June 10, ]916 



HORTICULTUEE 



789 



high: 1st, W. A. Manda; 2d, Bobbink & 

 Atkins, Rutherford, N. J. 



Box Trees, standard, head not leSs than 

 4 ft. In diameter: 1st, W. A. Manda; 2d, 

 Julius Koebrs Co. 



Box Trees, bush, not less than ft. hlgb : 

 1st, W. A. Manda. 



Box Trees, C trained plants: 1st, W. A. 

 Manda; 2d, Julius Eoehrs. 



Conifers, collection of 25 plants, 25 va- 

 rieties, in pots or tubs: 1st. Isaac Hicks 

 & Sou, Westbury. N. Y. ; 2d, F. R. Plerson. 



Group of Bedding Plants, arranged for 

 effect, covering 20O sq. ft.: 1st, Julius 

 Roehrs Co. 



Displav of Peonies. 100 sq. ft.: 1st, John 

 Lewis Childs. Inc.. Flowerfleld, N. Y.; 

 2d, Bobbink &- Atkius. 



Displav of Cut Hardy Flowers, 100 sq. 

 ft. : 1st, Bobbink *; Atkius. 



Display of Cut Sprays of Flowering 

 Trees and Shrubs. 100 sq. ft. : 1st, Isaac 

 Hicks & Son. 



Display of Cut Roses: 1st. F. R. Pler- 

 son Co. 



TO PRESERVE OUR NATIVE 

 FLORA. 



Private Classes. 



Group of Hardy Flowering and Foliage 

 Trees and Sbrul>s, covering 50 sq. ft.: 1st, 

 Mrs. VVm. G. Xlchols, Eye, N. Y., gard. 

 Geo. N. Sullivan. 



Group of Orchids, covering 25 sq. ft.: 

 1st, Clement Jloore, Hackensack, N. J., 

 gard. .1. P. Mossman. 



Group of Foliage and Flowering Plants, 

 Stove or Greenhouse, covering 50 sq. ft.: 

 1st. Mrs. John H. Flagler, Greenwich, Conn. 



Group of Hydrangeas, covering 50 sq. 

 ft.: 1st, Mrs. John H. Flagler; 2d, Mrs. 

 Geo. D. Barron, Rye, N. Y., gard. James 

 Llnane. 



Group of Summer Flowering Bulbous 

 and Tnberous Plants for effect, covering 

 50 sq. ft.: 1st, Mrs. Geo. D. Barron. 



Displav of Cut Iris Flowers, 50 sq. ft.: 

 1st, Mrs. A. M. Booth, Gt. Neck, N. Y., 

 gard. E. Fardel. 



Display of Cut Hardy Flowers, 50 sq ft.: 

 1st, Mrs. Wm. G. Nichols. 



Special Awards. 



Collection of Tulips— Wm. Shillaber, Es- 

 sex Falls. N. J., gard. J. P. Soreuson. 



Display of Nemesia compaeta Triumph — 

 Wm. Shillaber. 



Group of Foliage and Flowering Plants, 

 100 sq. ft.— Mrs. A. M. Booth. 



Hemerocallis Gold Dust and flava — John 

 Lewis Childs, Inc. 



Calceolarias, hybrids — Adolph Lewisohn, 

 Ardsley. N. Y.. supt. J. Canning. 



Brassla verrucosa — Miss Schefller, San- 

 gabuck. Conn., gard. Adam Paterson, sil- 

 ver medal. 



Collection of Herbaceous Peonies, seed- 

 lings — Miss Scheffler. silver medal. 



Calceolaria Stuartii— Miss Scheffler. 



Vase of Outdoor Grown Sweet Peas — 

 Miss Scheffler. 



Collection of Cut Flowers from Shrubs — 

 Mrs. Wm. G. Nichols. 



Exhibit of School Garden plantings, 

 Model Gardens, etc.— Dept. of Parks, Bor- 

 oughs of Manhattan and Richmond. 



Collection of Cut Annual, Perennial and 

 Bulbous Flowers — Harry A. Bunyard Co., 

 New York. 



Leaflet No. 27 of the Society for the Pro- 

 tection of Native Plants. 



We have no uew message this year, 

 but we want to remind our members 

 of our bed-rock conviction that very 

 many flowers of each species must be 

 allowed to go to seed if our woods, 

 fields, and roadsides are to retain the 

 loveliness of wild-flower growth, and 

 that the existence, even, of the rarer 

 species is threatened by our careless 

 picking. Cultivation and building 

 necessarily restrict the areas where 

 wild flowers can flourish, and we must 

 endeavor to give them the best chance 

 of holding their own in the places 

 which are left to them. 



