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H () KT I U U LT U K K 



August •>, 1919 



THE GARDENERS' CONVENTION. 

 The plans for the annual convention 

 i>l the National Association of Garden- 

 ers to be held in Cleveland, August 26- 

 28, are nearly completed. The Hollen- 

 den has been selected as the associa- 

 tion's headquarters and convention 

 meeting place. 



Tuesday forenoon and afternoon, 

 and Wednesday and Thursday fore- 

 noon will he devoted to business. On 

 Tuesday evening, J. Otto Thilow will 

 deliver his lecture on "The Flora of 

 Hawaii" to which the public will be 

 invited. On Wednesday evening the 

 annual banquet will take place. The 

 local committee composing R. P. Bry- 

 don, W. E. Cook, J. Fisher. R. Poole, 

 T. M. Rowe, H. P. Rapley, J. Hamilton, 

 A. Brown, appointed by President Rob- 

 ert Weeks, is providing the entertain- 

 ment features for the visiting mem- 

 bers and friends. 



, Among the business to be brought 

 before the convention is the proposed 

 co-operation between the country es- 

 tate owners and the national associa- 

 tion; the future policy and operation 

 of the Service Bureau, maintained by 

 the association; the practicability of 

 providing examinations for members 

 of the profession; the question of how 

 young men can be induced to take up 

 the gardening profession. 



Among the speakers will be Sidney 

 S. Wilson, vice-president. Associated 

 Advertising Clubs of the World, for- 

 mer president, Cleveland Advertising 

 Club, who will talk on "How Can the 

 Gardener Best Advertise His Profes- 

 sion?" and Edwin Jenkins of Lenox, 

 Mass., on "How Can We Interest the 

 Young Men in Our Profession?" Quar- 

 antine Bill No. 37 will be discussed by 

 a speaker to be announced later. 



Members should not delay in mak- 

 ing reservations for hotel accommoda- 

 tions, and should apply to James 

 Fisher, chairman, Hotel Reservations 

 Committee. 10,504 St. Clair Ave.. 

 Cleveland. 



Fleet, Christine Wright, Mary Lovett, 

 Climbing American Beauty, Climbing 

 Lady Ashtown, Bess Lovett, Ruby 

 Queen, May Queen, Tausendschon, 

 Baroness von Ittorsum, Source d'Or, 

 Goldfinch, Oriole, Electra, Robt. Craig, 

 Prof. Sargent, Jersey Beauty, Edwin 

 Lonsdale, Carmine Pillar, Sanders 

 White Rambler, Petit Louis, Climbing 

 C. Soupert, Francois Guillot, Climbing 

 La France, Wm. C. Eagan, Trier, Le 

 Mexique, Gerbe Rose, Schiller, Dawn, 

 Wedding Bells, Miss Helyett. 



I have sixty varieties, all told, a 

 good many of which bloom too late 

 in the season for the rose exhibits. 



We have been having an excess of 

 rain for the last three weeks. Very 

 heavy showers and often a regular 

 downpour. The vegetable gardens are 

 flooded here, where they had to be 

 artificially watered last year to keep 

 them from drying up. On the other 

 hand, our rose garden, having a good 

 drainage, has been benefited by the 

 rain. Looking across them the top 

 is fairly bristling with new growths; 

 we have never seen them as well be- 

 fore at this time of the year. 



Quite a few of them are putting on 

 another crop of buds as a result of 

 I he quite English climate we have 

 been having. 



C. F. Meyer is well covered with 

 buds on the new wood, and coming 

 on fast. 



Gerbe Rose, a large, double, delicate 

 pink rose, has new buds on all the 

 laterals from the old wood that just 

 fnished blooming. 



Dawn, a large single deep pink hy- 

 brid tea (Pillar rose), is also well cov- 

 ered with buds. 



There are many other that will 

 bloom later if conditions are good 

 then. Yours truly, 



A. J. Fish. 

 New Bedford. Mass. 



The kinds of the priniulinus type, the 

 earliest to flower, are now in bloom 

 and the other types will follow con- 

 secutively, continuing until late August 

 or early September. The greatest dis- 

 play is to be expected during the first 

 and second week in August. 



The canna collection, in which forty- 

 one kinds are represented with about 

 2,000 plants, is now rapidly coming 

 into bloom. Close by the cannas a 

 new plantation has been established 

 illustrating variegations. For this 

 purpose plants with variegated foliage 

 of many kinds, both hardy and tender, 

 were selected and grouped in a plot 

 along the path leading north to the 

 Herbaceous Garden. 



CLIMBING ROSES. 

 Dear Sir: — 



Reading the list of climbing roses 

 in the collection of S. S. Pennock it 

 occurred to me that a list of the varie- 

 ties in my collections at Boston, June 

 21. and Newport. June 25. both of 

 which were awarded a silver medal, 

 would be of interest to the readers of 

 Houtm t 'i.ti're. Varieties follow, 33 in 

 number: Silver Moon. Dr. W. Van 



BIG COLLECTION OF GLADIOLI. 

 The gladiolus collection at the New 

 York Botanical Garden is planted this 

 year along both sides of the path bor- 

 dering the war memorial grove of 

 Douglas spruce. The most conveni- 

 ent entrance is from Southern Boule- 

 vii- 1. nearly opposite Fordham Hos- 

 pital, where the collection of cannas 

 i; planted. 



The gladioli as exhibited here com- 

 prise 243 kinds grouped in thirteen 

 beds, containing some 21,000 plants. 



ORNAMENTAL FRUITS. 



Trees and Shrubs Decorative in the 

 Late Summer and Fall 



Writing in the Arnold Arboretum 

 Bulletin about the decorative value of 

 fruiting trees and shrubs, Prof. 

 Sargent says: 



The ripening and ripe fruits of 

 many hardy trees and shrubs are as 

 beautiful and often more beautiful 

 than their flowers; and such plants 

 have a double value for the decoration 

 of northern gardens, especially the 

 gardens of the northern United States. 

 For the climate of this part of the 

 world is suited for the abundant pro- 

 duction and high coloring of the fruits 

 of our native trees and shrubs and 

 those of northeastern Asia; and Euro- 

 pean plant lovers who come to the 

 Arboretum in summer and autumn are 

 always astonished and delighted with 

 the abundance and beauty of the fruits 

 they find here. The list of trees and 

 shrubs with handsome fruits which 

 can be grown in New England con- 

 tains many species of Holly. Ribes, Vi- 

 burnum, Cotoneaster, Cornus, Malus, 

 Sorbus. Amelanchir, Aronia. Rosa, 

 1 'minis. Rhus. Crataegus. Ampelopsis, 

 Berberis, Magnolia, Acer, Acantho- 

 panax and Lonicera. On the Red and 

 White Maples the fruit ripens early in 

 May, and until the first of November 

 there will be a succession here of 

 ripening fruits. The fruits of a few 

 trees and shrubs will remain on the 

 branches and keep much of their 

 brilliancy until early April, and there 

 is therefore only a few weeks during 

 the year when one cannot find showy 



fruits in the Arboretum. 



