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HORTICULTURIL 



November 20, 1909 



gathering than just a mere "show." 



We left for home on Friday morning, 

 so I do not know anything about the 

 financial success of the show, and can 

 only hope that it will be all that 

 could be desired. H. C. P. 



RHODE ISLAND HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



The annual chrysanthemum show of 

 I his Society was held at Providence, 

 November 2 and 3. The attendance 

 was unusually good. One of the fea- 

 tures of the exhibition was a display 

 of .fapanese evergreen planting and 

 miniature fancy bedding by William 

 Appleton. It attracted much attention. 

 John A. Macrae was one of the larg- 

 est exhibitors. Warwick Greenhouses, 

 Farquhar Macrae and others were also 

 represented. 



HYMN OF THANKSGIVING. 



(The Cavalier.) 

 We th.ink Thee that the sun and rains 



Have brought the hanest to our flekls. 

 That we have guerdon for our pains, 



With health and hope that plenty yields. 



We thank Thee for the touch of love 

 That ha.s upheld us on our road; 



Has pointed to far heights above. 

 And led to paths before untrod. 



And. while we thank Thee for the past. 



With bended knee and h.vmn of praise. 

 Grant differing hand clasp hand at last. 



That peace, not discord, crown our days. 



AN IPSWICH GARDEN, 



The cut at the head of this article 

 represents the flower garden on the 

 beautiful estate of George E. Barnard, 

 of Ipswich, Mass. The site was for- 

 merly useless marsh and worthless old 

 jiasture, filled with brush. An eleva- 

 tion of about forty-five feet, finely 

 wooded ■with oaks, maples, chestnut, 

 spruce and pines, forms a beautiful 

 feature of the landscape, fronted by 

 a pond-like sheet of water formed by 

 a bend in the Ipswich river. Sloping 

 to water's edge is a fine piece of lawn 

 adorned with numerous flower beds. 



This flower garden at the time of 

 filling in was well drained and covered 

 over with loam and a few years' work 

 brought it to a high state of culUva- 



ficm. The walk shown in the picture 

 is three hundred feet long, with sev- 

 eral cross walks. The walks are edged 

 with yellow Snap-dragons and White 

 Peonies, and on the left is a lily pond 

 and rockery planted with rhododen- 

 drons, azaleas, lilies and other suitable 

 plants. 



The balance of the estate, green- 

 houses, rose garden, etc., is In keeping 

 with the flower garden. The owner 

 and Mr. Critchly, the gardener, have 

 well demonstrated what can be ac- 

 complished by patience, skill and 

 money well spent. The Garden Com- 

 mittee of the Massachusetts Horticul- 

 tural Society recently visited the es- 

 tate and were much impressed with Ita 

 beauty. 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



GARDENERS' AND FLORISTS- 

 CLUB OF BOSTON. 



The November meeting of this or- 

 ganization at Horticultural Hall was 

 attended by a goodly number, includ- 

 ing quite a few ladies, and all were 

 well repaid in the very interesting ad- 

 dress made by Miss Hetzer who had 

 been announced as the lecturer of the 

 evening. Miss Hetzer's subject was a 

 recent European tour, via the Mediter- 

 ranean, Italy, Germany, France, Great 

 Britain and Ireland, and her notes by 

 the way, horticulturally and otherwise, 

 were pertinent and sprightly. Nature's 

 exuberance and man's enforced econo- 

 mies in land and material throughout 

 portions of Europe, the grandeur of the 

 German forests, Alpine scenery and 

 flora, the gardening of Versailles, the 

 floral riches of Hampton Court, the 

 scarcity of insects but abundance of 

 mildew and the luxuriant foliage char- 

 acteristic of English summer scenery 

 were all entertainingly portrayed and 

 the lecturer was rewarded with a ris- 

 ing vote of thanks. Miss Hetzer is 

 at the School of Horticulture at 

 Groton, Mass. 



