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horticulture: 



November 3, 1905 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



LENOX HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 

 The annual chrysanthemum exhi- 

 bition of the Lenox Horticultural So- 

 ciety took place in the Town Hall, 

 Lenox, Wednesday and Thursday, 

 October 24 and 25. This was hardly 

 as good an exhibition as former years, 

 owing to the lack of cut chrysanthe- 

 mums, which are unusually late this 

 year. The F. R. Pierson Co.'s silver 

 cup offered for chrysanthemums, six 

 varieties, three blooms of each, was 

 won by E. Jenkins, with Morton F. 

 Plant, Beatrice May, Mrs. George 

 Heaume, Mrs. Henry Partridge, W. W. 

 Wells and Glenview. A. T. Bodding- 

 ton's prize, for twenty-four blooms 

 distinct varieties, was also won by E. 

 Jenkins. Chas. H. Totty's prizes, for 

 six blooms on long stems of Beatrice 

 May were won by E. Jenkins first, 

 Thos. Proctor second, and S. Carlquist 

 third. Howard & Morrow's prizes for 

 vase of thirty-six blooms were won by 

 R. Spiers first, A. H. Wingett second, 

 and E. Jenkins third. The other 

 chrysanthemum prizes were won by 



E. Jenkins, R. Spiers, A. H. Wingett, 

 S. Carlquist, A. J. Loveless, Thos. 

 Procter. J. J. Donahue, D. Dunn and 



F. Heeremans. Bay State Nursery's 

 prizes, for three specimen plants and 

 one specimen plant, were won by E. 

 Jenkins and R. Spiers. F. Heere- 

 mans was first in the group of miscel- 

 laneous plants arranged for effect, 

 with a superb group, the background 

 of which was made up with three good 

 specimen kentias, two plants of Licuala 

 grandis, some excellent colored cro- 

 tons, Adiantum Farleyense, Begonia 

 rex and Cattleya labiata— the ground 

 of the group was wavy and consisted 

 of Adiantum Farleyense. 1, ilium longi- 

 florum. Cattleya labiata and various 

 stove plants. On each corner was a 

 plant of Chamoedora Arembergiana 

 from w^hich were hung Phala-nopsis 

 amabilis and in the middle was a 

 fine piece of croton Prince of Wales, 

 surrouned by Cattleya labiata, Phala;- 

 nopsis amabilis and lily of the valley. 

 E. Jenkins was second in this class, 

 with a magnificent group also. F. 

 Heeremans put up a good group of 

 orchids on a round table in the mid- 

 dle of the hall. Roses were well 

 shown, Thos. Proctor's Richmond 

 ■were excellent. The principal winners 

 in these classes were Thos. Proctor, 

 E. Jenkins, F. Heeremans, Thos. Page, 

 J. J. Donahue. R. Spiers. A. H. Win- 

 gett, Thos. Dixon and D. D\mn. In 

 the carnation class competition was 

 very close; the winners were the ones 

 above, with E. Dolby. H. P. Wookey 

 and L. W. Acheson added; in E. Dol- 

 by's vase of fifty blooms was an ex- 

 cellent white seedling of his own rais- 

 ing, which promises fair to become a 

 winner. The special prize for collec- 

 tion of eighteen varieties of vegeta- 

 bles was won by E. Jenkins. In the 

 class for twelve varieties of vegetables 

 is where the judges met another prop- 

 osition. Thos. Page was first, S. Carl- 

 quist second and D. Dunn third. 



First-class certificates were awarded 

 to Lager & Hurrell who staged a nice 

 group of orchids; F. I. Drake of Pitts- 

 field for a bunch of Gov. Herrick vio- 

 lets; James Crawshaw for Asparagus 

 plumosus Crawshawii. The Judges 



were Messrs. A. Herrington, Chas. H. 

 Totty, W. Duckham of Madison, N. J., 

 and G. H. Hale of Oceanic, N. J. 

 GEORGE FOULSHAM, Secretary. 



NEWPORT HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 

 A meeting of the Newport Horti- 

 cultural Society was held Tuesday 

 evening, October 23, president Mac- 

 Lellan in the chair. After the transac- 

 tion of routine business the president 

 appointed Messrs. James Robertson, 

 Joseph Gibson, and Colin Robertson a 

 committee to judge exhibits at the 

 meeting. The exhibits consisted of 

 nerines and dahlias. The nerines 

 were shown by Andrew J. Pow, gar- 

 dener for Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, 

 and excelled any collection ever seen 

 here, while the quality of the in- 

 dividual flowers was uniformly ex- 

 cellent. Among them were several 

 standard varieties but the greater 

 number were seedlings of Mr. Row's 

 raising. As Mr. Pow had on a previ- 

 ous occasion been awarded the society's 

 silver medal for nerines an award of 

 money was made at this time. Mr. 

 W. J. Watson, gardener for Miss Alice 

 Keteltas, exhibited a seedling cactus 

 dahlia of undoubted merit, especially 

 fine in form and substance. A short, 

 crisp discussion on the question of 

 changing the term of stove plants 

 showed opinion pretty evenly balanced, 

 but the end is not yet. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY OF 

 AMERICA. 



