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HORTICULTURE 



November 11, 1911 



THE EXHIBITIONS 



RED BANK, N. J. 



That which is accomplished under 

 most difficulties deserves highest 

 praise and in this manner do we con- 

 sider the I itli annual exhibition of the 

 Monmouth County Horticultural Socie- 

 ty held at the armory, Red Bank, Nov. 

 2nd and 3rd. In the first place one had 

 to climb up a dark stairway to a very 

 unattractive room. Then again there 

 were many absent from the benches of 

 this show who held prominent places 

 there in other years. Therefore the en- 

 tire thing depended on a few brave 

 hearts and right nobly did they re- 

 spond. Consequently we praise rather 

 than criticize. It has been deeply im- 

 pressed upon the minds of competitors 

 at all the exhibitions in and around 

 New York that a few men from New 

 Jersey not only helped very consider- 

 ably to make all the shows successful 

 but also won many of the principal 

 awards. We hope the next show given 

 at Red Bank will be remarkable for 

 the amount of outside competitors. 

 They deserve it, and reciprocity in 

 this manner will bear good fruit. The 

 quality of blooms shown here were 

 equal to and in many cases superior to 

 those seen elsewhere. After the judg- 

 ing a mixed battalion of good-fellows 

 escorted the judges, Messrs. William 

 Duckham, Peter Duff and John Brun- 

 ger to the Globe Hotel where a de- 

 lightful dinner and conversazione was 

 indulged in. Bright indeed were the 

 unset jewels of rhetoric that shone in 

 that jolly crowd on all topics from 

 pumpkin mother's pie to Jersey light- 

 ning politics. Charlie McTaggart being 

 the only seedman present had to give 

 a skirl on seeds. A searching party 

 was sent out for Al. Rickards who got 

 his squad 'round some corner into 

 some unknown cosey place. It's al- 

 ways a misfortune to miss 'Al.' There 

 was very considerable fun on the al- 

 leys at Sheridan's and was sorry we 

 had to leave it all there. 



The Awards. 



Chrysanthemums— Vase of 25 blooms, 

 other foliage, arranged for effect: 

 1st George IT. Hale with a splen- 

 did lot oi white Bowers and sprays 

 of Prunus Pissardll; 2nd, Oliver Mcintosh. 

 6 var.: 1st. Win. Turner, with 

 Mersthaiu's Bltish. Mary Mason, Wells 

 Piiib Nellie Po I heltoni and 



Glen view; 2nd, Geo. H. Hale. 24 1. looms 

 i. Win. Turner whose wonderful 

 set consisted of Ouunda, Merza, W. Mease. 

 jj i m. Totty, Beatrice May, Mrs. J. 

 C. Dunne. Leslie Morrison. Lady Car- 

 michael. Mrs. Stevens, Lenox. Gladys 

 i ii rotty, Mary Donnellan, 

 Wm. Duckham, Nellie 

 Pockett. Pres. viger, Merstham's Blush, 

 Mrs I> 8 view. Mary 



Po and Mrs. H. Far- 



II. Hale was second. 18 

 is, 6 var.: 1st. lames Kennedy, with 

 D l!an. Rose Pockett and 



Wells' late rink; 2nd. Frank Logan; 3rd, 



W Dowlen, 1-' id s, 12 var.: 1st. W m. 



id. A. Bauer; 3rd, Frank Logan. 

 In the si;,- tdooni classes, the winners of 

 1st were Jas Kennedy. G. H. Hale. B. 

 Wvckoff. Wm. Turner. The gold, silver 

 bronzo medals for three blooms of Wil- 

 liam Turner were won hy A. Bauer, Wm. 

 Tinner B. Wyckoff respectively. Vase of 

 S 1st for G. II. Hale were 

 th • finest se.n at any of the shows. W. W. 

 Kennedy & Sens won a "special for a re- 

 mnrknbiv fine collection of pompons and 

 single varieties, as also did Thos. Median 

 & Sons for hardy chrysanthemums and H. 

 Collis for cactus dahlias. D. Mcintosh won 

 a special for a vase of fine blooms of 

 Black Hav,k chrysanthemums. For group 

 of chrysanthemums and foliage plants the 

 winner's v ere H. Kettel. 1st. and J Ken- 



nedy. 2nd. Group of ornamental follaged 

 plants; Kettel, 1st. Wm. Dowlen won all 

 the bush plant prizes with well-trained 

 specimens. Specimen foliage plant, \\ m. 

 Turner, with Pandanua Sanderll. Palm; 

 W Turner, II. Kettel. Carnations II. 

