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II ORTICULTURK 



Juno 10, 1916 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



FLORISTS' CLUB OF PHILADEL- 

 PHIA. 



Tom Duly, the world famous wit. 

 |ihilo8oplior and puvt. was tlio speaker 

 of the eventiiK at the monthly mcet- 

 iUK of this club held on June 6th. His 

 subjcft wns "huKS," which he illum- 

 ined with science, sense, scintillation 

 and humor, much to the delight of the 

 members. The audience wns so large 

 that the regular club rooms had to be 

 abandoned for the larger hall upstairs. 

 The evening wound up with games 

 and refreshments and a jolly good time 

 generally. The speaker at the July 

 meeting will be Dr. John H. Washburn. 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY. 



Change of Dates of the Peony Exhibi- 

 tion. 



On account of the lateness of the 

 season the Peony Rxhibition of the 

 Massachus<»tts Horticultural Society 

 scheduled for June in and 11 will be 

 postponed to Saturday and Sunday, 

 June 17 and 18. 



William P. Rich, Sec. 



The June meeting of the Cincinnati 

 Florists' Society will be held Monday, 

 June 12th. Important business is com- 

 ing before the meeting. 



The Annandale (N. Y.) Rose Show 

 will be held on Tuesday, June 13, and 

 Wednesday. June 14 (Commencement 

 Day of St. Stephen's College). 



The annual Peony Exhibition of the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society 

 will be held at Horticultural Hall, Bos- 

 ton, on Saturday and Sunday. June 17 

 and 18. Peonies are liberally provided 

 for in the prize schedule, as are also 

 rhododendrons, irises and hardy her- 

 baceous flowers. 



The Dalton (Mass.) Horticultural 

 Society, which has just been formed, 

 will hold an exhibition at the Y. M. C. 

 A. building Aug. 25 and 26. and all 

 persons intending to exhibit must fill 

 out the blank furnished, not later than 

 Aug. 21. and return it to the chairman, 

 W. S. Dunn, manager of Flintstone 

 farm. 



Rutland, Vt., will see at least two 

 flower shows this season, as the 

 Garden Club plans to hold one this 

 month and one in August, in which 

 all of the nature and flower lovers of 

 the city are askod to compete. The 

 Garden Club desires first of all to 

 beautify the city and the grounds of 

 the various residences and to accom- 

 plish this it is offering these shows as 

 an incentive. A peony show will be 

 held this month, probably the last 



Meetings Next Week 



Monday, June 12. 



CU'vi'liMiil liorlKlB t'lul). Uolluii- 

 ilc'ii lliiti'l. ('Ii'%<'liiiiil. (iblo. 



Cnnliii. It.' jiicI I'l.irlsiR' l.'luli >>l 

 HaUliiuin', riorUt KxcliiiiiKi' Hull. 



NfW ^ (irk l''U»rlHlM' (-"lult. Cinuiil 

 ()|MTii IloiiHi-, Ni'W Vork (Jlly. 



ItucbcHtiT KlorlBtM' AhbocIuIIoii, ICj 

 Miiln St., Kiiat Hocliontor, N. Y. 



Tuesday, June 13. 



NV'Wpnrl llortlculturiil SocU-lty. 

 .Newport, li. 1. 



Wednesday, June 14. 



Clnduiiatl KlorlntH' Sncl.ty. J:ilii/. 

 KMIott KlowiT .Market. L'liHliinJitl, O. 



IJutclifSH (Viuiily Ilortlrultural So- 

 cU'ty. roupliliecpslc. N. V. 



Lenox Horticultural Society, 

 Lc-nox, MasH. 



Morris Counl.v Florists' and (Jar- 

 deners' Society. Madison. N. J. 



Nassau t'uuntv llortinilliiral So- 

 ciety, I'enitiroke Hall, Glen Core, 

 N. Y. 



Thursday, June 15. 



Essex Connty Klorlsts' Club, 

 Kreuffer-.Vudltorhnn. Newark. N. .T. 



New Orli'nns Horticultural Society, 

 Association of Commerce lUdj;., New 

 Drieans. La. 



Norlli Westcbesler Tounty Hortl 

 enltural Society, Mt. Klseo. N. Y. 



