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HORTICULTURE 



September 16, 1911 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY. 



The general autumn exhibition of 

 this Society was held at Horticultural 

 Hall, Boston, on September 8, 9 and 

 10. It was extensive and fairly good 

 as to dahlias, grand as to gladioli and 

 magnificent in extent and quality of 

 the fruit and vegetable displays. 



The finest feature in the hall was 

 the collection of orchard-house fruits 

 shown by James Marlborough, gar- 

 dener to Thos. E. Proctor, Topsfield, 

 Mass. This superb exhibit of the gar- 

 deners' skill included, besides cut 

 grapes and other fruits, potted trees 

 of apple, pear and plum bearing ripe 

 fruit. The tender grapes included 

 Muscat of Alexandria, Mrs. Pearson. 

 Golden Queen, Chasselas. Napoleon 

 and others in whites, and Black Ham- 

 burgh, Black Allicante, Gros Maroc, 

 Appley Towers, etc., in black. A gold 

 medal was given this display. All the 

 fruit classes were well filled with well- 

 grown specimens and attracted much 

 attention. Some of the finest apples 

 and peaches ever shown here came 

 from the extreme end of Cape Cod. 

 where, a few years ago, it would have 

 been thought impossible to grow 

 peaches. Reverting to Mr. Proctor's 

 display, special mention should be 

 made of the Adiantum Parleyense 

 plants, which Mr. Marlborough used 

 as 1 a decorative adjunct. There were 

 half a dozen specimens in 12-inch pots 

 which were as luxuriant and beautiful 

 as any grown under the high tempera- 

 ture culture usually followed, but 

 which stood without being affected in 

 the slightest degree by the cold 

 draughts from the doors near which 

 they were located because of the cool 

 temperature in which they had been 

 grown. 



The dahlias were as usual shown in 

 great numbers, but there were few 

 novelties and little evidence of ad- 

 vancement over existing varieties. The 

 quality throughout was not remark- 

 able as compared with the displays 

 of recent years, the peculiar weather 

 conditions having been, no doubt, re- 

 sponsible for this fact. The principal 

 prizes were won by J. K. Alexander. 

 W. D. Hathaway, W. P. Lothrop, Mrs. 

 L. A. Towle, Forbes & Keith and 

 Mrs. L. M. Towle. Certificates of 

 merit were given to J. H. Flint for 

 seedling Decorative Dorothy Flint 

 and Forbes & Keith, seedling Cactus 

 Rosy Pink; honorable mention to 

 Geo. B. Gill for seedling Cactus Mrs. 

 E. M. Gill and J. H. Flint for seed- 

 ling Decorative Hetta. 



B. Hammond Tracy showed a re- 

 markably large and splendidly grown 

 group of gladioli. The arrangement, 

 which we believe was the work of 

 Mrs. Tracy, was artistic and beautiful 

 and the entire display was well wor- 

 thy of the silver medal bestowed. 

 Other awards were: Certificate of 

 merit to Walter Hunnewell for Laelio- 

 Cattleya Gottoiana var. Wellesleyen- 

 sis; honorable mention to Mrs. Freder- 

 ick Ayer for Cibotium Schiedei, R. & 

 J. Farquhar & Co. for exhibit of lilies 

 and B. Hammond Tracy for Gladiolus 

 primulinus. Also a certificate of merit 

 to James S. Bache for seedling tomato, 

 Bache Abundance. 



The Farquhar exhibit comprised 



mainly Lilium auratum, Henryi and 

 leucanthum. It might be well to 

 state here that this last named lily 

 has been known both as leucanthum 

 and leucanthemum. It has now been 

 decided by the proper authorities that 

 leucanthum is the better form, and 

 that name will consequently be used 

 henceforth. 



Special Vegetable Exhibition. 

 On September 21-24, inclusive, an 

 extensive vegetable exhibition will be 

 held at Horticultural Hall. In addi- 

 tion to the premiums offered by the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 

 $500 has been contributed in prizes by 

 the Boston Market Gardeners' Associa- 

 tion. The prizes for collection of 

 twenty kinds o£ vegetables are $100. 

 $G0, $40 and in this, as in other not- 

 able classes, lively competition is as- 

 sured. 



CHICAGO FLORISTS' CLUB. 



The regular monthly meeting of the 

 Chicago Florists' Club was held Thurs- 

 day, September 7th, at the Union Res- 

 taurant, President Philpott in the 

 chair. There was a large attendance 

 and nine applications for membership 

 were filed as follows: Dominick 

 Freres, Paul Weiss, Arthur Schmidt, 

 Henry Meyer, Paul Amling, Wm. 

 Berschof, Walter Amling, Wm. Lor- 

 man, W. H. Mann. 



