March 17, 1917 



HORTICULTURE 



333 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



The Executive Committee met in 

 Philadelphia on March 7th at 2 P. M. 

 The minutes of tlie last meeting were 

 read, and the roses pre?iented for 

 registration which had been referred 

 to a committee, were ordered regis- 

 tered and published. 



Edward Towill, Roslyn, Pa., regis- 

 tered a new seedling rose: 



"Ooltlen lieiii," a cross of L.kI.v Hilling- 

 don .-lud H. Kirk; color iiuUlcn .vellow ; 

 strong stem ami free liloonier. 



A. N. Pierson, Inc., Cromwell, Conn., 

 registered three rose novelties to be 

 disseminated in 1918, as follows: 



Mrs. Belmont Tiffan.v. Ill.vhrid Tea) A 

 sport from Snuburst. Color, golden yel- 

 low shading to apricot-orange at the base 

 of tlie petals, the whole snffnsed in deli- 

 cate pinli— a distinct and glorified Sun- 

 burst. 



Mrs. Charles Bell. (Hybrid Tea) A sport 

 from Radiance. Color, light or sliell-pink 

 on a salmon-shaded background. Superior 

 in growth to Radiance, being equally vig- 

 orous hut more robust in habit. 



Elizabeth Zeigler. I Wieliuraiana Hybrid) 

 A sport from Dorothy Perkins, but' quite 

 distiuct. Color, deep rose-pink. Eciually 

 vigorous and free in flowerins. 



E. G. Hill Co., Richmond, Ind., 

 registered: 



Columbia. A large habited upright 

 grower with large size foliage, producing 

 lon.g stiff stems and bearing a big tiower of 

 pink which deepens as the tiower matures. 



Double Ophelia. Very similar to the 

 parent iu everythiug save the fiillness of 

 the flower: this variety having twice as 

 many petals as the parent: very clear and 

 brilliant in color. 



Rose Premier. May be described as a 

 i\Irs. Kussell, of very easy culture and mag- 

 niticent iu size, form and foliage, aud with 

 a perfectly erect stem ; deep rose pink. 



Mary Hill. Of Sunburst type, improved 

 in habit, foliage and growth, with immense 

 liud anil flower of cream color with deep 

 orange center. 



A communication was received from 

 Portland, Ore., in regard to the Rose 

 Test Garden, and the resolution as 

 adopted at the February meeting is: 



Resolved, That tlie application made by 

 the Portland Assoiinlion, National Rose 

 Test (iarden, be hereliy ac'cepted, and that 

 the Executive Committee of the American 

 Rose Society does hereby otticbilly designate 

 Portland, Ore., as the site for the official 

 rose test garden of the Pacific Northwest, 

 and as a committee representing the Amer- 

 ican Rose Society, the following named 

 gentlemen are appointed to fill tlie position: 

 .T. A. Currey, Wr.i N. l.'Mh St . Portland. 

 Ore.: A. J. Clark, 2.S7 Morrison St., Port- 

 land, Ore.; Alfred Tucker, ?,~G S. :'.2nd St.. 

 Portland, Ore. 



A committee was appointed to revise 

 the rules for registration of new roses 

 and to prepare a uniform form for 

 registration purposes. The committee 

 appointed was J. Horace McF'arland, 

 Geo. C. Thomas, Jr., and Wallace R. 

 Pierson. 



The list of gentlemen accepting the 

 position of judges was read, and the 

 following designations were made: — 



.judges to report at noon on Mach L'Oth. 



<Jroup of one hundred cut roses — .T. H. 

 Dunlop, Toronto, Ont.. Can. : Philip Brelt- 

 meycr. Detroit, .Mii h. : I'atrick Welch, Bos- 

 ton, Mass. 



For the Fifty class— Frank H. Traendly, 

 New York City; Ceorge Asmiis, Chicago, 

 111.; Eugene DalUedouze, Brooklyn. X. V. 



For the Twentv-flve class — Fred. Burkl, 

 Pittsburgh, Pa.; F. C. W. Brown. Cleve- 

 l.Tnd, 0.; S. A. Anderson. ButTalo, N. Y. 



For Plants— A. B. Cartledge. Philadelphia, 



Meetings Next Week 



Monday, March 19. 



Detroit Florists' Club, Bemb Flo- 

 ral Hall, Detroit, Mich. 



Houston Florists' Club Chamber 

 of Commerce Rooms, Houston, Tex. 



New Jersey Florlcultural Society, 

 Orange, N. .1. 



Tuesday, March 20. 



(iaMeners' and Florists' Club of 

 Ontario, St. George's Hall, Toronto, 

 Can. 



Minnesota State Florists' Associa- 

 tion, Minneapolis, Minn. 



Pennsylvania Horticultural Socie- 

 ty. Horticultural Hall, Philadelphia, 

 Pa. 



Wednesday, March 21. 



Rhode Island Horticultural Socie- 

 ty, Publli' lilbrary. Providence, R. I. 



Tarrytowii Horticultural Society, 

 Tarrytown, N. Y. 



Friday, March 23. 



Connecticut Horticultural Society, 

 County BIdg., Hartford. Conn. 



Monmouth County Horticultural 

 Society, Red Bank, N. .T. 



Passadena Horticultural Society, 

 Pasadena, Calif. 



