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HORTICULTURE 



November 13, 1909 



DURING RECESS. 



Pittsburgh Florists and 

 Gardeners Go Visiting. 



About forty members 

 met at the Shenley Park 

 greenhouses on the morn- 

 ing of Monday, November 

 1st, to look over the chrys- 

 anthemum display. The 

 party was conducted 

 through the spacious con- 

 servatories by Superin- 

 tendent Burke and Mr. 

 Jones, where many things 

 of special merit were 

 noted. The chrysanthe- 

 mums were for the most 

 part massed in solid 

 blocks of color. Many of 

 the standard as well as 

 the newer varieties were 

 represented by many very 

 large flowers. Besides 

 the large blooms, singles 

 and pompons add to the 

 attractiveness of the dis- 

 play. Amongst these The 



Lisco. and Mrs. - 



Sligh are particular favorites, 

 compartment is almost en- 

 devoted to oddities, amongst 

 which are some very curious flowers. 

 Mr. .fones called our attention to one 

 in particular, which he said was pre- 

 Bented by Elmer D. Smith, called Reine 

 du J.^pon. Not one in the party could 

 tell which type it belong^^d to. From 

 Shenley Park the party was conducted 

 to the establishment of Randolph & 

 Mct^lemeiits, where a sumptuous spread 

 awaited them. Randolph & McClemcnts 

 always do things right and this lepas' 

 was no exception. Mr. Jones acted as 

 toastmaster and called upon John 

 Bader, who responded in his usual hu- 

 morous, fatherly way, also on Israel 

 Rosnosky, whose special forte is story- 

 telling. After a hearty vote of thanks 

 to Messrs. Randolph & McClements and 

 their respective ladies, the greenhouses 

 were inspected and were found to con- 

 tain many examples of good culture: 

 chief amongst which were the finest 

 lot of crotons the \Yriter has ever seen. 

 The chrysanthemums are particularly 

 fine, also everything grown in this 

 rnamniolh plant. After more refresh- 

 meiil the party ended a piofitable and 

 enjoyable day by visitingi the conser- 

 vatories of H. C. Prick and H. J. Heinz. 



J H. 



Hub, 

 John 

 One 



tirely 



Patriot Florists Have an Outing. 



The Detroit Florist Club members 

 have another pleasant visit to their 

 ■credit this fall— this time to Mt. Clem- 

 ens, over sixty participating. Every 

 place called upon was found in pros- 

 perous and altogether admiralile 

 shape. At Robert Klagge's La Detroit 

 rose was especially worth noting. At 

 Breitmeyer's a little diversion was in- 

 troduced by the presentation of a dia- 

 mond pin to the retiring Club Presi- 

 dent, AVm. E. Brown, Mr, Phil. Breit- 

 meyer being the ofliciating spokesman. 

 At Van BoesJager's the potting shed 

 was transformed for the time being 

 into a banquet hall. Cabbage, pump- 

 kins, lettuce, cucumbers, carrots, 

 onions, beets, etc., took the place of 

 the conventional floral decorations in 

 the ornamentation of the table. The 

 rest of the symposium was fully up to 

 the established ideals. 



Iris Pallida Dalmatica 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY. 



The Committee on Gatdens of the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society 

 announces its list of awards for es- 

 tates and gardens visited during the 

 present year. The change in tlie 

 schedule of prizes, by which medals 

 have been offered instead of money, 

 has worked well and the number of 

 entries .and visits mad0 has exceeded 

 that of previous years. 



The prizes awarded are as follows: 



George E. Barnard, Ipswich, favor- 

 ably reported for the second year of 

 the Hunnewell Premium: Col. Harry 

 E. Converse and Andrew G. Weelfs 

 of Marion reported upon favorably for 

 the first and second awards resneclive- 

 ly in the first year's competition for 

 the Hunnewell Premium. 



Special prize for estate of one to • 

 three acres: 1st, F. W. Dahl, Roxbury. 



