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HORTICULTURE, 



October 1, 1910 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



CONNECTICUT HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



Our annual exhibition of dahlias was 

 held on the 22n(i and 23rd inst., at 

 Hartford, and proved to be very suc- 

 cessful both from an artistic and a 

 financial standpoint; the gate receipts 

 being nearly three times greater than 

 those of last season. Two fine days 

 weatherwise brought out . a large at- 

 tendance; and fifteen new names of de- 

 lighted spectators were added to the 

 membership roll of the Society. Unity 

 Hall basement was crowded for space 

 to accommodate the splendid array of 

 all classes of dahlias; and this lead- 

 ing flower was supplemented by smaller 

 displays of roses, asters, gladioli, vio- 

 lets, etc. President John F. Huss, as 

 usual, furnished from the sumptuous 

 Goodwin greenhouses, for the stage 

 decoration, a fine collection of palms, 

 ferns, and stove plants; and he and 

 his assistants deftly embellished the 

 walls of the hall with ornamental 

 grasses. J. A. Weber acted as floor 

 manager, and did good service through- 

 out the exhibition; acting also as floor 

 guide for the judges, Messrs. A. W. 

 Davidson of Ansonia, and Robert Hun- 

 nick of Rockville. 



W. W. Hunt & Company, of Hart- 

 ford, made a splendid non-competitive 

 display of cut flowers, including dah- 

 lias, phlox, delphinium, boltonia, 

 monkshood, poppies, tritoma, hardy 

 sunflower, coreopsis, gaillardia, fever- 

 few, Shasta daisy, etc. This firm also 

 showed a nice collection of evergreens 

 in pots. 



Secretary Smith, of Melrose, was the 

 only exhibitor of fruits, showing 24 

 two-quart baskets of apples, pears, 

 grapes, plums, and prunes. His inter- 

 spaces were filled with wreathed ground- 

 pine, which at every crossing was 

 decked with a spray of the bright red 

 berries of Viburnum opulus. Much at- 

 tention was drawn to a fine blue- 

 striped aster, shown by L. C. Clark, of 

 Plantsville. 



H. F. Burt, of Taunton, Mass., was 

 on hand with a dazzling array of 

 dahlias, and, as usual, carried away 

 many prizes in the professional classes. 

 President Huss had his customary fine 

 collection, and also secured many val- 

 uable prizes. D. W. Babcock, of Ber- 

 lin, Md., sent a nice lot of dahlia 

 blooms, which unfortunately were dam- 

 aged en route by warm weather and 

 rough handling; thus precluding his 

 taking any premier awards, though se- 

 curing a few third prizes. Other pro- 

 fessional dahlia exhibitors receiving 

 awards were: Warren S. Mason, of 

 Farmington, gardener for the Pope Es- 

 tate; James P. Ralph, of New Britain; 

 Niel Nelson, of Hartford, horticulturist 

 of the Retreat for the Insane; J, H. 

 Slocombe, of New Haven; and Nathan- 

 iel Slocombe, of Farmington. 



Special premiums offered by the 

 trade went as follows: Henry A. 

 Dreer, Philadelphia, for six blooms of 

 "Susan" dahlia: Niel Nelson, first; J. 

 F. Huss, second. Stumpp & Walter 

 Company, New York, for five vases of 

 any variety, 25 blooms Warren S. Ma- 

 son, first. By the Plant & Land Food 

 Company, Baltimore, for display of 

 evergreens: W. W. Hunt & Company, 

 first. By Luther Tucker & Son, Al- 

 bany, N. Y., for collections of fruit, 



asters, and gladioli, respectively (one 

 subscription each to the "Country Gen- 

 tleman"j: Secretary Smith for fruit, 

 James M. Adams for asters, and L. H. 

 Robertson for gladioli. 



The following gratuities were recom- 

 mended by the judges; Cultural cer- 

 tificate to J. Albert Brodrib, of Hart- 

 ford, for Golden Glow chrysanthe- 

 mums; cultural certificate to the Whit- 

 ing Greenhouses, West Hartford (Carl 

 Peterson, manager), for collection of 

 roses; special mention to A. W. David- 

 son (recommended by President 

 Huss). for new seedling dahlias; and 

 special mention to W. W. Hunt & Com- 

 pany, for collection of cut flowers. 



Our largest, best attended, and prob- 

 ably most successful dahlia show hav- 

 ing now passed into pleasant memory, 

 our members have commenced prepa- 

 rations for the annual exhibition of 

 chrysanthemums, and concomitant 

 flowers, vegetables, and fruits, to be 

 held at Putnam Phalanx Hall, Hart- 

 ford, on November 3rd and 4th. 



GEORGE W. SMITH, Sec'y. 



Melrose, Conn., Sept. 27. 1910. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



The schedule for the Spring Show 

 of 1911, will soon be issued, giving the 

 list of special premiums to be offered 

 at the coming National Show in Bos- 

 ton. At the last annual meeting, spe- 

 cial letters were issued to Richard Vin- 

 cent, Jr., as representative of the 

 American Rose Society at the National 

 Exhibition held in Belgium and also 

 the one held in the Royal Botanic 

 Gardens at Regent's Park, London. 

