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GARDENERS' CHRONICLE 



Ornamentals 

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 distinctive in 

 quality and 

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ANDORRA 

 NURSERES 



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LOCAL SOCIETIES 



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PENNSYLVANIA HORT. 

 SOCIETY 



The last lecture uf this season's series 

 was given on Tuesday last, by Professor A. 

 ■C. Beal, of Cornell University, the subject 

 being "Gladioli." 



Professor Beal began his lecture with a 

 very clear history of this useful class of 

 bulbous plants, starting with the varieties 

 found in southern Europe and those found 

 m South Africa ; giving an account of the 

 work done in France and Holland in hy- 

 bridizing : detailing the work done and re- 

 sults accomplished by European growers 

 until the introduction of Gladioli into this 

 ■country, a list of the principal growers, 

 vifho have been working in hybridizing in 

 this country and showing the results they 

 "had obtained. These remarks were illus- 

 trated by some well colored slides, first 

 showing the older varieties and then those 

 produced by hybridizing from these varie- 

 ties leading on to the grand varieties that 

 have been produced in the middle West in 

 the past few years. In closing liis lecture, 

 some five or six slides were devoted to the 

 decorative uses of gladiolux in planting 

 around the house and as cut flowers in the 

 ■house. 



The exhibits staged at this meeting were 

 of the usual high quality. Those deserving 

 special mention being some specimen Calceo- 

 laria hyhrida exhibited by A. B. Johnson, 

 Roscmont. Pa., Wm. Comfort, gardener. 

 These plants were in 8-inch pots, foliage 

 standing 18 to 20 inches above the pot, the 

 Tieads of the plants being about 26 inches in 

 <hameter, completely covered with well 



A Bug On Bay Trees 



Not that there are any bugs on our 

 bay trees, but tliat Julius says I am "a 

 bug un the bay trees that are ours." 

 And why shouldn't I be ; didn't I go 

 to the other side last Spring and pick 

 them out? 



Haven't I been chucking them under 

 the chin ever since they landed here? 

 Didn't some of the biggest landscape 

 men in the country come and snap up 

 a big snag of them ? Hasn't everybody 

 who has seen what's left, said they be- 

 lieved them the finest lot in captivity? 



Furthermore, they are in better shape 

 now than they ever were, and of 

 course worth more. Just as everything 

 else is. that ever was worth anything. 



Knowing how scarce well-grown, 

 full-shaped trees are, looks like these 

 trees of ours are worth looking into. 





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finished flowers. A collection of cut flowers 

 of GcWxTo-hybrids (South .African Daisy) 

 was exhibited by Mrs. E. V^ Morrell. 

 Torresdale, Philadelphia, Thos. Roberts, 

 .gardener. There were 21 colors repre- 

 sented in this collection of flowers, the 

 flowers ranging from 3 to 5 inches in diam- 

 eter. A collection of Antirrhinum (Giant 

 Flowering) was exhibited by Mrs. S. T. 

 Bodme, Villa Nova. Pa., .\lex. MacLeod, 

 gardener. The flower stems were about 4 

 feet tall, and the spike of flowers measur- 

 ing from 18 to 24 inches. 



D.wiD Rust, S'ec'y. 



WESTCHESTER AND FAIRFIELD 

 HORT. SOCIETY 



The regular monthly meeting of the 

 above society was held in Greenwich, Conn., 

 April 9. In the absence of President An- 

 drews. Vice-President Harry Jones occu- 

 pied the chair. Two proposals for member- 

 ship were received and one member was 

 transferred to Nassau County Horticul- 

 tural Society. The event of the evening 

 was the presentation of the silver medal of 

 the National Association of Gardeners to 

 Robert Williamson for the highest number 