Allie Zeck, chairman of the sports 

 committee, reported that the new Ben- 

 singer alleys had been secured for the 

 season and all further arrangements 

 for the winter's bowling were left by 

 vote of the club to the sports commit 

 tee. A report of the Baltimore con- 

 vention was made by Geo. Asmus, who 

 also recommended a letter of thanks 

 to the Baltimore Club. After some 

 discussion it was voted that all com 

 mittees for the entertainment of the 

 S. A. F. in Chicago in 1912 should be 

 appointed by the club president and 

 read at the next meeting. A. T. Pyfer, 

 A. Zeck, A. C. Kohlbrand, H. N. Bruns 

 and E. C. Amling were appointed a 

 committee to provide entertainment 

 for the next meeting, October 5th, 

 which will be in celebration of the 

 25th anniversary of the club, 

 which occurs November 3. It was 

 also voted to have a banquet, October 

 5th, which should include the 1 adies. 

 C. W. Johnson was appointed manager 

 of the Chrysanthemum Show to be 

 held by the club on November 2nd. 



GARDENERS' AND FLORISTS' CLUB 

 OF BOSTON. 



The next regular meeting of the 

 Club will be held at Horticultural 

 Hall. Tuesday evening, September 19, 

 at 7.30 o'clock. There will be no reg- 

 ular speaker, but several members, 

 including Thomas Pegler, T. J. Grey 

 and W. J. Collins will give short ac- 

 counts of recent European trips. As 

 there is considerable business of im- 

 portance to transact the hour set for 

 the meeting is earlier than usual. 



It is desired to have a short session 

 and join with the Vegetable Growers' 

 Association of America whose conven- 

 tion opens at Horticultural Hall the 

 same evening, and which the Club is 

 invited to attend. It is hoped there 

 will be a large attendance at this 

 meeting. W. N. CRAIG, Sec. 



NEW YORK FLORISTS' CLUB. 



The opening meeting of the New 

 York Florists' Club for the season 

 was held on Monday evening, Sept. 11, 

 at the Grand Opera House and was 

 attended by a representative assem- 

 blage of about sixty members. The 

 recent death of their fellow member, 

 John Birnie, was a leading topic. 

 President Nugent spoke in kindly 

 vein in memory of this useful and 

 loyal man and was followed by C. H. 

 Totty who read the report of the com- 

 mittee appointed to present resolu- 

 tions, the members standing during 

 the reading. Messrs. Berry, Bunyard, 

 Weathered and others added words 

 of tribute and it was voted to have 

 a copy of the resolutions engrossed 

 and sent to Mrs. Birnie. J. Austin 

 Shaw read resolutions on the death of 

 Charles R. Armitage and H. A. Bun- 

 yard on the death of the little 

 daughter of Charles Schenck. 



Resolutions of thanks were passed 

 to the Society of American Florists 

 and the Gardeners' and Florists' Club 

 of Baltimore for kindness and sym- 

 pathy displayed on the occasion of 

 Mr. Birnie's death and to the latter 

 club for hospitable entertainment ex- 

 tended throughout the convention. A 

 motion was passed authorizing the ex- 

 hibition committee to purchase tables 

 and vases for the club's use. 



F. H. Traendly reported for the 

 transportation committee, mentioning 

 particularly the courtesies extended by 

 the B. & O. R. R. on the Baltimore 

 trip. 



The question of the next National 

 Flower Show was brought up by F. 

 H. Traendly, with the statement that 

 the New Grand Central Palace will be 

 the finest hall in the country for such 

 an exhibition, and recommending that 

 the New York Florists' Club get in 

 first with an invitation to the S. A. 

 F. Flower Show committee to hold the 

 next show in New York in 1913. R- 

 M. Schultz, C. B. Weathered, W. C. 

 Rickards, H. A. Bunyard, R. E. 

 Berry, W. J. Elliott and others fol- 

 lowed with enthusiastic approval of 

 the proposition, and a motion extend- 

 ing the invitation accordingly offered 

 by C. H. Totty was unanimously car- 

 ried. 



On the exhibition tables were 33 

 named varieties of gladioli from John 

 Lewis Childs, conspicuous among 

 which were the following varieties: 

 Cardinal. Wm. Falconer, Scribe, Baron 

 Hulot, Blanche, Spot, America, Dawn, 

 Attraction, I. S. Hendrickson, Dorothy, 

 Burnham, Princeps, Sulphur King, 

 Sunshine, Triton and Pfitzer. From E. 

 S. Miller came Fascination, White 88 

 and several other seedling gems 

 under number. From Frank Banning, 

 Kinsman, O. there were Panama and 

 No. 1900 a fine red seedling. Wm. 

 Tricker showed pot plants of Vinca 

 minor aurea. The awards committee 

 gave cultural certificates to Messrs. 

 Childs and Banning and vote of thanks 

 to the others. As a mark of respect 

 to the late John Birnie an early ad- 

 journment was taken. 



