July 18, 1914 



HORTICULTURE 



HOTEL NOTTINGHAM 



COPLEY SQUARE 

 BOSTON 



European Plan 



Rates, $1.00 a Day and up 



Opposite Public Library, facing Trinity Church and con- 

 venient to Theatres and Shopping District 



Three minutes' walk to the Mechanics Building; two 

 minutes from N. Y.. N. H. & H. R. R., Back Bay Sta- 

 tion, and N. Y. C. & H. R. R. R.; B. & A. R. R., Trinity 

 Place Station. All trains stop at these stations, and 

 baggage can be checked to and from all stations. 

 Electric cars pass the door for all railroad stations, 

 steamboat landings, the suburbs, and direct to the 

 Convention Garden. Make your reservations early. 



FRANCIS HOWE, Proprietor. 



ship includes President McKay, Secre- 

 tary Gray, Oscar Schultz, A. S. Meikle, 

 A. MacLellan, James Bond and J. B. 

 Urquhart, along with live members of 

 the Garden Club. The Garden Club is 

 composed mostly of owners of the 

 large Newport estates and who are 

 enthusiastic in the advancement of hor- 

 ticulture. J. R. 



A HEDGE SCREEN OF MESAM BRYANTH EM UM. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



At the meeting last .Monday evening, 

 the choice of the Cincinnati Florists' 

 Society for officers for the ensuing 

 year was — President, Jas. Allen: vice- 

 president. Max Rudolph; secretary. 

 Alex Ostendarp; treasurer. Chas H. 

 Hoffmeister; Director, J. A. Peterson. 

 On the first ballot James Allen and Ed. 

 Schumann were tied, the latter then 

 withdrew in the former's favor. 



The monthly meeting of the New 

 London Horticultural Society was held 

 on the 9th inst. and was devoted to 

 sweet peas of which there was a good 

 display. Alfred Flowers gave a paper 

 on the culture of sweet peas outside. 

 The sweet peas are not so early 

 around here this year as they have 

 been other years, but those sown in- 

 side and planted out are doing fine. 

 H. L. 



The Albany Florists' Club held their 

 July meeting Thursday evening. July 

 2, at the home of Fred Goldring, a 

 former president, at Font Grove. The 

 club voted to hold its annual clam- 

 bake at Newtonville on Saturday. Aug. 

 15. Fred A. Danker was named treas- 

 urer of the bake committee and R. D. 

 Griffin chairman of the committee to 

 secure carryalls. The club accepted 

 the invitation of President Fred Honk- 

 er to hold the next meeting at his 

 place near Newtonville on Aug. 6. 



Dates for the sixth annual ihH flow- 

 er show of the Pasadena Horticultural 

 Association have been set. Th= event 

 will be held October 22, 23 and 24. The 

 place for holding the show has not 

 been definitely settled on bv thf flower 

 show committee. In all probability the 

 display will be held in a big tent at the 

 southeast corner of Colorado street 

 and Los Robles avenue. Heretofore 

 the fall shows have always been held 

 at the Maryland hotel ampiHieatre. 



.\ hedge composed of these tiny star- 

 shaped pink blossoms, 20 feet in height 

 and 1155 feet long, will extend for two 

 city blocks on either side of the main 

 entrance to the grounds of the Panama- 

 Pacific International Exposition. 



The manner of building this hedge 

 is very ingenious. The plants are 

 grown in boxes containing only two 

 inches of soil, across the top of which 

 wire screening is fixed to hold plants 

 and soil in place. When the plants 

 have reached a sufficient growth, the 

 boxes are tilted upright, so that the 

 roots are fixed in an absolutely verti- 

 cal soil. A sort of wall is then builded 

 of the boxes, much as though they 

 were huge bricks or stones. The ef- 



fect is of a vertical cliff or hedge of 

 living green and pink. The photo- 

 graph shows the framework to which 

 the boxes are secured, and tlie manner 

 of constructing the hedge, but gives, 

 little idea of its beauty. 



This wall of flowers will be broken 

 at intervals by pilasters, with pedestal 

 and capitals in architectural dimen- 

 sions, which will also be covered with 

 the same screen of living plants. A 

 pipe running along the top of the 

 framework will supply water to the 

 plants in such a manner that they will 

 have the appearance of being gemmed 

 with dewdrops. Donald McLaren, 

 acting director of Exposition landscap- 

 ing, is designer of this hedge. 



Owing to the fact that the new hotel 

 will be in course of construction this 

 fall, it was decided at the meeting of 

 the executive committee last night to 

 hold the show at some other place. 

 The schedule has been adopted by the 

 committee and will be ready for the 



public July 10. New classes have been 

 added and no trouble will be spared in 

 making the coming show the largest 

 and most successful that has ever been 

 held in Southern California. Chrysan- 

 tlicmums and dahlias will undoubtedly 

 be the center of attraction. 



