September 2, 1916 



HOBTICULTURE 



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last week was the best up to date. 

 Amateurs largely predominated but 

 nice exhibits were staked by George 

 M. Roak Co.. Auburn, Me., ferns, 

 celosias, etc.; Thomas Cogger, Melrose, 

 Mass., gladioli; Fottler, Fisko, Raw- 

 son Company, Boston, dahlias; Home 

 & Noyes, Lewiston,, gladioli, and 

 others. Ernest Saunders and Hugh 

 Roak acted as judges. 



CLEVELAND'S BIG SHOW. 



At the end of this week, September 

 2nd, comes the opening of the Big 

 Event that has been announced sev- 

 eral times previously in our columns. 



This will be the iirst early fall 

 flower show ever held in Cleveland. 

 It is one of the feature sections of the 

 Industrial Exposition and Fair. It is 

 announced as the biggest civic event 

 ever staged in Cleveland. 



A. B. Blackburn, superintendent of 



M. A. Vinson 

 Manager, Cleveland Flower Show. 



the W. S. Tyler White Side Farms, 

 has made a large entry of out-door 

 plants as well as palms and ferns. He 

 will also enter heavy in the vegetable 

 section. 



Robert Weeks, superintendent of the 

 A. F. Holden estate, is planning on 

 making a very good showing. 



E. A. Bause. superintendent of the 

 J. W. Corrigan estate, Wicklitfe, Ohio, 

 will have a vast display. Mr. Bause 

 will also have a feature exhibit of 

 eight aquariums of rare fish. ^ 



Decorated tables of both retailers 

 and private gardeners will form one of 

 the interesting features of the week, 

 together with baskets, bridal bouquets, 

 etc., and other forms of display. 



Timothy Smith, Chairman of the 

 Flower Show Committee, think.s that 

 the Cleveland public will respond to 

 this and there will be much good come 

 from it to the entire florist ind\istry of 

 Cleveland. 



Cleveland men are expecting to en- 

 tertain a large number of their friends 

 among the trades from distant points. 



This Show will be well worth seeing. 



Coming Exhibitions 



.Sept. 4-l>, Kin-lu'Hter, N. V. — Flower 

 show iu counectiou with the exposi- 

 tion. 



Sept. (i, .\mlierst, Mass.— Field Day 

 for Market tiarileners at the Agrieul- 

 tural College. 



Sept. 7-8, Florence, N. Y. — Floral 

 ami Vegetable Carnival. 



Sept. 9-10. Boston.— Dahlia anil 

 Fruit Exhibition. MasHachvi.si'tts Hor- 

 ticultural Society, Horticultural 

 Hall. 



Sept. 11-16. Louisville, Kj . — Ken- 

 tucky State Fair. 



Sept. 13-14, New Haven, Conn. — 



Eighty-fourth Annual Exposition of 

 New Haven County Horticultural 

 Society iu Republican Hall. 



Sept. 18, Orange, N. J. — Dahlia 

 and Horticultural exliiiiitions of the 

 New Jersey Floricultural Soi-iety. 



Sept. 22-23, Paterson, N. .J. — Fifth 

 annual Fall llower show of New Jer- 

 sey Floricultural Society at Young 

 Men's Christian .\s3ociation Hall. 



Sept. 23, Mnplewood, N. .J. — Second 

 annual Dahlia exhibition. 



SOME NOTABLE CONVENTION 

 GARDEN EXHIBITS. 



Among Henry A. Droer's cannas, 

 Hungarian Pink looked exceptionally 

 fine. Schoppenhauer, a red and yel- 

 low striped canna, attracted much 

 notice. The most beautiful exhibit in 

 the entire garden was Ureers aquatic 

 display. 



Conard & Jones showed ten varie- 

 ties of cannas, of which the City of 

 Portland, a salmon pink, was pro- 

 nounced the greatest attraction of 

 the canna exhibit. 