 Kettel 1st. in crimson, white, light pink 

 an d any other color, with Harlowarden. 

 White wonder, Enchantress and rose pink 

 Enchantress, respectively; G. H. Hale 

 1st iii scarlet, dark pink and 25 any 



Mirien, with Beac Mis. C. W. Ward 



and White Perfection, respectively. Roses 

 —A Bauer 1st on American Beauty, Wm. 

 Turner lsi on all others. Violets— 

 fj II Hale 1st, 0. Mcintosh 2nd. Grapes- 

 Win Turner 1st, with Black Alicante and 

 Lady Hutton; G. II. Hale. 2nd. O. Mc- 

 intosh special for seedling apple. 



J. IVERA DONLAN. 



AMERICAN INSTITUTE. 



The annual Chrysanthemum Show 

 of the American Institute was held in 

 their rooms at the Berkeley Lyceum, 

 New York, on November 1st, 2nd and 

 3rd. It was as usual a very pleasing 

 success. The classes were well ar- 

 ranged. The prizes, good solid cash 

 in plentiful proportion, brought out 

 both quality and novelty seen no 

 where else. No such display of 

 anemone chrysanthemums was seen at 

 any other show, and then again the 

 incurved and reflexed types were each 

 provided for separately, thus bringing 

 forward many otherwise neglected 

 beauties and affording each a fair 

 chance. Music and attendance and the 

 ever infectious smile and witticisms 

 of the manager. William Rickards. 

 made all hands happy. Wm. Eagleson, 

 the secretary, and his attendants de- 

 serve much credit for their courtesy 

 and efficiency. 



Awards. 

 For thirty flowers, thirty varieties. Geo. 

 Mlddleton was 1st Wm. Vert, 2nd. Twen- 

 ty do, Middleton 1st and Robert Speirs 2nd. 

 Twenty-five, one variety, W. Vert 1st with 

 F. E. 'Nash and R. Speirs 2nd. On vases 

 of long-stemmed flowers, 1st went to W. 

 Dowlen for plume varieties. O. H. Hale for 

 singles and for anemones, and C. D. Sehaef- 

 fer for yellow, the variety being his new 

 Ramapo. 2nd in these classes went to G. H. 

 Hale. A. Wynne. J. S. Lyle and J. Devan, 

 respectively. For twenty vases of pom- 

 pons and ten vases of pomp >ns. W. J. 

 Sealey 1st. and C. IT. Rice 2nd. .1. W. 

 erett got a special for this class. In the 

 classes for ten flowers, .1. W. Everett was 

 lsi ii Fellow and bronze. Wm. Turner on 

 crims in A.Iain Alexander on pink. .T. T. 

 Burns on white, George Middleton on ten 

 "d w. Veri on ten i hi' I les Willi 

 ems. Messrs. Turner. Vert, Hale, 

 F. McKenzie aid Jos. Kennedy were 2nd 

 in these classes. The 1st winners in the 

 classes f r six [lowers were C. H. Totty. 

 his seedling Mrs. IT. Turner, leading in 

 the "any other color class;" John I '< 

 whose seedling No, 1 was die winner in 

 pink, Wm. Turner. A Alexander, Alex. 

 Rohertson, .1. s. Lyle, W Vert. In the 

 anemone sixes, Wm. Dowlen, J. s. Lyle 

 and i; ii. Hale were 1st 



i'n bush plants and standards Peter Duff 

 carried four firsts. Win. Turner one and 

 W Cordes two. the latter winning also 

 on single stem plants. On group of flower- 

 ing and foliage plants, 1st was won by 

 Harry Turner with a very attractive dis- 

 play of well grown plants made dazzling 

 by a grouping of bis famous celoslas. 

 Lager & Ilurrell captured 1st in the class 

 for LTmip of Orchids with a grand lol of 

 choice -'ems and Julius Roehrs Co. got a 

 special for display of specimen Orchids. 



• en Middleton and J. D. Cockcroft 1st 

 and J. T. Burns 2nd. was the result on 

 carnations. C. IT. Totty showed a vase of 

 his great white Wndenethe. The winning 

 exhibit in the rose classes were L. A Noo's 

 Penuries. White and Pink Kill arneys, C. H. 

 Totty's Radiance and Sunburst. Totty 

 showed a v so of Rose Queen, not for com- 

 petition. Max Schneider and H. Turner. 

 1st and 2nd on violets. Chas. Webber 1st 

 on specimen palm and ferns. 



EXHIBITION AT STAMFQRD, CONN. 



