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HORTICULTUEE 



July 8, 1916 



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AMBRICAIS SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION 



Officers— President. Kirby B. White, 

 Detroit Mich.; First Vice-President, F. 

 W. Bolgiano. Washington. D. C; Sec- 

 ond Vice-President, L. L. Olds. Madison, 

 Wis. ; Secretary-Treasnrer, C. E. Kendel, 

 Cleveland, O. 



One Week's Imports. 



Imports at the port of New York, ot 

 horticultural material, tor the week 

 ending June 23, were recorded as 

 follows: 



Bulbs — England, $64. 



Plants— Belgium, $2,680; France, 

 $10; England, $215; Bermuda, $46; 

 Mexico. $45; Cuba, $65; British India, 

 $108; Japaii. $77; • Venezuela, $1,217; 

 Costa Rica, $35. 



Red clover seed — France. $29,278. 



Clover seed— France. $7,458; Nether- 

 lands. $12,000; Canada, $182. 



Other seed — Denmark. $4,049; 

 France, $1,649; Italy, $646; Switzer- 

 land $176; England, $9,205; Argentine. 

 $2,754; British Indies, $26,332; British 

 East Indies, $834; Morocco, $2,244; 

 Mexico, $2,577; iiongkong, $62; Japan. 



$3. 

 Carbonate ot potash— Netherlands, 



$17,535. 



Nitrate of soda — Chile, $545,ToO. 

 Guano — England, $150. 



MINNESOTA HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



On June 23 the annual meeting of 

 the Minnesota Horticultural Society 

 was held in the large new gymnasium 

 of the Agricultural College, midway 

 between the "Twin Cities." Peonies 

 and strawberries were the chief attrac- 

 tion. 



The superintendent ot the State Ex- 

 periment farm raised sixty thousa:. ■ 

 seedling strawberies. These were re- 

 duced to two hundred and then nar- 

 rowed down to three. No. 3 was a 

 marvel. Fruit as large as crabapples; 

 enormously prolific; good shippers 

 and of excellent quality. Fall berries 

 that were allowed to bear in the sprin;; 

 showed splendid fruit of great size and 

 excellence. 



The peony show surpassed anything 

 I ever saw — though I have attended 

 the shows of the national society in 

 Chicago and Boston. The soil and 

 climate of Minnesota are remarkably 

 adapted to this glorious flower. We 

 import peonies from France of great 

 beauty and do not know that up here 

 in Minnesota we have those who origi- 

 nate peonies equal to those produced 

 by the best propagators of Europe. 

 For sixteen years the Brands of Fari- 

 bault, Minn., have carrted on their 

 great work, and their exhibit was a 

 marvel. They have originated six 

 reds of fine form, rich color and large 

 size. Mary Brand is probably the best 

 red peony on earth. It is of exactly 

 the same color as the famous Karl 

 Rosenfield, but io much larger. 



The Brands have gone in on a large 

 scale. They do not find one in a 

 thousand worthy of a name and some- 

 times it will be but one in 5,000. The 

 rest are discarded, so to compensate 

 for the great expense they sell their 

 new creations at $5 to $15 a root. 

 Their productions have been but little 

 known in the East, but as growers are 

 becoming acquainted with them the 

 demand is increasing. 



A New Peony Society. 



A call has been issued for a meeting 

 for organizing a northwest peony 

 society, to meet at the Great West 

 Hotel at Minneapolis on June 28. 

 Why should there be another society 

 when we already have a national 

 society? 1st, because the present so- 

 ciety is national only in name. In 

 the neighborhood of the Twin Cities 

 there are fine peony gardens and an 

 immense number of flowers are raised. 

 Many persons of means have spared 



KlKBY B. WHITH. 



I'resiili'iit-elect Ainericnn Se(Ml Tr;uie 

 Association. 



no expense to secure the best the 

 world affords. The great shows of 

 Boston cannot produce as fine flowers 

 as grow here. Again they are on the 

 verge of a vast empire where these 

 hardy flowers can glorify the desola- 

 tions of the great bleak prairies. Re- 

 peated and urgent efforts have been 

 put forth to draw the national society 

 up here, but all- to no avail, though the 

 attendance and the enthusiasm would 

 surpass that of any other location. 



