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HORTICULTURE 



August 27, 1910 



and white varieties, 3 spikes eacli-Artliui- 

 Cowee, Berlin, N. Y. 



Class Iti — $5 in gold for best vase 25 

 white varieties — 1st Arthur Cowee, 2nd B. 

 Hammond Tracy. 



Class 11 — $5 for the best vase of any 

 ni,med yellow variety — E. E. Stewart, 

 Rives Junction, Mich. 



Class 14 — Silver cup for exhibit contain- 

 ing the largest number of standard named 

 varieties — John Lewis Childs, Floral Park, 

 N. Y. 



Class 14A--$10 for the best exhibit of 

 the best quality in white and lignt, dark 

 blue, and yellow hybrids — Arthur Cowee, 

 Berlin, N. Y. 



Class 22 — Silver --up offered by Montague 

 Chamberlain for the best 6 named va- 

 rieties, one spike each — 1st B. F. White, 

 Terryville. Conn. 



U MERTON GAGE, 

 Cor. Sec. 



THE SWEET PEA IN OREGON. 



Oregon communities are going in 

 this year to a great extent in swoet 

 pea growing and are holding competi- 

 tive shows where the prize flowers are 

 exhibited. 



Portland's annual Rose Festival pre- 

 cludes the posibility of making any 

 great fuss over any other flower there, 

 but despite that fact, suburban im- 

 provement clubs have stimulated in- 

 terest in sweet pea culture by holding 

 exhibitions lately that have been very 

 successful. 



Such a show was held at Woodstock, 

 a Portland suburb, lately, resulting in 

 the formation of the Oregon Sweet 

 Pea Association, which is to have a 

 charter membership of 500. This will 

 result, it is believed, in the holding of 

 annual flower shows throughout the 

 state and in a wider interest in sweet 

 pea culture. 



A big feature of a recent sweet pea 

 show at Cottage Grove, Oregon, was a 

 decorated parade, participated in by 

 business houses of the place and in- 

 dividuals, the horses, teams and auto- 

 mobiles being decorated elaborately 

 with flowers, after the fashion of the 

 Portland Rose Festival parades, only 

 sweet peas being substituted for roses. 



The climate of Oregon seems espe- 

 cially adapted to the best development 

 of the sweet pea and each passing year 

 sees a wider interest in its growth 

 There is hardly a home in Portland 

 that has not a hedge of these beauti- 

 ful flowers growing in the yard. 



NEWS NOTES, 



Syracuse, N. Y. — Bids for the con- 

 struction of a greenhouse 10x150 feet 

 were opened by Commissioner A. E. 

 Perron at the State Fair office on 

 Aug. 5. A greenhouse will be con- 

 structed on the new land recently ac- 

 quired by the commissioner and work 

 will begin at once. 



Sioux City, Iowa.— Plans for a green- 

 house for the park department are in 

 preparation. The establishment will 

 be built at the city innnping station 

 where exhaust steam will be utilized 

 for heating puri)Oses. This building 

 will fill a long felt want as it will 

 greatly expedite the gardening in the 

 city parks. City engineer Keyes Gay- 

 nor says that the work will start on 

 the building very shortly. 



There are many varied devices on 

 the market for supporting carnations 

 and other plants in the beds. Some of 

 them are wondrous contrivances. 

 Others have good claims on the favor 

 of the greenhouse man and among 

 the latter Is the one advertised in this 

 paper. Carnation growers, look it 

 over. 



SOME GRACEFUL DENDROBIUMS. 



The most graceful forms of the 

 genus dendrobium are D. phalaenop- 

 sis, D. bigibbum and D. superbiens. 

 The fine and rare species D. Goldiei 

 was found mixed with plants of D. 

 superbiens in an importation in 1876. 

 It was regarded as a cross between 

 D. superbiens and D. bigibbum or D. 

 phalaenopsis. According to Herr Bloss- 

 feld there has been found among re- 

 cently imported plants a variety of D. 



During Recess 



CONNECTICUT NURSERYMEN'S 

 ASSOCIATION. 