The first annual exhibition of the 

 Westchester and Fairfield Horticul- 

 tural Society held in the Casino at 

 Stamford, Conn., on Nov. 3rd and 4th 

 was a great success in every way. 

 This young, vigorous society has cer- 

 tainly done wonderfully well. The ex- 

 hibits on this occasion came largely 

 from the magnificent establishments of 

 the millionaires along and adjacent to 

 the shore of Long Island Sound and 

 where expert gardeners who have 

 served their years of apprenticeship in 

 the horticultural profession in many 

 parts of the world are employed. Stam- 

 ford, a large manufacturing town with 

 many saloons, Chinese laundries and 

 immense churches is minus a decent- 

 sized exhibition hall, consequently 

 this most creditable display had to be 

 jammed into a small room. This is 

 the first time probably that the need 

 of a larger hall has been brought prac- 

 tically to the notice of the citizens of 

 the town and it ought to be the means 

 of getting one. All the most promi- 

 nent people of the section visited the 

 show. Whole families were brought 

 out in autos and jumped about in glee 

 over their pets. During the afternoon 

 people had to wait outside until room 

 to get in was made. It was all pleas- 

 ingly inspiring to the promoters and 

 those who had to do the work. Gera- 

 niums and orchids were elegant, car- 

 nations plentiful, chrysanthemums of 

 good size and the table decorations 

 were excellent. 



The Awards. 



Chrysanthemum Plants— Single stem, one 

 flower, Thos. Aitcheson, 1st; A. Bclschke, 

 2nd. Specimen bush, W. J. Sealey. 1st 

 on white with Garza; J. T. Burns, 2nd. 

 Sealey. first on pink with Annie Laurie; 

 2nd, W. H. McGulnness. Sealey, first on 

 any other color; Jas. Stuart, 2nd. Alex. 

 Gecldes, 1st on standard; F. MacKenzle, 

 2nd. 



In the classes for six chrysanthemum 

 blooms, Jas. Stuart was 1st on white with 

 Mrs. D. Syme: J. T. Burns, 2nd. J. T. 

 Burns 1st on pink witli Pres. Vigor and on 

 yellow with Mary Donnellan; Adam Peter- 

 son, 2nd. Thos. Aitcheson 1st on crimson 

 with Pockett's Crimson. James Stuart 1st 

 on "any other color" witli Mary Mason. 

 Iu the classes for throe blooms W. Smith. 

 Thos. Stentiford, Alex. Geddes and Thos. 

 Harvey were the winners. The largest 

 bloom' shown was Alice Lemon by A. 

 Brieschke. On eighteen blooms In eighteen 

 varieties, six varieties and three varieties, 

 the winners were Jas. Stuart, 10. Mae- 

 Kenzie and Adam Peters m. respectively; 

 Messrs. MacKenzie, Brieschke and Burns 



winning set l respectively. Twelve blooms 



in twelve varieties brought out a tine 

 first display, the varieties being Onunda, 

 Lady Hopetoun, Rose Pockett, Leslie Mor- 

 rison, Cheltcni. Merza. Mrs. F. Plant. F. 

 s Nash, Mrs. J. C. Kiel, Mrs. D. Syme, 

 Mrs. J. E. Dunne. T. Aitcheson and A. 

 Petersen wen 2nd and 3rd. Wm. Smith, 

 T. W. Stobc and A. Geddes were 1st, 2nd 

 ami "rd on six blooms, six varieties. The 

 class for twenty-live vases, twenty-five va- 

 ri'ie of singles brought out a splendid 

 winning set from Jas. Stuart. These were 

 In host grown lot of singles shown In all 

 the exhibitions around New York and con- 

 sislcd of the following- Mersthnm Jewel, 

 Carrie Wells. Elsie Neville, The King, 

 Irene Cragg. Grade Trower, II. M. Smith. 

 i n. oio, in, Pegassus, Felix. Jessie Curtis, 

 Mersthnm rims, Mrs. R. C. Pul'lng, Sylvia 

 Blade Merslhani White. Mary Richardson, 

 Cannell'fl Yellow, Ronpell Beauty and Kit- 

 tie Bourne. Second prize went to Thos. 

 Poll, whose collection also was eloquently 

 beautiful Winners in the pompon classes 

 won- E. MacKenzie, W. J. Sealey and Thos. 

 I', 11 . Adam Petersen won 1st on a vase of 

 chrysanthemums and foliage arranged for 

 .ill with a notable vase of Lillian Doty. 

 Mr Sealey also showed a very fine collec- 

 tion of low- chrysanthemums and roses. 



