September 5, 1914 



HORTICULTURE 



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and G, terns; H and I, bulbous plants: 

 J and K, orchid plants; L and M, cut 

 orchids; N and O, roses in pots and 

 tubs; P and Q, cut roses; R, S and T, 

 carnations: U and V, sweet peas; W 

 and X, miscellaneous cut flowers; Y, 

 violets; Z, table decorations. Premier 

 prizes in some ot the large classes 

 run $1011. $200 and $300. All the pre- 

 miums oltered are liberal. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



The Lady Florists' Home Circle 

 will meet Wednesday, Sept. 9th, at 

 the home of Mrs. John L. Koenig, 3511 

 Clarence avenue, St. Louis. 



The Paterson, N. J., Floricultura! 

 Society will conduct a floral show in 

 the Second National Bank Building on 

 September 12, and prizes will be 

 awarded the iirst. second and tliird 

 winners in dahlias, asters, gladioli 

 and roses. 



The St. Louis Florist Club will hold 

 their installation meeting on Thurs- 

 day afternoon. Sept. 10. This meeting 

 will take place at the home of the 

 Sanders' Nursery on the Hanley road. 

 The new officers are going to make a 

 record this year in membership and 

 attendance. 



The New London (Conn) Horticul- 

 tural Society held their Summer Show 

 on August 26th in Clifford's Pavilion. 

 Ocean Beach. The weather turned out 

 cold, but for all that there was a good 

 show of asters and gladioli which were 

 the leading flowers. There was good 

 competition in most of the classes, but 

 the children's classes were empty. The 

 attendance was good. The next morn- 

 ing all flowers that were of any use 

 were sent to the hospital including the 

 exhibit of gladioli from W. J. 

 Schooman of Norwich. H. E. L. 



The annual exhibition of the prod- 

 ucts of children's gardens will be held 

 at Horticultural Hall, Boston. Satur- 

 dav and Sunday. September .itli and 

 6th. Indications point to an unusu- 

 ally large display this year as the in- 

 terest of the children throughout the 

 State in their school and home gar- 

 dens is steadily increasing. Nearly 

 all the gardens connected with the 

 public schools in the eastern part of 

 the State will be represented at this 

 exhibition and there will be displays 

 ot fiowers and vegetables grown in 

 home gardens, window boxes, and 

 roof gardens. The exhibition is free 

 and will be open Saturday from 12 to 

 6 and Sunday from 2 to 6 o'clock. 



\Vm. P. Run. Sec'y. 



The largest exhibition of flowers 

 ever held in San Antonio, Texas, is 

 planned by the San Antonio Florists' 

 Society for the early part of Novem- 

 ber. The public will be invited to 

 enter exhibits of cut flowers and grow- 

 ing pot-plants, in competition for cash 

 prizes, and florists of the city will 

 be allowed to place flowers of all 

 kinds on exhibtion. The purpose of 

 the project is to encourage the grow- 

 ing of flowers in yards and in pots on 

 porches, as a means of beautifying 

 ihe city. 



It is proposed to hold the exhibi- 

 tion in the down-town district and 

 present plans call for the renting of 

 two entire floors of 'some centrally 

 located building. 



If you did not receive a sample of 

 the MEYER GREEN SILKALINE 

 at the florists' convention lu-ld in 

 Boston, Aug. 18th, 19th, 20th and 

 21st, we would be pleased to submit 

 samples and prices free at any time. 

 The price on the MEYER GREEN 

 SILKALINE is $1.25 per lb., liberal 

 discounts in case lots of 100 lbs. 

 and upwards. 



THE JOHN C. MEYER THREAD CO., LOWELL, MASS. 



In writing advertisers kindly mention HORTICULTURE. 



