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HORTICULTURE 



November 17. 1917 



Collrctluu urclilili, Louli Kurk, Ulni'y, 

 ciril livo. I'noi-k. 

 l(r»( vuKlrya or laello-cnitlvya bybrld, 



I,.. 111. IliuL 



!<• ' \. LotilK Ilurk. 



(-■> 1 111. Ilurk. 



Iti - •...., '■'■ .iiiiiiiinkvr. 



i'\ , malitiKv im .Mm. J. LpmUi- 



Uail s 1 1. JlhlUli'. 



II.-. 1 ■ ■ WldrniT K»tatr; 'Jd. 



.Mr». J I.. 



Ihil i-uh' I III*. WldciiiT K>talo 



I'lw rull:>)^< I'liiiilii, liru. 11. Mcl'iiddeu 



Six i>rujiiiirii(ul fullnK<' |>liiii(a, U<>o. 11 

 Mc-Kiiilili'ii 



.Mlnlntiir.' u-nriliii. .Mrs. S. U. ItUldlc. 



.Slanihir.l Im ii..iru|M'. Im, W. S. EllU; 2d. 

 Urn II .Mil'mlilfii 



Cut Flowers. 



Twi'lvr AniiTli-aii Iliiiiity roses, Wldciivr 

 Eilatv. 



Twenly-Ilvc curiiatloiia pluk. liit \V. s 

 Ellin; ".'d. WldfiiiT i:«liit«'. 



Fruit and Vegetables. 



Uval <<«IUHtlou, twi'Uty ur more vark'UiK. 

 l7dKar T. .Scott. Lanndownc, gard. John 

 Ouon. 



ColliHtloii of (irteru rnrleties, 24 »q. ft. 

 !<i>a<f. Im, lifo. II. XK-I"adden; 2d, Thomas 

 JlrKoiiii. 



Ill tlif vfRi'tubli' sepurati' classes. O. H. 

 MoKaildi'ii won sl\ Ists uud i<l.\ 2d.s : EdKar 

 T. Scott, six l.sts. ono 2d ; \V. S. Ellin, flvo 

 IslB. Hvf 2ds: 'riioniiiH .MiKenn. live l.st, one 

 2d; .1. W. I'l'iipor. two Ists. Iho 2d.s ; Mrs 

 .1. I,."*|li. |).i\ls. one Isl, two 2ds. 



TARRYTOWN. 



The Nineteenth Annual Floral Kx- 

 hiblllon of the Tarrytown (X. Y.) Hor- 

 ticultural Society opened in Music 

 Hall on Wednesday, November 7, and 

 continued to November 9. The exhi- 

 bition was well patronized, and was 

 well attended by the society people of 

 Westchester County. The weather 

 was fine. The quality of the exhibit 

 was as line as at any previous exhibi- 

 tion, and for the size of the exhibition 

 was not excelled by any exhibition in 

 the United States, the various exhibits 

 coming from the greenhouses of the 

 wealthiest residents of this section. 



Notable features of the exhibition 

 were a vase of the new rose Rosalind, 

 exhibited by F. R. Pierson, and award- 

 ed the Society's silver medal; a very 

 unique seedling Adiantum. exhibit- 

 ed by Dr. C. C. Brace, awarded same 

 medal; roses, carnations and ferns, 

 exhibited by Mrs. J. B. Trevor of Yon- 

 kers, awarded certificate of merit; 

 fine exhibit of potatoes, exhibited by 

 Finley .1. Shepard. awarded cultural 

 certificate; exhibit of single chrysan- 

 themums, by Mrs. Alfred Gwynne Van- 

 derbilt, Lenox, Mass., awarded cul- 

 tural certificate. The cut blooms of 

 chrysanthemums in the different class- 

 es were exceptionally fine, also the 

 tables of decorative plants and groups 

 of decorative plants. 



The judges for the first day were 

 William Roberts, Ossining. John Grant, 

 Tarrytown, and James Hlair, Staats- 

 burgh; for the second day, Robert 

 Williamson, Greenwich, Conn.. George 

 Middleton and John Featherstone, Tar- 

 rytown. 



The local branch of the Red Cross 

 served refreshments on the balcony, 

 adding considerable to their fund. 



Out of 202 classes in the schedule. 

 47 of which were "specials" provided 

 by individuals and firms, all were com- 

 peted for excepting 16. We should 

 like to publish the list of winners in 

 detail but lack of space prevents our 

 giving more than a condensed account, 

 as follows: 



W. B. Thompson, gard. R. M. .Tohnston. 

 twenty-five 1st. two 2nd ; Mrs. E. S. Bayer, 

 gard. Alex. Thoin.son. seven 1st. three 2nd ; 



GROUP OF RARE 0RCHI08. 



I'.ilUi \:i .M.ui'U.o . I iiltlcv.i 



i;iil.l, I . I.il 

 llltekenH:o-k. 



.ijkI I . j;.ii>l..o l..< . .11 I'l.iu.i.l .\|,.ull 



Dr. ('. *'. Hriiee. gard. <leo. .MelntoNh. seven 

 iHt. one 2nil ; 8. L'uterinyer. ^iird. I'lias 

 Ilurn, six Igl. four 2nd; It. Delalleld. gard. 

