HORTICULTURE. 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY OF 

 AMERICA. 



President Duckham has announced 

 the committees to examine seedlings 

 and sports on dates as follows: Oc- 

 tober 7th, 14th, 21st and 28th; No- 

 vember 4th, 11th, 18th and 25th, 1905.. 



Exhibits to receive attention from 

 the committees must in all cases be 

 prepaid to destination, and the entry 

 fee of $2 should be forwarded to the 

 secretary not later than Tuesday of 

 the week preceding examination, or 

 may accompany the blooms. Special 

 attention is called to the rule requir- 

 ing that sports to receive a certificate 

 must pass three committees. 



New York.— Eugene Dailledouze, 

 chairman, care of New York Cut 

 Flower Co., 6th avenue and 26th street; 

 Arthur Herrington, Thomas Head. 



Philadelphia, Pa.— A. B. Cartledge, 

 chairman, 1514 Chestnut street; John 

 Westcott, Wm. K. Harris. 



Boston, Mass. — E. A. Wood, chair- 

 man; Wm. Nicholson, James Wheeler. 

 Ship to Boston Flower Market, care 

 John Walsh. 



Cincinnati, 0.— R. Witterstaeter, 

 chairman; James Allen, Wm. Jackson. 

 Ship to Jabez Elliott Flower Market, 

 care janitor. 



Chicago, 111.— J. S. Wilson, chair- 

 man; J. B. Deamud and Phil Haus- 

 wirth. Ship" care of J. B. Deamud, 51 

 Wabash avenue. 



The Official Scales of the C. S. A. 

 are as follows: 



For Commercial Purposes. 



Color 20 



Form 15 



Fullness 10 



Stem 15 



Foliage 15 



Substance 15 



Size 10 



Total 100 



For Exhibition Purposes. 



Color 10 



Stem 5 



Foliage B 



Fullness 15 



Form 15 



Depth 15 



Size 35 



Total 100 



F. H. LEMON, Secretary. 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTUR- 

 AL SOCIETY. 



The preliminary schedule of prizes 

 for the spring exhibition of the Mas- 

 sachusetts Horticultural Society. 

 March 22-26, 1906, has been issued and 

 copies thereof may be obtained by ad- 

 dressing the secretary, W. C. Rich, 

 Horticultural Hall, Boston. The usual 

 liberal premiums are offered for green- 

 house plants, rambler and other roses, 

 cyclamens, cinerarias, spring-flower- 

 ing bulbs, Easter flowering plants, etc.. 

 In the plant classes, and roses, carna- 

 tions, violets, orchids, etc., in the cut- 

 flower classes. Winter vegetables are 

 also liberally provided for. 



AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION. 



The first annual meeting of this re- 

 organized society will be held at Cleve- 

 land, 0., on October 4, 5 and 6. The 

 program of proceedings is as follows: 



Wednesday, October 4. — Address of 

 welcome, Hon. Tom L. Johnson, Mayor 

 of Cleveland; address by Ambrose 

 Swasey, response by J. Horace McFar- 

 land, president; "One Year's Work," 

 Clinton Rogers Woodruff; report of 

 treasurer, William B. Howland; report 

 of the nominating committee, H. P. 

 Kelsey; election of officers. Second 

 session at 2.30 p. m. — "Improvement 

 Work Among Children," Dick J. Cros- 

 by, presiding; "The Cleveland Home 

 Gardening Association," Starr Cadwal- 

 ader; "Juvenile Civic League Work," 

 Mrs. Caroline Bartlett Crane and Prof. 

 William C. Langdon; "The Social Set- 

 tlement and Its Work Among Chil- 

 dren," Graham R. Taylor; "Play- 

 grounds and Public Recreation," Jo- 

 seph Lee; "Children's Gardens, the 

 Educational Application," illustrated, 

 Dick J. Crosby. 8 P. M.— "Cleveland's 

 Contributions to Civic Advancement," 

 L. E. Holden; "Recent Municipal Im- 

 provements," illustrated, Frank Miles 

 Day. 



Thursday, 9.30 A. M.— "The Public 

 Library as a Factor in Civic Improve- 

 ment," Frederick M. Crunden; "Car- 

 negie Libraries as Civic Centres," il- 

 lustrated, Theodore W. Koch; Sym- 

 posium on ways and means. 2.30 P. 

 M.— Department meetings, including 

 reports and election of officers, Mrs. 

 Charles F. Millspaugh, presiding. 8 P. 

