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HORTI CULTURE 



June 25, 1910 



ceivable thing in season. Only those 

 who have once seen an exhibit from 

 this famous house can imagine the 

 variety, the extent and the excellence 

 of these groups, and there were many 

 other notable exhibitors whom we 

 should like to mention it space would 

 permit. 



In conclusion we may mention that 

 there was the Retrospective Rose Show 

 about which we may have something 

 to say later. There was also a literary 

 department for gardening booliS and 

 journals, and an exhibition of the fine 

 art section in which there was a very 

 extensive collection of pictures of fruit 

 and flowers in oil and water colors by 

 well-known artists connected with the 

 Society. An original feature was M. 

 Geo. Truffaut's scientific exhibition. 

 This comprised in small glass cases, 

 worms, moths and other insect pests 

 at work, a most life like and instruc- 

 tive collection. An art gallery of 

 paintings of fruit, flowers, etc., formed 

 another important feature and there 

 was also a large array of books and 

 literary matter from the various 

 French horticultural publishers. lu 

 all there were no fewer than 317 ex- 

 hibitors in the show, some of them ap- 

 pearing in several classes. The win- 

 ners of the chief prizes were: First 

 grand prize of honor to Vilmorin Au- 

 drieux & Co.; second grand prize of 

 honor to Croux & Son; prizes of honor 

 to Leveque & Son, Cordonnier & Son, 

 Debrie-Lachaume, Graire, Page, Fer- 

 ard, Maron & Son, Moser & Son, Geo. 

 Truffaut, Nomblot-Brunean, etc. 



Altogether a grand display of garden 

 produce arranged with great taste as 

 a whole and producing a general spec- 

 tacular effect unequalled in the British 

 Isles. At Paris the individual lots are 

 subordinated to the general effect and 

 the result reflects the greatest credit on 

 those who design the show plan. 



(Signature) C. HARMAX PAYNE. 



WHERE THE S. A. F. HAS MET. 



To please an Interested subscriber, 

 kindly give a list of the yearly meet- 

 ing places of the S. A. F. since its 

 foundation to the present time and 

 oblige 



BEN STARKEY, 



Care Pennock Bros., Philadelphia. 



The S. A. F. has held annual con- 

 ventions as follows: 



1885, Cincinnati, 0.; 1886, Philadel- 

 phia, Pa. ; 1887, Chicago, 111.; 1888, New 

 York City; 1889, Buffalo, N. Y.; 1890, 

 Boston, Mass.; 1891, Toronto, Ont.; 

 1892, Washington, D. C; 1893, St. 

 Louis, Mo.; 1894, Atlantic City, N. J.; 

 1895, Pittsburg, Pa.; 1896, Cleveland, 

 O.; 1897, Providence, R. I.; 1898, 

 Omaha, Neb.; 1899, Detroit, Mich.; 

 1900, New York, N. Y.; 1901, Buffalo, 

 N. Y.; 1902, Asheville, N. C; 1903, 

 Milwaukee, Wis.; 1904, St. Louis, Mo.; 

 1905, Washington, D. C; 1906, Dayton, 

 0.; 1907, Philadelphia, Pa.; 1908, 

 Niagara Falls, H. Y.; 1909, Cincinnati, 

 O.; 1910 will be Rochester, N. Y. 



The Van Houtte Centenary Celebra- 

 tion at Geudbrugge promises to be of 

 an impressive character, and attended 

 by an immense number of people. 

 The festivities on the first day will 

 conclude with a banquet at the Casino 

 of the Societe Royal d' Agriculture et 

 de Botanique. and it will be attended 

 by numerous admirers of Louis Van 

 Houtte, horticulturists and others. 



P/ioto. by Geo. E. Do-m. 



Oncmi) Display ok W. .\. Manda 



at Boston Orchid Show. 



OBITUARY. 



Charles Eissner. 

 Charles Eissner, a well known 

 florist in the East End, Pittsburg, Pa., 

 died at his home 224 Emerson St., 

 recently. He conduetod stores at 6103 

 Penn Ave., Pittsburg and 827 Wood 

 St., Wilkinsburg. He leaves one sis- 

 ter and one brother. 



the employ of the German official at 

 Orange, N .1., when Nicholas Long- 

 worth, grandfather of Congressman 

 Longworth, sent for him to take charge 

 of hi.s large vineyard where Eden Park 

 is now situated. He afterwards served 

 with a number of prominent families 

 in the capacity of landscape gardener, 

 letiring a few years ago. 



Mabel R. Gordon. 

 Our deepest sympathy goes out to 

 our esteemed old gardener friend, 

 George Gordon, of Beverly, Mass., in 

 the sudden bereavement and sorrow 

 which has come upon him in the 

 death by drowning of his daughter. 

 Miss Mabel Gordon. Miss Gordon was 

 29 years of age and a graduate of Wel- 

 lesley College. She had been in 

 rather poor health for the past two 

 years, due to a nervous breakdown, 

 and had been for some time at the 

 Nervine Hospital in Jamaica Plain. 



Gottlieb Graul. 



Gottlieb Graul, aged 107% years, the 

 oldest person in Cincinnati and one 

 of the oldest in the entire country, 

 died peacefully in the German Alten- 

 heim on Burnet avenue, Cincinnati, 

 Saturday morning at 12.30. 



Graul's extreme age, his fund of in- 

 formation concerning early Cincinnati 

 and his droll humor made him one of 

 the unique characters of the city. He 

 was known and esteemed highly by 

 thousands of Cincinnatians, especially 

 Germans. He was born in Nordhausen, 

 Germany, on December 26, 1802. His 

 father was chief gardener to the King 

 and young Graul was placed by his 

 father on the royal estates to become 

 a forester. But he quit his position, 

 preferring to become a landscape artist 

 and gardener. In this capacity he 

 served the royal house. For a time, 

 about eighty yiars ago, he served at 

 Weimar on a beautiful estate where 

 the great German poet, Goethe, lived. 



Graul came to America and was In 



PRIZE LISTS RECEIVED. 



Horticultural Society of Chicago. — 

 Preliminary Premium List for the An- 

 nual Fall Exhibition to be held at the 

 Coliseum, Chicago, 111., in November, 

 1910. Secretary, J. H. Burdett, 1620 

 West 104th Place, Chicago. 



New Haven County Horticultural So- 

 ciety. — Preliminary Schedule of the 

 Tenth Annual Exhibition to be held 

 in Music Hall, New Haven, Conn., on 

 November 1st, 2nd and 3id, 1910. Sec- 

 retaiy, Frederick H. Wirlz, 86 Nicoll 

 St., New Haven, Conn. 



New Bedford Horticultural Society. 

 — Schedule for the Eighth Annual Fall 

 Exhibition of Plants, Fruits, Flowers 

 and Vegetables to be held in Odd Fel- 

 lows Hall, Xew Bedford, Mass., Sep- 

 tember 15, 16. 17, 1910. Secretary 

 Wm. H. Richardson, New Bedford. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Dallas, Tex. — A certificate of dis- 

 solution was filed by the East Texas 

 Nursery Co., of Tyler. 



Uouisvllle, Ky. — A three-story ware- 

 house on the farm of H. F. Hillen- 

 meyer was burned recently with a loss 

 on building, machinery and nursery 

 supplies of about |2,500, with no in- 

 surance. 



San Francisco, Cal. — The MacRorie- 

 McLaren Co. inform us that their 

 five greenhouses of steel construction 

 are about completed and they are com- 

 mencing to erect a lath-house 75 x 300 

 feet. Five more houses will be put 

 up this coming spring. The present 

 houses will be filled chiefly with or- 

 chids. 



