June 27, 1914 



HORTICULTURE 



929 



Walkor: Delphiniums. 1st Joliii Lorisicl;, 

 L'lui F. Kyle; Swwt Williuni iiud Disiitalls, 

 .T:is. Diii'lili.-nii ; ('aniii:uiiil;i, Tolin Liu'lsicl; ; 

 (i varit'lii-s Swccl I'cas, \V. Kol>ei-tsou : 

 rallies, MicliacI D'.Xcil ; hoiiiiuet of luirdy 

 flowiTs. h.-irdy fiowiTinf; slinibs and spi^ci- 

 mcn Nc|)hrnlcpis. .Icilin I.orisick : si.ccina'n 

 tVrn. any variety, .1. T. lustani: t'uliatre 

 plant, .iDliri I.orisick ::> plants of Uriliids in 

 tlower, ,Iolin T. Iimmni; specimen Ilvdran- 

 yeas, I'". Kyle; Iie;ronia. .Tolm I.orisi<k : 

 any oilier plant in jiot. David I'otliersall : 

 Sweet I'cas, rri'sidcnt .1. T. Iii,i:rain's prize. 

 1st W. lioherlson, Jnd .I;is. Diud;h,nn. 



t'nltnral certilic-ites to \V. Kobcrtson, 

 roses and sweet peas: .1. Dnckliani, roses; 

 '1\ A. Ila\-enieyer, peonies, liardy tlowers 

 and sbrulps; K. M, Townseud. strawberries; 

 A. S. Ilodenpyle, vegetables. Honorable 

 mention to ,T. T. Iiifiram. climbing; roses, 

 F. KiRKHAM, Sec'y. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 

 Hartford Rose Garden. 

 On June IStli the representatives of 

 the American Rose Society visited offi- 

 cially the Rose Test Garden at Eliza- 

 beth Parlv, Hartford, Conn., to tal<e U|) 

 and examine the forty-four specimen 

 plants that were put out at the forma- 

 tion of the garden. The judges were: 

 John P. Huss. Hartford. Conn., S. S. 

 Pennock, Philadelphia, Pa„ and W. F. 

 Gude. Washington, D. C. The recom- 

 n.endation made by the judges in re- 

 gard to the rose which seemed to at- 

 tract the most attention is as follows: 

 That the award of the silver medal be 

 made to Mr. John Cook of Baltimore, 

 Md., for the rose "Radiance" in recog- 

 nition of its superior merits as a bed- 

 ding rose, signed, John F. Huss. S. S. 

 Pennock, \V. F. Gude. 



There were present at the dinner, 

 Supt. of Parks, Geo. W. Parker. Hart- 

 ford, Conn.; Wallace R. Pierson. presi- 

 dent of the American Rose Society; 

 Robert Pyle. S. S. Pennock. Prof. A. C. 

 Beal of Cornell University. Leonard 

 Barron. J. Harrison Dick. Alex. Mont- 

 gomery. Alex. Montgomery. Jr., J. H. 

 MacFarlane, Edw. Norburg, A. N. Pier- 

 son, A. Gude, W. F. Gude, Geo. Jo- 

 hannes, R. T. Beers, John F. Huss, 

 Alex. Cumming, Jr.. Louis J. Renter, 

 Bsnj. Hammond and Messrs. Green, 

 Anderson, Clark, Rigby and Morgan. 



At the dinner an account of the 

 Washington Rose Garden at Arlington 

 was reported upon by W. P. Gude who 

 complimented Messrs. Ciimining, Pyle 

 and Mulford for the work they had 

 done in bringing about this matter; 

 that two acres had been laid out for 

 the work along the national highway 

 that is to run from Quebec to Florida 

 and there were three hundred and fifty 

 varieties of roses already there. Prof. 

 Beal, speaking for Ithaca, said, that 

 much interest had been shown not 

 only by growers of plants who had fur- 

 nished them so that the varieties ex- 

 ceed three-hundred but also from a 

 large number of local amateur socie- 

 ties; that at Cornell there were some 

 hundreds of students all of whom be- 

 came more of less acrjuainted and in- 

 terested in these test gardens, and that 

 they carried away with them an in- 

 terest in the beauties that follow the 

 cultivation of flowers in any place or 

 section. 



The Executive Committee of the 

 American Rose Society also met and 

 have awarded formally the Hubbard 

 Gold Medal to M. H. Walsh. Woods 

 Hole. Mass., for the rose "Excelsa." 

 The display of this rose in the garden 

 showed it to be a most vigorous plant, 

 and the concensus of opinion received 

 during the past three months concern- 

 ing the rose caused the award to be 

 properly made for that rose. The med- 



Vii;w i.N Ro.sK G.vuuE.N, Eliz.\heth Park, Hartfohd, COxNN. 