Wm. Tricker & Son's display of 

 water lilies included many hybrids of 

 the late Wm. Tricker's own produc- 

 tion. The exhibit had for a back- 

 ground a pretty piece of natural rock 

 work and waterfell effect. 



The Texas Rose Company's rose 

 d'jsplay as a whole was remarkable 

 for this season of the year, as gener- 



,Sept. -^6-28, New 



Anier. Dahlia Soc.'s 

 Engineering Bldg., i 



York, N. 1 



aiuuial show, 

 5 W. :»th St. 



Sept. 26-29, Chicago. — Vegetable 

 Growers' Association. Hotel La Salle. 

 Annual Convention and Trade Ex- 

 hibit. 



Oct. 7-8, Boston. — October Fruit and 

 ■Vegetable Exhibition, Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society. Horticultural 

 Hall. 



Oct. 10-12, New Orleans. La. — 



Eighteenth Annual Convention Amer- 

 ican Association of Park Superin- 

 tendents. 



Oct. 26-27, Ma<lison, N. .J. — Twen- 

 tieth Annual Flower Show. Morris 

 County Gardeners' and Florists' So- 

 ciety, James As.seinbly Hall. 



Oct. 27-29, Mount Kisco, N. Y.— 



Fall show of the Nurtheru Westches- 

 ter County Holt, and .\gri. Soc. 



Oct. 31-Nov. 1, Greenwich, Conn. — 

 Fall Flower. Fruit and Vegetable 

 Show i>f the Westchester and Fair- 

 field Horticultural Society. 



Nov. 1-6, Boston. — Grand Autumn 

 Exhibition of Plants, Flowers, Fruits 

 and Vegetables. Massachusetts Hor- 

 ticultural Society. Horticultural Hall. 



Nov. 1 to 3, Tarrjtown, N. Y'. — 

 Chrysanthemum show of the Tarry- 

 town Hort. Soc. in Music Hall. 



Nov. 8-10, New York. — Annual 

 Chrysanthemum show of the Ameri- 

 can Institute. Engineering Society 

 Bldg., 25-3.3 W. 39th St., New York. 



Nov. 9-11, Lancaster, Pa. — Fall 

 flower show. 



Nov. 9-12, New York — Fall exhibit 

 Horticultural Society of New York 

 at Museum of Natural History. 



Nov. 11-19, New Orleans, La.- 

 Flower show. 



Nov. 14-15, Providence, R. I.- 

 Flower show of R. I. Hort. Soc. 



DURING RECESS. 

 St. Louis County Growers. 

 The County Growers' Association 

 held its third annual outing last week 

 at Little Creve Coeur Lake with large 

 attendance and the weather "made to 

 order." The committee had provided 

 a good program of games and a 011"^ 

 band, all members of the association. 

 The prizes for the games were beauti- 

 ful and useful. The officers of the as- 

 sociation from President Winter down 

 worked hard to make things enjoyable 

 for all. 



Timothy Smith 



Chairuuin, Flower Show Committee, Cleve- 

 land. 



ally at this time of the year in Hous- 

 ton the roses are pretty poor. 



The California Rose Company made 

 a grand rose display with fifteen va- 

 rieties, among which were American 

 Beauties growing out of doors with 

 :ie inch stems. The greatest bloomer in 

 this display was La Detroit, of which 

 there were fifty plants in one bed. 

 Mile. Edoiiard Herriot and Etoile de 

 France showed up exceptionally well. 



Baldwinsville, N. Y.— -At a recent 

 meeting of the citizens of this village 

 a society to be known as the Baldwin- 

 ville Floral Society was organized to 

 promote the floral interests of the vil- 

 lage. 



rnder the heading of "Horticul- 

 tural Notes" in a coutemiiorary we 

 find notes on orchard spraying, citrus 

 white fly, wood pulp, perfumes, crude 

 rubber, paleo-botanists and several 

 other topics. Why not include 

 astrology, mesmerism, kleptomania, 

 movies, Mexican troubles and the- 

 ology? Any old thing with the ex- 

 ception ot gardening. 