 Mr. Vincent reports having received 

 the kindest attention and that the peo- 

 ple in charge were delighted with the 

 American Rose Society who extended 

 the courtesy of a special representa- 

 tive. The Honorable Secretary, Mr. 

 Edward Mawley, of the National Rose 

 Society of England, writing under 

 date of September 6th, says: "We 

 were pleased to see the representative 

 of your Society, the Rev. Dr. S. S. 

 Sulliger and to welcome him at our 

 leading exhibition on July Sth, and we 

 are glad to hear from him that he 

 much enjoyed the time he spent with 

 us." These are pleasant acknowledge- 

 ments of courtesy that tend to cement 

 the friendship between the nations; 

 the most desirable thing in the days of 

 continued communication between civ- 

 ilized people. 



The American Rose Society aims to 

 have a "Rose for every Home, and a 

 Bush for every Garden," and it is a 

 fact that more outdoor roses are now 

 in bloom and have been planted with- 

 in the last three years than ever be- 

 fore saw the sun-light in America. 



BENJAMIN HAMMOND, Secv. 



NEW YORK FLORISTS' CLUB. 



Ladies are invited to be present at 

 the next meeting of the Club, Monday 

 evening, October K), on the occasion 

 of J. Horace McFarland's illustrated 

 lecture. Incidentally the secretary in- 

 timates that cigars will be excluded 

 from the hall on that occasion so that 

 nothing shall dim the beauty of the 

 splendid stereopticon views which Mr. 

 McFarland will present. His subject 

 v.-ill be 'The Florist and the Town " 



NEWPORT HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



This Society held its autumn exhi- 

 bition Sept. 17, 18 and 19, and although 

 the premium list included a wide vari- 

 ety of horticultural products, it was 

 mainly a dahlia show, the classes for 

 other flowers and plants not being 

 filled as well as usual, but as dahlias 

 were represented in many different 

 uses the value of this flower was well 

 shown and the exhibition was one that 

 the members may feel proud of. 



The main winners in the plant class- 

 es were, James Boyd, John B. Urqu- 

 hart, Oscar Schultz, C. Robertson, C. 

 M. Bugholt, John Forbes and J. Rob- 

 ertson, with odds much in favor of Mr. 

 Urquhart, he winning the Mrs. R. 

 Goelet prize for table of decorative 

 green plants and also being a success- 

 ful competitor in many other classes 

 throughout the list. C. M. Bugholt, 

 gardener for Miss Fanny Foster, was 

 the most successful exhibitor in the 

 collections of dahlias, he showing them 

 in excellent form. Good collections 

 were also shown by W. F. Turner Co. 

 and W. D. Hathaway, of New Bedford; 

 H. F. Burt, of Taunton; E. S. Manuel, 

 Sisson and Thurston, Mrs. W. B. 

 Leeds, G. S. Stoddard, Mrs. T. 0. Rich- 

 ardson and Mrs. T. K. Gibbs, of New- 

 port. The prize offered by R. & J. 

 Farquhar & Co. for vase of peony- 

 flowered dahlias w-as won by O. B. 

 Chapman, Westerly, R, I. 



The honors in the fruit classes were 

 divided between James McLeish, Sam- 

 uel Speers and Mrs. T. L. Harrington. 

 The prize for collection of vegetables 

 was won by F. L. Mason, of Taunton; 

 John Fletcher, of the Naval Training 

 Station, getting first on the smaller 

 collection. 



The fancy baskets of dahlias, bas- 

 kets of other flowers and centrepieces 

 of dahlias, shown on the second day, 

 brought out seventeen excellent exhi- 

 bits which made judging no easy task, 

 and the firsts were awarded in the or- 

 der named, to Wm. Koehler, Hugh S. 

 Meikle and J. Robertson. The table 

 decorations on the third day were also 

 well competed, ten well-equipped ta- 

 bles being set up and decorated in var- 

 ious designs, dahlias being used on 

 eight of them, sweet peas on one, and 

 chrysanthemums on the other. The 

 silver cup offered in one of those 

 classes was won by A. S. Meikle with 

 a decoration of Mme. Henri Cayeux 

 dahlias with swainsona as a foliage. 

 The E. J. Berwind prize in another 

 class was won by Oscar Schultz with a 

 pretty arrangement of Pink Pearl 

 dahlias in nearly umbrella shape. The 

 first in the other class was won by 

 Mrs. Herbert Coles, whose centrepiece 

 of yellow Cactus dahlias was said to 

 be the best of all. 



Henry A. Dreer of Philadelphia, had 

 on exhibition a collection of marvel- 

 ous water lilies for which he was 

 awarded a first-class certificate of mer- 

 it. A certificate of merit was also 

 awarded to Alex. Eraser for vase of 

 Gardenia grandiflora, which seems to 

 be an improvement on other varieties. 



The judges were Richard Gardner, 

 Alex. Eraser, John P. Hammond, Alex. 

 MacLellan, John A. Forbes, John Ma- 

 han, Bruce Butterton, Wm. Mackay 