 25,000 People Pass Through this Garden on "Rose Sunday." 



als both for Mr. Walsh and Mr. Cook 

 will be presented at the S. A. F. con- 

 vention in Boston in August. 



The day that was spent at Hartford 

 was damp and cioudy which prevented 

 the taking of any pictures. The gen- 

 eral layout of the rose garden aside 

 from the test garden in Elizabeth Park 

 is something that certainly is very 

 beautiful, and something that the city 

 of Hartford can well feel proud of. 



Be.\.;.\mi.\- Hammond. Sec'y. 

 , Beacon. N. Y.. June 20, 1914. 



Mr. Benj. Hammond, 

 Dear Sir: 



Your call for the meeting at the 

 Elizabeth Rose Garden is received and 

 I wish very much that I could answer 

 to same in person. This, however, is 

 impossible, but I shall be with you in 

 thoughts at least. 



A short report on the condition of 

 our Lyndale Park Rose Garden, at the 

 time of this writing may be of inter- 

 est to you and those present at your 

 meeting. I spent an hour at our Gar- 

 den yesterday morning, and a week 

 from now it will be at its best, which 

 is ten days earlier than last year. We 

 have had splendid growing weather all 

 spring, but just now have a little too 

 much rain, and not enough sunshine. 

 Nevertheless, our plants are still free 

 from mildew, and in perfect health. 

 We have only two exhibits in our A. 

 R. S. Test garden, namely: the two 

 Climbers, Dazzling Red and Bridal 

 Wreath, by W. A. Manda; and the new 

 H, R. Rose Defiance, by 0. Kress. They 

 are all doing well. The climbers are 

 in bloom and Defiance shows prom- 

 ising buds. The following were in full 

 bloom in the garden and were very 

 satisfactory: 



H. T. Mary, Countess of Hchester, 

 Mrs. Leonard Petrie, Madame Jules 

 Grolez, Killarney, pink and white, 

 Lady Ashtown, Gruss an Teplitz, Lau- 

 rent Carle, General MacArthur, Farben 

 Koenigin. 



H. R. — Jules Margotin, Anna de 

 Die^bach, Mrs. John Laing, Captain 

 Hayward, Prince Camille de Rohan, 

 Mrs. Geo. Dickson, Hugh Dickson. Fran 

 Karl Druschki, Madame Gabrielle 

 Luizet, Baroness Rothschild, Oscar 



Cordell, Mabel Morrison, Ulrich Brun- 

 ner. 



Every one of our 200 varieties will 

 be in bloom by the end of this week, 

 and 1 wish your meeting could ad- 

 journ from Hartford to Minneapolis 

 to meet here the 21st, which as far 

 as the time and distance are con- 

 cerned, would be possible. The invi- 

 tation is most cordially extended. 



Theo. Wiimh. 



THE LANCASTER COUNTY FLOR- 

 ISTS' CLUB. 



June 18th found us all back on the 

 job for keeping up our record breaking 

 attendance, there being very few faces 

 n'issing. 



A paper on Asters, by Chas. B. 

 Weaver, Ronks, Pa., and one on Gladi- 

 olus, by Ira H. Landis, of Paradise, 

 Pa., were the literary events of the 

 evening. 



The flower show committee reixjrted 

 having secured the hall for Nov. 6th 

 and 7th and notified the members that 

 they were going to visit every estab- 

 lishment in Lancaster and Lancaster 

 County early in Oct. and expected to 

 find an exhibit being prepared for the 

 show at every place. Mr. Heimenze, 

 the owner of the finest dance and so- 

 cial hall in the city is going to allow 

 us the use of it for this show, we al- 

 lowing him the proper financial equiv- 

 alent for it. A feature of the show 

 will be amateur exhibits and as Lan- 

 caster is a pretty good market for nov- 

 elties we expect to have some of the 

 newer varieties on exhibition from out 

 o.' town growers. Albert M. Herr, Lan- 

 caster, Pa., has charge of this end and 

 a letter addressed to him may put you 

 ir; touch with a good thing. 



The cooperative buying committee 

 had an out-of-town man put up a prop- 

 osition to us. This is becoming a reg- 

 ular feature of the meeting and is go- 

 ing to save us a lot of money when 

 it gets into its final working shape. 



The next meeting will be a picnic on 

 July 16th at Mt. Gretna, a ix)pular sum- 

 ner resort about thirty miles west of 

 Lancaster. Out of town florists who 

 may wish to enjoy this with us can 

 correspond with .Elmer Weaver of 

 Ronks, Pa. Ai.iiEnr M. IIkuu. 



