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AMERICAN PEONY SOCIETY. 



Show at Boston. 



For a period of over fifty years a 

 .late as near June 17 as possible has 

 suited the peony shows hjeld in Boston. 

 In a few years in that period they 

 bloomed earlier and once or twice, later. 

 The season of 1921 has proved a quite 

 rratic one and so variable have cli- 

 matic conditions been that it has been 

 ilifficult to select a date for any of the 

 rarly summer shows here, even a couple 

 of weeks in advance. 



Unfortunately, the dates June 18 and 

 1!) were just a week too late for a rep- 

 resentative peony display here. It was 

 not possible to foresee in advance what 

 would be better dates than those se- 

 lected, however, and the result was that 

 the exhibition, while of creditable di- 

 mensions, fell far below what has been 

 Hcen here on some former occasions. 



Flowers shown were of fine quality, 

 those from Canada being distinctly su- 

 perior to the local ones. But for the 

 mammoth display of T. C. Thurlow's 

 Sons Co., who cut a large and repre- 

 sentative collection at their West New- 

 bury nurseries^ placed them in a re- 

 frigerator car and ran them down 

 to a siding two blocks from Horticul- 

 tural hall, the show would have been 

 rather small. There were over 7,000 

 flowers in the Thurlow display. They 

 filled the small exhibition hall, the walls 

 of which were banked with cedars, and 

 arranged numerous large vases in the 

 same. In the center a picturesque min- 

 iature mountain, draped with hemlock 

 branches and dotted with mountain 

 laurel, was most effective. 



Prominent Displays. 



Prominent among the many large 

 vases shown were the following: Mme. 

 Boulangcr, festiva maxima, Alfred de 

 Musset, Eugene Verdier, Edouard An- 

 dre, Couronne d'Or, Enchantress, Mme. 

 Dupont, Mme. Emile Lemoine, James 

 Kelway, Sarah Bernhardt, Mme. Jules 

 Dessert, Mme. Geissler, Venus, M. M. 

 Cahuzac, Beauty's Mask, Livingstone, 

 Albert Crousse, Mme. August Dessert, 

 grandiflora and Mme. de Galhau. 



In addition to filling the small hall, 

 T. C. Thurlow's Sons Co. filled a num- 

 ber of tables in the main hall, staging 

 about 400 varieties in all. There was 

 little competition in any of the classes 

 and it was difficult to locate winners, 

 cards used being not at all distinctive. 

 In some cases names were missing and 

 no prize list was obtainable. It is hoped 

 that the committee will take note and 

 endeavor to correct these defects at 

 future shows. It is not possible to do 

 an exhibition and the exhibits justice, 

 unless these matters are attended to. 



Prizes Won. 



For 100 varieties T. C. Thurlow's 

 Sons Co. won the first and a gold medal 

 with a splendid collection of fine flow- 

 ers. Particularly fine were: Albert 

 Crousse, La Perle, Mme. Loise Mere, 

 Reine Hortense, Faribault, Mignon, 

 Milton Hill, Alsace-Lorraine, La Ro- 



siere, Phoebe Cary, Marie Lemoine, 

 Mary Brand, President Wilson, So- 

 lange, Mme. de Galhau, Walter Faxon, 

 Alfred de Musset, James E. Mann, 

 Edouard Andre, Mme. Emile Galle, 

 Jeannot, Pink Baroness Schroeder, 

 Suzanne Dessert, Claire Dubois, Mrs. 

 C. S. Minot, James Kelway, Eunice 

 Shaylor, Coquelin and Phyllis Kelway. 



Thurlow's won in the class for 

 twenty light pink with M. Jules Dessert. 

 For twenty dark pink tiiey were second 

 with Sarah Bernhardt, E. E. Kandall, 

 superintendent to Mrs. H. C. Frick, 

 Prides Crossing, Mass., being first. 

 Thurlow's had the best twenty crim- 

 sons, with Eugene Bigot. For six speci- 

 men blooms, double, Milton F. Eoberts 

 won with superb Solange; second, E. 

 E. Eandall. For the best specimen 

 bloom Harry A. Norton, Ayers Cliff, 

 Quebec, won with a magnificent flower 

 of Therese. 



Milton F. Eoberts won with fine La 

 France and Kelway 's Queen and Milton 

 Hill in classes allotted to these varie- 

 ties. 



For ten named varieties Harry A. 

 Norton led with superb flowers of Felix 

 Crousse, Eeine Hortense, Adolphe Eous- 

 soau, Le Cygne, Frances Willard, James 

 Kelway, M. Jules Elie, Mrs. George 

 Bunyard, Martha Bulloch and Venus, 

 The same exhibitor captured firsts in 

 a number of other classes, all his flow- 

 ers being of exceptionally high quality. 



The classes of the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society did not bring out 

 much competition. T. C. Thurlow's 

 Sons Co. was first for twenty varie- 

 ties. E. C. Morse, John Morris gardener, 

 was second for twelve varieties. For 

 six blooms, pink, prizes went to E. E. 

 Eandall and Wilton B. Fay. The same 

 exhibitors won for six blooms, white. 



The Blue Hills Nurseries showed a 

 table of Iris lasvigata grown from seed, 

 with some fine colors. J. T. Butter- 

 worth had a wonderful group of Mil- 

 tonia vexillaria, ta'Stefully arranged by 

 his son, George. All of the dozens of 

 plants shown were superbly flowered 

 and blooming with great profusion, the 

 flowers being of remarkable size and 

 showing great variation in form and 

 coloring. Ordinarily miltonias are 

 shown carrying three to five flowers 

 per stalk. Mr. Butterworth 's carried 

 five to nine, and as many as a dozen 

 spikes to a plant, and well merited the 

 Appleton gold medal awarded. Miss 

 Eachel Butterworth showed real artistic 

 taste in an arrangement of miltonias, 

 Oncidium flexuosum and scarlet epiden- 

 drums. 



Banquet Held. 



On the evening of June 18 a dinner 

 was served in the banquet room at Hor- 

 ticultural hall and attended by sixty 

 members and friends of the American 

 Peony Society. A splendid menu hav- 

 ing been enjoyed, speeches were made 

 by a number of prominent members. 



The officers elected for the coming 

 year were as follows: President, 

 Arthur H. Fcwkes; vice-president, 

 Harry Norton; secretary, A. P. Saun- 

 ders; treasurer, A. II. Scott. The next 

 meeting will be held at London, On- 

 tario, Canada. 



One hundred new members were 

 added during the Boston show. The 

 present membership is 450. It was 

 voted to give more attention to ama- 

 teurs in future. 



Among those present from a distance 

 were Professor A. P. Saunders, Clinton, 

 N. Y.; Harry A. Norton, Ayers Cliff, 

 Quebec, Can.; A. H. Scott, Chester, Pa.; 

 James Boyd, Haverford, Pa.; E. T. 







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Lee R. Bonnewitz in His Peony Fields at Van Wert, O. 



