THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE OF AMERICA. 



79 



GARDENERS DIARY 



International Flower Show, (irainl Cen- 

 tral I'alaci-. Xfw VurU, .\Iaioli 17-23. 1915. 



American Rose Society. Annual Show. 

 IIoniLultunil Ilall, Bostuu. .Ma.ss., .March 

 18-22, I'Jlu. 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society. An- 

 nual Spring Show, Horticultural Hall, lios- 

 ton, Mass.,"Marcli 25-28, 1015. 



American Sweet Pea Society. Annual 

 .Sweet I'ca Show. Newport. U. i.. .lulv 8 anil 

 9, 1915. 



American Gladiolus Society. Ann\ial 

 (llailiolu- SIkjw, Newport. 1!. I., Au'.;iist IS 

 .ijmI I'.i. I!M5. 



Horticultural Society ol New York. .\n- 

 nual l-'all Slmw, New Voik. Novenilier 4 7. 



Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. 

 Spiin- ^]ll.w. I hot icultural Hall. I'iiilaihl- 

 lihia. ilanh 2:i-25. 



NEW LONDON HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



The first regular meeting in the new year 

 of the New London Horticultural Society 

 was held .January 15. .\ good nunilier 

 turned out, this being the lir^t nu'etiug 

 under the new officers. President Alfred 

 Flower presided. It was decided to hold 

 two shoAvs this year — rose show sonietinie 

 in June, and a chrysantlienuini and fruit 

 e.vhibition in the fall. The society lias had 

 a very successful time in the year just gone. 

 and interest in the same has greatly in- 

 creased, which shows good for the year we 

 have just entered upon. After the usual 

 business routine President Flowers intro- 

 duced Edward Smith, one of the city flor- 

 ists and a very successful carnation grower. 

 to give a paper on the cidture of carna- 

 tions. Discussion followed, and a very 

 pleasant and instructive evening was spent. 



Tlie tables were arranged with \ases of 

 se\eral varieties of carnations exhibited 

 by the following: Edward Smith. Herbert 

 LicUinan. grower for Harkncss Estate: Su- 

 perintendent S. .Jordan. Oustav New-man 

 Jlitchell Estate. Alfred Flowers exhiliited 

 .some fine grown fresias. John .Maloney, 

 Primula Malacoides. 



The lU'xt regular meeting will In' hehl 

 February 11, and is to be in iliaige of lady 

 mendicrs of the society. .\ local laily is to 

 give a lecture on our natixc birds :ind their 

 uses. Refreshments will be served to all 

 the members, in charge of a committee 

 under "Mrs. E. Smith." The Essay Com- 

 mittee would be glad to hear from any of 

 our gardening friends who would like a trip 

 to New Lcuidon to give us a talk on any 

 subject relating to horticulture. Dates are 

 filled up to May. STANT^EY JORDAN. 



NORTH WESTCHESTER HORTICUL- 

 TURAL AND AGRICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



Thursda>' evening. .Tauuary 21. was a red 

 letter evening in the annals of above so- 

 ciety in the social line, when they held 

 their thirteenth annual dinner at the New- 

 castle Inn, Mt. Kisco. with that unapproach- 

 able toastmaster. Mr. J. .\usten Shaw, to 

 wdiose admirable tact, wit aud humor, the 

 society owes largely the success of this af- 

 fair. Preceding the dinner was a short 

 business meeting, at which a vote of con- 

 dolence was passed for Mrs. McTagsjarl, of 



Kearney, N. J., on the great loss she sus- 

 tained in the tragic death of her dc;ir son 

 and our brother nuMubcr. the whole-souled, 

 generous-hearted and nuicli-rcgretted (.'has. 

 ilcTaggart. 



Following are some of the features of the 

 evening: Opening address by Mr. Shaw, 

 who felicitated the society on its prosper- 

 ous position and the work being done l)y it 

 for the uplift of the garih'uing ])rofessioii. 

 Mr. Shaw pi-oposed the toast "Our SoeiiMy.' 

 which was responded to by Jlr. Ilall, presi- 

 ilent, and ilr. James Andrews, past jiresi- 

 dcnt, in a very appropriate address from 

 cac-li welcoming their friemU ami wishing 

 all a good time. 



Mr. Shaw proposed a toast to the revered 

 memory of the friend of everyone in and 

 outside the gardening world with whom he 

 came in contact, our nnichiegretted fi lend 

 and late associate, Charles JlcTaggart. The 

 toast was dnmk in silence, 



"Seed Trade," spoken to by Mr. \\m. 

 Kirkards and Al Rickards. of New York, and 

 Mr. \V. J. Collins, of I'oston. all in their 

 luunorous style of which they are past 

 masters. 



'Horticultural Press." ilr. Shaw took 

 up this toast in the absence of Mr. Martin 

 ( . Ebel. of iladison, N. J., wdio was unable 

 to attend owing to press of work and other 

 engagements, and expressed Mr. Ebel's 

 thanks for invitation, aud then went on 

 portraying the place the horticultural press 

 liolds in the gardening world today. 



"Town of Bedford." Responded to by 

 ■ lodge Robert Clark, Town Clerk Merriam 

 and. Commissioner O'Brien, all extolling the 

 society for the efforts they are |jutting 

 forth for a brighter and cleaner and more 

 artistic town in future. 



"Town of New^castle." to which a line re- 

 sponse was made by Su])er\ isor \\'asliliuro, 

 Town Clerk Haight' and Tax Collector Hel- 

 ler on the growth and influence of the 

 society. 



"Our Out-of-Town Friends." ~S\r. \:\\\ 

 Melee handled this subject in a capital man- 

 ner, thanking the society for their consid- 

 eration towards the guests frcon oot of 



low M. 