 Will. Brock, live Ist. two 2nd; KInley .1 

 Shepard, supl. I'lias. K. Itussell. Iliree Isl. 

 four 2nd; KuRene Meyer. Jr.. uard ('has. 

 lluthven. three Ist; li. S. Brewster. Hard 

 Uoliert .Main. Iwo 1st. one 2ml; <'. K. Mat 

 Ihiesson. t:ai-d. \V'. .1. 'rownsend. two 1st, 

 one 2nd ; .Mrs. .S Neustadt. card. I>avld 

 Gordon, two lat, two 2iid ; ; Mrs. Carl Vie- 

 tor, Kard. Thos. Lee, two 1st. seven 2ud ; 

 Clarence Whitman, gard. Win. Will, two 1st ; 

 Irving T. Bush. ganl. John Sprino. two 

 Ist. one 2nil ; A. L. Glfford. two 1st. one 

 2nd; Mrs. I). T. Davis. Kard. Aliel Weeks, 

 one Isl. two 2iiil ; W. II. Brown, nard. John 

 IlalK'-rsoii. one 1st. one 2nd; Uavid I,. I.uke. 



jfard. John Elliott. ■ 1st. Iwo 2nd. One 



Ist to •ach of the followiiiK: Miss Marie 

 Bowtiian; Frank Sweiison ; Col. H(»hert C. 

 Clowry ; Mrs. Herman Bowman; .Mrs. W. H. 

 rullan ; II. K. Kogers, pard. C. L. Fisher; 

 M. C'. Nenhrand : Koberl .Slallory, jrarcl. Wm. 

 Smith; Mrs. J. B. Trevor, ffard. Howard 

 .Nichols; F. R Pierson Co.; (.'has. MHlIory. 

 gard. W. J. Sealey; Michael Orabani. Sluy- 

 vesant Fish, four 2nd. E. Berolzheimer. 

 ;:ard. Wm. .Tamieson. three 2nd. Mrs. I'. 

 Boettgor. gard. II. Schwartz, two 2nd. One 

 2iid each to Julius F. Detiner. gard/ Geo. H. 

 Cliisliolni; II. M. SIdenherg, gard. .John 

 Mair; S. M. Lehman, gard. .lohn W. I»o\v- 

 len ; Dr. L. II. Buckland. garil. Jas Casein : 

 John Cooke. Jr.; Mrs. W. I). Blair 



GARDENERS' COOPERATIVE 

 MEETING. 



A meeting of the Cooperative Com- 

 mittee of the National Association of 

 Gardeners, and of delegates appointed 

 by sixteen gardeners' societies, was 

 held at the Murray Hill Hotel, New- 

 York, FViday afternoon, November 9. 



The meeting was called for the pur- 

 pose of securing an expression of 

 views on the subject of closer co- 

 operation between the Gardeners' Na- 

 tional Association and their local or- 

 ganizations and to consider what 

 would be the best plans to set the pro- 

 posed co-operation in effective opera- 

 tion. An animated discussion, lasting 

 several hours, produced many practi- 

 cal suggestions. The policies of some 

 of the European national horticultural 

 organizations were outlined by those 

 present familiar with them, but it was 

 generally agreed that the gardeners' 

 conditions abroad are so diversified 

 from those existing in this country 

 that the European policies could not 

 be pursued with any measure of suc- 

 cess here. 



The discussion established the fact 

 that the ultimate outcome of coopera- 

 tion should result in the local societies 



electing delegati^s each year to repre- 

 sent them al the annual convention. 

 It WBH proposed that territorial dis- 

 tricts should be arranged in which the 

 committees of local societies would 

 meet every three months to act on 

 matters referred to them by the Na- 

 tional Cooperative Committee; that 

 the local committees keep In close 

 touch with the activities of the socle- 

 ties they represent and make recom- 

 mendations to be submitted to the an- 

 nual convention. If of national interest, 

 or. if of purely local interest, to the 

 local committees of the territories It 

 might concern; that care should be 

 exercised by the local societies in ap- 

 pointing only such members on these 

 committees as can be relied upon to 

 faithfully perform their functions. 



Communications were received from 

 a number of distant societies, unable 

 to send delegates, announcing their 

 readiness to participate in co-opera- 

 tion. Richard Vincent, Jr., of White- 

 marsh, Md.. read an interesting paper 

 on "Cooperation." John V. tluss, of 

 Hartford. Conn., pleaded for greater 

 activity on the part of individual mem- 

 bers of the national association, stat- 

 ing that it has been his experience in 

 many years of organization work that 

 when the burden is placed on the 

 shoulders of a few In an organization, 

 success ceases. N. Harold Cottam. of 

 Wappinger Falls, N. Y., urged that 

 only through unity can cooperation be 

 made effective and not by criticising 

 the endeavors of others while making 

 no effort oneself, and that one should 

 not always selfishly consider what he 

 is getting out of it, but should occa- 

 sionally ask himself. What am I doing 

 to further my association's interests? 



A motion was carried, proposing 

 that the National Cooperative Com- 

 mittee, which is composed of Thomas 

 W. Head. I>ake Forest. 111., Theodore 

 Wirth. Minneapolis, Minn., James Stu- 

 art, Maniaroneck. N. Y.. M. C. Ebel, 

 Madison, N. J., formulate some defi- 

 nite plans to be submitted at the an- 

 nual convention of the association, 

 which will be held in Chicago, Decem- 

 ber 4, 5, 6. It was decided to secure 

 a special car for the eastern delegates, 

 to leave New York on Sunday after- 

 noon, December 2, arriving at Chicago 

 early on Monday evening. Reserva- 

 tions can be made through the secre- 

 tary, M. C. Ebel, Madison, N. J., and 

 should be secured without delay. 