The first annual exhibition of the 

 Lewiston-Auburn Gardeners' Associa- 

 tion was held in Auburn Hall, Auburn, 

 Me., on August 27 and 28. This is a 

 new society started only a few months 

 ago. Since then meetings have been 

 held weekly between the two cities, 

 and a sentiment has been worked up 

 that has resulted in the greatest ex- 

 hibit of flowers ever seen in this sec- 

 tion. In fact. Auburn Hall was one 

 solid mass of flowers, fruits and vege- 

 tables, worth going a long distance to 

 see the contributors are mainly ama- 

 teurs and particularly the children. 

 The local florists have, however, given 

 their assistance and encouragement in 

 every way. The judges were Ernest 

 Saunders, Hugh Roak and Mayor Wise- 

 man. 



The Horticultural Club of Boston, 

 held its first meeting of the season ai 

 the Parker House, on Wednesday even- 

 ing, September 2. Charles Bradley, 

 superintendent of the Farm and Trade 

 School for Boys on Thompson's Island. 

 Boston harbor, was an invited guest 

 and spoke on the work being done 

 there through the generous support of 

 philanthropic citizens to train boys in 

 agriculture. The floral decorations 

 were lavish and beautiful. There 

 were splendid specimens of Europa 

 and other gladioli from Wm. Sim. 

 choice asters from M. A. Patten and 

 carnation Alice from Peter Fisher, the 

 latter showing convincingly the fine 

 qualities of form, color, fragrance and 

 all-the-year productiveness of this pop- 

 ular novelty. 



The flower show held at Lancaster, 

 Mass, on Friday, August 28, was the 

 best that has ever been shown in Lan- 

 caster, surpassing the one last year in 

 many ways. A background of ivy 

 was a display from the greenhouses 

 of Bayard Thayer. The exhibit oi 

 gladioli bv C. F. Fairbanks, Milton, 

 was most beautiful. The windows 

 were decorated with palms and cam- 

 panula from Mrs. Nathaniel Thayer's 

 estate. There were also tiger lilies 

 from Mrs. John E. Thayer's. There 

 were rare lilies in the lobbies, including 

 Gloriosa superba, which were exhibited 

 bv Mrs. Nathaniel Thayer. There was 

 a collection of native shrubs which 

 were shown for educational purposes 

 by Mrs. Bayard Thayer. Garden flow- 

 ers were profusely shown by numerous 

 exhibitors. 



The seventeenth annual exhibition 

 of the Monmouth County Horticultural 

 Societv will be held at St. James's hall. 



Red Bank, N. J., on Wednesday and 

 Thursday. October 28 and 29. Prizes 

 will be offered for exhibits of chrysan- 

 themums, foliage plants, roses, cut 

 flowers, carnations, fruits and vege- 

 tables. The exhibition committee is 

 composed of George H. Hale, Philip 

 Bonner, Wellington W. Kennedy, Har- 

 ry A. Kettel, Percy A. Hicks, William 

 Dowlen and Harry CoUis. The judges 

 will be William Turner of Mendham 

 formerly of Oceanic; James Kenned.v 

 of Deal, Adam Patterson of Sauga- 

 tuck, Connecticut; James Stuart of 

 .Mamaroneck, New- York; Peter Duff 

 of Orange and Mr. Burns of New Cana- 

 an, Connecticut. William Metzdorff is 

 president of the society, Philip Bon- 

 ner is vice-president, Harry A. Kettel, 

 secretary, Percy A. Hicks, flnancial 

 secretary and George H. Hale treas- 

 urer. 



The announcement that our French 

 contemporary. The Revue Horticole, 

 has been obliged to suspend publica- 

 tion for an indeflnite time because the 

 entire staff of employees had been 

 called to the front, brings out very 

 impressively the conditions so sud- 

 denly forced upon the people of that 

 country with which we have been 

 horticulturally so closely in touch. 

 General Sherman's characterization 

 of war well fits the conflict now rag- 

 ing in Europe compared with which 

 all others, terrible as they have been, 

 seem insignificant. 



Sept. 1, 1914. 

 Dear Sir: 



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