"Lay Members of Soi-iety." Dr. I'lage- 

 man. \'. S., spoke of the lay member in a 

 scholaUy manner as the Doctor scnio-ally 

 does on such occasions. Well received and 

 a|i]ilan(led. 



"Our Host and the T.adic'S." These two 

 toasts were coupleil. and Mr. D. M. Pardee, 

 the genial host of the Kisco House, made 

 the sptMM'h of the evening. 



"'I'lie Plain Oardener." The seioet:iiv. 

 .\l. .1. llTirien. spoke to this toast by wel- 

 eoniini; all |)resent and wishing all a good 

 time, yoiny on some length on the position 

 in which the gardener is placed in the com- 

 munity which leaAcs room fio' betterment, 

 showing what can be done by local bodies 

 with good executives in furthering the gar- 

 dener and gardening to a higher plane. .Mso 

 spoke on the origin of the society, how from 

 a handful of earnest men the nucleus of the 

 Noith Westchester Horticultural and Agri- 

 cultural Society was formed in January. 

 1897. and has to day 94 good members. 

 .Among those present was Mr. .\Iex. Mar- 

 shall, the oritrinal founder of the society, of 

 whom Mr. OTirien spoke so favorably that 

 .Mr. Shaw asked ^Ir. Marshall to say a few 

 words, whicli he did with much applause. 

 .Alex, is a man of few words but a idant in 

 gardeninsr and gardeners' organizations. 



The above programme was interspersed 

 with songs and recitations during the ad- 

 dresses, and a fine musical discourse was 

 rendered on the piano by Prof. Egcleston. 



Letters of regret were read from Mr. 

 Ebel. Mr. Totty'and Mr. Sam Burnett, who 

 through sickness, etc., could not be present. 

 M. J. O'BRIEN, Secretary, 



THE SOUTHAMPTON HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



The :uinual bampiet of the Southampton 

 Horticultural Society was held in the t'om- 

 niercial Hotel, .Southampton, on January 20, 

 when tinoe was a large attendance of mem- 

 bers aud their wives, who sat down to a 

 veiy tastefuly served dinnio'. There were 

 sonu" sixty jiersons presioit. 



The presid(Oit. Martin ,\l<d.,onghlin, pre- 

 sided at the tables, and he introduced the 

 many speakeis, including Wm. li. (ianersall, 

 of Nyack, N. \'.. who was listened to with 

 great interest: Wall.o' .1. .lagger, of South- 

 amptioi, who gave :i)i inleri'stmg |iaper on 

 "The \'alm' of Edocatioo to the I'armer," 

 and was heartily applaodi'd. ami \V. D. 

 \'an lirunt, who gave a \er\ pleasing ;ul- 

 ilress on Southaniploii. 



The professicjual entertainer from New 

 N'ork, W. Hobson, kept the nuonbers in con- 

 tinual laughter with his amusing skits. The 

 music was supplied by tin' lical orclieslra. 

 which gave some line rendoings, ami c-er- 

 t a inly ludped to ailil gre:it pleasure to a 

 nnist interesting evening. 



Tlu' very spirit of the bancpo't gave only 

 one impression, that the .Southampton llor- ' 

 ticultuial .Society is \uiited to carry on the 

 good work of the past with greater vigor 

 in the future. 



At the regular ineeting on January 21 it 

 was decided to hold the annual sliow in 

 Jnlv. The particulars will be published 

 later. 



-Mr. C. E. Dinon and Mr. ¥. Burling were 

 ele(t<Ml as actiM' nuoubers of the society. 

 STANLEY R. CANDLER. 

 Corresponding Secretary. 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW 

 YORK JANUARY EXHIBITION. 



The January exhiintion of this society 

 was held on Wednesday. January 2d. at the 

 .\nierican Museum of Natiual History, The 

 larger attendance of gardeners was very 

 gr;itifying, this perhaps being due to hold- 

 ing the exhibition on Wednesday instead of 

 Saturday, There was a good display of 

 flowers, especially of orchids. Tw'o of the 

 UKist attractive exhibits were made by Jlrs. 

 F. A. Constable (.las. Stuart, gardener). 

 One of these was a vase of cut blooms of 

 Buddleia Asiatica. tastefully arranged, and 

 making a striking display: the other, near 

 it. a vase of Plumbago coccin<'a. The white 

 flowers of the Budilho'a made a striking con- 

 trast with the bright red blooms of the 

 Plumbago. The ilisplays of cut orchids by 

 Lager & llnrrell ami Clenuoif Moore were 

 except iioKilly fine. 



The oext exhibition will be held :it the 

 same place on Wednesday, l'"eliruary 17. 

 Prizes are offered for cut orchid blooms, 

 roses, sweet peas, schizanthus, antirrhinum, 

 frcesias and narcissus. Prizes may also be 

 aA\:irded for other interesting and worthy 

 exhibits not provided for in the schedule. 

 Schedules will be sent on application to the 

 sei'retary, (Jeorge A'. Nash. New ^'ork Bo- 

 tanir;il (lardcoi. Bronx Park. New A'ork 

 City. 



.A meeting of the society was held at 3:43, 

 followed by a lecture at 4 by William N. 

 Crai'j. on "A Year's A^egetable Supply from 

 the I bone Harden." This was listened to by 

 ovio- a linmlred peoide. aud proved ono of 

 the most successful lectures ever given here, 

 Circ;!! int(M'est W'as shown in the subject, 

 which was presented by the lecturer in a 

 simple, practical way, which satisfied the 

 desires of those present, judging from the 

 gatherinsr surroundinir Mr. Craig at the close 

 of his talk. 



Fcdiowina is a list of the prizes awarded 

 at the I'xhibition: 



A'as.- 100 blooms— 1, Scott Bros. 