On the exhibition stage there were a 

 number of interesting displays. Backer 

 & Co., showed two seedling carnations 

 — a vase of each— one a very hand- 

 some white, known as 96 C, and the 

 other named Red Prince, brilliant scar- 

 let. H. P. Woods showed a sport from 

 Timothy Eaton chrysanthemum, soft- 

 ly flushed with pale pink and of much 

 more pleasing form than the parent, 

 carrying fewer petals. W. N. Craig 

 had several of his pretty seedling sin- 

 gle chrysanthemums. Wm. Thatcher 

 showed a plant of Adiantum polyphyl- 

 lum — a lovely species. H. Eichholz of 

 Waynesboro, Pa., sent flowers of a 

 pink sport from carnation Enchantress 



which he has named Washington; 

 nothing alarming. There were several 

 other vases of carnations and roses 

 from local members. 



Various routine reports and other 

 matters were duly disposed of. An in- 

 vitation to visit George E. Buxton and 

 August Gaedeke at their respective es- 

 tablishments in Nashua, N. H., on 

 December 11 was gleefully accepted. 

 In accordance with request of Chair- 

 F R. Pierson a committee consisting 

 of Messrs. P. Welch, D. Finlayson and 

 Thos Roland was appointed to repre- 

 sent the Club at a preliminary session 

 to be held in Boston in connection 

 with the S. A. F. Flower Show pro- 

 ject. January 27 has been selected 

 as the date for the annual banquet 

 of the club. 



The life membership amendment was 

 defeated. It was announced that Mr. 

 E. U. Wilson would give a stereopticoa 

 lecture on plant collecting and the 

 flora of Western China at the Decem- 

 ber meeting. 



Officers were nominated as follows: 

 President Wm. Downs, J. W. Duncan; 

 vice-president, W. J. Kennedy, Peter 

 Miller; treasurer, Ed. Hatch; secre- 

 tary, W. N. Craig; executive commit- 

 tee, W. E. Fischer, J. Heurlein, Ralph 

 Curtis, C. J. Harvey, Thos. Pegler, H. 

 A. Stevens, J. P. A. Guerineau, C. E. 

 Holbrow, H. E. Fiske, G. W. Butter- 

 worth, Peter Fisher. 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. 



Miami Floral Co., Dayton, O., regis- 

 ters new carnation Miami Queen (Mrs. 

 Lawson x G. H. Crane). Color cerise 

 pink, size 3 to 4 Indies. Habit com- 

 pact, no surplus grass. Strong healthy 

 grower. Blooms early and continues 

 all the season. Calyx strong and does 

 not burst. 



A. F. J. BAUR. Sec. 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF 

 NEW YORK. 



The regular monthly meeting of this 

 society took place in the Academy 

 Room at the .American Museum of Nat- 

 ural Histflry on Wednesday, November 

 10th, 1909, at 4 p. m. In the absence 

 of the president, Mr. Wood, Patrick 

 O'Mara acted as chairman during the 

 business portion of the meeting, Mr. 

 Scuthwick capably filling the chair 

 when Mr. O'Mara was called away by 

 a business engagement. Seven new 

 members were elected to the society, 

 this making a total of twenty-one new 

 members since the opening meeting in 

 October. The society desires all in- 

 terested in horticulture, whether pro- 

 fessionals or amateurs, to help the 

 cause along by uniting themselves 

 with the society. The annual dues are 

 only $5.00, and if we can increase the 

 membership sufficiently a great deal 

 can be accomplished for horticulture 

 here. 



The exhibition just closed was a pro- 

 nounced success. This opened on the 

 evening of the 3rd with a private view 

 to members of the society, the Mu- 

 seum, and affiliated organizations, and 

 was open free to the public on Thurs- 

 day, Friday and Saturday from 9 a. m. 

 until 10 p. m On Sunday it was open 

 from 1 to a. Over 30,000 people visited 

 the exhibition, over 11,000 of these on 

 Sunday afternoon. It is desired next 

 fall to give an exhibition larger than 

 the oije just closed, and to carry this 

 tliiough successfully it is necessary to 

 increase considerably the membership 

 of the society. The society has at its 

 disposal in the American Museum of 

 Natural History unexcelled facilities 

 for holding exhibitions of the largest 



