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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



November, 191* 



Monster 

 Daffodil 



A flower so beautiful 

 that $15.00 apiece was gladly paid in 

 Europe when it made its appearance. 



The flower is immense, with long fluted trum- 

 pet — brilliant golden sunset tint. Planted indoors 

 now (especially in our prepared Moss fiber) the 

 beautiful flowers will gladden your Eastertide. 

 Planted outdoors any time during November it 

 will blossom in Spring. We have received a 

 limited stock from Europe to dispose at very low 

 figure — (within the reach of all.) 



Immense Bulbs — delivery free : 



1 3 6 12 



$.35 $1.00 $1.75 $3.00 



Lily of Valley 



,Jk Could anything be sweeter ? 



&p Bloom 18-20 days from time 



of planting in our prepared 



Moss fiber. An ideal gift for 



Thanksgiving. 



6 $ .40 



12 $ .65 



25 $1.10 



50 $2.00 



Price includes delivery, and suf- 

 ficient prepared Moss fiber, also full 

 directions for successful flowering. 



Byzantine Wonder Lily 



The ideal table decoration 

 for Thanksgiving. Give sun- 

 shine and a warm spot — no 

 soil, no water. The 

 wealth of rosy, lily 

 like flowers appears 

 shortly last- 

 ing 3-4 weeks. 

 10-20 flowers 

 according 

 size of Bulb. 



Delivery included. 



1 3 12 



Large Bulbs $.20 $.50 $1.75 



Monster .30 .80 2.75 



Jumbo, scarce .40 1.10 



Both Lily of Valleys 

 and Byzantine Wonder 

 Bulbs are Love's own 

 gift to Invalids or 

 "Shut-in's"who delight 

 in watching the magic unfolding of the flowers. 



Send for our Interesting FALL BULB BOOK 

 Something new and odd 



H.H.BERGER&C0.,£ 



70 Warren Street 

 ew York, N. Y. 



Meetings and Exhibitions in November 



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Horticultural Society of New York, American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History, New York City: ex- 

 hibition. 



Florists' Club of Washington: fall flower show. 



Elberon Horticultural Society, Asbury Park, N. J.: 

 fall show. 



Pennsylvania Horticultural Society; Philadelphia, Pa.: 

 annual exhibition and chrysanthemum show. 



American Institute, New York City: chrysanthemum 

 show. 



Tarrytown, N. Y., Horticu.tural Society: i6th 

 annual exhibition. 



Worcester County Horticultural Society, Worcester, 

 Mass.; chrysanthemum exhibition. 



Lancaster County Florists' Club, Lancaster, Pa.: 

 fall show. 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Horticultural 

 Hall, Boston, Mass.: chrysanthemum show. 



State Florists' Association of Indiana, Indianapolis: 

 chrysanthemum exhibition in conjunction with 

 Chrysanthemum Society of Am rica. 



Rochester, N. Y. Florists' association: regular meeting. 



Horticultural Society of Chicago, Art Institute, 

 Chicago, 111.: chrysanthemum show. 



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Nassau County Horticu tural Society, Glen Cove,. 



N. Y.: meeting. 

 Ontario Horticultural Association. Toronto, Canada: 



annual convention. 

 Reading, Pa. Florists' Association: chrysanthemum 



show. 

 Texas State Florists' Asso iation, Houston, Texas: 



chrysanthemum and flower show. 

 Connecticut Horticultural Socie.y, Hartford, Conn.: 



regular meeting. 

 Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., Horticultural Society: meeting. 

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

 Maryland State Horticultural Society, 5th Regiment 



Armory, Baltimore, Md.: annual meeting and ex- 

 hibition. 

 Tarrytown, N. Y., Horticultural Society: regular 



meeting. 

 Vermont Horticultural Society, Rutland, Vt.: annual 



meeting and exhibition. 

 Tacoma Rose Society, Tacoma, Wash.: rose show. 

 Connecticut Horticultural Society, Hartford, Conn.:. 



regular mee ing. 

 Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., Horticultural Society: meeting. 



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

 garden clubs, etc., and especially as regards notices of coming events to be announced in this de- 

 partment. In order to ensure timely publication, the information must reach the Editors not later 

 than the twelfth day of the month preceding the date of issue in which the notice should appear. 



New Chrysanthemums 



THE committees of the society for examining new 

 chrysanthemums will meet each Saturday during 

 November in Chicago, Cincinnati, Boston, New York, 

 and Philadelphia. Any one having a new seedling or 

 sport which has already been given two years' trial, 

 may submit blooms to the nearest committee on pay- 

 ment of an entry fee of two dollars to be forwarded to 

 the secretary in advance of the date of the meeting. 



Chrysanthemum Society Meeting 



THE twenty-fourth annual convention and exhibition 

 of the Chrysanthemum Society of America will be 

 held in Indianapolis, in connection with the State 

 Florists' Association of Indiana, on November 6, 7, 8. 

