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HORTICULTURE 



June 10, 1911 



READY FOR SHIPMENT 



BAY TREES, in all sizes, in best varieties 



BOX TREES, large assortment, in all sizes and forms 



BEGONIA LORRAINE, from 2Mnch pots, twice shifted, leaf 

 cuttings, finest obtainable 



CYCLAMEN, from 2-inch, 3-inch and 4-inch pots, finest strain 



KENTIAS, largest and finest stock at reasonable prices 



SPECIAL PRICE LIST FOR THE ASKING 



NATIONAL SWEET PEA SOCIETY 

 OF AMERICA. 



The following additional prizes have 

 been added to the schedule for the ex- 

 hibition to be held in Philadelphia at 

 the end of this month. The prize list 

 now amounts to nearly $600 in cash 

 and cups. 



Chiss 3(j — Table Decoration of Sweet 

 Peas, 1st ^15.m and $10.00. 



Class 37— Basket of Sweet Peas. 1st 

 $10.00, 2nd ifS.OO. 



Class 38— Bride's Bouquet of Sweet Peas, 

 1st $10.00, 2nd $5.00. 



Class 39— The Stumpp & Walter Co.'s 

 prizes for three vases of Aurora Speucei', 

 Counte.ss Spenoer, and King Edward 

 Spencer, 1st prize $.5.00. 2nd $3.00, 3rd $2.00. 



Class 40— Tlie John Lewis Childs prizes 

 for rase of mixed Sweet Peas not more 

 than 100 sprays (amateurs only). 1st prize 

 $5.<X), 2nd $.'?.00. 3rd $2.00. 



Class 41 — The Aphine Mfg. Co.'s prize 

 for the best six vases, HO blooms each, 

 Sweet Peas, open to florists only, $10.00. 



Class 42— The Sutton & Sons prize (Read- 

 ing. Eng.). Cup, value .'f23.00, for the best 

 table of Sweet Peas to be arranged on a 

 space four by three feet and not to exceed 

 ■three feet in height (amateurs aud garden- 

 ers only). 



Class 43 — Watkins & Simpson's prize for 

 the best six vases Spencer or Unwin Sweet 

 Peas, $10.00. 



Class 44--The C. C. Morse & Co.'s prize, 

 a silver oup, value $2.').0O. for the finest 

 collection of Sweet Peas (open to the trade 

 only). 



For further particulars write to 

 HARRY A. BUNYARD, Sec, 

 342 W. 14th St., New York City. 



FLORISTS' CLUB OF WASHINGTON. 



Wm. R. Smith, superintendent of 

 the Botanic Garden, addressed the 

 Washington Club on the evening of 

 June 6, on the beautification of the 

 Capital. He said it was the most 

 beautiful of the world's cities, and he 

 referred at some length to its beauti- 



ful trees and the great variety of 

 them. 



The members of the club have re- 

 ported that great annoyance is caused 

 by the neglect of persons who receive 

 gifts of flowers to make acknowledg- 

 ment of them. The club appeals to 

 the public to acknowledge such gifts 

 and to the "June bride" especially, ac- 

 cording to the Washington Herald the 

 club says: 



"If you receive flowers on your wed- 

 ding day from admiring friends, ac- 

 knowledge the fact — don't keep the 

 admiring friends in any doubt as to 

 whether they were delivered or not. 

 If you don't you may get the innocent 

 florist into a peck of trouble." 



The club does not confine this ad- 

 vice to brides, however. It applies to 

 funerals as well as to weddings. Un- 

 founded complaints have been re- 

 ceived so frequently of late that the 

 club appointed a committee to see 

 what could be done, as it had become 

 evident that some action was neces- 

 sary. 



The club decided to hold its annual 

 outing on July 26. at Chesapeake 

 Beach, when the members will in- 

 dulge in a basket picnic. Committees 

 are making the necessary arrange- 

 ments. 



. Indorsement was given to the pro- 

 posed Sunday closing law, which is 

 under consideration by Congress, to 

 apply to the District of Columbia. 



Resolutions on the death of the late 

 Edward A. Moseley, a member of the 

 club, were adopted. Mr. Moseley was 

 secretary of the Interstate Commerce 

 Commission, but he was also an en- 

 thusiastic amateur florist. 



Plans for participation in the Na- 



tional Convention at Baltimore, dur- 

 ing the third week in August, were 

 discussed. The club contemplates 

 chartering special cars and attending 

 in a body. F. J. DYER. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



J. K. M. L. Farrjuhar of Boston lec- 

 tured before the New Bedford Horti- 

 cultural Socioty on the evening of June 

 5, on "Rose Culture." 



In honor of the American Associa- 

 tion of Park Superintendents, which 

 will hold its annual meeting in Kan- 

 sas City in August, a reproduction of 

 the organization's seal in a flower bed 

 is to be made in the middle parking 

 just outside the entrance to Swope 

 Park. The bed will be round, about 

 forty feet in diameter and will repro- 

 duce a large live oak. It is planned 

 to photograph the members at the 

 park gateway. 



An Injunction to prevent aeroplanes 

 from flying over their greenhouses in 

 Waltham and Waverley is to be 

 brought by E. Allan and Herbert Peirce 

 against tlie coming aero meet that 

 starts June 15, on the Metz grounds. 



Whether or not a property owner 

 can prevent flying machines from 

 soaring over his land is something 

 that has never before been broached. 

 Attorney W. .1. Bannon, of Waltham, 

 who has been retained by the Peirce 

 Brothers denies that they have any* 

 intention of preventing the aero meet 

 from starting, but that the gardeners 

 and florists wish to protect their prop- 

 erty from any possible accident. 



