May 20, 1911 



H O RT I C U LT U K £ 



745 



The Grandest Fern of the Age 



Nephrolepis Roosevelt 



IMPORTANT SPECIAL NOTICE — PRICE ADVANCE. 



The heavy demand from those who have seen 

 Nephrolepis Roosevelt grow/Ing on our place and 

 scarcity of stock compels us to advance the price on 

 all orders dated after June first to the following. Two 

 and one-fourth inch pots, 50 cents each; $4.50 per 

 dozen; $35.00 per hundred; $300.00 per thousand. 



It is our belief the price of Nephrolepis Roosevelt 

 for 1911 will be maintained during the season of 1912. 



Nephrolepis Roosevelt is a sport from Nephrolepis 

 Bostoniensis, but a wonderful Improvement over the 

 parent variety. The fronds of Roosevelt are from a 

 third to one-half wider than Boston and beautifully tapered from base to tip. Each pinnae is distinctly 

 undulated, giving the whole plant a decided wavy effect, which attracts the eye instantly. Nephrolepis 

 Roosevelt will make more young plants, produce a third more fronds, has more graceful drooping habit 

 and will finish to a larger and finer plant in small pots than any other fern on the market. Our stock 

 is positively free from that vicious little white scale which is causing fern growers so much trouble. 



Orders received to June first will be booked at the following prices. Two and one-fourth inch pots, 

 40 cents each; $3.50 per dozen; $25.00 per hundred; $200.00 per thousand. Twenty-five plants at hundred 

 rate; 250 plants at thousand rate. 



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GROWERS IN 



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CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



GARDENERS' AND FLORISTS' CLUE 

 OF BOSTON. 



The monthly meeting of this club 

 on the evening of May 16th was well 

 attended, considering the busy time 

 of the year. The attraction of the 

 evening was the paper on "Peonies," 

 and subsequent remarks by that witty 

 and observant devotee of the peony, 

 E. J. Shaylor, of Wellesley Hills, than 

 whom there is nobody in this country 

 better qualified to talk and instruct 

 on the subject. 



-An invitation to visit the gladiolus 

 fields of B. Hammond Tracy at Wen- 

 ham in August was accepted. It was 

 decided to have the usual summer p'c- 

 nic, date and place to be decided by 

 the PJxecutive Committee. .\n invita- 

 tion to join in the outing of the North 

 Shore Horticultural Society at West 

 Manchester was accepted, date to be 

 announced later. June meeting will 

 be Ladies' Night. Four new members 

 were admitted. 



On the exhibition table were some 

 choice orchids from W. A. Manda, in 

 charge of Mr. Strange. Bra=socat- 

 tleya Veitchii was given honorable 

 mention and a vote of thanks was ac- 

 corded for the others. J. K. M. L. 

 Farquhar showed flower stalks of two 

 Chinese lilies, L. myriophyllum and L. 

 leucanthemum, the former receiving a 

 report of merit and the latter honor- 

 able mention. Lilium myriophyllum 

 is as hardy as a tigrinum, deliciously 

 scented and declared by E. H. Wilson, 

 who collected this and half a dozen 

 other new lilies for Messrs. Farquhar, 

 to be the best of all lilies, especially 

 for this climate. L. leucanthemum is 



of the Brownii type, very robust, bear- 

 ing bulbils in the axils of the leaves 

 from which propagation is rapidly ef- 

 fected. The enormous flowers are 

 creamy white with purplish shading 

 on outside and overpoweringly frag- 

 rant. 



WESTCHESTER AND FAIRFIELD 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



At the regular monthly meeting, 

 Stamford, Conn., May 12th, seventy- 

 five members were present and two 

 life members, four honorary and 

 fifteen active members were elected. 

 Notably among the exhibits of the 

 evening were calceolarias, by Jas. 

 Stewart, new early flowering chrys- 

 anthemums by P. W. Popp, sweet peas 

 by Adam Patterson, and vegetables by 

 A. Peterson. The preliminary sched- 

 ule of the fall show is going to press 

 and copies will be mailed to all mem- 

 bers. Others can secure by applying 

 to J. B. McArdle, Secretary. 



TUXEDO 



HORTICULTURAL 

 CIETY. 



SO- 



The Tuxedo Horticultural Society 

 held a monthly meeting on May 3rd. 

 There was a very good gathering. 

 Fred Barth was elected to member- 

 ship. A discussion about transplant- 

 ing dogwoods took place which 

 brought out very interesting remarks. 

 Most all members present believe in 

 transplanting ordinary size of dogwood 

 just about before they start to grow. 

 A motion that the Society have a ball 

 sometime in June was voted on and 

 carried. 



NEW JERSEY FLORICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



Albert F. Larson tendered his resig- 

 nation as president of the N. J. F. S., 

 Friday evening. May 12th, at the reg- 

 ular monthly meeting. He has been 

 head gardener for A. B. Jenkins, 

 Lle-n'ellyn Park, for the past two years, 

 where he has showed marked ability 

 as a grower and has won a great many 

 prizes at the flower shows. He leaves 

 the O. ranges to take charge of the H. 

 C. Phipps estate at Roslyn, L. I., June 

 1st. He has been a hard worker for 

 the society and has been president for 

 the past eighteen months, having been 

 reelected for a second term. He has 

 the good wishes of all the members of 

 the society. 



An exhibition of My Maryland and 

 Killarney roses from the State Experi- 

 ment Station, arrived too late for our 

 meeting, but they were certainly well 

 grown; stems three feet long. These 

 roses were grown for two years on 

 same soil without manure; chemicai 

 fertilizers used only. 5S0 rose plants; 

 cost of fertilizer 20 cents per month, 

 plants average five good flowers per 

 crop. No resting: severe pruning. 



Lager & Hurrell had a fine specimen 

 of Cattleya Mossiae on exhibition with 

 twenty flowers of a beautiful dark 

 shade extra large, which they have 

 named Cattleya Mossiae Reidii. after 

 the secretary of the society. Joseph 

 A. Manda showed an extra fine speci- 

 men of Oncidium Marshallianum and 

 Thomas Jones Dendrobium chrysotoxa 

 and Cattleya Warneri for which they 

 received a certificate of merit. 



The society will hold its annual rose 



