HORTICULTURE 



July 15, 1905 



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NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



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SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS 

 AND ORNAMENTAL HORTI- 

 CULTURISTS 



Attention is called to the prizes offered 

 by Treasurer Beatty of $25, S15, Sio, for the 

 first, second, and third best essays on "The 

 Ideal Employer." These papers must be 

 sent to the office of the secretary without 

 signature, but with the name of the writer 

 accompanying same for the purpose of 

 record, and should not exceed fifteen hundred 

 words each. The time Hmit within which 

 these papers must be filed with the secretary 

 has been e.xtended to July 20. 



Wm. J. Stew..\rt, Secretary. 



HOTELS IN WASHINGTON 



The following Ust is supplied by the hotel 

 lommittee of the Washington Florists' Club: 



* The Shoreham Hotel, 15th and H street, 

 N. W. six squares from meeting hall, single 

 room for one person, $2 per day; two per- 

 sons, $3; room with bath, one person, $3 

 per day; two persons, $4; suites, parlor, two 

 bedrooms with bath, $10 per day. 



ArUngton Hotel, Vermont avenue and H 

 street, N. W. seven squares from hall, $2 

 per day. 



♦Hotel Manhattan, 604-606 9th street, 

 N. W. European plan, for gentlemen only, 

 one square from hall, $1 per day upwards. 



* St. James Hotel, 6th street and Pennsyl- 

 vania avenue, N. W., European plan, seven 

 squares from hall, single rooms, $1 to $2.50 

 per day^ rooms with bath, $2.50 per day; 

 suites, with bath $3 to $4 per day. 



* Colonial Hotel, 15th and H street, N. W. 

 European plan, six squares from hall, single 

 rooms, $1 per day. 



* Hotel Johnson, 13th and E street, N. W. 

 four squares from hall, European plan, $i 

 per day upwards; American plan $2.50 to 

 $4 per day. 



Columbia Hotel, for gentlemen only, 1413 

 Pennsylvania avenue, N. W. 6 squares from 

 hall, room for one person, $1.50 per day; 

 two persons, S2.50 per day. 



Metropolitan Hotel, seven squares from 

 hall, .American plan $2.50 to S4 per day; 

 European plan, Si to $3 per day. 



El Reno Hotel, opposite B. & O. Depot, 

 eleven squares from hall, single person, $1 

 per day; two persons, S2 per day. 



The rates of the following hotels, have not 

 been received by the committee but will be 

 announced as soon as received. 



Riggs House, G and isth street, N. W. five 

 squares from hall. 



National Hotel, 6th and Pennsylvania 

 avenue, N. W. seven squares fni.ii hull. 



The Oxford, 14th and New N'ork av.-nue 

 N. W. five squares from hall. 



Park Hotel, 1017 I street, N. W. three 

 squares from hall. 



New Willard, Pennsylvania avenue and 

 14th street, N. W. six squares from hall. 



Raleigh Hotel, 12th and Pennsylvania 

 avenue, N. W. four squares from hall. 



* Those specially recommended by Hotel Com- 



COURTESIES TO GARDENERS 



At a meeting of the Washint;t..n Florists' 

 Club held on the 3d inst. a Utter from Presi- 

 dent Vaughan was read in regard to the 

 private gardeners who intend to take in the 

 convention. A number of the gardeners had 

 expressed their intention of attending the 

 convention, while others had raised the ob- 

 jection "we know so few in the trade and 

 not belonging to the society ourselves, we 

 would feel lost and maybe out of jilare." 

 President Vaughan suggested that a member 

 of the local club be appointed to look after 

 the interests of the private gardener. The 

 club appointed Mr. Peter Bissct chairman 

 of a committee to see that all private garden- 

 ers who come to Washington for the con- 

 vention be met at the depot and made wel- 

 come, and to render them any assistance 



required. Any gardener who intends to 

 come to the convention can have rooms 

 booked for him, or can get any information 

 desired by writing to Peter Bisset, Twin 

 Oaks, Washington, D. C, who will do ail in 

 his power to make the visit of the private 

 gardener to the convention a pleasant one. 



THE WASHINGTON SOUVENIR 



The most elaborate and beautilul souvenir 

 book ever issued on the occasion of an S. A. 

 F., convention is now in preparation, and the 

 time is very short until the advertising lists 

 must be closed. Advertisers desiring to 

 have their announcements appear in it — 

 and that should include every one having 

 any kind of horticultural material to sell — 

 should secure space and send in copy at 

 once to J. R. Freeman, 612 13th street, 

 Washington, D. C. 



GARDENERS' AND FLORISTS' 

 CLUB OF BOSTON 



.Arrangements are practically completed 

 for the picnic to be held at Randolph Grove 

 on Tuesday, July 25, 1905. The sports 

 committee have arranged a comprehensive 

 hst of events which should draw a strong 

 entry. Included are foot races for all ages, 

 also for fat men, married men, and married 

 ladies, boat races on the lake; baseball, 

 cricket, tennis, croquet, quoits, are all on the 

 list, also several leaping contests, throwing 

 shot and hammer, etc. Last but by no means 

 least comes a class for the best looking baby. 



There will be a first-class clambake cUnner 

 served and many other attractions. Two 

 prizes will be given in each class; these 

 comprise a very varied and valuable assort- 

 ment of articles donated by members and 

 well vrishers. A very large attendance is 

 expected. Electrics from MiUon for Brock- 

 ton pass the grove. 