Yesterday at the i>€ony show here 

 about 1000 people gathered, while at 

 Chicago there was hardly 100. Some 

 western people belong to the national 

 society and complain that their money 

 goes east to pay premiums to eastern 

 growers so they get no good of it. 



Again — the time ot ripening does 



not allow the Minnesota growers to 

 compete with Boston, and those grown 

 there are often nearly a month ahead 

 ot the north, so. as it is neariug the 

 Fourth the northwest declares inde- 

 pendence. It is designed to push a 

 vigorous campaign of publicity into 

 the Canadian provinces and perhaps 

 have a meeting at Winnipeg, as 

 peonies do remarkably well in those 

 Canadian provinces. 



C. S. Haebison. 

 York, Nebr. 



NEW HAVEN PARK NOTES. 

 Two vigorous growing briar roses at- 

 tract attention in West Rock Park by 

 their size and floriferousness — Regine 

 Badet and Abel Cain. The latter is 

 deep crimson and the first named is 

 deep pink, very double and deliciously 

 scented. Both form impenetrable 

 thickets and grow to a height of six 

 or eight feet with spread of equal di- 

 mensions. Superintendent Amrhyn 

 has about completed the filling in of 

 the new Beaver Hill district and is 

 now building roads and doing other 

 substantial development work which 

 will so improve the neighborhood as 

 to add much taxable high-class proper- 

 ty. Trees throughout the park reser- 

 vations are in splendid shape this 

 season. The city nursery is now well 

 stocked with vigorous young trees for 

 street planting. The rose garden has 

 attracted thousands of visitors and 

 New Haven's unique park system was 

 never so eflSeiently managed and at- 

 tractive as it is today. Mr. Amrhyn 

 has finallv settled satisfactorily with 

 the N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. for the 

 injuries he received in the Milford 

 accident. 



ROSE GARDEN INSPECTION. 



The inspection of the rose test gar- 

 den at Ithaca. X. Y.. brought out a 

 gratifying attendance of members of 

 the Syracuse Rose Society and 

 .\merican Rose Society. The affair 

 was under the direction of Prof. A. C. 

 Beal. Addresses were made by S. S. 

 Pennock, president of the American 

 Rose Society, Robert Pyle, Dr. E. M. 

 Mills and others. The American Rose 

 Society held a session in Prof. E. A. 

 White's office. J. E. Curry was ap- 

 pointed chairman of a committee to 

 establish a municipal rose garden in 

 Portland. Oregon. Others present 

 were F. L. Mulford. Washington: H. H. 

 Hoffman. Elmira; Benj. Hammond, 

 Beacon; Jos. Heacock, Wyncote, Pa.; 

 H. G. Bahret, Poughkeepsie; Dr. B. T. 

 Galloway, David Lumsden and others 

 connected with the college. 



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At the annual meeting of the Garden 

 Club of America in Lenox, Mass., on 

 June 30, there were discussions on the 

 preservation of wild flowers, country 

 roadside planting and extermination of 

 poison ivy. The club chose Lake For. 

 est. 111., for the meeting in 1917. It 

 was also voted to hold the convention 

 of 1918 in So\ithampton. L. I., and that 

 of 1919 in Cincinnati. The club elected 

 as president Mrs. J. -Willis Martin of 

 Chestnut Hill. Phila.; vice-presidents, 

 Mrs. Archibald D. Russell, Princeton, 

 N. J.; Mrs. Benjamin T. Fairchild, 

 New Milford, N. Y. ; Mrs. John New- 

 lands, Clevland. Ohio; ^Irs. Francis 

 Kins. Alma, Mich.; Secretary. Mrs, 

 Bavard I-Ienry, Germantown. Phila.; 

 trf.Tfurer, Mrs. Hueh D. Auchincloss, 

 .\c'A- York. 



