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HOETICULTUEE 



September 21, 1912 



AUCTION SALE 



OF THE 



Bonnie Brae Nurseries 



"Se-w R.ocHelle, N. Y. 



Wednesday, October 2nd, 1912, at 10 A. M. 



This is an exceptional opportunity. Do not overlook it. 



200 Catalpa Bungei 

 300 Blue Spruce 

 100 Cut-Leaf Maples 

 400 Ornamental Trees 



500 Norway Maples, I ' 

 500 Assorted Shrubs 

 200 Specimen Boxwood 

 500 Magnolias 



to 7 caliper 1000 Hydrangea Paniculate 

 500 Specimen Conifers 

 400 Assorted Weepers 

 5000 Privet, 3 to 4 years old 



HOW TO REACH THE NURSERIES— Bronx Subway to 242nd Street. Trolley to New Rochelle passes the grounds 



ELLIOTT AUCTION CO. 



W. J. ELLIOTT, Auctioneer 



42 Vesey Streets NEW YORK 



THE EXHIBITIONS 



DAHLIA AND FRUIT EXHIBITION. 



Horticultural Hall, Boston, was all 

 aglow on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 

 September 3 3-15, with gladioli, dahlias 

 and hardy herbaceous blooms which 

 filled the large exhibition hall, and a 

 diplay of unusually fine fruit and veg- 

 etables occupied the lecture hall. 

 There were at least two exhibits fairly 

 entitled to be termed sensational — the 

 gladiolus display of B. Hammond 

 Tracy and the collection of hot house 

 grapes by James Marlborough, gard- 

 ener for Thomas E. Proctor. 



The Tracy gladiolus display was 

 unique in arrangement — not oniy 

 grouped in vases and jars of beautiful 

 design but in hampers and baskets of 

 brown twig or gold and adorned with 

 rich ribbon bows — it was an object 

 lesson in floral art and showed that 

 the gladiolus had at last come under 

 the master hand — or rather, mistress' 

 hand, for the arrangement was done by 

 Mrs. Tracy. A gold medal was worth- 

 ily awarded "in recognition of efforts 

 to advance the culture and use of the 

 gladiolus." The varieties shown were 

 all of the newer and advanced types 

 such as Mrs. Francis King, Mrs. 

 Frank Pendleton, Sunrise, America, 

 etc. 



There may have been larger bunches 

 shown heretofore of certain varieties 

 but taken as a whole we do not recall 

 any grape exhibit in Boston of higher 

 quality than that by Mr. Marlborough. 

 There were fifteen varieties all repre- 

 sented by splendid bunches, large ber- 

 ries, well-finished and well displayed 



on the stage against a setting of Adian- 

 tum Farleyense and other ferns with 

 an imposing group of Campanula 

 pyramidalis in white and purple at 

 either end. 



The large hardy herbaceous groups, 

 the varieties all being properly labeled, 

 were prime attractions for tlie public. 

 They were contributed by Eastern Nur- 

 series, Mt. Desert Nurseries, Blue Hill 

 Nurseries and William Whitman. 

 Noticeable in the Mt. Desert collection 

 were the montbretias, of which ten 

 distinct named varieties were shown. 

 The lovely Lilium Henryi and Phlox 

 Gruppenkonigin were conspicuous also 

 in this display. The dahlia collections 

 were very extensive as might be ex- 

 pected when such well-known speci- 

 alists as J. K. Alexander, W. D. Hath- 

 away, E. W. Ela, E. F. Dwyer & Son 

 and others are in competition. Luther 

 C. Parker received a first class certi- 

 ficate for a fine new peony-flow- 

 ered dahlia named "Houghton." color 

 white daintily flushed. Other than 

 that we did not notice anything 

 very exceptional in the dahlia line as 

 to varieties but the average quality of 

 the flowers shown was very high and 

 in such sets as the 24's in show, cactus, 

 decorative and peony-flowered classes 

 by W. D. Hathaway the uniformity 

 of size and quality was remarkable. 

 All the dahlia exhibitors had their 

 blooms nicely labeled, many of them 

 showing hundreds of varieties and 

 visitors made good use of their note 

 books in selecting favored varieties 

 for next year's garden. 



Arthur Hunnewell was awarded hon- 

 orable mention for a set of seedling 

 hybrid Begonia Lloydii, tuberous, in 

 six inch pots from seed sown February 

 7. The flowers were nodding on tall 

 stems, bright colors and some of them 

 double and beautifully laciniated. 

 They were much admired when first 

 staged but drooped badly on second 

 day. Mrs. J. L. Gardner had a showy 

 group of decorative foliaged stove and 

 greenhouse plants and Fottler, Fiske 

 Rawson Co., staged very extensive 

 groups of named gladioli and dahlias. 



The fruit and vegetable section was 

 well filled. Melons were especially 

 good. James Garthley got honorable 

 mention for a seedling melon, also 

 cultural certificate and a bronze medal 

 for his display. 



PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



The annual dahlia show was held on 

 Sept. 17. The exhibits from the pri- 

 vate gardeners about Philadelphia 

 were rather slim but the lack was 

 more than made up by the fine show- 

 ing made by Messrs. Burpee, Dreer 

 and Vincent. The former occupied 

 the east end of the hall and put up a 

 fine display, very artistically arranged. 

 Dreer had a novel exhibit, eacli flower 

 being shown in a pot of ferns, which 

 relieved the single-flower method of 

 showing of the inevitable stiffness, 

 w'hile retaining the unequalled individ- 

 uality which is unattainable otherwise. 

 Eighty-three varieties were thus 

 shown, and were a great center of at- 

 traction. In addition to their dahlia 

 exhibit Messrs. Dreer showed forty 

 vases of hardy phlox. The Burpee 



