October 2, 1909 



HORTICULTURE 



471 



ROYAL HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



The hall at Vincent Square, West- 

 minster, was fairly well filled on Au- 

 gust 31 with flowers in season such as 

 shrubby phloxes, kniphofia, montbre- 

 tias, Rhododendron Javanico-Jasminae- 

 florum hybrids, including the variety 

 Clorinda, new, and of a pink color; 

 miscellaneous hardy herbaceous peren- 

 rxials, gladiolus, clematis, and from 

 Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons a large col- 

 lection of plants yet new to Britisli 

 gardens, introductions from China and 

 Manchuria through Mi. Wilson; and 

 several exhibits of miscellaneous spe- 

 cies of orchids, many of which were of 

 interest for their novelty and the 

 beauty of their flowers, or some peculi- 

 arity of their shape or coloring. 



Charleswonh &. Co. were the exhibi- 

 tors of the largest number of orchids, 

 if not of the most novelties; and some 

 beautiful species and varieties were re- 

 marked, of which I specify a few. Lae- 

 lio-cattleya Elva is distinguished by a 

 rich purple lip and a throat of a gold- 

 en yellow decorated with purple lines; 

 L.-e. Dominiana, a grand hybrid raised 

 by the late .John Dominy from a cross 

 between Catlleya Dowiana and a Lae- 

 lia, probably L. elegans; Cattleya Mrs. 

 IMtt, 0. Venus, C. Rhoda, a flower hav- 

 ing a rich purple lip on which are 

 lines of bright yellow, the sepals and 

 petals being green shaded with purple. 



Ed. V. Low showed Cattleya Gaskel- 

 liana alba, a Venezuela species, as are 

 all Gaskelliana, which originated with 

 the late B. S. Williams of Holloway. 

 The flower has pure white sepals and 

 petals 6 inches -in width with but a 

 slight yellow stain in the throat; and 

 the rare Bulbophyllum granditlorum. 

 R. G. Thwaites received an Award of 

 Merit for Sophro-cattleya Blackii, a 

 hybrid between Sophronitis grandiflora 

 and Cattleya Hardyana. The flower is 

 of a rich crimson tint, having a yellow 

 stain at tbe base of the lip, and is 

 about 3 Inches in width. This exhibi- 

 tor showed another Sophro-cattleya in 

 S.-c. Warnamiense atro-purpurea, a 

 cross between Sophronitis grandiflora 

 and Cattleya amethystoglossa; the 

 flower is purplish crimson and the seg- 

 ments are less in width than the fore- 

 going variety. He showed likewise 

 plants of OdontJoda Thwaitsii, of deep 

 purple tint. Sir Trevor Lawrence 

 showed a plant of Zygopetalum Lin- 

 deni, a beautiful species allied to War- 

 scewiczella velata, but it has flowers 

 larger in all their parts, and the color 

 is white with a few lines of purple at 

 the base of the lip — a very charming 

 species. Sir Trevor received a Botani- 

 cal Certificate for Listrostachys (An- 

 graecum) forcipata, a plant with mi- 

 nute tubular semi-transparent white 

 flowers. The plant has creeping rhi- 

 zomes, and is of very dwarf habit. 



Lieut.-Col. G. L. Holford was award- 

 ed a Silver Flora Medal for a group 

 of orchids, and Award of Merit tor 

 Laelio-cattleya Oriole, a brilliantly. col- 

 ored flower of moderate size. He had 

 a very beautiful Brasso-cattleya Digby- 

 ana Warnerii. a name that sufHciently 

 indicates the parents of the hybrid. H. 

 S. Goodson, was the recipient of the 

 Silver Flora Medal for a group of or- 

 chids, as were Messrs. Sander & Sons, 

 St. Albans, for cattleyas and laelio- 

 cattleyas, most oi which had been pre- 

 viously shown at the Hall. 



Stuart Low & Co., Bush Hill Park, 



Enfield, were awarded a Silver Bank- 

 sian Medal for a mixed group of cat- 

 tleyas, cypripediums, odoutoglossums, 

 etc., but nothing of outstanding merit. 

 F. W. Moore, curator. Dublin Botani- 

 cal Garden, Glasnevin, received a Bo- 

 tanical Certi.lcate for Dendrobium mu- 

 ricatum, a small plant having one 

 spike of about a dozen brown-colored 

 flowers, of merely botanical interest. 



Miscellaneous Exhibits. 



Much interest was manifested in 

 Messrs. Veitch & Sons' new introduc- 

 tions from eastern Asia, not many of 

 whicli were, however, in bloom. 1 may 

 call attention to two Acers, viz., A. 

 Davidii and A. griseum; Lonicera 

 Maackii; several Buddleias; Piuus Ar- 

 mandii, a pine having fine needles of 

 the Cembra section, oblong cones, and 

 smooth bark of a dull yellow color — 

 in its native habitat the tree attains- a 

 height of 40 to 50 feet; Tilia Oliveri; 

 Cotoneaster reflexa, with crimson fruits 

 cf globular shape, and the size of 

 marbles; Ilex Perneyi, a dense grow- 

 ing holly, leaves pale green when 

 young, and becoming darker as they 

 age — the plant obtained a First Class 

 Certificate from the R. H. S. in 1908; 

 Viburnum rhytidophyllum, an ever- 

 green shrub having very fine foliage, 

 the individual leaves about 8 inches in 

 length and 2 inches in breadth, a dark 

 green, the under side covered with a 

 dense dun-colored felt — the flowers are 

 of a yellowish white tint and come in 

 corymbs at the ends of the shoots; Vi- 

 burnum Henryii and several new spe- 

 cies of Vitis of remarkable appearance, 

 and highly decorative were noted as 

 being suitable for a variety of purposes 

 in the garden. 



