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HORTICULTURE 



November 26, 1910 



variety being a Japanese called Petite 

 Helena de Tiaret. 



The post prandial oratory was of a 

 high order and the speakers were 

 most cordially received. M. Maeda, 

 late Minister of Agriculture for Japan, 

 M. Firmin Lambeau, M. Ch. de Bos- 

 schere, Baron Von Solemacher, Mr. 

 Harman Payne and others contributed. 

 Sir Albert Rollit reminded his hearers 

 of the great horticultural show to be 

 held in London in 1912, and hoped for 

 a large display from France. He ter- 

 minated by presenting to M. Vlger 

 and to M. Max de la Rocheterie, Presi- 

 dent of the French Chrysanthemum 

 Society, a silver-gilt medal of the Na- 

 tional Chrysanthemum Society of Eng- 

 land in recognition of the courtesy and 

 hospitality for many years shown to 

 English visitors from the N. C. S. 



The Congress. 



On the 5th of November there were 

 two meetings of the Congress in the 

 hall of the National Horticultural So- 

 ciety of France, rue de Grenelle. M. 

 Viger took the chair, the Bureau of the 

 Congress being composed of Messrs. 

 Maeda, Rivoire, G. Truffaut, Nonin, 

 Harman Payne, Birde, Couillard. 

 Papers were read on the history of 

 the chrysanthemum, on the damping 

 of blooms, and a practical object les- 

 son in packing cut blooms was given 

 by M. Crepin. From our point of view 

 the discussion on the need of a pocket 

 edition of the Repertoire des Couleurs 

 was by far the most important, and 

 finally it was resolved that a special 

 committee be appointed to consider 

 the question. 



The members of the Congress were 

 taken on Sunday, the Cth November, 

 in carriages to view the gardens and 

 museum of the Luxembourg. At mid- 

 day a lunch was given at the Palais d' 

 Orsay and in the afternoon, after a 

 drive in the Bois de Boulogne, a visit 

 to the nurseries of the City of Paris 

 was made. This place is of consider- 

 able interest, as all the parks and open 

 places in Paris are provided with plants 

 from these nurseries. The frame 

 ground and various greenhouses stored 

 with millions of bedding plants were 

 of great interest. At the foot of the 

 steps facing the greenhouses the whole 

 partv were photographed. 



C. HARMAN PAYNE. 



AN AMATEUR WITH A RECORD. 



PROPOSED EXHIBITION AT BOS- 

 KOOP. 



The exhibition of forced shrubs and 

 perennials, which will be held in April, 

 1911, has met with very good support, 

 and will in its extent and importance 

 fairly surpass all the committee's ex- 

 pectations. His Royal Highness Prince 

 Henry has consented to become a pa- 

 tron of the exhibition and the royal 

 family have promised several medals. 

 The hundreds of exhibits will require 

 much more space than we expected at 

 first, so that the space occupied by the 

 exhibition will be at least 3400 sq. 

 meters. There will be exhibits in al- 

 most every class. The number of 

 novelties amounts already to 77. One 

 can therefore easily understand that 

 Boskoop is working with enthusiasm 

 and that everything possible will be 

 done to make the exhibition one of 

 the most successful that has ever taken 

 place in Holland. 



C. PH. MOERLAND, Sec. 



Our illustration shows Boston's most 

 renowned amateur chrysanthemum 

 grower, James Nichol, of Quincy, in 

 the midst of his pets. As there was 

 no exhibition in Boston this year, Mr. 

 Nichol was obliged to go afield for 

 new fields of conquest, and turned up 



at Worcester, Mass., with a vase of 

 Miriam Hankey which proved eye- 

 openers for the growers of that sec- 

 tion and were pronounced the finest 

 flowers in the show. Mr. Nichol is an 

 enthusiastic member of the Gardeners' 

 and Florists' Club of Boston. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM NOVELTIES 

 CERTIFICATED IN LONDON. 



In addition to the new chrysanthe- 

 mums mentioned in my previous notes 

 there was another batch of this popu- 

 lar flower which received awards at 

 the National Society's show. About 

 one hundred novelties were submitted 

 to the Floral Committee, indicating 

 that the hybridists are still actively 

 engaged in raising new aspirants tor 

 honors. The following were the re- 

 cipients of first-class certificates: 

 Cedy Mason (Wells & Co., Surray), a 

 large single, of bright chestnut red. 

 with golden centre; Mrs. Richard A. 