 The officers of the Chrysanthemum Society are as 

 follows: President, William Kleinheinz; Vice-Presi- 

 dent, A. F. J. Baur; Treasurer, John N. May; Secre- 

 tary, Charles W. Johnson, Morgan Park, Ills. In order 

 to have the exhibition well patronized, the public will 

 be admitted free of charge. 



Tacoma Rose Society 



TACOMA has had two rose shows this year and, be- 

 fore 1914 has closed, it will have held two more. 

 The annual rose show, under the auspices of the Tacoma 

 Rose Society, was held in June. Nearly 400 varieties 

 of roses were exhibited and more than 40,000 roses were 

 used in the decorations of the State Armory in which 

 the exhibition was given. Among the 40 cups awarded 

 was one from Hugh Dickson, the Irish rose grower. 

 The Hugh Dickson is the Tacoma official rose, and 

 the cup was offered for the best six. This cup must 

 be won three times. Mrs. Talmadge Hamilton won 

 it in 1913 and again this year. None but amateurs 

 may exhibit. 



In July and August a "Seven-Mondays' Show" was 

 conducted by the Society in the dining room of the 

 Commercial Club, and the exhibits filled twenty large 

 tables each of the seven Mondays. 



The next show will be given on Thanksgiving Day, 

 and on Christmas Day a fourth exhibition will be held. 

 It may seem strange that such shows are planned in a 

 city lying so far north. Yet such exhibitions are 

 altogether possible unless esceptional and wholly 

 unexpected weather conditions nip the blossoms. Last 

 Thanksgiving Day one of the Society's members ex- 

 hibited in a downtown store window a bouquet of 

 52 roses, all taken from his open garden. His Christ- 

 mas dinner table was adorned with a centre piece of 

 24 excellent roses from his garden. Nearly everybody 

 with bushes has Thanksgiving Day blossoms, and there 

 always is much good natured rivalry over exhibits of 

 Christmas rose blooms. 



At the shows, blossoms six inches and even seven in 

 diameter are not rare, and stems often run to two feet. 



One specimen shown at the Commercial Club was 32 

 inches in length, this being a Mad. Caroline Testout, 

 grown by Capt. T. H. Dobson. 



A winter-killed rose is very rare in this section. 

 Once in a while the bushes are slightly frost bitten. 

 None of the growers protects his bushes except in the 

 case of a few of the tenderest varieties, when an ever- 

 green bough or two may be thrown over them. Ex- 

 periments have been made to some extent by Mr. Carl 

 Morisse in transplanting Puget Sound roses to Minne- 

 sota, Michigan, and Indiana, and the results have been 

 gratifying. 



The Rose Society has done a great work in encourag- 

 ing the beautification of public ground and private 

 residences. At its request the Park Board planted a 

 large rose garden in beautiful Point Defiance Park. 

 The bushes are carefully labeled with the name and 

 some facts about its habits. The Rose Society holds 

 monthly meetings, at which everything pertaining to 

 rose-growing is discussed, and, at one or two meetings 

 in the late winter, demonstrations of pruning are given. 

 Each spring the Society distributes a great number of 

 rose slips, the most successful distribution resulting 

 in more than 200,000 of these slips. This distribution, 

 while under the Society's auspices, was conducted by 

 the Evening News and Morning Ledger. 



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American Carnation Society 



EW carnation registered by Herman C. G. 

 Schwarz, Central Park, N. H. — Siren; seedling 

 cross on Enchantress. Color brilliant flesh pink. 

 Size 3J to 4 inches. Ideal upright grower and easy 

 rooter. Dark green foliage and no surplus grass. Pro- 

 duces flowers freely and on long strong stems. 



A. F. J. Baur, Sec'y. 



An Award of Merit 



WALTHAM Scarlet, a new scarlet, single Hybrid 

 Tea rose, has had conferred upon it, across 

 the Atlantic, an Award of Merit. The flowers are 

 about three inches in diameter, are of an intense 

 rose red, against which the yellow stamens in the 

 centre of the flower make a striking contrast. 



New York Florists' Club 



AT THE October meeting, Mr. C. H. Totty showed 

 flowers of a new white sport from Mrs. George 

 Shawyer rose. It bids fair to become a very popular 

 variety for growing under glass, and is the counter- 

 part, in every way except color, of its pink parent. 

 Blooms of a new strain of dahlias were staged by W. 

 A. Manda. This strain seems to have greater vigor, 

 with the blooms borne in great profusion and on long 

 stems. J. L. Childssent his "wool flower" celosia; and 

 a magnificent new white chrysanthemum, flat, in- 

 curved, white, very large, named Antigone, was also 

 contributed by Mr. Totty. 



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