November 15, 1913 



HORTICULTUKE 



667 



palm and speoimeu fern; Lager & Hurrell, 

 oollection of orchids. On roses, commer- 

 cial growers: I.. A. Noe, A. N. Pierson 

 Co. and C. H. Totty divided the honors; 

 private classes, W. H. Waite and H. J. 

 Allei), Hyde Park. On carnations, com- 

 mercial: Head's Bergenfleld Nurseries; 

 private, Abraham Wj-nne. Robt. .Tucobs 

 and Max Schneider. On violets. Max 

 Schneider and Tlios. Bell, Fairfield, Conn. 

 On liegonia.s, W. B. Thompson and K. 

 Hughes, Flushing. 



Specials. 



Man.v special awards were made, in 

 which the foregoing and others partici- 

 pated. Among the more prominent were 

 the fallowing: W. H. Waite, vase 24 

 blooms; Thos. Bell, do.; P. W. Popp. do.; 

 Wm. Vert, do.; J. W. Everitt, c<illection 

 12 varieties: Chas. H. Rice, seedling pom- 

 pons and singles: Peter Duff, three awards 

 for trained specimens; R. Vincent, Jr. & 

 Sons Co., hardy chrysanthemums; J. W. 

 Everitt, single chrysanthemums; W. An- 

 gus, do.; A J. Manda, specimen Boston 

 fern; Robt. Bottomley, anemone varieties; 

 Head's Bergenfleld Nurseries, hardy and 

 pompons; .1. P. Sorenson, Essex Falls, N. 

 J., v.^se of chrysanthemums and foliage; 

 A. N. Pierson Co., rose: Mrs. Geo. Shaw- 

 yer. single and pompon chrysanthemums; 

 C. H. Totty, four specials for collection 

 50 varieties, display of chrysanthemum 

 plants and hardy seedlings and roses; 

 Patten & Co. Tewksbury, Mass., certifi- 

 cate for carnation Princess Dagmar;Chas. 

 Weber. Lynbrook, N. Y., certificate for 

 carnation Laura Weber: Max Schling, 

 certificate for display of floral baskets. 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



THE ROCHESTER SHOW. 



The splash of falling water, the song 

 of canary birds, the charm of music 

 and the beauty and fragrance of my- 

 riads of flowers mingled in the annual 

 show of Rochester flower lovers and 

 growers which opened last week in 

 Convention Hall. The great audito- 

 rium and the annex were transformed 

 into a German formal garden. High, 

 close-cropped hedges broken at regu- 

 lar intervals by tall evergreens and 

 one or twr> arched gateways carved out 

 of the solid wall of the hedge by the 

 cunning hand of the florist decorator 

 hid the displays from the visitor's eye 

 as he first entered. 



On the left as one passed through 

 one of the green-arched gateways a 

 vista of flowers and greenery closing 

 In the distance with a great fountain 

 and waterfall came into view. All 

 around, the stately, snowy and golden, 

 pink and crimson globes of giant 

 chrysanthemums. At their base masses 

 of greenery, and thousands of bright- 

 hued flowers. 



The high hedge-border was pierced 

 by a long arbor passage at the south 

 end of the main auditorium. Passing 

 through this, the visitor came upon 

 the fountain, with its waterfall and 

 pool, water streaming first from the 

 mouths of half a dozen lions' heads 

 into a shallow basin, then rushing over 

 the edge and falling with a continuous 

 splash into the broad pool at the base. 

 At times the waterfall was illumined 

 with brilliant colors which play upon 

 the water with fast-changing beauty. 



Credit for the conception and execu- 

 tion of this unique show belongs to 

 William Pitkin, Jr., a young Rochester 

 landscape architect. The display was 

 greatly helped by immense contribu- 

 tions from the Public Park Depart- 

 ment. Full information as to the 

 awards and the financial results have 

 not yet been reqeived. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



The Executive Committee ol the 

 American Rose Society met in New 

 York City, Monday, November 10th, 

 and pursuant to the resolution of the 

 meeting of the Society held at Minne- 

 apolis, decided to hold the annual 

 meeting for 1914 in conjunction with 

 the New York Horticultural Society 

 and New York Florists' Club show, 

 which will be held in March, 1914, in 

 the Grand Central Palace. The man- 

 agement has offered the sum of $2,500 

 for premiums to be used by the Rose 

 Society. The Executive Committee 

 has accepted this offer and the pre- 

 mium list will be prepared without de- 

 lay so far as possible to secure the 

 best results. 



The Rules and Regulations governing 

 Rose Test Gardens, which were pre- 

 sented at the last meeting and sub- 

 mitted for further examination, were 

 carefully gone over, and passed as di- 

 rected at the Minneapolis meeting. 

 The Rose Test Gardens in view are 

 at Arlington Heights, Washington, D. 

 C, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., 

 and Minneapolis, Minn., Park System, 

 and also at New Brunswick, N. J. The 

 effort to secure the list of all roses 

 originated in America, with their pedi- 

 grees, has met with much apprecia- 

 tion; this list will be properly ar- 

 ranged and published as far as re- 

 ceived in the Annual Bulletin tor 1913. 