Even when all this country was wild, 

 the Indian, with keen and unspoiled 

 powers of observation, had an instinc- 

 tive feeling that flowers should not be 

 ruthlessly destroyed, but should be en- 

 joyed in their natural surroundings. 



The following passages are quoted 

 from "The Indian Today," written by 

 Dr. Charles A. Eastman, a descendant 

 of the Sioux tribe, who bears the In- 

 dian name Ohiyesa. He lived among 

 his own people during his boyhood, so 

 that he possesses both by inheritance 

 and experience the idealistic philoso- 

 phy of the Indian people. 



"In his sense of the aesthetic, which 

 is closely akin to religious feeling, the 

 American Indian stands alone. 



"In accord with his nature and be- 

 liefs, he does not pretend to imitate 

 the inimitable, or to reproduce exactly 

 the work of the Great Artist. The In- 

 dian did not paint nature, not because 

 he did not feel it, but because It was 

 sacred to him. He so loved the reality 

 that he could not venture upon the im- 

 itation. That which is beautiful must 

 not be trafiBcked with, but must 

 be only reverenced and adored. It 

 must appear in speech and action. The 

 symmetrical and graceful body must 

 express something of it. Beauty, in 

 his eyes, is always fresh and living, 

 even as God Himself dresses the world 

 anew at each season of the year. . . . 

 This is the spirit of the original Amer- 



ican. He holds nature to be the meas- 

 ure of consummate beauty, and its de- 

 struction as sacrilege. ... I have 

 seen in our midsummer celebration 

 cool arbors built of fresh-cut branches 

 tor council and dance halls, while 

 those who attended decked themselves 

 with leafy boughs, carrying shields 

 and fans of the same, and even mak- 

 ing wreaths for their horses' necks. 



"But, strange to say, they seldom 

 made a free use of flowers. I once 

 asked the reason of this. •Why,' said 

 one, 'the flowers are for our souls to 

 enjoy; not for our bodies to wear. 

 Leave them alone, and they will live out 

 their lives and reproduce themselves 

 as the Great Gardener intended. He 

 planted them: we must not pluck 

 them, for it would be selfish to do so." 



NEW YORK STATE FAIR. 

 The sixty-seventh annual fair will 

 be held at Syracuse on Sept. 11 to 16. 

 1916. Department I is devoted to 

 flowers and pot plants, for which 170 

 prize classes have been provided, the 

 premiums offered in the preliminary 

 schedule totalling $2,536.75. Charles 

 S. Wilson is the commissioner in 

 charge and David Lumsden, of Ithaca, 

 will act as superintendent. Judging 

 will begin on Monday, Sept. 11. Sept. 

 2 is the day for the closing of entries. 

 In most of the classes 1st, 2nd and 3rd 

 premiums are offered. For collection 

 and display of roses $100.00, $50.00 and 

 $25.00 are offered. In the plant sec- 

 tion there are some equally attractive 

 prizes; in fact the amounts offered 

 are liberal all through and we advise 

 our readers to send for a copy of the 

 schedule and make a try for some of 

 the "mazuma." 



A ROSE GARDEN FETE. 



One of the notable events of this 

 week was the opening to the public, 

 on Thursday afternoon, of Admiral 

 Aaron Ward's beautiful rose garden at 

 Willowmere, Roslyn, L. I., N. Y. E. H. 

 Wilson, the explorer and plant collect- 

 or of Arnold Arboretum. Boston, 

 lectured on the history of the Rose 

 and its evolution through hybridiza- 

 tion. The affair was under the patron- 

 age of Mrs. Robert Bacon, chairman of 

 the American Committee of the Ameri- 

 can Ambulance Hospital, and a num- 

 ber of the leading society ladies of 

 New York. The proceeds of the lecture 

 and the bazaar will be devoted to the 

 American Ambulance Hospital In 

 Paris. 



PAolo. /•y 7. H. Pipt"'- 



■View in Tent. 



Exhibit of W. A. Manda. 



Clvde L. Wilkins, of Wilton, who 

 was "appointed thio ^veek Maine State 

 horticulturist, is one of the youngest 

 state officials. He is only 24, but has 

 been assistant horticulturist during 

 most of the admii:istration of Commis- 

 sioner Guptill. Mr. Wilkins is a son 

 of Wilbur W. Wilkins, a farmer of 

 Wilton, who carries on an orchard, 

 where the young horticultuiist irot his 

 first insight into the science.. Young 

 Wilkins graduated from Wilton Acad- 

 emy in 1912, and then studied for two 

 years at the University of Maine, fol- 

 lowing which he was principal of the 

 High School in Liberty. While at col- 

 lege he helped pay his expenses by 

 milking the University cows. 



