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HORTICULTURE 



May 25, 1907 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOQETIES 



GARDENERS' AND FLORISTS' 

 CLUB OF BOSTON. 



The meeting of the Gardeners' and 

 Florists' Club on Tuesday evening, 

 May 21. was the equal of any of its 

 predecessors in point of numbers and 

 interest, there being close to 150 mem- 

 bers present. The exhibition table car- 

 ried several contributions from mem- 

 bers, among which were tarnation Al- 

 ma Ward from Peter Fisher, 'Daphne 

 cneorum from President Westwood, 

 Gladiolus nanus Peach Blossom from 

 R. & J. Farquhar & Co., Trollius 

 Japonica Excelsior from Blue Hill 

 Nurseries, rose White Killarney from 

 Alex. Montgomery. Palmetto asparagus 

 from Wilfrid Wheeler, and a thistle 

 with pretty green and white mottled 

 leaves from George M. Anderson. A re- 

 port of merit was given for the trol- 

 lius, honorable mention for the gladio- 

 lus and White Killarney, and a vote 

 of thanks was prescribed for the 

 remainder. Mr. Farquhar said that 

 many stocks of trollius are badly 

 mixed as to color, and that it is diffi- 

 cult to procure the pure strain of Ex- 

 celsior. The flowers shown by Blue 

 Hill Nurseries were of very deep rich 

 color. Peach Blossom is one of the 

 best of the early forcing type of gladio- 

 lus. Peter Fisher stated that he had 

 been much pleased with Alma Ward 

 this season and believed that by selec- 

 tion of the stock to be planted he could 

 even improve on its record the coming 

 year. 



W. H. Elliott was called upon to tell 

 his experience in "carrying over" 

 Richmond roses for a second year. He 

 stated that results might differ accord- 

 ing to conditions — such as benches or 

 solid beds — ^and that this should be 

 taken into consideration in constru- 

 ing what he might say. He had car- 

 ried over one bench until the present 

 time. The plants had been kept flower- 

 ing until July, when they were dried 

 off, and cut back to eight or ten inches 

 about September 1 and started into 

 growth again. Results were directly 

 Ihe reverse of what he expected, for 

 he got no stems over one foot long at 

 Christmas when he expected the best 

 crop of large flowers would be pro- 

 duced. Then in the spring, when he 

 looked for small flowers, he got a fine 

 crop of extra large flowers. Next year 

 he would not cut back so severely. 



W. N. Craig read a very interesting 

 paper on the planting and massing of 

 bulbous plants, F. .1. Rea followed with 

 a valuable talk on the planting of 

 hardy perennials, and T. H. Westwood 

 read an instructive essay on the use 

 of tender bedding plants. We hope to 

 present these papers in an early issue 

 of HORTICULTURE. 



A vote of thanks was passed for the 

 donors of flowers for the tables on la- 

 dies' night. It was voted that the club 

 hold the usual picnic the coming sum- 

 mer. 



COLUMBUS FLORISTS' CLUB. 



The first regular meeting for May 

 was held Ust Tuesday evening, and not 

 for a long time have so many mem- 



bers attended; a goodly number of 

 ladies were also present; in fact, had 

 it been a stated ladies' night our club 

 could hardly have been more favored. 

 President Sherman F. Stephens was 

 in the chair, and all the other oflicers 

 were with us. The plants and flowers 

 exhibited at this meeting were very 

 much enjoyed; and Messrs. Jacob 

 Reichert, Albert Hills, William F. 

 Metzmaie,-, Charles Euehler, and John 

 Brush were made committee on 

 awards. Besides a point award of 15 

 points, Mrs. John Williams was given 

 honorable mention for Tarrytown 

 fern; I. D. Siebert for Pandanus utilis 

 received 15 points; and 20 points went 

 to John Williams for a pot-grown 

 Bridesmaid rose in bloom. The com- 

 mittee were especially pleased with 

 this last exhibit. President Stephens 

 opened a very interesting discussion, 

 on the home and school gardening 

 problem; in which Messrs. Faxon, 

 Batelle, and others joined. Mr. 

 Stephens told of the good work one of 

 our largest schools is doing; in fact, 

 the boys there are so much interested 

 in the garden, which is a large one, 

 that they work after school hours 

 until dark, planting and arranging it. 

 M. B. Faxon also reported, that in con- 

 nection with the Columbus Federation 

 of Women's Clubs, more than three 

 thousand pupils had already been sup- 

 plied with vegetable and flower seeds. 

