492 



HORTICUUTURIl 



April 13, 190T 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



NEW JERSEY FLORICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



Orchids prevailed as usual at the 

 April display held on the 5th instant. 

 Lager & Hurrell exhibited Cattleya 

 Schroderae alba and Laelio-Cattleya. 

 G. S. Ball, both of striking appear- 

 ance, and vases of the various season's 

 blooms. Julius Roehrs Company con- 

 tributed beautiful examples ' of Cat- 

 tleya Schroderae var. Baroness, Cat- 

 tleyas Rutherfordense and Mossiae, 

 Odontoglossum Pescatorei and their 

 new crimson azalea Julius Roehrs. 

 Joseph A. Manda displayed four Cat- 

 tleya citrina, and Cypripedium Sal- 

 lisii pictum var. with a yellow margin 

 to dorsal sepal instead of the usual 

 ■white. Orson A. Miller also exhibited 

 orchids. Carnations were shown from 

 S. and A. Colgate. William Reid, 

 gardener, and Charles Hathaway, Max 

 Schneider, gardener, who also had 

 Cineraria stellata, tulips Kaiser Kroon 

 and amaryllis, Empress of India, J. 

 Crosby Brown, Peter Duff, gardener, 

 contributed a vase of white and pur- 

 ple schizanthus, and also a specimen 

 Adiantum dolabriform. Judges for 

 the evening were A. T. Caparn, M. 

 Mac Rorie and Edward Roehrs. 



The paper of the evening was by 

 John E. Lager upon Travels in the 

 Tropics and was received with marked 

 attention. It was decided to hold a 

 special rose night on June 7 and a 

 dahlia night. The schedule for the 

 fall show received its first reading. 

 This is now an assured fact from the 

 guarantee fund of $200 already sub- 

 scribed among the society's patrons 

 and still growing. Designs for the 

 society's medal were displayed, but 

 action delayed until next month. 

 Resolutions of condolence were read 

 upon the death of the late Orson D. 

 Munn and ordered spread upon the 

 minutes. J. B. DAVIS. 



NEW YORK FLORISTS' CLUB. 



Monday evening, April 8, was 

 ladies' night at the club headquarters, 

 23rd street, and the club kept "open 

 house" with characteristic hospitality. 

 The attendance was not large, there 

 being only about seventy-five present, 

 of whom nearly one-half were ladies, 

 but the affair was particularly home- 

 like and enjoyable to a greater de- 

 gree than would have been the case 

 had the attendance been twice as 

 large. Songs and piano music were 

 acceptably rendered by a number of 

 visiting ladies and by the club's own 

 musical entertainers, the Rickards 

 brothers and John B. Nugent. Other 

 members, of more timid disposition, 

 were not at all backward in coming 

 forward with some resounding 

 choruses after the ladies had gone to 

 the banquet hall. Messrs. O'Mara 

 and Stewart were called upon to say 

 something about the recent rose con- 

 vention at Washington, and responded 

 briefly, the former eloquently advo- 

 cating the encouragement of amateur 

 support for the American Rose So- 

 ciety, the latter giving it as his opin- 

 ion based upon two years' exr.erience 

 as secretary of that society, that the 

 "high society" element is not yet pre- 

 pared to co-operate with the trade 

 people in any enterprise of this kind. 



NORTH SHORE HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



This society held its regular meeting 

 in Manchester on April 6th, president 

 McGregor in the chair. Mr. Thomas 

 Jack read a very good paper on green- 

 house plants and their cultivation, 

 treating this subject on broad lines, 

 principally describing the varieties 

 most suitable for window and con- 

 servatory work during the winter and 

 for the piazzas during the summer. 

 Mr. Jack enumerated a great number 

 of the old reliables as well as varie- 

 ties of more recent introduction, de- 

 scribing the different methods of propa- 

 gation and treatment as regards 

 watering, shading, temperature, etc. 



In the discussion following Messrs. 

 Parsons and Salter spoke on cyclamen 

 culture, recommending that the seed- 

 lings be left in the seed boxes until 

 they have attained a good size before 

 potting off, and during the summer 

 months to be planted out in frames 

 and grown with good ventilation and 

 light but suthcient shading. 



Certificates of merit were awarded 

 to James McGregor for three vases of 

 antirrhinum and to James Salter for 

 spikes of Lilium Harrisii. 



J. K. M. L. Farquhar will give a 

 stereopticon lecture on Gardens of 

 Italy in the Town Hall, Manchester, 

 on April 26. WILLIAM TILL. 



CONFERENCE AT NEWPORT, R. I. 



The R. I. League of Societies for 

 Rural Progress had a conference in 

 Newport and Middletown on Monday 

 and Tuesday of last week. On Monday 

 evening a meeting was held in the 

 Grange Hall, Middletown, Master of 

 the State Grange Marchant in the 

 chair. The speakers were President 

 Butterfleld of Amherst Agricultural 

 College, President Edwards of the R. 

