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HORTICULTURE 



March 2, 1907 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



The Spring Rose Show will open in 

 Washington Light Infantry Hall, 15th 

 & E streets, N. W., Washington, D. 

 C, on next Wednesday, March 13th, to 

 be open until Friday the 15th inclu- 

 sive. 



The Superintendent of exhibitions is 

 Louis Freeman, 1307 F street, N. W., 

 Washington, D. C. Various entries 

 liave already been made and M. H. 

 Walsh of Woods Hole, Mass., advises 

 that he will send on some fine samples 

 of his climbing roses. The judges are 

 Messrs. Robert Craig of Philadelphia, 

 Wm. F. Kasting of Buffalo, and P. J. 

 HauBwirth of Chicago. Papers will be 

 prepai-ed by Theo. Wirth, Supt. of 

 Parks, Minneapolis, M. H. Walsh, and 

 E. G. Hill of Richmond, Ind. 



The headquarters of the Society will 

 be at the Arlington Hotel. The Sec- 

 retary will be in Washington on Tues- 

 day, the 12th, to attend to matters per- 

 taining to the Society and Show. 



There is a particular prize offered by 

 Moore, Hentz & Nash of $15.00 and 

 $10.00 in cash to be given to the grow- 

 er (that is a man who did the actual 

 work of growing) for the two best 

 exhibits of roses shown in the Exhibi- 

 tion. This is recognition of the actual 

 workmanship, whether he be the ex- 

 hibitor or an employee of the exhibi- 

 tor. Corbey Bros. Bakery offer a cash 

 prize of $25.00 for the best mantel 

 decoration. There are altogether 35 

 special premiums offered outside of the 

 regular Society premiums. About 

 three-quarters of the membership have 

 already sent in their annual dues and 

 several new men have forwarded their 

 checks. 

 BENJAMIN HAMMOND, Secretary. 



Scale of Points for Judging Roses. 



Comijetitive Novelties 



Classes. for Certifl. 



Size 15 10 



Color 20 20 



Stem 20 15 



Form 15 15 



Substance 15 JO 



Foliage 15 15 



Fragrance ° 



Distinctiveness 1" 



WASHINGTON ROSE CONVENTION 

 NOTES. 



Widespread interest is being mani- 

 fested here as well as throughout the 

 entire country in the convention which 

 meets here next week. It is expected 

 .that nearly every state and territory 

 in the Union will be represented as 

 ■well as different portions of Canada. 

 "Washington is particularly interested 

 in three classes open to amateur com- 

 petitors; these classes comprise three 

 prizes each; for best specimen of fern 

 which has been grown in a dwelling 

 for at least four months previous to ex- 

 hibition, for which Jno. Clark offers 

 prizes of $5, $3, and $2; for best 

 specimen of rubber plant grown in 

 dwelling, for which Peter Bisset offers 

 similar prizes, and Geo. Field offers 

 three prizes for best specimen of 

 geranium. The preparations for the 

 exhibit which is to be of a national 

 character, have been in progress for 

 some time, and when the show opens 

 it is promised that Washington will 

 see one of the prettiest and most un- 

 .usual exhibits ever offered. 



JAS. L. CARBERY, 



FLORISTS CLUB OF PHILADEL- 

 PHIA. 



Seven regular and one associate 

 members were added to the roll of the 

 club at its meeting on 5th inst. Mr. 

 Pennock's record in the presidency is 

 setting the pace and bids fair to break 

 the record. Captain Lynch was the 

 speaker of the evening his subject 

 being the wonderful possibilities of 

 sending roses by mail all over the 

 country and the gi-eat good it does 

 incidentally to the regular flower 

 trade by educating the people. His 

 remarks will appear in full in a future 

 issue and will be found very interest- 

 ing. F. H. Kramer of Washington ex- 

 hibited three grand vases of Queen 

 Beatrice rose which were declared by 

 the committee the finest ever ex- 

 hibited. One rose had been in a drug- 

 gist's window In Washington for five 

 days, showing the wonderful keeping 

 qualities of this new variety. John 

 Cook of Baltimore exhibited his new 

 pink rose, a lovely Bridesmaid shade, 

 of globular form and very fragrant. 

 Edward Towill showed a vase of 

 Joseph W. Hill a bronze pink shade 

 apparently of merit. Robert Scott & 

 Son sent two of the new Dickson varie- 

 ties in the hardy Hybrid Tea class, 

 one a Malmaison color the other 

 orange yellow. They look to be very 

 promising future winners. Samuel 

 Batchelor exhibited some well grown 

 standard Teas. Jno. E. Haines sent 

 carnations and the Baur Floral Co. 

 sent samples of their new calyx 

 mender. Among out-of-town visitors 

 who addressed the meeting were 

 Messrs. Knickman of New York, 

 Whitehill of Newburgh, Kramer of 

 Washington. Haines of Bethlehem, and 

 Swartz of Sharon Hill. The meeting 

 was the largest and most enthusiastic 

 of 1907. Convention matters occupied 

 much time. 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. 



