HORTICULTURE 



October 21, 1905 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



GARDENERS' AND FLORISTS' 

 CLUB OF BOSTON. 



The meeting of this club last Tues- 

 day evening was remarkable for at- 

 tendance, there being 153 members 

 present and 19 new names were added 

 to the roll. A delegation of visitors 

 from the North Shore Horticultural 

 Society was received with fraternal 

 greetings and the compliment of hon- 

 orary membership was bestowed upon 

 one of their number, Mr. Joseph 

 Clark of Manchester. The nominating 

 committee for officers to be voted for 

 at the annual meeting was appointed 

 to consist of Charles Sander, W. E. 

 p'ischer and W. H.- Elliott. An invita- 

 tion was received and accepted to vis- 

 it the greenhouses of the Waban Rose 

 Conservatories on October 2S, and it 

 was announced that Prof. B. M. Wat- 

 son, of the Bussey Institution would 

 be the speaker at the next meeting of 

 the club. The permanent committee 

 on exhibits was made up of Messrs. 

 Kobert Cameron, J. A. Pettigrew, 

 Peter Fisher, W. N. Craig and A. H. 

 Kewkes. On the exhibition table were 

 the following interesting exhibits: 

 Rose Wellesley from Waban Rose Con- 

 servatories. English melons from W. 

 N. Craig; also Cattleyas Lawrenceana, 

 labiata, 4eucoglossa and Portia trom 

 the same gentleman; Gov. Herrick 

 violet from Wm. Sim; Rose Mrs. Pier- 

 pont Morgan from Robert McGorum; 

 carnations, sports from Lawson, from 

 H. A. Stevens; salmon seedling carna- 

 tion, No. 10, from Peter Fisher; cot- 

 ton plants from the Department of 

 Public Grounds, Wm. Doogue, supt.; 

 chrysanthemums, F. A. Cobbold; Chel- 

 loni, H. J. Jones, Mrs. S. T. Wright, 

 Lord Hopetown, F. S. Valis. Mrs. H. 

 A. Miller and Mrs. Wm. Knox, from 

 W. A. Riggs. Mr. J. A. Pettigrew de- 

 livered a very interesting paper giving 

 reminiscences of his recent European 

 trip, which we shall present in full to 

 our readers in next week's issue. A 

 collation and songs filled up the social 

 part of a meeting long to be remem- 

 bered. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY OF 

 AMERICA. 



The Chicago committee of the 

 Chrysanthemum Society of America 

 judged seedlings Saturday, October 14, 

 as follows: 



No. 6, exhibited by H. W. Buckbee, 

 Rockford, 111., pink type of Glory of 

 Pacific, scored So points, commercial 

 scale. 



Seedling (Opah X Monrovia), creamy 

 white, type of Viviand-Morel, exhibit- 

 ed by Nathan Smith & Son, Adrian, 

 Mich., scored 80 points, commercial 

 scale. 



Seedling (Opah X Mrs. Coombs), 

 pink, type of Viviand-Morel, exhibited 

 by Nathan Smith & Son, Adrian, 

 Mich., scored 82 points, commercial 

 scale. 



Examined by the New York commit- 

 tee, Oct. 14, 1905: Seedling No. 12-11- 



o;!, Rosiere, exhibited by Nathan Smith 

 & Son, Adrian, Mich., lilac pink, Japa- 

 nese type, scored 85 points, commer- 

 cial scale. 



Philadelphia, Oct. 14, 1905: Seed- 

 ling No. 11-27-04, exhibited by Nathan 

 Smith & Son, Adrian, Mich., white, 

 Japanese reflexed, scored 84 points, 

 commercial scale. Remarks — Had the 

 foliage been as good as the flower, va- 

 riety would have scored better. 



Also at Philadelphia: Seedling No. 

 12-11-03, Rosiere, exhibited by Nathan 

 Smith & Son, Adrian, Mich., pink, 

 Japanese reflexed, scored 85 points, 

 commercial scale. 



At Cincinnati, Oct. 14, 1905: Seed- 

 ling No. 12-11-03, Rosiere, exhibited by 

 Nathan Smith & Son, Adrian, Mich., 

 pink (Magenta), outer petals shaded 

 silver pink, Japanese reflexed scored 

 85 points, commercial scale. 



Also at Cincinnati: Seedling No. 

 11-27-04, October Frost, exhibited by 

 Nathan Smith & Son, Adrian, Mich., 

 white, Japanese type, scored 86 points, 

 commercial scale. 



MORRIS CO. (N. J.) GARDENERS' 

 AND FLORISTS' SOCIETY. 



