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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



August, 1914 



White Spruce For Quick Results 



Plant August — September 



""THE birds winter in this group of White 

 1 Spruce, proving that it is the densest 

 windbreak. 



You will like the cheerful, blue-green 

 healthy foliage, happy because native. The 

 trees like cold northern climates and salt 

 spray. Your friends will admire the hospi- 

 tality and privacy of evergreen boundaries. 

 For a hedge 5 feet high, they save you time 

 and give you more for the cost than anything 

 else. If these White Spruce fail, we will re- 

 place. Send for catalog describing little 

 evergreens, or carloads twenty feet high. 



A hedge 2 ) 2 feet high will coit for the plants 

 $20.00 per roo feet, if 3 feet apart; 3 1 o feet 

 high $50.00 per 100 feet, 3 feet apart; 4 feet 

 high, planted 4 feet apart will be 

 $50.00 per 100 feet. They will 

 make a solid screen six feet high, 

 quicker than Privet. 



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Isaac Hicks &>Son 



Weslburu , Lone; Island 



HARDY PHLOX 



Can be used everywhere. Unlike other plants, require little 

 care and give bountiful returns in flowers during the season. 

 They have a delightful odor, scenting the whole garden. 

 I am anxious to send you my list. Write for it now. 300 

 varieties. Also Iris and Delphinium. 



W. F. SCHMEISKE, Hospital Station, Binghamton, N. Y. 



Our Cannas Win 



Sweeping recognition in European and American 

 horticultural prize winning events has won for our 

 cannas the reputation of being "The Finest Can- 

 nas in the World." 



Our Mr. Wintzer 

 has doubled the 

 size, trebled the 

 colors and in- 

 creased the en- 

 durance of the 

 bloom and ^ 

 hasbronzei 

 the foliage. 



Our Vice-Pres., Mr. 

 Antoine Wintzer, has 

 handled nearly 50,000 

 seedlings and has de- 

 veloped over 72 wonder- 

 ful varieties of rare 

 beauty, stateliness and 

 continuity of bloom. 

 Our cannas are for people 

 who care. 



Boston 



Convention 



Exhibit 



l«y We'll have an ex- 



cellent one. Don't 

 miss it. Our several 

 novelties for 1014 

 are incomparable. 



IOS 

 Varieties 



and each of them 

 tested for 3 years — 

 constitute the u n - 

 equalled C. & J. offer- 

 ing. Send for our in- 

 teresting Canna Book. 

 It's free. 



THE CONARD 

 & JONES CO. 



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Meetings and Exhibitions in August 



Staten Island Garden Club, New Dorp, S. I.: meeting. 

 Worcester County Horticultural Society Worcester, 



Mass.: exhioition. 

 Pasadena Horticultural Society, Pasadena, Calif.: 



meeting. 

 Gladiolus Society of Ohio, Cleveland, Ohio: annual 



exhibition. 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Boston, Mass.: 



gladiolus and phlox exhibition. 

 Pasadena Horticultural Society, Pasadena, Calif.: 



picnic. 

 New Rochelle, N. Y., Garden Club: meeting. 

 Railway Gardening Association, New York: annual 



meeting. 

 Nassau County Horticultural Society, Pembroke 



Hall, Glen Cove, L. I.: meeting. 

 12-13. Newport Horticultural Society, Newport, R. I.: 



summer show. 

 13. Worcester County Horticultural Society, Worcester, 



Mass.: exhibition. 

 13-15. Newport, R. I. Garden Club show. 

 15-16. New York Horticultural Society, Museum of Natural 



7-8. 

 8-9. 



10 

 11-14. 



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gladiolus show and 



History, New York City: 

 meeting. 



Staten Island Garden Club, New Dorp, S. I.: meeting. 



Society of American Florists and Ornamental Horti- 

 culturists. Boston, Mass.: annual convention and 

 meetings. 



American Gladiolus Society, Boston Mass.: annual 

 meeting. 



Worcester County Horticultural Society, Worcester, 

 Mass.: exhibition. 



American Carnation Society, Boston, Mass.: meet- 

 ing. 



American Rose Society, Boston, Mass.: meeting. 



Pasadena Horticultural Society, Pasadena, Calif.: 

 meeting. 



Central New York Horticultural Society, New 

 Hartford, N. Y.: second annual exhibition. 



Worcester County Horticultural Society, Worcester, 

 Mass.: exhibition. 

 Dates to be fixed later, according to local conditions: 



Ridge Women's Club, Tracy, Chicago, 111.: third 

 annual flower show. 



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 20. 



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26-27 

 28 

 27. 



Foreign Fixtures 



Berne, Switzerland: Exhibition May r5, to October 15. 



London, England: Anglo-American Exhibition at Shepherds Bush, May to October; Royal Horticultural Society's Hall, 



Vincent Square, Dahlias, September 8; Vegetables, September 22; roses, September 24; British-grown fruit, September 29, 30. 



Lyons, France: International Urban Exhibition, May 1st to November 1st, 1015. 



Moscow, Russia: Universal Exhibition of Trade and Commerce, spring, 1015. 



Note: — The Editors will be grateful for information about the doings of gardening societies, 

 clubs, etc., and especially as regards coming events. In order to ensure timely publication, the 

 information must reach the Editors by the twelfth day of the month preceding the date of issue in which 

 the notice should appear. 



