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HORTICULTURE 



November 4, 1911 



the use of painted woodland scenerj 

 on the stag.- wuii Jenkins' gplendldl] 

 ai ranged group of plants bb 

 I hereto, ua\ e it most pleasing i i 

 Unfortunately Tarrytown, although a 

 millionaires' town, does not own a ball 

 large enough tor ibis society's exhlbl- 

 Manj classes for, plants musl 



ssarily be left out. All the exhib- 

 its were of the highest order. The 



lables both tormented empty 

 Stomachs and shouted in every lan- 

 guage for COOkS. It was pretty bar 1 



and near the fruit tables and keep 

 muttering to one's self "Thou sbalt 

 Dot steal " 



Prize List — Chrysanthemum Blooms. 



I l» archbold prize for 12 blooms on 

 15-lnch stems: Robert Angus, first, with 



grand blooms of l \, Beatrice May, 



Mm \\ Duekbnm, Chas. Totty, Onnnda, 

 Morristown. Mary Mason, frank Payne, 

 W. Wooduiason, Mrs. w. Knox, Lady 

 Rbpetoun and P. S. Vallis. There were 

 i .Li i is iii ihis class, all of them 

 very tine. Geo. Middleton won second. 



i* Heeremnns' prize calling for 20 

 blooms en 15-lnch stems, seemed to have 

 been one on which the most prominent 

 gardeners set tbelr hearts. There were 

 foui entries and nil of them elegant. Alien 

 J. Jenkins. Tuxedo Park. n. v.. succeeded 

 In getting first. His collection ..insisted 

 of Mrs. \V. Duckham, Mrs. ('. H. Totty. 

 Morrlstown Peti* Pen... Rose Pockett, 

 Mary Mnson. P. S. Vallis, (). II Itrom- 



Tarrytowu, Mrs. D. Syme, Mrs. J. 

 C. Neil. Brlgbtburst Mrs. H. Partridge, 

 Hen. Mrs, I. pes. F. Payne, Onnnda, J, 

 \v. Uollneanx. R. Vallis. Naomah, .Mrs. L. 

 Thorn. Robert Angus and Geo. Middeton 

 «"ii second and third In this class. 



The Plerson D-Bar Company's prize for 

 the nest effectively arranged tulile of 



ih rative plants was captured by Robert 



Angus with a splendidly arranged lot of 



highly colored crotons, dracaeuas, etc. 



,1 In! ins won second. 



C. P. Johnson prize for collection <<f 



single chrysanthemum blooms brought out 



ions let of blooms, Thos. Aitchison. 



U. N. V.. won Bret, putting np 



he most beantiful varieties be- 

 ing Katie Covell, AlPe Crate, Carrie Wells 

 Mary Richardson, Ronpel Beauty, Sylvia 

 i.l i .inn. Us Yellow. IV \V. Popp 

 also fri iii Mamareiieek. won second. John 

 Canning was another competitor in this 



ami w uld not do justice to the show 



without complimenting him on their grout 

 beauty, for in addition to the above vnrie- 

 bls Jane Russell, Miss K Partridge 

 and a grimd n ,.w seedling named Dosorls 

 laity appealed to us. His were the 

 fnture flowers. 



David M:i. Farl.-ine prize for three M is 



was a popular class. ten en 



tries. Allen J. Jenkins got first with P. 

 C Nash, Beatrice M..< and P. S. Vallis. 



Kilw. Tretheway qi td. It Beeraed 



to us that the judges had pet varieties 

 when over this lot. else Wells' 



Int.- Pink. Wm. Tarn, r and Mary Donticl- 

 lan might have been in at the finish. 



Addison Johnson prize for most effective- 

 ly arranged vase if is chrysanthemums 

 with any foliage brought out four tine 

 lots, first going to Edw. Tretheway and 

 second t" Geo. Wlttlinger. 



Mrs. J. P. Trevor prize for 12 blooms, 

 on., variety, had five competitors, Allen 

 J. Jenkins captured first with Pockett's 

 Crimson and W C. Roberts second with 

 Mary Donni 



Mrs. William Chnrcb 03born prize for .tfi 

 blooms. sj\ of each: Geo. Middleton won 

 first with Olenvlew. Mlrza, Brighthurst, 

 Beatrice Mnv. Mrs. j E. Dunne and F. S. 

 Vallis. 



William Uockefeller's prize f r is blooms 

 6 v.-ir.. 24-inch stems: Six aspiring gulden. 