The accompanying illustration Is 

 from a photograph of a group of mem- 

 bers of the Connecticut Nurserymen's 

 Association, taken on the grounds of 

 The Elm City Nursery Co., New Hav- 

 en, Conn., where the Association met 

 for a field day on August 11th. After 



superbiens which instead of waved 

 petals and sepals, possessed smooth 

 ones, the flowers broader than those 

 of the usual D. superbiens, and the 

 characteristic white edging to the 

 sepals and petals missing more or 

 less; at the same time the coloring 

 of the blooms was deeper. He was 

 not in doubt for one moment that he 

 had the species D. Goldiei, as de- 

 scribed in the Gardeners' Chronicle 

 in 1878. P. M. 



DE BIG FIEL' BY DE TOWN. 



De clovah lilooni am fadiu" 



Frum de big tie!" by de town, 

 De purple am a shadin" 



Into suffin ob a brown, 

 De suramah win's am shiftin' 



Frum de regions ob de souf 

 An' de bumble bee am irawin' 



Down de co'ners ob his raouf. 



He knows de fros' am comin' 



Wen de honey days am pas' 

 I);it de murmur ob his hunimin' 



Soon will vanish on de 'olas' 

 An' he wo'ks a leetle ha'der 



Roun' he blossoms gittin" brown, 

 .\n' he stays a leetle later 



In de big flel' by de town. 



Oh, I'se sorry fer to see It, 



Win' a shiftin' to de wes' 

 Sorry dat de snow am comin", 



But de bee am ncedin' res' — 

 Fob de tfpil ob makin honey 



Ain't de easiest, doan you know — 

 Lak de wo'k of makin' money 



It am drefful ha'd an' slow. 



So good-by. sweet ( lovah blossom. 



An' good-by ole bumble bee! 

 i'ou hab made de bre.af ob summah 



So't o" musical to me, 

 I shall tink ob you wif Kindness 



Wen de snow am comin' down 

 On de dead an' faded purple 



Ob de big fiel' by de town. 



FLOY"!) D. RAZE.— in BasUn Journal. 



Spea'?ing of the deplorable destruc- 

 tion of the Brussels Exposition by flre, 

 Mr. E. G. Hill who visited it a short 

 time before says that it was a marvel- 

 ous show and from an artistic stand- 

 point the firest thing he had ever seen. 



spending a pleasant morning exploring 

 the nurseries, the members took the 

 trolley to Savin Rock, Connecticut's 

 Coney Island, where, after a well- 

 served dinner at the Colonade the 

 members played kids for the remain- 

 der of the day, taking in all the shows 

 from the roller coaster to the flying 

 horses. It was voted unanimously that 

 the day had been most pleasurably 



spent. 



OMAHA FLORISTS' CLUB. 



Y'ourself and family or fri"ii(l arc requested 



to attend the annual ))icnic uf tbe 



Omaha Florists' Club 



Thur-sday August twenty-litth, at Courtlar.d 



Beach 



Reception '2 p. m. 



Kntertaiuments of various kinds 



Boating. Radng and Bowling 3 to ."> p. ni. 



Lunch (i p. m. 



George Swoboda. Prcs. 

 The foregoing appetizing invitation 

 has just reached us. How we do wish 

 that Omaha wa^ ju'st around the corner 

 from Boston. We know they will have 

 a gorgeous time. Perhaps a little mat- 

 ter of 1500 miles, more or less, will 

 be no obstacle to such a neighborhood 

 meeting in the coming days. But for 

 the present — it's different! 



TROPHIES FOR BALTIMORE. 



The sporting element to which the 

 popularity of the S. A. F. Conventions 

 with the younger set is largely due, 

 will be pleased to learn that already a 

 number of valuable trophies have been 

 contributed to be competed for at the 

 convention in Baltimore next year. 

 These include a silver cup from H. F. 

 Michell. silver cup from H. A. Dreer, 

 and shooting jacket from H. M. Altick, 

 all for the shooting contests, and a 

 silver cup from H. A. Dreer for the 

 bowling tournament. 



Julius Roehrs Co., Rutherford, N. J., 

 have purchased the entire stock of seed 

 of Harry Turner's novelty, Celosia 

 Pride of" Castle Gould and it will be 

 disseminated next winter. 



