September 9, 1911 



HORTICULTURE 



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RED BANK, N. J., EXHIBITION. 



The members of the Monmouth 

 County Horticultural Society made a 

 very creditable display of plants, flow- 

 ers and fruits at the County Fair held 

 at Red Hank. N. J., from August 31st 

 to Sept Hli. Their exhibits were ar- 

 ranged in a large new tent and were 

 nicely Btaged in fact this tent was 

 more largely patronized than any oth- 

 er part of the fair except perhaps the 

 trotting course. Good prizes were of- 

 fered by residents of the locality and 

 in the majority of cases were worthily 

 competed for. For group of foliage 

 plants Win. Turner was first with N. 

 Butterback a close second. These 

 groups were good, clean, well colored 

 and artistically arranged. Mr. Turner 

 also won first with a table of store 

 and greenhouse plants. N. liutter- 

 back was first on group of ferns and 

 they were beautiful and well put up. 

 Turner was there again with a group 

 of crotons and dracienas with Butter- 

 back second. These were highly col- 

 ored groups, the dracsenas adding 

 graci Cully to the effect. Best 6 palms 

 brought out some fine specimens with 

 the above two competitions in the 

 same order. Then Butterback went 

 one better by getting 1st on 6 ferns, 6 

 varieties, Turner evening up by cap- 

 turing the prize for 3 specimen palms 

 with immense kentias, Butterback 

 2nd. It was the same order of things 

 in the class for one specimen palm. 

 In the next two classes calling for 

 five ferns and specimen fern. Butter- 

 back won both. Turner second for 

 specimen. For specimen foliage plant 

 Turner 1st and Butterback 2nd. In 

 the class for 12 crotons Geo. Hale 

 stepped in and captured 1st. letting 

 his friend Butterback off with 2nd. 

 For specimen Adiantum Farleyense, 

 Butterback won 1st. For Rex begonia 

 Wm. Robinson landed 1st, as he did 

 for 6 begonias. In the 12 fibrous- 

 rooted begonias Butterback 1st. Wm. 

 Dowling 2nd; 12 flowering plants, 

 Turner 1st. Hale 2nd and Metzdort 

 3rd: fi orchids. Turner 1st; geranium 

 in bloom. P. Lichenstein. 



It will be seen by the above that 

 William Turner and Xicolas Butter- 

 back, both of Oceanic, had it pretty 

 near their own way in the plant divi- 

 sion. However, there was more of a 

 scrimmage in the cut flower section. 

 Butterback captured 1st on green- 

 house roses;. Wm. Dowling 1st on 

 outdoor roses; 12 specimen outdoor 

 flowers, Geo. Hale 1st, P. Lichenstein 

 2nd; collection of annuals. Wm. Dow- 

 ling 1st, Hale 2nd; collection of per- 

 ennials. Peter Murray 1st, Huiterback, 

 2nd; phlox annual, Alfred Griffiths, 

 1st. Wm. Metzdorf, 2nd; coll ction of 

 gladiolus, Geo. Hale 1st, T. Shuit 2nd; 

 Hale also won 1st for 25 varieties of 

 gladiolus. Geo. L. Stillman. of Wes- 

 terly. R. I., captured first in all the 

 dahlia classes with some very fine 

 blooms, Hale coming in second, We 

 noted that these dahlias ittracted 

 very much attention from the wealth- 

 ier classes. Asters were shown in 

 elegance and variety, Wu, Dowling 

 getting 1st, A. Griffiths 2nd. J. T. 

 Lovett arranged effective groups ot 

 evergreens and cut flowers and Chas. 

 W. Schneider several groups >f palms, 

 etc.. both not for compel i ion. A. 

 Griffiths captured 1st for miniature 

 flower garden design and several 

 awards in open classes were won by 

 those mentioned in the above several 



The same men showed up well 

 in the classes for fruits and vegeta- 

 bles. The amateur classes were well 

 filled and great enthusiasm was shown 

 in all classes of horticulture. Million- 

 aires were i hummy and for the time 

 brothers with the gardener and 'twas 

 good to see the beauty of flower and 

 goodness of fruit level for a day or 

 two the gilded obstacles which rear 

 themesleves among humans. Peter 

 Duff, Orange, X. J.; Wm. Duckham, 

 Madison. X. .1.. and Arthur Herring- 

 Ion. X. Y.. were judges. Oh, we must 

 not forget John Daly winning 1st on 

 vase of roses. Cannot afford to leave 

 the Irish out of anything. 



J. IVERA DOXI.AX. 



A NEW GROWERS' COMBINATION. 