Taconia Florists' Association. Mac- 

 caliee Hail, Taconia. Wasb. 



Friday, June 16. 



Nortb Sbore llortiiultural So- 

 clet.v. Manchester. M:iss. 



COMING EXHIBITIONS. 



.June 9-10. .Snn Francisco. — Ameri- 

 can Sweet Pea .Society. I'alace Hotel. 



June 9-10, New York City.— Ameri- 

 can l*eony Society. Meeting and Ex- 

 liiliition, American Museum Natural 

 History. 



.lune 17-lX. lionton. — Peony ICx 

 liilillion, Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society. Horticultural Hall. 



June 13, Oyster IJay, L. I., N. T.— 

 Rose .Show, Oyster Hay Horticultural 

 Society. 



June 16, ProvUlrnce, R. I.^Sum- 

 nier Show of Kbode Island Horticul- 

 tural Society. 



June 16-17, Mamaroneck, N. Y. — 

 Summer Show. Westchester and 

 Falrfleld norticultural Society. 



•lune 22, Worcester. Mass. — Rose 

 and Strawberry Exhibition. Worces- 

 ter Horticultural Society. 



.June 24-25. Ilostnn. — Rose and 

 Strawberry Exhibition. Massachu- 

 setts Horticultural Society, Hortl- 

 cuitural Hall. 



June 27-28, Ilartford. Conn. — Sum- 

 mer Show of Connecticut Horticul- 

 tural Society. 



June 28-29, Newport, R. I. — New- 

 port Garden Association and New- 

 port Horticultural Society, on the 

 grounds of the Garden Association. 



.July 14-16, Bar Harbor. Me. — An- 

 nual Show of American Sweet Pea 

 Society. 



July 20, WorccHter, Mass. — Sweet 

 Pea Exhibition. Worcester Horticul- 

 tural Society. 



AuKust 3, Oyster Bay, L. I., N. Y.— 

 Palilia Show. Oyster Bay Horticul- 

 tural Society. 



.Aneust 11-12-13, Boston. — American 

 Gladiolus Society. Horticultural Hall. 



■Vuifust 24, A\'orcester, Mass. — 

 Gladiolus Exhibition. 



Sept. 2-9, Cleveland. Ohio. — Indus- 

 trial Exhibition and Fair. 



fSyraeuse, N. Y.. Sept. 11-10. — New 

 Vork State Fair. 



Sept. 12-13, Providence, R. I.— 

 Rhode Island Horticultural Society, 

 Narrairansett Hotel. 



week in Juno. A good many local 

 in'ople who have HCldoni, If over, 

 pliiuted Hhruhs or (luwi-rs about the 

 ::riiui'(lK. linvc d<uu> so thin your. 



G. A. K.iLii'. 



'resident-elect of Missouri State Florists' 

 Association. 



A NEW EXOCHORDA. 

 Exochorda Giraldii Wilsonii. The 

 Chinese Pearl Bush (Biochorda 

 racemosa) has long been a familiar 

 and much admired shrub in many 

 American gardens on account of its 

 showy racemes of large pure white 

 flowers. Old specimens assume an 

 open and not a very attractive habit, 

 and lose much of their early beauty. 

 The variety (B. (Jiraldii) which was 

 discovered by Wilson in western China 

 and named for him, although in its 

 native country it is a wide-spreading 

 shrub, in cultivation here grows like 

 a tree with a single straight stem and 

 comparatively short branches which 

 form a narrow pyramidal head. The 

 flowers are much larger than those of 

 the old-fashioned Pearl Bush, and this 

 new introduction promises to be a 

 better garden plant. It is now well 

 established in the Arboretum where 

 several plants are now in flower, and 

 in other Massachusetts gardens. The 

 Chinese Exochorda is best known as 

 E. grandiflora, but the older and cor- 

 rect name is F. racemosa. E. macrantha, 

 an interesting hybrid between the 

 Chinese E. raf-rmosn and E. Korolkowii 

 from central Asia, is in flower. The 

 flowers and foliage resemble those of 

 the Chinese plant but the branches, 

 like tliose of its Turkestan parent, are 

 much more upright in growth. — Arnold 

 Arboretum Bulletin. 



