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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



September. 1914 



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Meetings and Exhibitions in September 



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Garden Club of Lawrence, L. I.: exhibition of stocks 



and dahlias. 

 Worcester County Horticultural Society, Worcester, 



Mass.: exhibition of cut flowers. 

 Pasadena Horticultural Society, Pasadena, Calif.: 



meeting. 

 New York Botanical Garden, Bronx Park, N. Y.: 



lecture "The Life History of a Tree," by Dr. C. S. 



Gager. 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Horticultural 



Hall, Boston, Mass.: exhibition of products of 



children's gardens. 

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

 Nassau County Horticultural Society, Glen Cove, 



N. Y.: meeting. 

 Hartsdale Literary and Improvement Society, Harts- 

 dale, N. Y.; fourth annual flower show. 

 Worcester County Horticultural Society, Worcester, 



Mass.: cut flower exhibition. 

 Connecticut Horticultural Society, Hartford, Conn. - . 



meeting. 

 Dobbs Ferry Horticultural Society, Dobbs Ferry, 



N. Y. : meeting. 

 New York Botanical Garden, Bronx Park, N. Y.: 



lecture "Diseases of Cultivated Plants," by Dr. G. 



P. Clinton. 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Horticultural 



Hall, Boston, Mass.: dahlia and fruit exhibition. 

 Tarry town Horticultural Society, Tarrytown, N. Y. : 



meeting. 



16. 17. New Haven Horticultural Society, Harmonie Hall, 



New Haven, Conn.: annual flower show. 



17. Worcester County Horticultural Society, Worcester, 



Mass.: cut flower exhibition. 



18. Pasadena Horticultural Society, Pasadena, Calif.: 



meeting. 



19. New York Botanical Garden, Bronx Park, N. Y.: 



lecture "Interrelations between Botany and 



Geology," by D. Arthur Hollick. 

 21. Staten Island Garden Club, New Dorp, S. I.: harvest 



show. 

 22-24. American Institute Fair, Engineering Building, New 



York: dahlia show. 



23. 24. Connecticut Horticultural Society, Unity Hall, Pratt 



St., Hartford, Conn.: annual dahlia show. 



24. Worcester County Horticultural Society, Worcester, 



Mass.: cut flower exhibition. 



25. Connecticut Horticultural Society, Hartford, Conn.: 



meeting. 



26. Dobbs Ferry Horticultural Society, Dobbs Ferry, 



N. Y. : meeting. 

 New York Botanical Garden, Bronx Park, N. Y. : 

 lecture, "Wild Flowers of Autumn," by Dr. N. L. 

 Britton. 



27. Short Hills Garden Club, Short Hills, N. J.: annual 



dahlia show. 

 30, Oct.l Oyster Bay, L. I., Horticultural Society: dahlia 

 show. 



Foreign Fixtures 



Berne, Switzerland: Exhibition May is to October is. 



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 2g, 30. 



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



Moscow, Russia: Universal Exhibition of Trade and Commerce, spring 1915. 



Dusseldorf, Germany: exhibition, May to November. 



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. 



The Garden Club of Michigan 



At the July nth meeting of the Garden Club of 

 Michigan, the President, Mrs. Francis King, read 

 the article in the July Garden Magazine on 

 "Philosophizing with Anchusas." Sprays of the 

 Dropmore and Opal anchusas were passed 

 around during the reading, and a spirited discussion 

 of Mr. Duffy's article followed. Mrs. William 

 Anderson, honorary president of the Club and dean 

 of the gardening fraternity in that region (whose 

 flowers are a wonder throughout the season), de- 

 clared the article to be one of the best bits of gar- 

 dening advice she had ever heard. The August meet- 

 ing took the form of a gladiolus show. This Club's 

 dues are only twenty-five cents and the sole require- 

 ment for membership is an interest in gardening. 



A New Sweet Pea 



The Society of American Florists and Ornamental 

 Horticulturists gives notice of the following regis- 

 tration of a new plant : 



By Vaughan's Seed Store, 31 West Randolph 

 St., Chicago, 111., a new sweet pea for greenhouse 

 forcing, by name Selma Swenson. This variety 

 was originated by Mr. G. Swenson, Elmhurst, 111. 

 The color is a light, soft, clear pink. 



How to Stage Garden Produce 

 Have you a garden club in your small city or 

 village, and are you a good working member, as all 

 members should be in a well-organized, earnest, 

 limited membership garden club? Are you willing 

 to give anywhere from a half to a whole day in 

 selecting and preparing exhibits of whatever your 

 garden may possess, for the show or exhibit? If 

 so, you will make a good member. 



Of course, every club has very much the same 

 schedule for its members to work from. There 

 must be three exhibits to award a blue ribbon, four 

 exhibits to award a red ribbon, and five for a white 

 one. Therefore, it is most important that many 

 members exhibit everything good they can to fill 

 the classes and make a worthy show. 



A red, white, and blue ribbon is given for 

 the best flowers exhibited in the show, in whatever 

 class it may be, also one for the vegetables, fruits, 

 preserves, jellies, or wines. Also prizes are awarded 

 in various classes and one for the greatest number 

 of points won by a member in the club year. 



When selecting flowers for exhibition, always 

 take the most perfect specimen, though not nec- 

 essarily the largest as an abnormal blossom is not 

 desirable; look carefully at stem and foliage as 

 well as bloom. They, too, must be well grown, 

 free from disease and pests. Stage just the number 

 of blossoms called for in the schedule. If a certain 

 number of blooms be stipulated, it means on 

 separate stems. "I hope they notice my three 

 roses on one stem," said a new exhibitor. They 

 (the judges) did, and promptly debarred them, as 

 the class called for "three best roses, one color, one 

 variety, in one vase," meaning three distinct 

 blooms. This is a common error. 



When arranging baskets of flowers for a show, 

 do not adorn with ribbons. It is considered in- 

 artistic by most judges and may disbar an otherwise 

 good exhibit. Place glass receptacles and wet 

 sphagnum moss in them to hold the water, and 

 metal or glass Japanese flower holders aid in holding 

 the blooms apart. Baskets colored or tinted with 

 stain, or painted white, are desirable. 



In exhibiting chrysanthemums follow your 

 schedule very carefully. Keep strictly to the classes 

 of pompons or singles, disbudded to one bloom or 

 not disbudded. 



Never cut your flowers, especially roses, during 

 the heat of the day as they are likely to wilt and 

 never recover. Flowers cut toward evening are 

 not so lasting as when cut in the morning after a 

 night's recuperation from the heat; the cool, moist 

 night air seems to make the stems firm. 



When preparing vegetables for a show, see that 

 they are uniform in size and quality, well washed 

 and clean. If arranging string beans, see that not 

 an end is broken off, that they are all of the same 

 size, unspotted and straight. 



Lettuce must be firm and well headed. As it 

 wilts quickly, it is well to place it in a receptacle 

 filled with water. Onions, especially, should 

 be thoroughly washed and the outside skin, if 

 too [young to come clean, either scrubbed or taken 

 off. 



Beets as well as all vegetables prepared to be 

 displayed at their very best, must have been quickly 

 grown, without rootlets, and well washed. 

 Tomatoes should be all of one size, perfect in every 

 way and number exact. 



New York. A. Van Gelder. 



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