June 15, 1918 



H R T I C U L T U K K 



581 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 

 The Washington Rose Test Garden. 

 Un .May 21th we stood on a new 

 road looking over level sloping land. 

 In the background was Arlington 

 Heights with the Custis Mansion, the 

 one-time home of Robert E. Lee, 

 showing through the trees; the Na- 

 tional Cemetery with its thousands o" 

 graves hidden by' the trees; the great 

 skeleton frame towers for the wire- 

 less telegraphy at Fort Meyers; a 

 white marble government building 

 standing out above the trees; and 

 between this ridge and the road was 

 the rose test garden— all a picture of 

 beauty. 



The garden is enclosed with a plain 

 wire tepee; there are pathways be- 

 tween the sections, high trellises 

 with climbing roses, many in bloom, 

 beds of various varieties splendid 

 with color. During the three years 

 of work the men in charge certainly 

 have done well. Mr. Mulford, neau 

 gardener, and Prof. G. C. Corbett, 

 and others, deserve much credit. The 

 committee of the American Rose So- 

 ciety for this test garden, Robert 

 Pyle, chairman, has looked after its 

 part well. 



The large new greenhouses and 

 other structures are a marked change 

 over the Virginia clay roads and 

 fields which we looked at four years 

 ago when some of the autos in which 

 we rode churned up the wet clay and 

 stood still, and the party had a taste 

 of Virginia mud which was a new ad- 

 venture to some. But the time is 

 near when the Washington Rose Test 

 Garden will be one of the many at- 

 tractions of the Capitol City of the 

 Nation. "A rose for every home, p 

 bush for every garden." 



Benjamin H.\mmond, 

 Pres. Am. Rose Soc. 

 Beacon, N. Y. 



The Hartford Garden Exhibit 

 The Hartford Garden Kxhibit of the 

 American Rose Society will be held in 

 Elizabeth Park, Hartford, Conn., at 

 1.30 on June 20. The local committee, 

 consisting of Wallace R. Pierson. 

 Cromwell. Conn.. John F. Huss, Hart- 

 ford, Conn., and Alexander Cumming, 

 Jr., Cromwell, Conn., has made plans 

 for a most enjoyable occiision. The 

 Elizabeth Park Rose Test Garden is 

 the oldest and one of the best in the 



Meetings Next Week 



Monday, June 17. 



Kelioit Flciiiats' dull, Beiul) Klo 

 hal Hall. Di-troit. Mich. 



Hdustdii Kliiri.sts' Club. Chamber 

 of Commerce Ucioms. Houston, Tex. 



New Jersey I'loricultural Society, 

 OrauKc. N. J. 



New Yolk Feileratiou of Horti- 

 cultural .Societies and Floral Clubs. 

 1170 r.roailwa.v, New York City. 



Tuesday, June 18. 



(iarttcuers" auil Florists' Club of 

 I'c.ston, Horticultural Hall, Boston, j 

 Mass. 



(iardners' ami Florists' Club of 

 Ontario, St. George's Hall, Toronto, 

 Can. 



Minnesota State Florists' Associa- 

 tion, Minneapolis. Minn. 



Pennsylvania Horticultural So- 

 ciety. Crittitli Hall. I'ljilailelphia. I'a. 



Wednesday, June 19. 



Rhode Island Horticultural So- 

 ciety, rublie Library, Providence, 

 R. 1. 



Tarrytown Horticultural Society. 

 Tarrytown, N. Y. 



Thursday, June 20. 



Essex County Florists' ClUb, 

 KreuKer.Kuditiprinni, Ne\yark. N. J. 



Ne\y Orleans Horticultural Society. 

 .\ssocinti<)n of Commerce Bldg., New 

 Orleans. La. 



North Westchester County Horti- 

 cultural Society. Mt. Kisco. N. Y. 



Taconia Florists' Association. Mai'- 

 cabee Hall, Tacoma, "Wash. 



Friday. June 21 



Nortli Shore Horticultural Sttciefy. 

 Manchester, Mass. 



United States and a visit to this gar- 

 den will be a rare treat to all rosari- 

 ans. In addition to an inspection of 

 the garden an interesting program 

 has been prepared and the speakers 

 will be some of the best known Ameri- 

 can authorities on roses and rose cul- 

 ture. If enough of the members of the 

 American Rose Society remain over 

 night, an interesting trip will be 

 arranged covering the Hartford parks. 

 As the hotels are crowded, those mem- 

 bers expecting to remain over night 

 should notify George T.ane, 180 Asylum 

 street, Hartford, Conn., who will see 

 that hotel accommodations are re- 

 served. Such notices should reach 

 Mr. Lane before Saturday night, June 

 1.'), or early Monday morning. All the 

 Hnrtford incoming trains on Saturday 

 morning will bo met and the members 

 conveyed to the gardens. Members of 

 the American Rose Society in the East 

 should attend and bring their friends 

 and everyone should unite to make 

 this meeting one of the big events in 

 the annals of the American Rose 

 Society. 



E. A. WiiiTK. Secretary. 



GARDENERS' & FLORISTS' CLUB 

 OF BOSTON. 

 Field Day at Milton. 

 A perfect June day favored those 

 who made the trip to the N. T. Kidder 

 estate, Milton, on Saturday afternoon, 

 and there were nearly one hundred in 

 the party, one-third of whom were 

 ladies. Autos were kindly furnished 

 to convey passengers to and from 

 Milton Lower Mills, the nearest car- 

 line point. Some preferred to walk 

 the distance the better to enjoy the 

 wide and enchanting views. A re- 

 freshing shower the previous day had 

 given parched vegetation a new lease 

 of life, and the extensive and choice 

 collection of herbaceous perennials 

 and rock plants came in for much at- 

 tention. Pentstemon, coeruleus, Gyp- 

 sophila repens. Clematis Davidiana. 

 Geum coccineum Mrs. Bradshaw. 

 aquilegias, delphiniums, peonies, dian- 

 thus, lupins and numerous other varie- 

 ties, many of them new and rare, were 

 in bloom. There were not a few 

 blanks, mute testimony of winter's 

 severity. Some grand masses of 

 rhododendrons and azaleas were just 

 passing out of bloom. These had win- 

 tered well, but hemlocks. bo::es, coton- 

 easters, hypericums, althaeas, rambler 

 roses and not a few others were parti- 

 ally or entirely killed. The collection 

 of shrubs here is a choice one, and 

 some anomalies were noted in the prac- 

 tically killing out of supposedly iron- 

 clad plants, and others classed as ten- 

 der were not harmed at all. A beautiful 

 specimen of Salisburia adiantifolia of 

 large proportions brought praise from 

 everyone. 



The greenhouses contain a collec- 

 tion of plants such as can be found in 

 but few gardens. Many are hard- 

 wooded, and others are unknown to 

 the great majority of present day gar- 

 deners and florists. Statices. rondele- 

 tias. ixoras. dipladenias, aphelexis, 

 goldfussias, diosmas, epacris, and 

 many others, the mere sight of which 

 brought back fragrant memories of 

 long ago to some of the visitors. 

 There were also orchids in variety and 

 a giMioral assortment of fine foliaged 

 plants, while soft-wooded subjects and 

 vegetables were not by any means 

 omitted. 



Mr. Kidder has been for many years 

 a keen horticulturist, and is a past 

 president of the Massachusetts Horti- 

 cultural Society. He both knows and 

 loves his plants, and for over thirty 

 years has had the benefit of labors and 