People's Park Cottage Hardeners' 

 Association, Paterson, N. .T. 



Saturday, March 24. 



Dobb's Ferry Gardeners' Associa- 

 tion, Dobhs' Ferry, N. Y. 



Pa. ; Admiral Aaron Ward, Roslyn, N. Y. ; 

 J. H. Small. Washington, D. C. 



For exhibit by private growers on 

 Wednesday, Jlarch 21st— Alex. B. Scott, 

 Sharon Hill, Pa.; .1. P. Habermehl, Phila- 

 delphia. Pa.: (Jeo. Morrison, Baltimore, Md. 



For display of cut roses l»y commercial 

 growers on Thursday, March 22nd — A. B. 

 Cartledge, Philadelphia, Pa.: Philip Breit- 

 meyer, Detroit, Mich.; J. H. Dunlop, To- 

 ronto, Ont. 



L. J. Renter was appointed a com- 

 mittee on behalf of the American Rose 

 Society to perfect arrangements in the 

 matter of an outdoor rose show to be 

 held July 4 at Newport, R. I. 

 Staging of Roses. 



The American Rose Society at the 

 National Rose Festival to be held in 

 Philadelphia, Pa., on March 20, 21, 22 

 and 23, in their final schedule show 

 that all exhibits of commercial cut 

 flowers and plants will be staged at 

 12 o'clock noon on Tuesday, March 2(1; 

 exhibits by private growers of cut 

 roses to be staged Wednesday, March 

 21, and the displays of cut roses 

 covering 200 square feet of space and 

 to contain not less than 500 nor more 

 than 1,000 blooms, will be staged 

 Thursday, March 22. The 1st prize 

 will be ?2.50.00, 2nd prize $150.00 and 

 the 3rd prize $100.00. 



Benj.-\mix Hamiio.nd, Sec'y. 



-An American rose garden, 1,200 

 b(iuare feet, will be the feature exhibit. 

 A lake, eighteen feet long and eight 

 feet wide will be in the middle of the 

 garden. A kneeling Venus will appear 

 in the centre of the lake in the act of 

 plucking water lilies. Other plants 

 and flowers that grow in water will be 

 seen. Around the lake will be a path 

 of grass so laid that the floor will be 

 entirely hidden. The outside measure- 

 ments of the rose garden will be forty 

 by thirty feet. 



NEW YORK FLORISTS' CLUB. 



The monthly meeting on Monday 

 evening, March 13, was well attended, 

 there being upwards of 175 members 

 present. Seventeen new members 

 were proposed. C. B. Weathered as 

 chairman of the flower show commit- 

 tee reported that all final arrange- 

 ments of the exhibition were com- 

 pleted, and that the prospects now 

 were that this coming show would sur- 

 pass all others previously held in New 

 York. Secretary Young reported that 

 all trade space had been sold and that 

 lie was now compelled to refuse late 

 applicants for space. The souvenir 

 catalogue was now in the printer's 

 hands and the advertising in this cata- 

 logue amounts to nearly $4,000. He 

 stated further that entries for all com- 

 petitive classes were also now refused, 

 space being now taken up for these 

 classes, being more than enough to 

 pack the building to the limit. 



Manager Herrington reported that at 

 the present time he was at his wits 

 end as to how he could possibly care 

 for the heavy entry list that had been 

 made by the growers and that he felt 

 that it would take until Saturday for 

 the show to be in proper "apple pie" 

 order, and that no doubt several exhib- 

 its would have to be re-arransed after 

 the opening day, as posibilities might 

 present themselves for the general im- 

 provement of the show. The dinner 

 committee reported that over 300 

 tickets had already been sold and ap- 

 plications for tickets were still coming. 

 This was Rose Night, but on account 

 of the approaching exhibition and the 

 Rose Festival at Philadelphia entries 

 wdre few, although very meritorious. 

 A vase of twelve blooms of Hadley 

 from P. J.. Smith, grown by A. S. 

 Burns, Jr., of Spring Valley, was con- 

 sidered the finest ever seen in .New 

 York and had all the members present 

 astounded. It received a cultural cer- 

 tificate. 



Robert Simpson showed his No. 40, 

 a sport from Jonkeer J. L. Mock, 

 which scored 86 points and is entitled 

 to a certificate. In shape of flower 

 this rose strongly resembles the old 

 favorite. La France. Foliage is quite 

 distinct from J. J. L. Mock. The 

 color seems almost the same as Kil- 

 larney Queen and much lighter than 

 J. J. L. Mock. Sunburst Sport, ex- 

 hibited by Pennock-Meehan Co., was 

 awarded tlianks of the club; this sport 

 seemed to lack substance in flower, 

 foliage and stem was good. A large 

 vase of Mrs. Wm. Randolph Hearst, 

 shown by A. N. Pierson, Cromwell, 

 Conn., received vote of thanks, also 

 yellow seedling rose Golden Gem, from 

 Edw. Towill, Roslyn, Pa. 



A sport from Enchantress Carnation 

 was exhibited by A. Demeusy, Flat- 

 bush. The committee asked to see 

 this variety again. A vase of Match- 

 less mignonette, by Weeber & Don, re- 

 ceived a cultural certificate. P. Buer- 

 lein, of Elmhurst, exhibited tulips and 

 narcissus Glory of Sassenheim and 

 was awarded a vote of thanks. 



