbs. 12;^ oz. ; 

 the third premium to N. D. Harrington, 6 lbs. 

 11!^ oz. ; fourth to A. S. Mcintosh, 6 lbs. 9 oz. 

 The weights or peculiar excellencies of the ex- 

 hibits of others are not given. 



Meetings of Local Horticultural Socie- 

 ties. — It has often been remarked that the mana- 

 gers of local horticultural meetings, make great 

 mistakes in getting some three-story, or other 

 room, in which refined and cultured people will 

 not assemble. The very best rooms in a town 

 should be engaged, and made attractive to the 

 best people, if horticulture is to have the best 

 patronage essential to its success. A strong point 

 was made of this by Mr. L. B. Pierce, of Dayton„ 

 before the American Pomological Society, who- 

 favored meeting on the private grounds of some 

 patron of horticulture. 



Chrysanthemums Shows. — The taste revivedi 

 during the past few years, for Chrysanthemum 

 growing, has been much fostered by the exhibi- 

 tions of the Massachusetts, New York and Penn- 

 sylvania Horticultural Societies. We should be 

 glad to aid and assist all of these bodies, but the 

 Secretaries seldom call our attention to their meet- 



I ings until after we go to press, when of course too- 



I late to make any note thereof 



Only now in the last moment has our attention 

 been called to the meeting of the Pennsylvania 

 Horticultural Society which takes place on the 

 10th, nth, 12th and 13th of November. The 

 schedule of premiums foots up several hundreds 

 of dollars. A novel feature is a class for " sub- 



[ scription fund " premiums. Only those can com- 

 pete here who deposit S20 ; and the ist premium 

 $100. We suppose if there be only one entry 

 here the Society pays $80. 



Hallock Son & Thorpe offer $\o for the best 

 new seedling. If there is anything in a liberal 

 and very varied schedule of premiums, there will 

 be a grand exhibition on this occasion that it will 

 be well worth any one's while to see. 



New Orleans Exposition. — This, which now 

 takes the name of North, Central, and South 

 American Exposition, will open on the loth of 

 November and continue till 31st of March. The 

 New Orleans people had excellent experience last 

 year, and the forthcoming exhibition is expected, 

 to exceed the past in many respects. 