W. N. Craig, Secretary. 



NEWPORT HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY 



A regular meeting of the Newport Horti- 

 cultural Society was held Wednesday evening 

 last, President SuUivan in the chair. The 

 secretary's report of the June exhibition was 

 very satisfactory. Four new members were 

 elected, the number including Miss Alice 

 Keteltas and Miss Maud Wetmore. It is 

 expected that Mrs. Hamilton Fish Webster 

 will deliver an address on the arrangement 

 of flowers at the meeting on July 19th. 



Inadvertently no mention was made in 

 Horticulture's report of the June exhi- 

 bition of the award of a silver medal to Mrs. 

 Andrews for a beautiful miniature rock 

 garden. 



The fall exliibition will be held in the 

 Casino, and in order to accommodate all 

 exhibitors the balconies are to be utilized. 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY 



The first of the series of weekly .Saturday 

 and Sunday shows of the Massachusetts 

 Horticuhural Society was held on July 8 and 

 9. There was a brilUant profusion of garden 

 flowers. Delphiniums were especially fine 

 and roses were also seen in splendid quaUty 

 and abundance. Miss S. B. Fay and M. H. 

 Walsh being the chief exhibitors. Martin 

 Sullivan, gardener to Wm. Whitman, made 

 a remarkable display of delphiniums and 

 campanulas. Mr. Thatcher, gardener to 

 Mrs. J. L. Gardner, also contributed rich 

 groups of delpliiniums and irises. There 

 was a large display of other hardy perennials 

 from Harvard Botanic Garden, Blue Hill 

 Nurseries, Bay State Nurseries, F. J. Rea, 

 and Mt. Desert Nurseries. H. A. Stevens 

 Co. showed phlox and iris, Jackson Dawson 

 showed a seedhng cUmbing rose named Day- 

 break. The displays of sweet peas were 

 numerous and of excellent quality. 



AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LANDSCAPE 

 ARCHITECTS 



This society has just conjpleted a three- 

 day's meeting at Boston. Most of the time 

 was spent in visiting the various public and 

 |)rivate places conspicuous as examples of 

 (mv landscape work, including the Boston 

 Park system, Metropolitan Park svstem, and 

 the .Sargent, Anderson, Gardner, and Brande- 

 gee estates and Country Club, and Robinson 

 Hall at Harvard College where the school 

 of landscape architecture is presided over by 

 Prof. F. L. Olmsted, Jr. 



The society is six years old and this was 

 its first visit to Boston where a number of 

 its most influential members are located. Its 

 membership numbers thirty-four, of whom 

 sixteen are Fellows and eighteen Juniors, 

 the latter including the younger men follow- 

 ing the profession of landscape designing. 

 John C. Olmsted of BrookUne is president, 

 Samuel Parsons, Jr., vice-president. Down- 

 ing Vaux, secretary, and Charles N. Lowrie, 

 treasurer. 



All the above named gentlemen were 

 present at- the meeting except Mr. Parsons. 

 There were also O. C. Simonds, of Chicago, 

 Jas. L. Greenleaf, Chas. D. Fay, F. C. 

 Hoth, and C. F. Pilat, of New York, Prof. 

 F. L. Olmsted, Jr., W. H. Manning, J. Fred 

 Dawson, D. F. D..w, P.rcival Gallagher, S. 

 P. Negus, A, \ M;;,i.:i I .mil Mische, J. S. 

 Pray, and I'l < , 1 < || of Boston. 



On Frida) I ;, a banquet was 



given at the II. a- I -, : , , , ,, at which G. A. 

 Parker of Hartf.ird, Sylvester Baxter, Prof. 

 Robeson Sargent, Wm. J. Stewart, J. W. 

 Duncan, and Herbert Wise were invited 

 guests. Following the banquet. President 

 J. C. Olmsted gave an address on Boston's 

 Parks and Park Systems, illustrated with 

 lantern slides. It covered fully the history 

 and evolution of the splendid park system 

 whi( h Boston enjoys. He characterized the 

 introduction of golf playing into the pubhc 

 parks as an unwise curtailment of the privil- 

 eges of the many for the benefit of the few 

 and criticised some of the defects in early 

 construction. He said that Boston had got 

 her money's worth even if her parks had 

 cost $16,000,000. 



On Saturday evening, after excursions to 

 the Metropolitan reservations on the south of 

 the rity. Prof. F. L. Ohnsted lectured at 

 the Somerset on the Metropolitan Park 

 System, with stereopticon illustration. Sun- 

 day was devoted to an inspection of the 

 Metropolian reservations north of the city. 



TOLEDO HAS A VISIT FROM DETROIT 



fender the able conduct of President 



Robert Watsoh, and with the 



commissary 



department in charge of a committee well- 

 trained and tireless, the members of the De- 

 troit Florists' Club, to the number of twenty- 

 seven, treked to Toledo on Thursday, June 

 20. They were in quest of a good time, and 

 they had it — on the sixty mile railroad ride, 

 at the banquet to which they were conducted 

 on arrival in Toledo by a bunch of the 

 prospero.us florists of that growing metropo- 

 lis under the leadership of sleek-visaged 

 George Heiril — "a proper man, as one 

 shall see in a summer's day," — who knows 

 a tiling or two about entertaining, at the 

 banquet, where George P. Beyer, the able 

 toast-master wound up the visitors to re- 

 sistless eloquence, at the greenhouses visited, 

 at the bowling alleys where the men of De- 

 troit squared old scores by walloping their 

 hosts, at Walbridge Park, where both mate- 

 rial and sesthetic entertainment abounded, 

 on the steamer ride up the Maumee river — 

 in fact, everywhere and every minute of the 

 dax' was packed with pleasure up to the mid- 

 night hour when the city of the beautiful 

 rose was again reached and tired adieus were 

 said. 