A number of growers lor the Boston 

 cut flower market to the number of 

 twenty or more have combined for 

 the cooperative marketing of their 

 product. The new concern will be 

 known as the Flower Growers' Sales 

 Co. They have secured some 25 to 30 

 stalls at the Boston Flower Exchange 



E. Allan Peikce. 



Market and expect to control the pro- 

 duct of nearly a million feet of glass. 

 The officers are as follows: Presl 

 dent E. Allan Peirce; Vice-President, 

 Louis J. Reuter; Treasurer, J. Frank 

 Edgar: Directors, Wm. Sim, Thomas 

 Roland, C. Holbrow, B. Hammond 

 Tracy, A. A. Pembroke, Wm. Jur- 

 gens, F. Dolansky. F. P. Putnam. F. 

 Lenk. The business office will be at 6 

 Province Court. 



INCORPORATED. 



Norfolk, Va.— Suffolk Floral Gar- 

 dens; general floral business; capital 

 stock from $10,000 to $25,000. 



Champaign, III. — That the Illinois 

 Central greenhouse will be moved 

 from Champaign to Flossmore, was 

 the statement of a Champaign official 

 of the Illinois Central Railway Co. 

 The cause for the removal as given is 

 that the smoke and gas from the 

 roundhouse makes it impossible to 

 grow some kinds of flowers at the 

 Central's greenhouse in Champaign. 



SHREWSBURY SHOW. 

 England's meat show has again 

 .I i. ;,<. Ing as it does pleasant 

 memories to thousands and thousands 

 who cast care aside for the nonce and 

 drink in the teasl ol another year's 

 ol Britain's best horticulturists, 

 ami some of the cleverest performers 

 in their \arious stunts. I mention the 

 latter, as the committee caters for all 

 i lasses, whether interested in garden- 

 ing or not. Anyone, no matter of what 

 ti ; iperament, can spend an enjoyable 

 day at "The Show," as it is termed lo- 

 rn I will long be remembered by 

 all connected with the show, either 

 exhibitor, visitor or committee, as 

 only a few days previous it looked as 

 though there would be no show, owing 

 to the great railway strike which the 

 country has been up against. Happily 

 this was brought to a satisfactory set- 

 i lenient in time for most of the exhib- 

 its to be brought in. Some, however, 

 could not get through in time and at 

 intervals the followin'g notice appeared 

 on blank spaces. 



•The committee regrets that owing to 

 the railway strike this space cannot be 

 lilled by the nrni for whom it is reserved." 



Considering the excessive drought 

 the country has experienced this sum- 

 mer stuff was very good, the cottagers' 

 • s only showing any falling off. 

 Messrs Cypher & Sons, Cheltenham, 

 won out on the large group of flower- 

 ing and foljage plants arranged for ef- 

 fect, followed by Mr. McDonald, gar- 

 dener to Sir Geo. Kenrick. The same 

 firm was also to the front for fifteen 

 and six stove and greenhouse plants. 

 Messrs. Veitch had a splendid collec- 

 tion, including many hybrid cattleyas, 

 Miltonia vexillaria and specimen ne- 

 penthas — not for competition. 

 A new class was a group of herba- 

 i ous plants to include rock work and 

 lake. This was won by Gunn & Sons, 

 Alton, with a very telling effect. Some 

 y< iy fine nympheas were to be seen 

 re. Blacimore & Longden, Bath, 

 had an excellent group of tuberous- 

 rooted begonias. In size and color 

 they were fine. Kelway's gladioli 

 were a feature. Carnations were be- 

 low our American quality. Sweet peas 

 were only moderate. The King Acre 

 Xurseries staged a large group of pot 

 fruit trees. The champion decorated 

 fruit table was won by P. F. Barnes, 

 gardener for the Duke of Westmin- 

 ster being twenty points ahead of Mr. 

 Goodacre, Elvaston Castle. There were 

 five entries for this class. 



Some splendid produce was to be 

 seen in the various collections of vege- 

 tables. Mr. Beckett, gardener to Hon. 

 Vicary Gibbs, Aldenham House, had 

 an extensive non-competitive exhibit. 

 Messrs. Webb of Wordsley, Stourbridge 

 filled a large space with superior pro- 

 duce including 100 dishes of vegeta- 

 bles. 10 varieties of melons. f.O varie- 

 ties sweet peas and various flowering 

 plants. 



The floral display at the X. H. State 

 Fair held at Nashua this week was of 

 small extent but the flowers were ex- 

 cellent as to quality, especially the 

 dahlias, of which fine collections were 

 shown in the various classes by the 

 East Manchester Dahlia Gardens of- 

 East Manchester, X. H. and C. S. Fin- 

 nacum. 



