July 16, 1910 



HORT I CULTURE 



76 



NATIONAL SWEET PEA SOCIETY 

 OF AMERICA. 



The second annual sweet pea show 

 and convention of the above society 

 was held in the St. Nicholas Rink, 66th 

 street and Columbus avenue, N. Y. 

 City, July 12th and 13th. A splendid 

 display was made, considering the two 

 weeks of exceedingly warm weather 

 immediately preceding. Over two 

 thousand vases were staged — distrib- 

 uted among some fifteen or twenty 

 exhibitors. Had it not been for the 

 heavy rain and hail storms in the vi- 

 cinity of New York last Sunday, there 

 would have been a far finer showing. 

 Many of the largest prospective ex- 

 iibitors had their entire crops com- 

 pletely knocked out. As it was, the 

 society is to be congratulated on hav- 

 ing done so well. The judges were 

 Rev. W. T. Hutchius of Santa Bar- 

 bara, Cal.; Prof. Beal of Cornell; C. 

 W. Kerr of Philadelphia, and Wm. 

 Sim, Cliftondale, Mass. 



Occupying the center of the hall, 

 jand by all odds the star attraction of 

 the show, was the exhibit of Arthur T. 

 Boddington, which shone out not only 

 because of superior quality, culture 

 and variety, but pre-eminently also on 

 account of artistic arrangement. The 

 manner in which vases of miniature 

 design were arranged in spirals, cir- 

 cles, and pyramids, to set off the beau- 

 ties of each individual variety, was ad- 

 mirable. This exhibit was awarded 

 the C. C. Morse prize for the finest 

 -trade exhibit. 



Next in order, in the glory of the 

 occasion, were the Morton B. Plant 

 exhibits, Supt. Thos W. Head. These 

 showed remarkable finish, and the 

 blooms were wonderful as to color, 

 form, stem and substance. The ex- 

 hibits from this source were distribut- 

 ed over various classes, and in almost 

 every case, carried off premier honors. 

 .Seth Low was also well up to the front 

 and in many cases showed marked 

 superiority over anything else in the 

 -Show. Hugh Birch, his superintendent, 

 is right up front among the expert 

 sweet pea grow'ers; and the honors 

 are all that he can desire. 



Howard Gould, whose superintend- 

 ent, Harry Turner, is president of the 

 society, nobly held up the reputation 

 of Castle Gould as a center of horti- 

 •cultural excellence with an exhibit at 

 'Once of the highest excellence; staged 

 in up-to-date style and showing su- 

 perior skill in arrangement. This ex- 

 "hibit won the Burpee cup for the larg- 

 est and finest exhibit of sweet peas, 

 staging over fifty varieties — mostly 

 Spencers. 



Cornell University had nearly one 

 hundred varieties from their trial 

 grounds, under charge of Professor 

 Beal. 



The Scoville exhibits from Connect- 

 icut, gardener Robt. Angus, were all 

 of high merit and carried off many 

 premiums. 



Julius Roehrs showed orchids — cut 

 and plants — including the following: 

 •Cattleyas x Atlanta x Hardyana, x 

 Edwardi and Rex: Miltonia vexillaria 

 picturata, Dendrobium Dearei and 

 Cypripdeiums callosum Sanderae and 

 St. Albans. Joseph Manda showed a 

 nice exhibit of cut orchids prominent 

 among them being some beautiful nov- 

 elties. H. A. Dreer showed a collec- 

 tion of water lilies, ornamental 

 grasses and acorus. John Lewis Childs 

 had a good showing of gladioli, 



dahlias, and hardy annuals, including 

 Dimorphotbeca aurantiaca. Pallisade 

 Nui series were in strong force with 

 a fine collection of hardy perennials. 



The secretary of the society, Harry 

 A. Bunyard, has worked hard to make 

 the show a success. He is satisfied 

 that substantial progress is being 

 made in the work of the society. The 

 great thing in this as in every other 



\\'. -ATLKK HuHI'KK. 



Presklent-eU'it. National Sweet I'l'ii Sfn-iety 

 of .\mfi"u'a. 



special line is to eliminate the inferior 

 and recognize the merits of the super- 

 ior sorts— among the confusing ruck 

 of the hundreds of varieties before the 

 public. While it is difficult to draw 

 any hard and fast line he states as his 

 choice for the 25 best sweet peas in 

 sight at present, the following: 



Helen Lewis. Countess SiJeucer. White 

 Spencer, Flm-n Jlorsc Spencer. Capt. of 



HaKRY A. BlXYARD. 



Secretary, National Sweet Pea Society of 



America. 