 Messrs. Robert Simpson and Robert 

 Pyle are appointed to assist the Sec- 

 retary in the work of preparing the 

 Bulletin. 



More dues for membership have 

 been received this year than common. 

 President Pierson submitted a report 

 on affiliation of local societies holding 

 June shows and a proposition for the 

 distribution of the American Rose So- 

 ciety medals. Messrs. S. S. Pennock, 

 Pyle and H. O. May gave their views 

 bearing upon this effort as desirable 

 to gain a country-wide interest in the 

 work of the Rose Society. 



Benjamin HAMMONn. 



Secretary. 



Beacon, N. Y. 



The Fruit Show, now open at Hor- 

 ticultural Hall, Boston, is a splendid 

 success. The displays are prodigious, 

 the quality exceptionally high and the 

 arrangement of the various exhibits 

 is excellent. More about it next week. 



GARDENERS' AND FLORISTS' CLUB 

 OF BOSTON. 



The next regular meeting of the 

 club will be held at Horticultural Hall 

 on Tuesday evening, November 18, at 

 8 o'clock. The lecturer of the evening 

 will be James F. M. Farquhar on 

 "Landscape Gardening From the 

 Standpoint of a Practical Man." Nu- 

 merous applications for membership 

 will be presented. Nomination of of- 

 ficers for 1914 will be made. Many 

 fine exhibits of plants and cut flowers 

 are promised, and the meeting should 

 prove one of the finest the club has 

 yet held. 



All members wishing to join the 

 landscape gardening classes are asked 

 to be at Horticultural Hall on Mon- 

 day evening. November 17 at 7.30 

 o'clock, when the class will bo organ- 

 ized. Lectures and other feattires in 

 addition to the regular class work are 

 being arranged for. 



W. N. Craig, Secretary. 



NEW YORK FLORISTS' CLUB. 



Ladies Night, Monday evening, No- 

 vember 10, was the most successful 

 and best attended affair in the history 

 of the Club. Ladies in great numbers 

 were present. The Club Room was 

 not large enough to hold the crowd 

 and the gentlemen were compelled to 

 stand in the hall and anterooms. A de- 

 lightfully pleasing program had been 

 prepared and Messrs. Duggan, Wheel- 

 er and Guttman, the house and en- 

 tertainment committee, deserve great 

 credit for the complete arrangements 

 made, the only regret being that 

 all the ladies could not be accom- 

 modated at one sitting. The House 

 Committee were assisted by George E. 

 M. Stumpp. Joseph Fenrich enter- 

 tained one of the overflow meetings 

 of the men with an interesting talk 

 on the "Future of the Cut Flower 

 Business in New York." Mr. Fenrich's 

 number showed that he had given the 

 subject much careful thought, and 

 undoubtedly would have done much 

 good to his hearers, but their in- 

 attention to the fine points of his 

 address was deplorable and much of 

 Joe's 70 — H. P. 6 — cylinder pressure 

 was simply wasted in trying to pre- 

 serve order and some of his audience 

 came near turning turtle in their ef- 

 forts to the same end. 



President Siebrecht was all smiles 

 at the success of the evening. 

 A particularly gratifying feature was 

 the willing acquiescence on the part 

 of the members in the request to re- 

 frain from smoking out of deference 

 to "ladies' night." 



The Nominating Committee re- 

 ported the following names for olB- 

 cers to be balloted for at the next meet- 

 ing: President — Wm. H. Siebrecht, 

 Sr., H. A. Bunyard. Wm. Duckham. 

 Vice-president— C. W. Scott, H. Wes- 

 ton, Jno. A. Rassbach. Secretary — 

 John Young, M. C. Ebel, J. H. Pepper. 

 Treasurer — W. C. Rickards, Jr., Rob- 

 ert Koehne, Philip Kessler. Trustees 

 — three to serve two years — Jos. A. 

 Manda, C. H. Totty, W. R. Cobb, Wal- 

 lace R. Pierson, Alex. E. Hogg, I. 

 S. Hendrickson. A. L. Miller, F. H. 

 Traendly, Jas. T. Scott. 



The Committee on Awards reported 

 on their visit to W. A, Manda's es- 

 tablishment, and the award of final 

 certificates to Dahlia DuPont, Dahlia 

 Gertrude, and Dahlia Bohemian Ga^ 

 net. Wallace R. Pierson brought to 

 the meeting an exhibit of the new 

 chrysanthemum Indian Summer, which 

 was greatly admired. The Committee 

 on Awards, owing to the crush, were 

 unable to judge exhibits. Taken all in 

 all, last Monday night will go down 

 in club history, as "One Big Night. ' 



WORCESTER COUNTY, MASS., HOR- 

 TICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



This society held its annual meeting 

 on November 5. Officers were elected 

 as follows: President, Edward W. 

 Breed, of Clinton; vice-presidents, Ar- 

 thur J. Marble, Charles Greenwood 

 and Herbert R. Kinney, of Worcester; 

 secretary, Leonard C. Midgley, of 

 Westboro; librarian. Miss Lucy M. Coul- 

 son, and treasurer, Burt W. Green- 