K. Wallace & Co., exhibitors of glad- 

 iolus, showed some varieties of Le- 

 moine's hardy hybrids, mostly consist- 

 ing of dark i-.lue or purple tints. They 

 had also G. primulinum hybrids in red 

 and yellow colors, having good long 

 flower spikes with numerous flowers; a 

 very distinct race. 



FREDERICK MOORE. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY OF 



AMERICA. 



Examining Committee. 



President Elmer D. Smith has an- 

 nounced the committees to examine 

 seedlings and sports on the dates as 

 follows: October 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd 

 and 30th, and November 6th, 13th, 20th, 

 and 27th. Exhibits to receive atten- 

 tion from the committees must in all 

 cases be prepaid to destination and 

 the entry fee, of $2.00 should be for- 

 warded to the secretary not later than 

 Tuesday of the week preceding the ex- 

 amination or may accompany the 

 blooms. Special attention is called to 

 the rule requiring that sports, to re- 

 ceive a certificate, must pass three 

 committees. 



Boston, Mass.— E. A. Wood, Chair- 

 man; James Wheeler, Wm. Nicholson. 

 Ship flowers to Boston Flower Market, 

 care John Walsh. , 



New York. — Eugene Dailledouze. 

 Chairman: Wm. Duckham, A. Herring- 

 ten. Ship flowers to New York Cut 

 Flower Co., 55 W. 26th street, care of 

 chairman. All flowers to be on hand 

 by 2 p. m. on day of examination. 



Chicago. — J. B. Deamud, Chaiiman; 

 Geo. Asmus, W. H. Kidwell. Flowers 

 should be sent care of J. B. Deamud, 



51 Wabash avenue, and should arrive 

 by 2 p. m. on day of examination, 



Philadelphia. — A. B. Cartledge, Chair- 

 man; John Westcott, W. K. Harris. 

 Ship flowers to chairman, 1514 Chestnut 

 street. 



Cincinnati. — R. Witterstaetter, Chair- 

 man; James Allen, Henry Schwartz. 

 Ship flowers to .labez Elliott Flower 

 Market, care of janitor. 



NEW ENGLAND DAHLIA SOCIETY. 



"Maurice Fuld, secretary of the New 

 England Dahlia Society, in a letter to 

 the Globe, says that the annual meet- 

 ing of the society was not held last 

 Friday at Horticultural hall. He adds 

 that there is but one New England 

 dahlia society, and that its bylaws re- 

 quire the annual meeting to be held in 

 .January. 



The officers of the New England 

 dahlia society, he says, are as follows: 

 William F. Turner of New Belford, 

 pres.; Henry W. liendal of Newton, 

 vice-pres.; Maurice Fuld of Boston, 

 sec; N. Allen Lindsay of Marblehead. 

 treas.; F. W. Ela of Woburn, J. P. 

 Bodge of Fall River, W. D. Moon of 

 Lynn, George H. Walker of North 

 Dighton and T. H. TVndale of Boston, 

 ex. com." — Boston Globe. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



The Berkeley County Horticultural 

 Society are perfecting plans for a fruit 

 exhibition and carnival at Martins- 

 burg, W. Va., about the middle of 

 November. Prizes to the value of 

 $1000 will be offered in the fruit 

 section. 



The executive committee of the New 

 Bedford Horticultural Society has 

 awarded the silver cup presented by 

 Mrs. H. A. Jahn for the best exhibit 

 in its flower show to James Garthly, 

 gardener for the Rogers estate. This 

 is the prize concerning which a mis- 

 understanding developed, and which 

 the judges declined to decide upon, be- 

 cause they were represented by ex- 

 hibits. 



The New London County Horticul- 

 tural Society dahlia show in Bucking- 

 ham Memorial Hall, Norwich, Conn., 

 on September 24 and 25 was a big 

 event. Among the dahlia exhibitors of 

 prominence were 0. P. Chapman, Jr., 

 John J. Kennedy, E. S. Manuel, W. W. 

 Ives and C. A. Norcross. The table 

 from Mrs. William Camp Lanman's 

 estate, gardener C. T. Beasley, included 

 some lily of the valley and magnificent 

 roses. S. A. Gilbert showed gladioli; 

 John Davy had a notable collection of 

 tuberous begonias. The judg'es were 

 Peter Zuger, John Malloney and Alex. 

 MacLellan. 



The annual meeting of the American 

 Pomological Society was held at St. 

 Catherines, Canada, September 14 to 

 17. Among the interesting addresses 

 were those of Dean L. H. Bailey of 

 Cornell; J. C. Van Lindley. Pomona, 

 N. C, who shipped over 14.000 crates 

 of peaches this year; and John S. Col- 

 lins on "Oriental Pears and Their Hy- 

 brids." The officers were re-elected as 

 follows: President, L. A. Goodman, 

 Kansas City, Mo.; vice-president, T. V. 

 Munson, Denison, Tex.; secretary, 

 John Craig, Ithaca, N. Y.; treasurer, 

 L. R. Taft. Agricultural College, Mich- 

 igan; chairman executive committee, 

 C. I... Watrous. Des Moines, la. 