 Blues Spencer, .Aurora Spencer, Senator 

 Spencer, John Ingraham. I51ack Knigut 

 Spencer. Snowlial-c, Kinix Edward Spencer, 

 Georic Stars I'"rank Dolby, Miss Wilmott, 

 Othello Spencer, Helen Pierce. Mrs. Alfred 

 Walivins, Quee'i \'ictoria Spencei-, Gladys 

 Unwin Asta Ohn Spencer, Marie Corelli 

 Spencer, W. T. Hutchms Spencer, St. 

 George, Picotee, Nora Unwin. 



The annual meeting of the Society 



was held on Tuesday evening, July 12. 

 Papers were read by W. T. Hutchins 

 and Prof. John Craig and a report on 

 the trials at Ithaca was made lay Pro- 

 fessor Beal. An invitation to meet at 

 Boston at the time of the National 

 Flower Show in March, 1911, was ac- 

 cepted. 



Officers were elected as follows: 

 President, W. Atlee Burpee, Phila., 

 Pa.; vice-president, Wm. Sim, Clifton- 

 dale, Mass.; treasurer, A. T. Bodding- 

 ton, New York; secretary, H. A. Bun- 

 yard, New York; executive committee, 

 Harry Turner, A. C. Zvolanek and J. 

 K. M. L. Farquhar. 



TRANSPORTATION TO ROCHES- 

 TER CONVENTION. 



The following letter has been re- 

 ceived from the Lake Shore & Michi- 

 gan Southern R. R. as to what they 

 will give the Chicago Florists' Club in 

 the way of rates, etc., for the Club 

 special train to the S. A. F. conven- 

 tion at Rochester, New York: 



Chicago. July 2nd, 1910. 



Transportation Committee, 



Society of American Florists, 

 Chicago, 111. 

 (Gentlemen : — 



Referring to the next meeting of your 

 Society which is to be held in Rochester, 

 N. Y. in August of the current year, the 

 L. S. & M. S. Ry. begs leave to submit 

 herewith a tentative proposition covering 

 transportation of your delegates and 

 friends from Chicago to that point. 



Special train, same to be counterpart of 

 the Twentieth Century limited and to 

 consist of the following equipment: com- 

 bination baggage and buffet car, one of 

 the famous Lake Shore diners, as many 

 twelve section and drawing room sleeping 

 cars (compartment cars if desired) as 

 may be required to properly take care of 

 the party and give every-one plenty of 

 room, the train to be finished off with 

 either an open section or compartment ob- 

 servation and sleeping car. 



For a schedule we would suggest leav- 

 ing Chicago at 5. .30 P. M. Monday, August 

 l.'3th, arriving in Rochester at 9.00 A. M. 

 Tuesday morning. Aug. 16th. 



The rate authorized for this occasion is 

 one and three-fifth fare on the certificate 

 plan which means full rate. .$1.'!.38 going 

 (passengers to be sure and ask for cer- 

 tificates in purchasing tlieir tickets, for on 

 same will depend their Ijeing able to 

 secure the reduced rate returning) and 

 three-fifths of that or ffS.lO returning, 

 making a total of 5:21.48 for the round 

 (rip. Pullman rates are as follows: 

 duulile lower berth or upper berth $3.00, 

 scrtlon .fS.OO, compartment .$8.50, drawing 

 room .^ll.OO. 



With this letter I enclose one of our 

 system lines folders viz: Big Four Route 

 liy wliich you will note that your people 

 from St. Louis. Indianapolis, Louisville, 

 (-'incinuati, Columbus, etc., can join to- 

 Lrether and arrange for special sleepers to 

 be attached to your special train at 

 Cleveland thus bringing you all together 

 at that point for the remainder of the 

 .Innrney, Cleveland to Rochester. As to 

 the Detroit people it would be a very easy 

 matter for them to join your special train 

 at Toledo. 



Your St. Louis people could come via 



< 'iiica.go and join your special train here 



f they so desired as the same rate would 



pply through Chicago as via the direct 



ine. 



Hoping for your kind and favorable 

 1 onsideration of this proposition and as- 

 suring you of the highest class of service 

 ;ind equipment in every detail also the 

 services of either myself or someone else 

 to accompanying you for tlie purpose of 

 seeing that everything goes smoothly and 

 you get everything that is coming to you. 

 Yours truly, 



G. K. Thompson, 

 G. A. P. D. 



The Chicago Florists' Club would be 

 glad to have members of any outside 

 Florist Club who contemplate going to 

 Rochester, join them and go down on 

 the Chicago Florists' Club's special 

 train. Any club desiring to do so will 

 kindly correspond with L. H. Winter- 

 son, Secretary of Chicago Florists' 

 Club, 45 Wabash Ave., Chicaro, adv^s- 