 I. Agricultural College and Professor 

 Wheeler, director of the R. I. Experi- 

 ment Station. All the speakers con- 

 fined their remarks to agriculture and 

 more especially the claims of g,gricul- 

 tural colleges tor recognition as sources 

 of instruction in practical agriculture. 



On Tuesday Mr. Clapp of Boston 

 spoke on the school garden question, 

 and Mr. Rogers of the same city on the 

 gypsy moth problem. In anticipation 

 interest was chiefly centered in the 

 evening session when Prof. Bailey of 

 Cornell was scheduled to speak. Con- 

 sidering his subject Bailey's address 

 was more than satisfying but his sub- 

 ject was exclusively agricultural and 

 agricultural college work, and his au- 

 dience, which was disturbingly small, 

 was not agricultural by any means. 

 Nevertheless the professor was listened 

 to and appreciated to the extent his 

 universally recognized ability deserves. 



The conference on the whole may be 

 productive of some good but the lack 

 of interest on the part of the general 

 public was surprising, considering the 

 array of prominent men participating. 

 Even the horny handed farmers of Mid- 

 dletown, in whose behalf without ques- 

 tion the greatest exertions were put 

 forth in order to bring them into a 

 state of civilization, were luke warm 

 in their reception, but it was always 

 thus even in the days of the early evan- 

 gelists. 



PITTSBURGH AND ALLEGHANY 



FLORISTS' AND GARDENERS' 

 CLUB. 



The subject at the club meeting 

 April 2nd was Roses and Bulbous 

 Plants and Blooms. The Pittsburgh 

 Rose and Carnation Co. made an at- 

 tractive display of roses, and the presi- 

 dent of the company, FYed Burki, was 

 called upon for his opinion of the 

 many varieties. Many of us were sur- 

 prised to hear his strong commenda- 

 tion of Madame Cusin. Attention was 

 called to its good keeping qualities, 

 its fragrance and that it sells better 

 than Bridesmaid or Killarney. Evi- 

 dently here is a treasure that has been 

 somewhat underestimated. Wellesley,. 

 was never before shown at our meet- 

 ings. The flower much resembles 

 Chatenay and did not seem sufllciently 

 striking or distinct to gain a strong 

 foothold. Killarney merits much of its 

 praise. Its bud is exquisite. Bride is 

 still the best of its color, and Brides- 

 maid still holds a good place. Miss 

 Kate Moulton, attractive with its 

 heavy, broad foliage, is not particu- 

 larly free, and a little weak In the 

 neck; but sufficiently good to warrant 

 another year's trial. Madame Abel 

 Chatenay is a fine all round rose, with 

 the longest, strongest stems of any. 

 Despite what Shakspeare makes King 

 Richard say, there is but one Rich- 

 mond in the field. A magnificent rose^ 

 the best grown. The sentiment of the 

 club seemed so strongly with the 

 speaker on this point that the secretary 

 was instructed to write the originator 

 of the rose, E. G. Hill, and express to 

 him the congratulations and apprecia- 

 tion of the club, on his having intro- 

 duced such a rose to the world. 



There were no American Beauty 

 shown. A few years ago a rose show 

 without the American Beauty would be 

 like the play of Hamlet, with Hamlet 

 left out, but now with the multiplicity 

 of good roses the omission is not so 

 striking. Our rose growers are drop- 

 ping the» American Beauty; they say 

 there is more money in other varie- 

 ties, and even with them the carnation 

 seems slowly pushing the rose to the 

 wall as far as profit is concerned. 



Allegheny Park Conservatories, Wmv 

 Hamilton, supt., showed a collection 

 of unusually well-grown cinerarias. 

 Cineraria stellata, hydrangeas, several 

 pots of amaryllis in bloom, gloxinias 

 and a tydea. Dr. Shafer, Lselio— 

 cattleya hybridensis, unique in color. 

 Phipps conservatories, Schenley Park, 

 showed some 25 or 30 pots of hyacinths 

 in variety, the merits and demerits of 

 which were discussed by Mr. Jno. H. 

 Bockman, representative of the Hol- 

 land Bulb Co., who was present at the 

 meeting. The statement of one of 

 our largest tnlip growers that after 

 forced tulips had bloomed, he cut the 

 tops off, and planted the bulbs out 

 doors in the fall, and had better 

 fiowers from them than from unforced 

 bulbs planted in the open at the same 

 time, was received with much in- 

 credulity by the Dutch representative. 

 Mr. Bockman explained the method 

 of growing hyacinths in Holland, the 

 high cost of land, the great amount of 

 labor in preparation of the soil, and 

 the many years of time involved ia 



