November 12, 1910 



HORTICULTURE 



666c 



THREE NEW CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 



MiNTA (Light Pink Pompon) 

 First Class Certificate, C. S. A. 



Lenox (Yellow) 



Awardeil Dreer Special Prize at Morris- 

 towu for best American Seedling. 



Dick Wittebstaetter (Ked) 

 First Class Certificate, C. S. A. 



X Helen II). First-class certificate to 

 Sander & Son, St. Albans. The general 

 appearance of this fine CM)ripedium 

 approaches that of C. bellatulum al- 

 bum, with a much enlarged lip and 

 uniformly distributed purple spotting 

 on the dorsal sepal and iietals. Ground 

 color pure white. 



Cypripedium Britannia (parentage 

 unknown). Awai-d of merit to Sander 

 & Son. Upper sepal pale emerald 

 green in the lower half and white 

 above, having some purplish-spotted 

 lines. Petals and lip large, yellow, 

 veined and tinged with pale purple. 



Cypripedium Reginald Young (El- 

 mireanum (Hitchinsiae) x insigne 

 Harefield Hall). Award of merit to 

 H. .1. Bromilow. Similar to C. Earl 

 of Tankerville in large blotches on 

 Indianyellow dorsal sepal, which has 

 a white upper half. Petals and lip 

 yellow tinged with purple. 



Calanthe densiflora. Award of merit 

 to Sir Jeremiah Colman. Native of 

 Sylhet and Assam. Scape erect and 

 bearing a dense head of yellow flowers. 



Odontoglossum Circe (Cervantesii x 

 Pescatorei). Award of merit to 

 Cbarlesworth & Co. Flowers white, 

 spotted with red on the inner halves 

 of the segments. 



SOME NEW CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 



The floral committee of the Na- 

 tional Chrysanthemum Society, Lon- 

 don, recently gr.anted awards to 

 the undermentioned novelties, sev- 

 eral of which were to be seen 

 on the trade stands at the show; 

 Maud Williamson (Stredwick and son,) 

 .Jap., a deep rose with silvery reverse. 

 Mikado (Silsbury), Jap., rosy crimson, 

 with nankeen reverse. Japan (Sils- 

 bury), deep crimson. Miss F. Collier 

 (Roots), Jap. Ref. white. Mr. Roots 

 also received an award for Crantordia, 

 a canary yellow Jap. and Betty Spark, 

 silvery pink. Debutante (Lowe & 

 Shawyer). Jap. Inc. white. Miss Dor- 

 othy Ashley (Lowe & Shawyer). Deep 

 mauve pink, with golden tinted cen- 

 tre. Miss Elsie Heady (Lowe & Shaw- 

 ver.) pink W. H. A. 



During Recess 



NEW YORK BOWLERS. 



On Friday evening, Nov. 4, the at- 

 tendance was light, owing to the se- 

 vere storm. Scores were recorded as 

 follows: 



.Maiidii I'.il ISM 172 



Sliuw 125 132 l:i2 



Smith 156 140 145 



Nugent 7S 78 96 



McArdle 71 90 118 



Fenrieli 104 158 158 



Scott Ill 119 119 



Cl.adwiik 182 ISO 160 



The head pin game for which P. J. 

 Smith gave a handsome satchel as a 

 prize was won by Bert Chadwiclv with 

 a score of 108. The razor offered by 

 Mr. Warendorff for next Friday will 

 be awarded only to a member who 

 has not yet won a prize— best average 

 in three games. 



Five alleys have been secured for 

 Monday afternoon, Nov. 14, at which 

 time it is expected that the Astoria 

 Bowling Club will be present to play a 

 match game. 



CINCINNATI BOWLERS. 



The Cincinnati Florists' Bowling 

 Club held their second meeting, Mon- 

 day. Nov. 7th. The following is the 

 list of the scores: 



1st 2n(l 1st 2nd 



C. E. C'cli-n 184 l.'-.o H. Wfsftr 114 151 



A S-d'rb ch 176 188 C. H'lfmstr. 146 104 



W. MurnbT. 126 124 Al. Horning 147 141 



A. Heckman 1S2 111 R. Dellar... 146 103 



O. H-ffmstr. 127 97 L. Wfrs'tr. 143 138 



Gus. Adrian 87 84 Ben George 120 116 



Ed. Sch-m'n 163 164 F. Dellar... 172 145 



0. Murphy. 129 132 W. Scli'm'n 162 151 



CHICAGO BOWLING. 



1st Game 2ud 3rd 



Eoses 805 837 72.3 



Orchids 7o2 <31 ^^1 



Violets 776 7,9 m3 



Carnations 6i7 6i9 80b 



Arrangements are complete for the 

 ball to be given on Nov. 11th at the 

 Coliseum annex, and a good time is 

 anticipated by the Bowling Club and 

 their friends. 



BUFFALO NOTES. 



A delegation of Rochester florists 

 visited the Buffalo flower show last 

 Thursday, Nov. 4, the gentlemen car- 

 rying away with them the fact that 

 Buffalo has a good start in the right 

 direction. Chas. H. Vick, Fred W. 

 Vick, J. M. Keller. Lee Tickner, Geo. 

 Keller, and several others composed 

 the party. 



S. A. Anderson has a very fine new 

 Begonia — unnamed — of the Lorraine 

 type which he will soon introduce to 

 the trade. This begonia has five petals 

 to each flower, the pollen centre being 

 three times as large as In the true 

 Lorraine. It is an easy grower and 

 roots readily, whereas the old bego- 

 nia has one flower, stalk from each 

 axil, the new plant has three 



Wm. F. Kasting, Geo. McClure and 

 L. Neubeck, Jr., visited the Roches- 

 ter show last Saturday as guests of 

 the Rochester Florists Association. Un- 

 fortunately the pergola, built in Con- 

 vention Hall during the preparations 

 of the flower show, and a part of the 

 decorations, fell, one of the men in 

 the employ of Prof. Cowell being in- 

 jured. He is recovering rapidly, how- 

 ever. J. Muller with J. Roehrs of 

 Rutherford, N. J., and Geo. Strange 

 with W. A. Manda of S. Orange, N. J., 

 were visitors this week 



INCORPORATED. 



Goldendale, Wasii. — Wahkiakus 

 Heights Orchard Co., capital stock 

 $25,000. F. W. Hurd, O. J. Nelson 

 and N. B. Brooks, incorporators. 



BIythe City, Calif.— The Big Five 

 Nursery Co., capital stock $25,000. 

 Directors, R. E. Smith, S. S. Rogers 

 and R. W. Ward of BIythe City. T. P. 

 Hunt of Berkeley and N. D. Ingham 

 of San Francisco. 



Putnam, Conn. — East Side Green- 

 houses (E. M. Arnold) are reported 

 to have failed. 



