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Horticultural Botitt^ of jBleto ^orfe 



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Vol. II, No. 21 oSerlv MAY. 1919 „ Free to Members 



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FLOWER EXHIBITIONS 



An exhibition of plants and flowers was held at the American 

 Mnseum of Natural History on March 28 to 30, 1919. War 

 conditions having made necessary the abandonment for this year 

 of the usual spring show held at the Grand Central Palace, the 

 board of directors decided to hold a spring show of the society, 

 the usual January and February shows being omitted. There 

 was not a large exhibit, it could hardly be expected under the dis- , 

 organizing effect of the coal shortage which caused the closing 

 the previous fall of many private places from which much of the 

 exhibition material must be derived. 



In the class for Cyclamen plants IMrs. F. A. Constable, Mama- 

 roneck, N. Y., Jas. Stuart, gardener, won first prize for a dozen 

 fine plants. The class for Primula malacoidcs called for a dozen 

 plants. Mrs. Payne Whitney, Alanhasset, X. Y., Geo. Ferguson, 

 gardener, won first here, and Peter Hauck. Jr., East Orange, 

 N. J., Max Schneider, gardener, second. Mrs. Whitney also 

 won first prize for a display of twelve Primula ohconica. 



Among the roses Mrs. Constable won first for eighteen in the 

 Ophelia class with Ophelia, :\Irs. J. Hood Wright, N. Y. Citv, 

 Chas. Thomas, gardener, winning second with the same rose. In 

 the class for pink roses ^Irs. Louisa U. Skidmore, Great Neck, 

 N. Y., Louis Piantin, gardener, won first with eighteen Columbia. 

 For eighteen red roses :\Ir5. J. Hood Wright won first with 

 Francis Scott Key, Mrs. Skidmore second with Hoosier Beauty. 



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