July 22, 1911 



HORTICULTURE 



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to perform. Dues cannot be paid 

 while meetings are in progress. A 

 badge and membership receipt are 

 absolutely necessary before any in- 

 dividual can sign the roll and receive 

 invitation cards for any of the enter- 

 tainments. This rule will be strictly 

 enforced. Badges will also be neces- 

 sary in order to get into the Exhibi- 

 tion Hall. All not having badges will 

 be required to pay the admission fee. 



On receipt of $3.00 from those who 

 have paid their 1910 dues or $5.00 from 

 all others, the Secretary will promptly 

 mail to the sender a certificate and 

 badge. Bring your certificate to the 

 Convention with you. 



Send your dues now to the Secretary, 

 H. B. Dorner, Urbana, 111. 



BOSTON TO BALTIMORE. 



The Boston delegation to the S. A. 

 P. convention in Baltimore will leave 

 the South station, Sunday, August 13, 

 at 6 P. M. The trip will be made by 

 way of the Fall River boat which 

 should make this route especially pop- 

 ular. The delegation will arrive in 

 New York about 7 A. M. on the 14th, 

 leaving at noon with the New York 

 delegation due to arrive in Baltimore 

 at 4.16 P. M. The Belvidere Hotel, the 

 official S. A. F. headquarters, will be 

 headquarters for the Boston delega- 

 tion. The fare will be $8.50 going, by 

 the certificate plan. 3-5 rate return. 

 Reservations for staterooms etc., can 

 be made through W. A. Hastings, State 

 Vice-President, S. A. F., Boston Flower 

 Exchange, C Park street, up to August 

 11. This should be a good chance for 

 those florists who are not members of 

 the S. A. F. to put in their application 

 for membership through the State 

 Vice-President. 



It is expected that Boston will turn 

 out a good-sized crowd, especially as 

 they have a favorite candidate for the 

 S. A. F. presidency in J. K. M. L. Far- 

 quhar, whose good and faithful work 

 on the National Flower Show is deeply 

 appreciated not only by the Boston 

 people but by the fraternity in all 

 parts of the country. 



NEW YORK TO BALTIMORE. 



As the time is drawing near when 

 the work in the greenhouse is less, it 

 gives us time to think of the conven- 

 tion of the S. A. F. and O. H. This 

 is an event in which every "live" 

 florist should be interested. To perfect 

 the necessary arrangements, John B. 

 Nugent, President of the New York 

 Florists' Club has appointed a very 

 much alive transportation committee, 

 Frank H. Traendly, chairman, and 

 this committee has left nothing undone 

 to make this the banner year en-route 

 to the Convention City. They have 

 arranged for a special train, the best 

 equipped on the B. & O. R. R. to con- 

 vey the members and their friends to 

 Baltimore. Train leaves West 23d St., 

 11.50 a. m., and foot of Liberty St. at 

 noon on Monday August 14th. At the 

 last meeting of the club a resolution 

 was passed extending an invitation to 

 members and friends of the S. A. F. 

 and O. H. and their guests en-route to 

 Baltimore. 



The fare on the certificate plan will 

 be $4.65 going and return $2.80. Do not 

 miss this opportunity. Those of us who 

 attended the convention at Rochester 

 still have in mind the enjoyment we 

 had en-route, and Mr. Traendly has as- 



sured me that this trip will outclass 

 that of last year. Those who are not 

 in. rubers of the S. A. F. and O. H. or 

 the New York Florists' Club should 

 not hesitate a moment in announcing 

 their intention of attending, and 

 should let Mr. Traendly know so he 

 can make the necessary arrangements 

 for accommodation. Every florist can 

 arrange his work so that he can be 

 with us, to meet brother florists from 

 all parts of the United States and Can- 

 ada, and the exhibition, I am sure, will 

 well repay you. 



Application blanks for membership 

 will gladly be furnished. Do not for- 

 get the date. 



Hoping to have the largest attend- 

 ance that ever left New York City, 

 With kindest greetings, 



A. L. MILLER, 



State Vice-President, New York- 

 East. 



A NEW ENGLAND BEAUTY SPOT. 