 James McKellar for the field-day com- 

 mittee reported, that even thus early 

 a great deal of interest was being 

 manifested in the forthcoming picnic; 

 and that there would without doubt 

 be two cars needed to carry all to 

 Buckeye Lake. The date for the out- 

 ing has not yet been fixed, but will 

 most probably be in July; as last year, 

 there will be sports of all kinds, with 

 suitable prizes. As our next meeting 

 would come before Memorial Day, it 

 was postponed to Monday evening, 

 June .3rd, when the club has been in- 

 vited to meet at the greenhouses of the 

 Fifth Avenue Floral Company. During 

 the evening the ladies present both 

 sang, and furnished music on the 

 piano. 



NORTH SHORE HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



This society held its regular meeting 

 on May 17, President McGregor in the 

 chair. W. E. Allen, gardener to Mrs. 

 Scott Fitz, showed a vase of exception- 

 ally good Enchantress carnations and 

 was awarded a certificate for superior 

 culture. James Salter showed six pots 

 of Miss Lingard phlox, a vase of Phlox 

 Druramondii and two vases of White 

 Column stocks, receiving a certificate 

 of merit for the same. 



B. Hammond Tracy of Cedar Acres, 

 Wenham, gave an interesting lecture 

 on Gladioli. He described the charac- 

 teristics of the various strains; the 

 different methods of propagation, cul- 

 tivation, and soils most suitable for 

 successful gladiolus growing. The cup 

 offered by Julius Huerlin of the Blue 

 Hill Nurseries for the best collection 

 of herbaceous perennials will be com- 

 peted for at the June show, and not at 

 the August show as printed in the 

 schedule of this society. 



WILLIAM TILL. 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTU- 

 RAL SOCIETY. 



Though not a regular exhibition day 

 at Horticultural Hall, Saturday, May 

 18, there was brought in a noteworthy 

 display of spring flowering plants. 

 Chief among the exhibits was a mag- 

 nificent collection of eighty-one named 

 varieties of tulips, single and double, 

 from the establishment of R. & J. 

 Farquhar & Co. Hardly less interest- 

 ing were the displays of bulbous 

 plants, pelargoniums, carnations, and 

 orchids from William Whitman of 

 Brookline (Martin Sullivan, gardener), 

 and of eighty varieties of hardy flower- 

 ing plants from the Harvard Botanic 

 Garden by Robert Cameron, superin- 

 tendent. Julius Heurlin of the Blue 

 Hill Nurseries also brought in a large 

 collection of fifty species and varieties 

 of herbaceous plants, and Mrs. E. M. 

 Gill of Med ford exhibited a choice 

 assortment of carnations, sweet peas, 

 stocks, and tulips. 



The exhibition was of so much in- 

 terest that me committee decided to 

 keep it open the following Sunday. 



The next exhibition /will be the 

 Annual Rhododendron Show on Satur- 

 day, June 8. Much interest is already 

 manifest in the circular announcing 

 the additional special prizes offered 

 for the Chrysanthemum Show in 

 November. Copies of this list can be 

 obtained on application to the Secre- 

 tary at Horticultural Hall, Boston. 

 WM. P. RICH, Secretarv. 



Boston, Mav 18. 1907. 



NEWPORT HORTICULTURAL SO- 

 CIETY. 



A meeting of the Newport Horticul- 

 tural Society was held in the Society's 

 hall on May 14. The executive com- 

 mittee reported having approved of 

 the action of the president in the 

 matter of the appointment of Alex- 

 ander MacLellan, John T. Allen and 

 Daniel Coughlan judges for the 

 Society's Juue exhibition. The long 

 drawn out work of the committee ap- 

 pointed at the annual meeting In 

 December to secure contributions to- 

 wards the proposed memorial to the 

 late congressman Adams was com- 

 pleted by the announcement of Col. 

 McMahon that the collection of con- 

 tributions had ceased and that the 

 amount on hand together with a con- 

 tribution from the Society would forth- 

 with bo sent to Professor Wheeler at 

 Kingston. The .Society has had a 

 committee at work for some time In 

 a pieliminary movement tor securing 

 special premiums for the coming ex- 

 hibition; this committee reported 

 l)rogregs. 



Several niembeis present at the 

 meeting spoke in complimentary 

 terms of the diligent work ol the men 

 who visited Newport recently in the 

 interest of the movement for the pre- 

 vention and destruction of the gypsy 

 moth. The president has asked Mr. 

 Herbert W. Lull, superintendent of 

 schools, to assist in the judging of 

 school gardens, and hs has willingly 

 consented to act in that capacity. 



D. M. 