The October meeting of this society 

 came pretty nearly being a strictly 

 business one. On account of the se- 

 vere storm only fourteen members 

 were present. 



R. Vince showed one hundred 

 Fiancee carnations, extra good for so 

 early. Certificate of merit was award- 

 ed. 



Preparing for the flower show took 

 up the rest of the time. Wm. Turner 

 of Oceanic, N. J., Thos. Head of Gro- 

 ton. Conn., and James Blair of Staats- 

 burg, N. Y., are to act as judges. 

 Many entries are already received and 

 outlook for more is bright. Some 

 striking new "mums" are to be with 

 us: a half dozen carnation novelties 

 we are promised. One man has a two 

 hundred and fifty pound squash he is 

 anxious for us to have. 



A committee on arrangements com- 

 posed of Messrs. Totty, Duckham and 

 He.-rington will have their hands full. 



Everything looks as if this show- 

 will be fully equal, if not better, than 

 any show we have ever had. We will 

 tell you more about it when it is over. 

 E. R. 



COMING EVENTS. 



Bay Shore Horticultural Society, 

 second annual exhibition in Carleton 

 Opera House, Bay Shore, N. Y., Oc- 

 tober 24-25. 



Morris County Gardeners' and Flor- 

 ists' Society, tenth annual flower show 

 in Assembly Rooms, Madison, N. J., 

 October 26-27. 



American Institute of New York, 

 chrysanthemum show, October 31- 

 November 3. 



Tarrytown Horticultural Society. 

 New York, seventh annual exhibition. 

 November 1-2-3. 



Nassau County Horticultural Society. 



rir.-t annual flower show in Pembroke 

 Ha!!. Glen Cove, N. Y., November 1-2. 



Jloumouth County Horticultural So- 

 ciety, eighth annual exhibition, Red 

 Bank, N. J., November 1-2. 



Southern California Horticultural 

 Association, first annual exhibition, 

 Los Angeles, November 2-3-4. 



Tuxedo (N. Y.) Horticultural So- 

 ciety, fourth annual exhibition, No- 

 vember 3-4-5. 



NOTES. 



Edwin Lonsdale reports a big batch 

 of yeas from the members of the 

 Florists' Club of Philadelphia in re- 

 sponse to the invitation of Edward A. 

 Stroud to visit his Strafford carnation 

 farm on Oct. 26. 



The Gardeners' and Florists Club of 

 Boston will visit the Waban Rose Con- 

 servatories, Natick, Mass., on Sunday, 

 October 28. Cars will be taken at 

 Park square at one o'clock. 



MEDICINAL PLANTS IN GOLDEN 

 GATE PARK. 



When in San Francisco early last 

 year, Dr. Rodney H. True, who is in 

 charge of the drug and medicinal plant 

 investigation of the United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture, suggested to 

 the Golden Gate Park Commissioners 

 the desirableness of establishing a 

 drug plant section within the park, the 

 commissioners took up the idea with 

 alacrity. Ten acres of land on the out- 

 skirts of the reservation were devoted 

 to the purposes of the drug garden. 

 The planting was done without delay, 

 and this summer the garden is a mass 

 of brilliant bloom, adding to the beauty 

 of the park, as well as constituting an 

 experiment of great utilitarian value. 

 Specimens of medicinal vegetables to 

 the number of 400 are growing there, 

 and each is labeled in a manner show- 

 ing the natural order or division, the 

 generic title, and the specific and com- 

 mon name. The nativity of the plant 

 is alto mentioned, and the parts used 

 for medicinal purposes are indicated. 

 To maintain and enrich the scope of 

 this garden nearly every country on 

 the globe, save, perhaps, those in the 

 extreme tropics, has been levied upon, 

 but the bulk of the classified plants 

 has been obtained from Germany. 



It is the view of the officials con- 

 nected with the drug and medicinal 

 plant investigations of the Agricultural 

 Department at Washington that Cali- 

 fornia is in the matter of soil and 

 climate peculiarly fitted to the produc- 

 tion of these growths, and while their 

 cultivation at the park is more or less 

 of an experimental nature, there is not 

 only very little doubt that the ulti- 

 mate result will be to demonstrate the 

 possibility of producing them on a 

 commercial basis, but certainly the be- 

 lief that there is a big market — and 

 a home market, too — for medicinal 

 plants. The United States buys abroad 

 each year vegetable drugs of the value 

 of $16,000,000. There is no reason why 

 almost the whole of this money should 

 not be retained in this country. 



Constantly getting into a pickle- 

 lic encumber. 