One year ago we gave a description 

 of the work of improvement and de- 



David F. Rot 



velopment being done on the fine 

 estate of Col. H. E. Converse at 

 Marion, Mass., on the shores of Buz- 

 zard's Bay. "The Moorings," as the 

 place is appropriately named, com- 

 prises about 80 acres of elevated un- 

 dulating land well clothed with lux- 

 uriant woods, the broad verandas of 

 the mansion overlooking the gardens 

 and a sea view of rare beauty. 



The superintendent in charge of the 

 estate is David F. Roy, and in our 

 notes last year we described briefly 

 some of the more important work he 

 was doing in bringing up the grounds 

 and plantations to a high horticultural 

 standard during the three or four 

 years since Col. Converse had ac- 

 quired it. We have been familiar with 

 Mr. Roy's ability as a gardener for 

 many years, but must confess we were 

 not prepared for the wonderful re- 

 sults of one year's further develop- 

 ment which were in evidence when we 

 recently revisited The Moorings, the 

 achievement being all the more re- 

 markable because of the well-known 

 sandy and unproductive character of 

 Cape Cod's soil. The improvements 

 carried forward in the past year in- 



clude a broad expanse of velvety lawn 

 wto re last year was a potato field, the 

 completion of a tennis court, said to 

 be one of the best in the country, the 

 extension and planting of the aquatic 

 pools and picturesque rockeries, the 

 planting of large groups and skirtings 

 of rhododendrons and conifers and 

 the finishing up of a spacious rose 

 garden enclosed by hedges of the new- 

 est and best of the Ramblers. The 

 flower garden is extensive and ex- 

 ceedingly brilliant, the fruit houses 

 arc tilled with luscious product and 

 on every side the transformation ac- 

 complished in so brief a period is a 

 delightful surprise. This is one of the 

 estates in competition for the Hunne- 

 well Triennial Premium, and the 

 present is its third year of inspection 

 by the Garden Committee of the Mass- 

 achusetts Horticultural Society. These 

 premiums are awarded for improve- 

 ments and skilful care, and are a 

 stimulus to ambitious effort on the 

 part of proficient gardeners such as 

 D. F. Roy, aided and abetted by the 

 unstinted liberality and encouraging 

 comradeship of "the best employer in 

 the world," as Col. Converse is loving- 

 ly portrayed by his faithful adherent, 

 and we are sure that nothing but death 

 will ever part these two congenial 

 friends. 



IN A HARTFORD GARDEN. 



In a recent visit to the garden of 

 the Goodwin estate at Hartford, 

 Conn., we were much interested in 

 the method followed by that accom- 

 plished gardener, J. F. Huss, in rais- 

 ing dahlias in pots for exhibition. 

 The' plants are grafted, each on a 

 single tuber which has been cut off 

 below the eye. The result is dwarf, 

 bushy specimens, symmetrical and 

 beautiful. The pots are plunged out- 

 side. Among the bedding begonias 

 we were greatly impressed with Perle 

 de Geneve. It forms a veritable ball 

 of vermilion pink bloom, compact and 

 very uniform and has gone through 

 this exceptional summer in perfect 

 condition. Another striking picture 

 is a bed of heliotrope La Duse. It is 

 dwarf and sturdy in habit and pro- 

 duces enormous flat spikes of rich 

 dark color. No grower of bedding 

 plants should omit this fine heliotrope 

 from his list. Mr. Huss says that its 

 only fault is that he finds it rather 

 hard to winter. 



Dianthus Chinensis Vesuvius makes 

 a dazzling edging for a long mixed 

 border. The individual plants vary 

 occasionally in color but the type is 

 dazzling scarlet. The flowers are 

 single with deeply laciniated petals 

 and very profuse. It is one of Haage 

 & Schmidt's introductions. 



The fern rockery at this place is 

 always a most interesting and inspir- 

 ing sight. Every variety of hardy 

 ferns obtainable in any part of the 

 world have been assembled here in 

 picturesque groups and masses and 

 the sportive filix-f j mina is seen in 

 most astonishing and almost endless 

 variations. The rose garden, than 

 li there is none better kept in 

 this country, has been very fine this 



Mr. Huss says that the slaughter of 



conifers last winter was the worst in 



his experience. This accords with 



mts generally from all sections of 



eastern United States. 