Garden of Spring Flowering Plants: 

 1st, Langwater Gardens, North Easton. 



Garden of Summer or Fall Flower- 

 ing Plants: 1st, Miss B. M. Tower, 

 Lexington; 2d, Geo. E. Barnard, Ips- 

 wich. 



G.arden of Peonies: 1st, Mrs. James 

 McKissock, V/est Newton. 



Garden of Irises: 1st, Henry A. Bel- 

 clier, Randolph. 



1st. Geo. E. Barnard, 



A. Belcher, Randolph. 



1st, F. VV. Dahl, Rox- 



1st, Geo. E. Bar- 

 F. W. Dahl, Rox- 



Rock Garden 

 Ipswich: 2d, H 



Fruit Garden: 

 bury. 



Vegetable Garden 

 nard, Ip.'iWich; 2d, 

 bury. 



Bronze medals were awarded to 

 Robert Cameron, Cambridge, for supe- 

 rior cultivation of late flowering tu- 

 lips: W. W. Rawson & Co. for sv/eet 

 pea garden at Marblehead; Duncan 

 Finlayson, Jamaica Plain, for fine con- 

 dition of Weld Garden; Robert Rust, 

 Pomfret, Conn., for fine condition of 

 "Courtlands" estate: B. Hammond 

 Tracy. Wenhani. for gladiolus culture; 

 and C. \V. Parker, Marblehead, tor 

 "Redgate" estate. 



Honorable mentions were awarded 

 to Mrs. t\. R, Foote, Marblehead, for 

 rose garden; and W. H. Swanton, 

 Newton, for estate. 



WM. P. RICH, Secretary. 



EXHIBITION AT RED BANK, N. J. 



The Monmouth County Horticul- 

 tural Society held its 12th annual 

 show on November 3, in the Armory. 

 It was in all respects an unprece- 

 dented success. James Kennedy, Wm. 

 Powlen. Wm. Turner, N. Butterbach, 

 H, Kettel and George Hale were the 

 ,!iiants in the chrysanthemum and dec- 

 orative plant classes. In the cut 

 (lower .'■lasses competition was very 

 lively, Wm. Ttirner, Wm. Dowlen. 

 Gforge Hale, N, Butterbach, Jas. Ken- 

 nedy, Jas. Stevens and A. Bauer were 

 Ijiize winners. The same 'exhibitors 

 wtre generally successful in the rose, 

 cii nation and violet competitions. 

 The Totty cup was won by William 

 I'urner with Leslie Morrison, Rose 

 I'ockett, Mrs. O. H. Kahu, Merstham 

 I'lush, Pockett's Crimson and C. H. 

 Totty as the best six novelties of 1909. 

 .Mr. Turner also won the Julius Roehrs 

 prize for orchids and W. W. Kennedy 

 & Sons received a certificate for dis- 

 iday of commercial chrysanthemum 

 plants. 



EXHIBITION AT LONG BRANCH, 

 N. J. 



The Elberon Horticultural Society 

 held its first annual exhibition on Oc- 

 tober 27-28. The gardeners on the 

 many fine estates in the neighbor- 

 hood supported the show: by fine ex- 

 amples of their cultural skill and in 

 all re'spects the affair was creditable 

 and gratifying. Among the prize win- 

 ners in the various classes of chrys- 

 anthemum plants and cut blooms were 

 James Kennedy, Peter Murray, A. 

 Bauer, W. R. Symons, Wm. Dowlen, 

 W. W. Kennedy & Son. Peter Ewan, 

 .lames Kennedy, Jas. Stevens and Au- 

 gust Grieb. In th3 rose and carna- 

 tion classes. Peter Murray, Wm. Tur- 

 ner, Wm. Bryan. W. R. Seymour, A. 

 I'auer and Peter Murray were con- 

 spicuous. 



We have before us a list of over one 

 hundred visitors to the Chicago show 

 from all sections, representing twenty 

 different states of the Union and some 

 from outside, which lack of room pre- 

 vents our publishing. 