New Roses on Trial 



THE Judging Committee of the American 

 Rose Society inspected the test plots in 

 the Elizabeth Park, Hartford, Conn., on 

 June 19th. It is interesting to note that 

 some of the most promising novelties oh trial in 

 this garden are of American origin. There are 

 forty beds in the test garden, and out of all, the 

 variety Panama, raised by John Cook of Baltimore, 

 a cross between a Frau Karl Druschki and an unre- 

 ported Hybrid Tea seedling, seems to promise well 

 as a free flowering garden rose. The blooms have 

 the palest flush of pink, are of large size, produced 

 freely, and the petals endure quite a long time. 

 The plant itself is vigorous. This variety received 

 the silver medal in the trial last year. 



Radiance holds its record as a good outdoor rose; 

 very vigorous, free flowering, and the individual 

 flowers solid and brilliantly colored. Mrs. Wake- 

 field Christy Miller, of a somewhat similar char- 

 acter, was awarded the silver medal as a bedding 

 rose. An unnamed seedling from Etoile de France, 

 dwarf, sturdy, and full of bloom of rich, deep crim- 

 son, dark shading, is a rose that will possibly 

 attract attention in the future. Robin Hood, a 

 similarly deep crimson rose, is said to be far superior 

 in character in the fall. It has, in addition to deep 

 color, good fragrance. 



W. R. Smith seems to be increasing in favor as a 

 garden rose. The general tone of the flower is 

 sulphur yellow, with the outer petals flushed pink, 

 which it gets from its Tea parent. It is a free 

 flowering variety and produces long stems. 



A single flowering climbing rose raised from Gruss 

 an Teplitz was conspicuous because of its intense 

 color, but having a tinge of purple over the other- 

 wise white centre. It is a decidedly peculiar color, 

 but may serve acceptably in special locations. 

 The following awards were made on this year's 

 inspection: 



point; 



William R. Smith, . 



Bed 11 



Conard & Jones 



81 



Defiance 



" 43 



Edward Kress 



77 



King George 



" 36 



Hugh Dickson 



80 



Mrs. David Baillie . 



" 37 



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62 



Mrs. Sam Ross 



" 38 



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76 



Mrs. Richard Draper . 



" 39 



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75 



Souvenir de Marquis 









Louriero . . . . 



" 42 



Ketten Freres 



73 



Miss Ruth . . . . 



" 44 



Carl Peterson 



75 



Alabama, a Strawberry State 



THE census for 19 10 represented the state of 

 Alabama as shipping 135 carloads of straw- 

 berries. It is found on investigation that the state 

 is shipping at the present time some 700 or 800 car- 

 loads, so that the industry has been growing rapidly 

 during the past few years. Alabama strawberries 

 have a reputation for superior quality in the North- 



ern markets and, coming after Florida and some 

 other states, have their own peculiar season in the 

 markets. The great need has been cooperation 

 and organization and the building up of the interest 

 at a given point so as to ship in large quantities. 

 Thorsby is a point at which fine berries are produced 

 in large quantities, shipping 30 to 40 carloads. 

 There is also a strawberry centre in the western 

 part of the state at York and Demopolis, and a 

 number of carloads are produced at that point. 

 — E. W. 



The American Sweet Pea Society 



THE sixth annual exhibition that was held in 

 the Museum of Natural History on June 

 27th, resulted in the largest display that this 

 organization has yet had. More than 2,000 vases of 

 bloom were on exhibition. The most important 

 display by Mr. W. Gray, of Newport, R. I., which 

 won the A. T. Boddington cup, was of unusual 

 quality. It will be of interest to know the varieties 

 with which this exhibitor was so successful. They 

 were Elfrida Pearson, Lady Evelyn Eyre, Charles 

 Foster, Empress Eugenie, Martha Washington, 

 Mrs. W. C. Breadmore, Prince George, Nubian, 

 Queen of Norway, Dorothy Tennant, Wedgewood, 

 Hercules, Mrs. Cuthbertson, Blue Jacket, Clara 

 Curtis, Maud Holmes, Helen Lewis, Loyalty, King 

 White, Rosabelle, Etta Dyke, America, Thomas 

 Stevenson, Orchid, and John Ingman. 



The Garden Magazine Achievement Medal 

 offered for the finest vase of sweet peas in the ama- 

 teur section, was awarded for the variety Mrs. 

 Cuthbertson exhibited by Mr. Gray. 



In the color classes, the prize winning varieties 

 were: White, King White; light pink, Blanche 

 Ferry and Elfrida Pearson, lavender, Dorothy 

 Tennant; Salmon or rose, Salmon Spencer; crim- 

 son or scarlet, Vermilion Brilliant; primrose, 

 Isabellt Malcome and Primrose Beauty; any other 

 color, Mrs. Townsend; rose or carmine, George 

 Herbert: deep pink, Constance Oliver; blue, Blue 

 Jacket: cerise, John Ingman; Salmon or orange, 

 Edna Unwin; violet or purple, Purple Prince; 

 picotee- edged, Elsie Herbert; striped or flaked 

 red. America Spencer; striped or flaked blue, 

 Loyalty: bicolor, Mrs. Cuthbertson; any other 

 distinct from above, Senator Spencer. 



The Spencer varieties, it will be seen, were 

 largely in the ascendant, comparatively few of the 

 old grandiflora were seen . 



The election of officers resulted as follows: 

 President, Lester L. Morse, California; Vice- 

 President, A. M. Kirby, New York; Secretary, 

 Harry A. Bunyard, New York; Treasurer, Arthur 

 T. Boddington, New York. 



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