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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Jum 20, 1907. 



laneous flowers, many of which meet 

 with a slow sale. 



. Rhododendron Show. 



The postponed rhododendron show was 

 held June 15 and there was a fine dis- 

 play of seasonable flowers. Walter Hun- 

 newell, T. D. Hatfield gardener, made 

 the largest exhibit of named rhododen- 

 drons, filling several tables with cut 

 ■ trusses, and also having a number of 

 nice plants in pots. A few of the best 

 hardy sorts included in bis collection 

 were Lady Gray Egerton, Album ele- 

 gans, Everestianum, Caractacus, Charles 

 Dickens, E. D. Band, Lady Armstrong, 

 Delicatissima, Kettledrum, King of the 

 Blues, Mrs. Milner, H. W. Sargent, Hen- 

 rietta Sargent and Mrs. C. S. Sargent. 

 A fine table was also staged by Mrs. 

 J. L. Gardner, William Thatcher gard- 

 ner, and a smaller collection of rho- 

 dodendrons and azaleas by Mrs. E. A. 

 Leeson, James Cartwright gardener. 



James McKissick received honorable 

 mention for a fine lot of tree peonies. 

 Professor C. S. Sargent, Charles Sander 

 gardener, showed a large table of splen- 

 did seedling tree peonies. Mrs. D. J. 

 Greenough showed some white flowered 

 ones of superb quality. William Whit- 

 man, M. Sullivan gardener, and others 

 also showed peonies. 



T. C. Thurlow took first prize for 

 thirty-six va.se8 of German iris, W. 

 WTiittman being second, William 

 Thatcher, gardener to Mrs. J. L. Gard- 

 ner, received first prize, a silver gilt 

 medal, for table of orchids and foliage 

 plants. Robert Cameron received honor- 

 able mention for Cereus Eyresii four 

 years old from seed. 



Frederic J. Eea had a nice table of 

 herbaceous flowers and a large display 

 came from Blue Hill Nurseries. In the 

 latter collection Thalictrum Delavayi, In- 

 carvillea grandiflora and Arenaria Mon- 

 tana each received honorable mention. 



C. W. Parker showed Iris Pallida 

 Dalmatica. Mrs. E. M. Gill had a nice 

 collection of seasonable flowers, and 

 George Page iris and other flowers. R. 

 & J. Farquhar had a large table of cut 

 aquilegias in variety, another of Ger- 

 man iris and a third contained a fine 

 collection of herbaceous flowers in va- 

 riety and a number of late tulips. 



The Boston park department had a 

 vase of cut branches of Bechtel's double 

 flowered crab apple. 



Qub Meeting. 



All records for attendance in 1907 



were broken on June 18, when some 200 



members gathered to hear C. H. Totty's 



interesting and practical talk on * ' The 



Chrysanthemum, Its Past, Present and 



Future." An excellent discussion fol- 



"owed the reading of the paper and Mr. 



>tty was given a rousing vote of 



iks for it. Those who participated in 



discussion were Messrs. Wheeler, 



Fewkes, W. Wheeler, D. Finlay- 



Finlayson, Elliott, Craig Grey, 



Cartwright, Sherwood and An- 



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It "was 

 held at Bay^ 

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qted that a field day will be 



State Nurseries, with W. H. 



^ August, and at the W. 



dahlia farm, in Marble- 



■ut September 20; also 



'11 be held in the park 



^n invitation to visit 



bead, °?pi^ 5av ^''* ■'tate was accepted. 



that a^/^?«Tie 29- ^ 'ipate in the Bos- 



A^'eld ^- *jon and a com- 



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voted to pa^^^g^ ^ssrs. Farquhar, 



D. Finlayson, Pettigrew, Elliott and An- 

 derson was appointed on same. The 

 membership was further swelled by eight 

 new names and the exhibition table con- 

 tained a lot of interesting seasonable 

 flowers, from R. W. Wheeler and T. H. 

 Westwood. T. D. Hatfield showed a 

 yellow chrysanthemum in flower. It was, 

 as usual, late before the best meeting of 

 the year terminated. No meetings will 

 be held during July and August. 



The Boston Park System. 



We never saw the extensive shrub- 

 beries in the Boston park department 

 look fresher and more vigorous than dur- 

 ing a drive through them last week. 

 Thanks to the copious rains and ab- 

 sence of torrid weather, while everything 

 looked delightfully luxuriant there was 

 an absence of the customary ravages of 

 destructive insects, against expected at- 

 tacks of which spraying operations were 

 in progress. While the season is about 

 two weeks later than usual, one good 

 effect of the cool weather is seen in the 

 long period the shrubs are remaining in 

 bloom. 



Especially striking were the loniceras, 

 the numerous specimens of L. Morrowi 

 in Franklin park being a wonderful 

 sight. This beautiful park grows more 

 attractive each year. Lonicera tatarica 

 in several forms, L. Ruprechtiana and L. 

 fragrantissima were all fine. Some of 

 the viburnums were alreaJy in flower. 

 Staphylea colchica was fine, also Exo- 

 chorda grandiflora and that somewhat 

 uncertain variety, ZanthocCras sorbifolia, 

 with white, bell-shaped flowers borne on 

 upright spikes. Kerria Japonica was one 

 of the few shrubs which was hurt by the 

 recent winter and was cut to the snow 

 line except in a few sheltered spots. 



The rhododendrons and azaleas were 

 both coming into flower and promised a 

 fine display in a few days. Berberis 

 vulgaris and its hybrids, Spirsa Van 

 Houttei and some of the euonymus 

 were all in season. Near the shore of 

 Jamaica pond, adjoining the Parkman 

 estate, we noted a magnificent specimen 

 of Bechtel's double crab, the finest of 

 the whole genus. Mains coronaria, also 

 in flower, is very attractive. 



Mr. Pettigrew iS now using crude 

 petroleum on a large portion of the 

 park driveways for the dust nuisance 

 and the results are proving satisfactory. 



Various Notes. 



At Professor C. S. Sargent's the lilacs 

 last week were a magnificent sight, A 

 large specimen of that fine dark variety, 

 Philemon, was the acme of perfection, 

 tho best flowered specimen it was ever 

 my privilege to see. Charles Dickens, 

 Souv. de Ludwig Spath, Marie Legraye 

 and other sorts were almost equally fine. 

 Specimens of the Chinese lilac, Syringa 

 Chinensds, were also wonderfully good. 

 The rock garden, with myosotis, Phlox 

 divaricata. Primula Sieboldii, violas and 

 many other spring flowers, was attrac- 

 tive, A large bed of seedling tree 

 peonies, five and six years old, from seed, 

 contained a wealth of good things. The 

 large collection of specimen azaleas and 

 wistarias were, as usual, flowered in Mr, 

 Sander's best style. 



Prof, C, S. Sargent sailed for England 

 June 19, to be absent until August, 



A note with regard to the incorpora- 

 tion of the Thomas J, Grey Co. appears 

 in the seed trade department of this 

 issue. W. N. Craig. 



WANT ADVERTISEMENTS. 



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SITUATION WANTBD-By an all-round grower 

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HELP WANTED— A man for g» neral green- 

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