 ■ ■is tried to land this cap. John Canning 

 of Ardsley won out with grand Pres. Vigor. 

 Mrs. Ii. Syme Wm. Woodmasnn. Gladys 

 Blackburn, Mrs. H. Stevens and Lady 

 Mope' ■ -I J. Jenkins came in sec- 



ond and the money end. 



A T. Boddlngton prizes, 6 blooms, 6 va- 

 Thos. A I..-e elbowed in first with 

 Sell, Mrs. .T. A. Miller. Clonview. 

 Cbelton, Beatrice May ami Gladys Black- 

 burn: Kdn-. Tretheway. second: Abel 

 Weeks, third. 



Chas. Msllory's p for 24 Idooms. 



4 vari stems, had four as- 



pirants. John Canning getting in first with 

 the assistance of Mary Mnson. Beatrice 



May, Mis h. Stevens and Wm. W 1 



mason. 



Charles Vanderbilt prize for largest 

 I. loom at the show went to Allen J. Jenkins 



lor tlie hll'gCKt I-'. S Vallis we Inn. 



i Mi-; Reason 



.I i ' smith .v Co.'s prize for 



I'l. ..in ..i i ,nri town: Win. Jam 



first : I.... \l i.|. Helen see 1 TWI [\ '• 



018, I \. ni-tie» first. Thos A. I.ee, 

 « ill, r.. trlci Mn Mis. .1 A Miller. 



cioioiii .mil Dobbs Perry; John Heermans, 



I Six n hit ■: \\ C. Roberts, first. 



with Penile e M :t \; \l|.|i .lenl.ins. gecOnd. 



yellow Vllen J Jenkins, first, with Mrs 



.1 C. Neil: \v c. i; Its. se. I. Six 



pink: W. C Roberts first. with l.ndv 



llopetoun; Middleton, second. Six 



it i;,o Middleton first, with Pock 



eti's I'liiuson; w. c. Roberts, second. 



\ i. .lei-. 50 double: First, Chas. Deutsch- 



Fifty single: Abel Weeks, first: too. 



Wlttlinger. s >nd. One hundred double: 



in i. Richard l. angle; mo single, Claude 

 Wilson, Hist, with a grand bunch of ion 

 derrick; Richard Dangle, second, with 

 Prinei ss of Wales. 



Win F McCord prize for three plants of 

 Begonia de Lorraine brought forth a large 



tableful of that glowing pink color, result- 

 ing iii Wtu. Jnniieson capturing first prize, 

 -iher cup, nnd John Canning, second. The 

 fi>. entries iii s inch pots made a fine 

 -honing. .Inmie-oii also won first in the 

 class for specimen Lorraine. 



w a. Kinds silver cup for ntost effec- 

 tively arranged group of palms, flowering 

 and foliage plants covering 100 sq. ft.: Al- 

 len J. Jenkins, first: Hubert Angus, second. 



Robert c. Clow ry's cup for most effec- 

 tively arranged display of orchids, ferns 

 and foliage plants covering 25 sq. ft., was 

 won by Allen J. Jenkins with a very grace- 

 ful arrangement emphasized by Oncidium 

 varlcosum nnd brightened with cattleyas. 



Wm Jnniieson won Hie W, B. Marshall 

 Co, prize offered for second in this class. 

 John Brunger also arranged a table in 

 which were some splendid cattleyas, us was 

 also the group put up by Win. Ingles. 

 These tallies were the diamonds of the 

 show. 



The prize for s] iinen Kentla went to 



Geo. Wittlingor for a noble K. Heluioreana. 



Six plants in 5-lnch tints suitable for 

 table decoration: First. Hubert Angus; 

 second. John Canning, 



Six ferns for table d ration: Tbeo. 



Trevellian. first: Claude Wilson, second. 



Specimen fern: John Canning, first, with 

 a beautiful Xcph. Whil maul. 



P. W Popp made a fine display of 

 dahlias in nil types. 



The fruit and vegetable classes were 

 well filled. George Wlttlinger, A. Mac- 

 Donald, W. C. Roberts. E. F. Neu- 

 brand, Mrs. W. H. Pullan and W. 

 Brown figured in the fruit awards. In 

 the vegetable classes the principal 

 winners were Edward Kane. Wm. 

 Brock, Thos. A. Lee, John Heermans. 

 Chas. Deutschman, R. Angus, John 

 Canning. G. Wlttlinger, Geo. Slater. 