 Witty (Messrs. Wells), Japanese re- 

 flexed, chestnut red. with buff reverse; 

 Snowflake (P. Ladds & Co., Swanley, 

 Kent), pure white single, with yellow 

 disc; Mrs. Greening (Butler Bros., 

 Bexley Heath, Kent), a sport from Ca- 

 price du Printemps, a market variety, 

 of a pleasing shade of pink. Messrs. 

 Butler also received a certificate for 

 Butler's Caprice, another sport from 

 Caprice du Printemps, the tint being 

 old rose, tipped with gold. Mrs. W. 

 Roots (W. Roots, Cranford, Middle- 

 sex), white, medium-sized market va- 

 riety; D. B. Crane (Martin Spilsbury, 

 Shanklin, Isle of Wight), a bold Jap- 

 anese bloom, of a rich gold hue, tint- 

 ed bronze; Ethel Thorp (H. W. Thorp, 

 Durrington, Sussex), a silvery pink in- 

 curved bloom. In addition to making 

 a splendid display of chrysanthemums. 

 Wells & Co. exhibited a selection of 

 perpetual flowering carnations. Among 

 them was "White House," which the 

 firm are distributing in Europe for 

 C. H. Totty of Madison. New Jersey. 

 This new white is likely to attain as 

 great popularity on this side as in 

 America. It has already received an 

 award of merit from the Royal Horti- 

 cultural Society. 



W. H. ADSETT. 



Haverhill, Mass.— The greenhouses 

 owned by the White Estate have been 

 purchased by Charles H. Newell and 

 they will be taken down at once and 

 removed to his Brookdale Nursery in 

 West Newbury. These houses are four 

 in number, one 24v.55 feet, one 12':.x70, 

 two 15>/,x90; also potting shed 14xfi0, 

 an office' building and two boilers. 



A PEEP AT WESTERLY. 



We recently had the privilege of a 

 very brief call at the greenhouses of 

 S. J. Renter & Son at Westerly, R. I., 

 and confess astonishment at the won- 

 derful advancement in this place since 

 we last saw it — although it was then 

 recognized as one of the leading New 

 England establishments. Much addi- 

 tional glass has been erected and many 

 old houses have been replaced by new 

 ones of the most modern type. Chrys- 

 anthemums were still in the fore- 

 ground at the time of our call, and 

 one would have to look tar to see bet- 

 ter examples of Nagoya, ■ Chadwick, 

 Eaton, Maud Dean and other useful 

 commercial sorts. Belfast, sent out as 

 a new variety by a Maine florist last 

 year, appears, as grown in Westerly, 

 to be simply Chadwick. W. T. Brock 

 is proving very satisfactory, being of 

 a desirable tint of pink, lighter than 

 Enguehard and a larger bloom than 

 that popular sort. Dolly Dimple, sul- 

 phur yellow, is another one that has 

 made good this season. 



The carnation houses here are worth 

 going a long distance to see. Finer 

 plants would seem to be impossible. 

 All the meritorious new kinds are 

 .2;rown in quantity but first on the 

 list, in Mr. Renter's esteem is Pink 

 Delight and another favorite is May 

 Day. For a novelty, to be grown in 

 moderate quantity Conquest is in 

 much favor. 



A propagating house erected the past 

 season has capacity for 100,000 cut- 

 tings. It is benched on the same 

 plan as that of Peirce Bros, at Waver- 

 ly, Mass., with separate beds, 5x10 ft., 

 located cross-ways of the house and 

 accessible from three sides. Each bed 

 has its own set of heating pipes under- 

 neath. There are 30 such beds in this 



house. 



INCORPORATED. 



Hartford, Conn. — The Texas Orchard 

 Development Ca to deal in seeds, 

 plants, trees, etc., also to purchase and 

 lease land necessary for dealing in 

 fruit and vegetables, and for various 

 other purposes. Capital. $1,500,000. In- 

 corporators, Edward M. Day of Hart- 

 lord, Benedict E. Lyons of Thomaston 

 and Nellie Annis of Manchester. 