Work of the committees; 



Philadelphia, Oct. 27.— Chrysanthe- 

 mum -Mrs. G. A. Lotz; creamy white, 

 Jap. incurved; exhibited by Gustav A. 

 Lotz, Glen Bumie, Md. Scored 90 

 |)oinls commercial scale and 89 points 

 exhibition scale. 



Philadelphia, Oct 27.— Mrs. Westray 

 Ladd; yellow Jap. incurved; exhibited 

 by Edward A. Stroud, Overbrook, Pa. 

 Scored 87 points commercial scale. 



New York, Oct. 27.— White Sport 

 of Wm. Duckham (white blush tint); 

 exhibited by Chas. H. Totty, Madison, 

 N. J. Scored 90 points commercial 

 scale and 90 points exhibition scale. 



New York, Oct. 27.— Mamolese L. H. 

 Cochet; pink Jap. incurved; exhibited 

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

 Scored 85 points exhibition scale. 



DAVID ERASER, Secretary. 



ST. LOUIS EXHIBITION. 



At the Missouri Botanical Garden 

 the annual chrysanthemum show will 

 open Nov. 12 and continue throughout 

 the week. These free exhibitions gen- 

 erally draw immense crowds. Super- 

 intendent H. C. Irish says that the 

 show this year will be greater than 

 ever, as all the specimen plants are 

 in much -finer shape this year than 

 heretofore; all the new varieties will 

 be shown as well as the old ones. 



These exhibitions are generally held 

 in a big tent just outside of one of the 

 big orchid houses. Messrs. Irish, 

 Pring, Fulgraf and Thompson will 

 have charge and will welcome any of 

 the local and outside fiorists who at- 

 tend. 



EXHIBITION AT TARRYTOWN, 

 N. Y. 



The eighth annual exhibition of the 

 Tarrytown Horticultural Society was 

 held on Tuesday, Wednesday and 

 Thursday of this week at Music Hall, 

 Tarrytown. This annually recurring 

 event is looked upon by experts as one 

 of the finest exhibitions of the year, 

 as to the quality of the material 

 shown, and it draws a large attend- 

 ance of visitors from other gardening 

 centers. This year's exhibition was 

 no exception to the rule. The plants 

 and flowers, their arrangement, and 

 the general effect were all that could 

 be desired and well worthy of a visit. 



There was a big array of special 

 prizes which lack of space compels us 

 to note as briefly as possible, firsts 

 being taken by Scott Bros., Elmsford 

 Nurseries, Wm. Rockefeller, gardener 

 George Middleton; Giraud Fester, gar- 

 dener E. Jenkins; E. Berolzheimer, 

 gardener D. McFarlane; Mrs. O. B. 

 Jennings, gardener Oscar Carlson; 

 Prof. Osborne, gardener James Donald ; 

 -Mrs. Geo. Lewis, gardener James Bal- 

 lantyne; Winthrop Sargent, gardener 

 F. C. Whitney; Fred Potter, gardener 

 Wm. Roberts; Mrs. .1. B. Trevor, gar- 

 dener Howard Nichols. 



In Section I, chrysanthemums in 

 pots, there was a very small represen- 

 tation, but in Section II, which com- 

 prised flowering and foliage plants, 

 ferns, etc., the entries were numerous 

 and comprised some excellent material 

 in decorative plants. The winners of 

 first prizes in these classes were: Mrs 

 Trevor. D. H. Weatherbee, gardener F. 

 Milne; Mrs. Lewis; H. M. Flagler, gar- 

 dener Wm. Cowan; Wm. Weidley; 

 Fred Potter, and Henry Siegel, gar- 

 dener T. Atkinson. For chrysanthe- 

 mums grown to single bloom, first 

 prize went to D. C. Oppenheim, gar- 

 dener J. Haworth. 



Section III was devoted to cut blooms 

 which were shown in large numbers 

 and of splendid finish, the winners be- 

 ing the exhibitors heretofore named, 

 with the addition of E. C. Benedict, 

 gardener R. Allan, and .A. Heckscher, 

 gardener A. Aliens. Section IV. de- 

 voted to roses, and Section V carna- 

 tions from private growers, were 

 filled by practically the same exhib- 

 itors. Section VI, carnations from 

 commercial growers, brought out a 

 splendid vase of Winsor from F. R. 

 Pierson Co. Section VII violets, VIII 

 fruits, IX vegetables, were all well 

 filled with excellent exhibits, mainly 

 from the private gardeners of the 

 neighborhood. 



The dinner table decorations and 

 miniature flower .gardens, for which 

 special prizes were offered, were to be 

 judged on the second day by a com- 

 mittee of ladies. 



NEW BEDFORD HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



Many complimentary remarks have- 

 been showered on this society, by 

 visitors to the exhibition held last 

 month. This society was organized 

 February 2, 1903, and each year has 

 held an annual exhibition in Septem- 

 ber and the principal flower shown; 

 being the dahlia. Every year our ex- 



