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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF 

 GARDENERS. 

 Til' ronunilti'c of the Na- 



tional 'n has selected the 



toV v' > ts for the contest for 



Pf' \erltt's prizes for the best 



wrii; lys on Hortlc\iltiire: 



Closs 1— Prize. fM< gold. Subject- 

 Horticulture as a profession from the 

 standpoint of a gardener. 



Cla.-is 2— Prize. $25 gold. Subject — 

 The proper grouping and culture of 

 trees, shrubs, perennials and annual 

 bedding plants in the ornamentation of 

 private grounds. 



Class 3— Prize. $20 gold. Subject- 

 Preparation of ground for and general 

 treatment of hardy herbaceous peren- 

 nials. Naming a list of species (lim- 

 ited to one hundred) providing a suc- 

 cession of flowers throughout the en- 

 tire season. 



Class 4— Prize. $20 gold. Subject- 

 How to secure a year's vegetable sup- 

 ply with the aid of cold frames or hot- 

 beds (but no greenhouses), including 

 soil preparation. 



The contest is open to professional 

 gardeners, who are engaged in the 

 copacities of superintendents, head 

 gardeners or assistant gardeners. The 

 contest closes on October 1. The 

 judges, consisting of three gardeners 

 and two representatives of the horti- 

 cultural press, appointed by the Essay 

 Committee, will report tlieir decision 

 at the next convention, which will oc- 

 cur the first week of December. Full 

 particulars will be furnished by Wil- 

 lam H. Waite. Chairman Essay Com- 

 mittee, National Association of Gar- 

 deners. P. O. Box 290. Madison, N. J.. 

 to whom all inquiries should be ad- 

 dressed. 



At the meeting of the Executive 

 Board, held in New York recently, it 

 was voted, in response to an invita- 

 tion from William Kleinheinz. chair- 

 man of committee to secure private 

 growers' exhibits for the Fourth Na- 

 tional Flower Show, to be held in 

 Philadephia. March. 1916. to co-operate 

 with the Society of American Forists 

 to make the show a success. 



President Everitt has appointed a 

 committee on Protection of Native 

 Birds, which includes the following 

 members: Ij. P. .Tensen. St. Louis. 

 Mo., chairman; David F. Roy, Marion. 

 Mass.; Lester E. Ortis, Bernards ville. 

 N. J.; Robert Williamson. Greenwich. 

 Conn.; Frank R. Kuehne. Lake Forest. 

 111. Chairman .Tensen reports that the 

 committee has secured the co-opera- 

 tion of Dr. H. W. Henshaw. Chief of 

 the United States Bureau of Biological 

 Survev. in its work on bird preserva- 

 tion. 



Members of the National Association 

 of Gardeners will join the American 

 Association of Park Superintendents 

 In its trip to San Francisco, to attend 

 the N. A. G. summer meeting, which 

 will be held in that city during the 

 third week of August. 



II o KT 1 (• r i.T r i; K 



WINDOW BOXES. 



.Xpril 17, 1915 



WESTCHESTER AND FAIRFIELD 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



At the meeting of this society April 

 9th, Henry Wild read a paper on "Per- 

 ennial Gardens." and Oscar Addor read 

 one of his inimitable accounts of the 

 "Conquest of Rye." a very clever 

 satirical allusion to the various efforts 

 for supremacy among the members at 

 the annual outing, the monthly compe- 

 titions, etc., all of which is supposed 



No part of the florisis' business is so 

 far behind its opportunities as that of 

 which the accompanying illustration is 

 an example. As has been repeatedly 

 said, every city in this country is away 

 behind those of Europe, where the use 

 of growing plants for exterior adorn- 

 ment of business houses as well as 

 residences is very general. This lack 

 is not entirely due to the fiorist. If 

 the public should come forward with 

 a demand for more of this sort of work 



llie florist would undoubtedly respond 

 with alacrity. Tlie point we wish to 

 emphasize is that the florist can and 

 should increase his business In this 

 department by a special campaign and 

 persistent ))ublicity work in the proper 

 season. There is nothing unreasona- 

 ble in the proposition that ten times 

 the quantity of window box and ver- 

 anda stock now sold might be disposed 

 of to advantage by the exercise of due 

 enterjirise on the part of the dealers 

 in such material. 



to have happened in the 15th century. 

 There was a very large attendance. 



The following members were ap- 

 pointed as the Summer Show Commit- 

 tee. Robert Williamson. Alfred Xich- 

 olls, Robert Grunnert, P. H. Flaherty. 

 William Whittin, all of Greenwich. 

 Conn. William Smith of Portchester. 

 manager. Fall Show Committee: An- 

 ton S. Peterson, .lames Foster; A. 

 Wynne, John S. Burns. Owen A. Hun- 

 nick. Alex Geddes, all of Stanford. 

 Conn. Henry Wild, manager. Liberal 

 prizes have been offered by A. N. Pier- 

 son Co., for a group of cut flowers, of 

 chrysanthemums, any or all types ar- 

 ranged for effect. In the writer's opin- 

 ion this idea could be worked out to be 

 a very attractive and decorative fea- 

 ture, and attract more attention than 

 the old stereotyped arrangement in 

 glasses and bottles. The competition 

 for the prize offered by A. L. Rickards 

 of the Stumpp & Walter Co., for the 

 best exhibit at this meeting, caused a 

 remarkably fine display. The prize 

 was awarded to Robert Williamson for 

 a splendid specimen of Coelogyne 

 cristata. The awards of the judges 

 were: Adiantum Williamsii, from 

 James Foster, honorable mention; 

 Robert Williamson, for specimen pelar- 

 gonium, vote of thanks; antirrhinums 

 from Alex. Geddes, honorable mention; 

 Robert Grunnert for Carnation Benora 

 and Rose Sunburst, vote of thanks; 

 specimen azalea from Louis Wittraan, 

 vote of thanks; P. W. Popp, Rhododen- 

 dron Pink Pearl, honorable mention; 

 tulips from Emil Leonore, vote of 



thanks. Geo. E. Baldwin Co. received 

 honorable mention for Dendrobium 

 tlirysiflorum; Celsia cretica from John 

 Andrew, vote of thanks; stocks from 

 Peter Cruse, honorable mention. A pa- 

 per on Dahlia Culture by P. W. Popp, 

 will be read at the next meeting, May 

 14th. 



P. W. Popp, Cor. Secy. 



FOR A NATIONAL DAHLIA SO- 

 CIETY. 



Richard Vincent, Jr., of White 

 Marsh, Md., announces that he expects 

 to organize a National Dahlia Society 

 in New .York City on Monday, May 

 loth, when a meeting will be called at 

 2 P. M. at the Hotel Earlington, 57 

 West 27th street. This will be on the 

 afternoon of the regular meeting of the 

 New York Florists' Club, which meets 

 in the evening and the time has been 

 selected for the convenience of those 

 who may wish to attend both meet- 

 ings. Among the gentlemen and firms 

 who have signified their intention of 

 supporting the movement are J. K. Al- 

 exander, W. W. Wilmore, George L. 

 Stillman, Thomas W. Head, John 

 Lewis Childs, Geo. W. Kerr. Hugo 

 Kind, H. A. Dreer. C. Betscher and 

 others. 



Mr. Vincent solicits suggestions and 

 views from any and all who are inter- 

 ested in this endeavor to establish an 

 organization which shall worthily rep- 

 resent the interests of the dahlia. 

 HoRTicL'LTiBE extends best wishes for 

 the success of the project. 



