September 3. 1910 



HORTICULTURE. 



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SNAPSHOTS AT THE CONVENTION. 



President Pierson seeks advice of tlie "Fatlier of the Cliarter.' 



.Mr. and Mrs. Brown. Rlclimond, Va., and Mr. and Mrs. Donald- 

 son, Elmhurst, N. Y., on' the beach at Manitou. 



Vice-President Mrs. Roehrs of Ladies' S. 

 centre. 



in rear seat, 



\V. R. Smith, John Donaldson, J. Miesem, and others with H. Sie- 

 breoht as chauft'eur. 



THE GLADIOLUS AT ROCHESTER. 



The gladiolus exhibition at Roch- 

 ester last week was well worth the 

 trip to me although the severe hot 

 weather, -with hardly any rain for 

 several weeks in some section, of ths 

 country showed its effect in many ot 

 the exhibits. This was paticu'.arly 

 noticealile in the exhibits of John 

 Lewis Childs, Floral Park, N. Y.; E. E. 

 Stewart, Rives Junction, Mich.; H. W. 

 Koerner. Milwaukee, Wis. and A. E. 

 Kunderd, Goshen, Ind. The blooms in 

 some instances were not more than 

 one half their usual size. B\it thost) 

 growers who were ble=sod with suffic- 

 ient rain, showed some fine specimens. 



The exhibits of H. A. Dreer, Phila- 

 delphia, Arthur Cowec, Berlin, N. Y., 

 Mrs. Emma Kennell, Chili, N. Y., 

 showed that they had been favored 

 by the weather man. 



The specimens of Shakespeare and 

 Mrs. Beecher shown by Mrs. Kennell 

 were the finest flowers I have ever 



seen of these varieties and some speci- 

 mens of Contrast by James Vick's 

 Sons, Rochester, were splendid. Frank 

 Banning, Kinsman, Ohio, had a large 

 exhibit of his beautiful new yellow 

 variety "Niagara" and a large vase 

 of a new white seedling of White Lady 

 laised by Thomann Brothers, Roch 

 ester, attracted much attention. Henry 

 A. Dreer showed some fine vases ot 

 Eucharis Charlemagne and Henry Le- 

 moine and Vaughans seed store 

 had some splendid spikes of Princeps. 

 The display of B. Hammond Trary, 

 Wenham, Mass., was a model of artis- 

 tic possibilities showing that gladiolus 

 can be used in a decorative way with 

 superb effect. The variety Daw'n was 

 very dainty and used with credit'ablo 

 taste in the table decoration. 



Among the prize winning varieties 

 and especially good novelties were E. 

 E. Stewart's Golden Queen, and No. 

 98; Arthur Cowee's Lavendula, Evolu- 

 tion Perfectus, and No. 39-5; a fine 



white sort; John Lewis Childs' Rosy 

 Pearl — the latter is one of the most 

 beautiful gladioli I have yet seen, 

 "Little Blush" was very fine. 



Wm. Pfitzer of Stuttgart, Germany, 

 exhibited two large photographs ot his 

 new pure white gladiolus Europa, 

 which he will offer in the fall of 1911. 

 This reminds me that there are now 

 about to be diseminated at least five 

 ne-w absolutely pure white \arieties of 

 gladioli and it looks as though the 

 days of good old Augusta were num- 

 bered. On Wednesday morning E. E. 

 Stewart, Mathew Crawford and the 

 writer visited the gladiolus fields of 

 Mrs. Emma Kennell at Chili, where we 

 saw some magnificent gladioli and Mr. 

 Crawford remarked that it was the 

 healthiest looking growing stock ht 

 had ever seen. We were splendidly 

 entertained and after a nice lunch by 

 our genial hostess we returned to 

 Rochester greatly pleased with the 

 trip. L. MBRTON GAGE. 



