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SWEET PEA SOCIETY s^ 

 ^ ^VISITS BAR HARBOR 



TlfiQ eighth annual convention of the American Sweet Pea Society, held 

 at the Maine resort July 15 and 16, leads to the decision to stay in the recog- 

 nized horticidtural centers hereafter. A small show, due to distance and 

 varying weather conditions, hut quality is excellent and outing enjoyable. 



T IS difficult to select a 

 date in advance for sweet 

 peas, or, in fact, any other 

 outdoor summer-flowering 

 plants, which,, will suit 

 more than a fraction of 

 would-be exhibitors. This 

 was strikingly shown in 

 the exhibition of the 

 American Sweet Pea So- 

 ciety at Bar Harbor, Me., July 15 and 

 16. The dates selected were reasonably 

 late and would, it was felt, suit a large 

 proportion of New England growers. 

 That they would have done so in the 

 ciase of Bar Harbor especially was felt 

 certain, but the season has been an 

 abnormally late one and exhibits from 

 Bar Harbor, apart from the excellent 

 displays of the Mal- 

 V e r n Greenhouses 

 and Mount Desert 

 Nurseries, were 

 practically nil. 



Lenox Leads. 



The many private 

 gardeners made no 

 entries and but for 

 the large exhibits 

 of Edwin Jenkins 

 and S. W. Carlquist, 

 of Lenox, Mass., 

 who carried quanti- 

 ties of superb flow- 

 ers 500 miles in 

 splendid shape, 

 there would have 

 been practically no 

 exhibition. All the 

 entries from New- 

 port, E. L, where 

 the society met last 

 year, had to be can- 

 celed, as a heavy 

 thunder storm, ac- 

 companied by hail 

 as well as torrential 

 rain, July 13, de- 

 stroyed practically 

 all the flowers the 

 Newport gardeners 

 had planned to ex- 

 hibit. Quite a num- 

 ber of good prizes 

 were uncompeted 

 for and the Bar 

 Harbor gardeners 

 lost a fine opportu- 

 nity of displaying 

 their skill. We were 

 told that a good 

 show could have 

 been had a mqfcth 

 later, but at tHSt 



OFFICEKS ELECTED. 



PresicLent. 

 George W. Kerr, Doylestown, Pa. 



Vice-President. 



Edwin Jenkins Lenox, Mass. 



Secretary. 

 Harry A. Bunyard .... New York 



Treasurer. 



William Sim . . . Clif tondale, Mass. 



Next Annual Meeting. 

 Boston July 7 and 8, 1917 



George W. Kerr, President-elect American Sweet Pea Society. 



date it would have been a purely local 

 affair. 



While the show was not a large one, 

 quality was high. New varieties were 

 to the froi)t more than ever. The 

 experiment of meeting at so remote a 

 spot as Bar Harbor for a national 

 show has proved that it is largely dis- 

 appointing and that hereafter the 

 larger, more get-at-able cities will be 

 favored. 



The following varieties loomed up 

 strongly at Bar Harbor: Constance Hin- 

 ton. Fiery Cross, Eoyal Purple, Mrs. 

 Cuthbertson, Hercules, Blue Monarch, 

 Don Alvar, George Herbert, Scarlet 

 Emperor, Jean Ireland, Lady Evelyn 

 Eyre and Edna May Improved. 



The exhibition was held in the Ca- 

 sino. The attend- 

 ance was good July 

 15, but not so good 

 July 16, in spite of 

 there being no ad- 

 mission charge. 



Business Session, 



The annual busi- 

 ness session of the 

 American Sweet 

 Pea Society was 

 scheduled for Satur- 

 day afternoon, July 

 15, but the time 

 proved so short that 

 it did not permit of 

 the meeting being 

 held and it there- 

 fore was put over 

 to July 16, when 

 there was a fine at- 

 tendance of enthu- 

 siastic sweet pea 

 men present. 



President William 

 Gray, of Newport, 

 R. I., in his address 

 dwelt on the need 

 of giving greater 

 encouragement to 

 amateurs, of get- 

 ting out the sched- 

 ules early in the 

 year and of holding 

 the shows only in 

 recognized horticul- 

 tural centers, all of 

 which had strong 

 support among the 

 members. 



A discussion arose 

 over the question of 

 the men^TShip of 

 the sociel^ and W. 

 A. Sperling, of New 