Carnations registered by R. Witter- 

 staetter, Cincinnati, Ohio. "The 

 Cardinal". Color a deep rich scarlet, 

 habit similar to Estelle but stronger. 

 "The Aristocrat". Color a deep lively 

 cerise, long stemmed flowers three to 

 three and one-half inches in diameter. 

 Habit, no surplus grass, a rapid grow- 

 er, quite healthy and with long jointed 

 stems. "Afterglow". Color a light 

 ros5' cerise, a three-inch flower, guard 

 petals standing out straight with high 

 built center. Habit, a strong vigorous 

 grower, stems the length of Aristo- 

 crat but more rigid. Destined to be 

 grown as largely as The Lawson in 

 its time. 



ALBERT M. HERR. 



Lancaster, Pa. 



LADIES, PLEASE TAKE NOTICE. 



The following States have furnished 

 members for the Ladies' Auxiliary to 

 S. A. F., as follows: Missouri, Michi- 

 gan, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, 

 Massachusetts, Indiana, New York, 

 Connecticut. Louisiana, Wisconsin and 

 Washington. I would like to learn 

 from the Ladies in District of Colum- 

 bia, New Jersey, Colorado, Iowa, Kan- 

 sas, Kentucky, Maryland, Nebraska, 

 and other States not mentioned. Our 

 first order for pins is growing small 

 rapidlv. Encouraging, "is it not?" 

 MRS. CHAS. H. MAYNARD, 

 Secretary, 



219 Horton Ave., Detroit, Mich. 



TOLEDO (O.) FLORISTS' CLUB. 



Our meeting of February 28 was the 

 greatest success the club has ever had. 

 It was intended to be a special carna- 

 tion meeting, but it is better designat- 

 ed as a carnation show. The conse- 

 quence was, that the meeting proper 

 did not amount to anything as far as 

 club business was concerned, but it 

 was over-running with good fellow- 

 ship and sociability. J. L. Schiller had 

 the management of the exhibits and 

 his efforts in bringing together flowers 

 from the home growers and the well- 

 known houses in this line were very 

 successful. All nearby florists were 

 specially invited, and a goodly number 

 came to look at the flowers and renew 

 old friendship. We had several hun- 

 dred visitors during the evening. The 

 local press treated us very kindly in 

 the reports. 



A large table was reserved for the 

 outside exhibitors and a handsome 

 bunch of Aristocrat was in the center. 

 John E. Haines exhibited John E. 

 Haines, Imperial and Pink Imperial. 

 The stem and size of flower on this 

 collection surpassed anything seen 

 here before. The F. R. Pierson Co. 

 showed White Enchantress, Wlnsor 

 and Miss Helen M. Gould. We liked 

 the latter, but our people will not buy 

 anything but pure colors. W. E. Hall's 

 scarlet E. G. Gillett is well known here 

 and, is hard to beat. It was finer this 

 year than ever, and when he makes 

 up his mind to disseminate, it, it will 

 give no disappointment to buyers. R. 

 Hartman of Napoleon showed excellent 

 Lady Bountiful and Pink Lawson. 

 Mrs. E. L. Hawkins had a sport of 

 Enchantress and Lilium philippense. 



Among local exhibitors President 

 Bayer had 6 vases, of which specially 

 worthy of mention were Mrs. T. W. 

 Lawson, White Lawson, and some 

 seedlings. Bmil Kuhnke had extra 

 good Rose Pink Enchantress, Mrs. M. 

 A. Patten, Pink Patten, Marquise, 

 Flamingo. In John Gratopp's collec- 

 tion Enchantress and Mrs. T. W. Law- 

 son led. Mr. Haebich, florist at the 

 State Hospital, exhibited his white 

 seedling, which shows good substance, 

 is medium large and of a pure glist- 

 ening white. He has no name for it 

 and refuses stubbornly all suggestions 

 for a name in connection with the hos- 

 pital. Kruger Bros, had a nice group 

 of palms, lilac Marie Legraye, and 

 lily of the valley; Richmond, Bride and 

 Bridesmaid roses were especially 

 good. A large table was filled with 

 sturdy cyclamens Avith immense flow- 

 ers grown mostly from a strain fur- 

 nished by the Perennial Gardens Co., 

 callas, Boston and Scottii ferns, shown 

 by Emil Kuhnke. The Perennial Gar- 

 dens Co., exhibited a well-grown spec- 

 imen of Araucaria imbricata, and bulbs 

 of lilium auratum, speciosum album 

 and roseum. 



The interest shown by the public is 

 encouraging, and we hope to have a 

 large show in the future. These little 

 exhibitions of seasonable flowers tend 

 to help our trade, and that is what we 

 want. 



AN INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. 



On the first of May, 1907, a horticul- 

 tural exhibition in connection with the 

 International Exposition of Art will 

 open at Mannheim on the Rhine, Ger- 

 many. It is desired to make the ex- 

 hibition representative of all countries, 

 and Americans are invited to contri- 