 Geo. Middleton. F. R. Pierson Co. ex- 

 hibited, not for competition, an im- 

 mense bank of most interesting novel- 

 ties in plants and flowers ranging 

 from the newest roses and chrysanthe- 

 mums to the most beautiful classes of 

 new ferns which this firm is noted for 

 all embraced the front of the stage and 

 were especially attractive in color and 

 arrangement. 



Robert Main, Gloversville, N. Y., 

 showed vases of carnations among 

 which was a new white seedling. 



Scott Bros., of Elmsford, made a 

 fine showing of chrysanthemums in 

 all classes, not for competition. Among 

 them were many beautiful singles. 

 They also displayed many new roses. 



The judges for the first day were J. 

 W. Everitt, J. McQueen, Alex Thomp- 

 son. 



The second day brought forth some 

 splendid entries for table decoration 

 prizes, roses, carnations and baskets 

 of flowers. The results on this and the 

 third day will appear in next week's 

 issue. J. rVERA DONLAN. 



LENOX (MASS.) HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 

 The first of the "Big Guns" in the 

 Exhibition season were fired last week, 

 Lenox, Mass., and Madison, N. J., be- 

 ing perhaps the most important. Lenox 



is always a good starter. Amongst the 

 cool nl the Berkshire Hills the chrys- 

 anthemums seem always to come 

 along at least a week earlier than 

 they do around New York, and the 

 quality and size of the blooms put up 

 forms a very good augury for what to 

 expect in other sections. 



The entries in the large bloom 

 (lasses in Lenox did not seem to be 

 quite as numerous as in former years, 

 but the quality was fully maintained 

 Amongst the most noticable of the 

 new varieties were Lenox, Morristown, 

 Tarrytown. Chrysolora, Wm. Turner, 

 F. E. Nash, F. E. Quittenten, Lady 

 Carmichael, Mary Farnsworth, Mary 

 Poulton, Francis Jollife and W. H. 

 Thornton. Among the older varieties 

 those thai stood out most prominent 

 were Mrs. Stevens, Lady Hopetoun, 

 Mrs. J. C. Neil, Reginald Vallis, Mrs. 

 L. Thorn, Mrs. D. Syme, Gladys Black- 

 burn, Pockett's Crimson, M. V. Ve- 

 nosta and Hon. Mrs. Lopes. 



In specimen chrysanthemum plants. 

 Robt, Spiers, gardener to Mrs. J. E. 

 Parsons, carried off the honors in all 

 three classes with well grown, evenly 

 balanced plants. The groups of mis- 

 cellaneous plants, arranged for effect, 

 which have always been the leading 

 feature of the Lenox Exhibition, were 

 fully up to former years; a distinctly 

 educational feature, and well worth 

 travelling miles to see. 



The arrangement this year was 

 again different from former years, and 

 the novelty of the change added fresh 

 interest to the whole show. A good 

 deal of forethought co-operation seems 

 to be given to these novel features and 

 changes in arrangement, by the ex- 

 hibitors in Lenox. They seem to get 

 together and plan these things in ad- 

 vance and work them out in perfect 

 harmony, and each time you travel to 

 Lenox you may be assured of some- 

 thing new and suprising in the way 

 that the whole exhibition and arrange- 

 ment is put together. It is a dis- 

 tinctly taking feature with patrons, 

 and one worthy of emulation. So 

 many of our exhibitions are killed with 

 the staleness of the same arrangement 

 year after year. The plants may be 

 the same old plants, and the same old 

 cork bark may be in use, but the ar- 

 tist mind that can give this kaleido- 

 scope effect keeps the public interested, 

 and if they were copied in our larger 

 and more populous centers there would 

 be much less grumbling at the lack of 

 patronage and smallness of gate re- 

 ceipts. Formerly the groups were 

 backed against the wall in effective 

 arrangements and we would sometimes 

 hear the argument "well it is easy to 

 arrange plants with a nice wall as a 

 back-ground," but this year they were 

 arranged in circular groups in the mid- 

 dle of the hall and they were just as 

 effective as ever, perhaps more so. 

 In grouping plants it should always 

 be borne in mind that quality and not 

 quantity counts, and no arrangement 

 can be so effective where the beauty 

 of the bulk of the material is spoiled 

 by overcrowding. In Lenox they have 

 undoubtedly got the material to work 

 with, as well-grown specimens as one 

 would wish to see, but they are always 

 arranged so that the fine individual 

 qualities of each plant are used to the 

 best advantage. There were four such 

 groups this year and it is safe to say 

 that, as usual, the poorest one would 

 easily be the prize winner in any of 

 the other exhibits the writer visits. 



