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Program — First Day, Saturday. July 

 13, 1912. 



3 P. M. — Address of Welcome; 

 President Sim's Address; Secretary's 

 Report; Prof. A. C. Seal's Report on 

 our Trial Grounds at Cornell Univers- 

 ity; Treasurer's Report; Nomination 

 of Officers for 1912-13; Invitation for 

 the Next Meeting Place; "Our Present 

 Knowledge of the Sweet Pea Diseases 

 and their Control," by Prof. J. J. Tau- 

 beuhaus of the Delaware College Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station; Election 

 of Officers. 



8 P. M. — Vote on the Next Meeting 

 Place; Addresses and Discussions; 

 Question Box; Unfinished Business, 



Second Day, Sunday, July 14, 1912. 



Lectures. 



The Gardeners' and Florists' Club of 

 Boston have generously invited the 

 members of the N. S. P. S. of A. at an 

 informal luncheon at 7 P. M., Satur- 

 day evening. 



■The Executive Committee recom- 

 mends that the name of our society be 

 changed from the National Sweet Pea 

 Society of America, to the American 

 Sweet Pea Society. This will be voted 

 upon at the next meeting. Kindly be 

 present and express your views. 



H. A, BUNYARD, Secretary. 



THE ASBURY PARK SHOW. 



The much-heralded show of the El- 

 beron Horticultural Society was held 

 on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th insts. at 

 Asbury Park. The venture was 

 backed with a two-thousand-dollar ap- 

 propriation by the city fathers for 

 prizes and expenses. This liberality 

 and enterprise on their part did not 

 produce the results in attendance it 

 should have done. The reason for 

 that is probably because the details 

 were largely left to professional grow- 

 ers than whom there is no class in 

 the community so lacking in their 

 knowledge of how to handle human 

 nature in such enterprises. Very rare- 

 ly do we find a man combining in 

 his one personality genius at produc- 

 ing on the one hand and genius at 

 marketing on the other hand. The 

 same with flower shows. Never leave 

 their management in the hands of 

 the producers. Put a business man 

 in charge — one who knows human na- 

 ture and knows how to get the ear of 

 the people — when there is something 

 good around. Far be it from us to 

 depart from the proper dignity due 

 the profession, but a little red fire 

 and excitement judiciously adminis- 

 tered produces results and results are 

 the main thing so long as they go in 

 the uplift channel. We would say to 

 the Asbury Park magnates now, with 

 cordial appreciation: Go on! You 

 have done nobly. All you lacked was 

 the audience. If the fathers of Asbury 

 Park can make the combination right, 

 there will be gate receipts in plenty 

 and no taxes. 



Burpee's show in charge of George 

 W. Kerr was the feature of the sweet 

 pea end of the exhibition. The ar- 

 rangement was a revelation to the 



old-timers and ought to be an inspira- 

 tion also. A finer effect could hardly 

 be imagined. The gold medal (the 

 premier award) for the best exhibit 

 was deservedly given to this. Four 

 certificates for the latest and best 

 new varieties were also among their 

 trophies. These were for the varie- 

 ties: St. Francis, Orchid, Burpee's 

 Mauve, and Decorator. 



Boddington's exhibition far sur- 

 passed Burpee's in the number of va- 

 rieties. There must have been at 

 least five hundred, all good flowers 

 and a very attractive feature of the 

 show. 



That "two hundred dollar prize" for 

 thirty varieties was "some prize" all 

 right, and brought out over fourteen 



the same lines. Lager & Hurrell 

 made a good display of orchids. N. A. 

 Corlin. Elberton, was the designer of 

 the general arrangements and proved 

 himself worthy of his high office. 

 Thomas Hambleton's group of Celosia 

 Castle Gould, showing its capacity as 

 a bedding plant was well done in the 

 formal garden. Henry Goldman 

 showed some pretty good geraniums 

 in the same section. Even our own 

 Wm. Robertson would flnd these hard 

 to beat. 



Among the most fortunate of our 

 Philadelphia prize, winners we must 

 not forget to mention Martin Gohn, 

 gardener for R. B. Ellison, Bryn 

 Mawr: three firsts and two seconds 

 went to his credit for sweet peas. Mr. 



First Prize American Beauty Roses 

 Exblljited at Asbury Park by A. A. MacDouald of Duke's Park. 



entries. Adam Patterson had to be 

 a good one to get that. It was a great 

 triumph for him and a close call for 

 there w'as a whole bunch of them 

 pretty near as good. Thank Heaven 

 your scribe was not one of the judges. 

 He'd have had a terrible half hour 

 with himself in reaching a decision. 



The Duke fruit show was more than 

 a feature. It was a kind of an annex. 

 Grapes, melons, peaches, nectarines. 

 The arrangement was immense. In 

 the hands of a good manager the 

 town would have rung with it. 



Dreer had a fine display of aquatics 

 which made a basis for the waterfalls 

 feature, one of the good ideas of the 

 show, and well executed. Julius 

 Roehrs Co. showed up well in their 

 tub evergreens on the esplanade, also 

 with groups of flowering and foliage 

 plants as well as with orchids. Bob- 

 bink & Atkins were also strong along 



Gohn is a pupil of Wm. Robertson 

 and comes out of a good school with 

 flying colors. It takes some beating 

 to beat the big boys of New York and 

 New England as well as the nearbys. 

 To all the Elberon boys we say — 

 well done! But add a showman to 

 your outfit next time. We only spent 

 an hour or so in the show on the 4tn 

 and have no license to call the above 

 a report. There must certainly have 

 been lots of good things worthy of 

 mention that escaped us — not only 

 from the hurried run through but also 

 because it was a four-day show and 

 we were only there for "a fleeting mo- 

 ment." Still it was good and inspir- 

 ing and worth the three hours' jour- 

 ney to see how these lads with their 

 limited resources can beat some of 

 the big municipalities without half 

 trying. 



GEORGE C. WATSON. 