 M. — "First Steps in Improvement 

 Work," illustrated, J. Horace McFar- 

 land; "The Improvement of Washing- 

 ton," Charles Moore. 



Friday, 9.30 A. M.— "Women as a 

 Factor in Civic Improvement," Mrs. 

 Charles F. Millspaugh; "The Improve- 

 ment of the Home," Mrs. Gabrielle S. 

 Mulliner; "What an Individual Did in 

 One Community," Mrs. Sylvia C. Bay- 

 lis; "Outdoor Art," W. H. Manning; 

 "The Arts and Crafts as Factors in 

 Civic Improvement," Mrs. M. F. John- 

 ston. 2 P. M.— Park and city making 

 department meetings, addresses by 

 Prof. T. H. MacBride, C. W. Garfield, 

 Ossian C. Simonds. 9 P. M.— Formal 

 reception by Chamber of Commerce. 



NEWPORT HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



A meeting of the Newport Horticul- 

 tural Society was held last Wednesday 

 evening. President Sullivan in the 

 chair. The secretary presented his re- 

 port of the exhibition, which, being 

 altogether satisfactory, was adopted 

 and the premiums awarded ordered 

 paid. 



Joseph Gibson delivered an address 

 on herbaceous plants, making special 

 and exceedingly pointed reference to 

 the term "herbaceous" as commonly 

 denoting perennials, claiming that the 

 term itself was not explicit enough to 

 answer the purpose for which it is in- 



NEW HAVEN COUNTY HORTICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY. 



At the meeting of this society on 

 Tuesday evening, Sept. 19, there was 

 an elegant exhibition of plants and 

 flowers. Dahlias were especially 

 prominent and many fine varieties 

 were shown by J. H. Macdonald, John 

 Murray, W. H. Beattie, Ernest Car- 

 roll, W. Schmidt. J. H. Slocombe, R. 

 T. Pryde, Frank Duffy. Other con- 

 tributors were A. J. Thompson and F. 

 Thomas. Certificates were awarded to 

 W. H. Beattie and J. H. Macdonald. 



NOTES. 



In addition to the special awards 

 mentioned in our issue of last week, 

 at the annual exhibition of the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society, a silver 

 medal was given to Jackson Dawson 

 for a very extensive collection of fruit- 

 ing pyruses. 



The third annual exhibition of the 

 Huntington Horticultural and Agri- 

 cultural Society will be held at Hunt- 

 ington, L. I., N. Y., on Thursday, Oct. 

 5. One rule in the schedule we do 

 not remember to have seen elsewhere 

 gives permission to any dissatisfied 

 competitor to lodge a protest against 

 the judges' decision, but he must de- 

 posit $5 therewith and if his claim be 

 found groundless he must forfeit his 

 deposit. 



LONG ISLAND MUSINGS. 



If you are the owner of a range of 

 greenhouses and should chance to be 

 in the neighborhood of Flushing, New 

 York, take a few minutes of time and 

 visit the rose and carnation houses of 

 A. L. Thorne. The roses are healthy 

 and promising, the Prosperitys, Fair 

 Maids, Queens and Lawsons likewise, 

 and very nice to see, but the principal 

 object-lesson to which we wish to call 

 attention is the immaculate cleanliness 

 and order which characterize the 

 place. Paths, benches, plants, abso- 

 lutely clean — not a bit of rubbish any- 

 where. We know plenty of fiorists' 

 establishments that are different — so 

 different. 



The practicability of keeping old 

 rose plants in commission for several 

 years under ordinary forcing con- 

 ditions is well demonstrated at John 

 H. Taylor's place at Bayside. Mr. 

 Taylor has been an advocate of this 

 method for many years and his houses 

 at the present time are in a condition 

 to support any claim he may make on 

 this subject. Another interesting cul- 

 tural note the visitor to this place is 

 sure to make concerns the manner of 

 growing Liberty roses. These are cut 

 down almost to the ground every fall, 

 all the flowers being produced on new 

 shoots from the bottom of the plant. 

 The original plants sold to Mr. Taylor 

 by Mr. Asmus are still in good work- 

 ing order, under this method, and are 

 full of promise. 



A mammoth pepper from Vaughan's 

 Seed Store was awarded the society's 

 certificate of merit as a novelty. 



ALL SOLD OUT. 



S. Sudbury, Mass. 

 We have no more plants to sell, so 

 stop the ad. COOLIDGE BROS. 



September 18. 



