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MEETINGS AND EXHIBITIONS IN AUGUST 



New Bedford, Mass. Horticultural Society: meeting. 12-14. 

 Lake Geneva, Wis., Gardeners' & Foremen's Associa- 

 tion: meeting. 

 Short Hills, N. J., Garden Club: meeting. 

 Garden Club of Lawrence, L. I.: experience meeting, 13, 14. 



subject Chrysanthemums. 14. 



Worcester County Horticultural Society, Worcester 16. 



Mass.: exhibition. 17. 



Garden Club of Marshfield, Mass.: meeting. _ 

 Pasadena, Calif., Horticultural Society: meeting. 17-19. 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Boston, Mass.: 



gladiolus and phlox exhibition. 18. 



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

 Rochester Florists' Association, Rochester, N. Y.: 



meeting. 18, 19. 



Nassau County Horticultural Society, Glen Cove, L. I.: 



meeting. 19. 



Short Hills, N. J., Garden Club: meeting. 

 Worcester County Horticultural Society, Worcester, 



Mass.: exhibition. 



Newpoit Garden Club and Newport, R. I., Horticul 

 tural Society; midsummer exhibition. 



Pacific Coast and California Association of Nursery- 

 men, San Francisco, Calif.: convention. 



Gladiolus Society of Ohio, Cleveland, Ohio: exhibition. 



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



Nurseryman's Day, San Francisco Exposition. 



New York Florists' Club: convention at San Francisco, 

 Calif. 



Society American Florists & Ornamental Horticultur- 

 ists: convention at San Francisco, Calif. 



American Society of Park Superintendents: annual 

 meeting, San Francisco, Calif. 



Short Hills, N. J., Garden Club: meeting. 



American Gladiolus Society; 5th annual meeting and 

 exhibition at Newport, R. I., 



Worcester County Horticultural Society: exhibition. 



Garden Club of Lawrence, L. I.: meeting and lecture 

 by Dr. Henry Oldys on Birds and Bird Music. 



Garden Club of Marshfield, Mass.: meeting. 



20. Pasadena, Calif., Horticultural Society: meeting. 



21. Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., Horticultural Association: meet- 



ing. 



21, 22. Horticultural Society of New York: gladiolus ex- 

 hibition, New York Botanical Garden, Bronx Park. 



24-27. Association of American Cemetery Superintendents: 

 29th aTvnual convention, Minneapolis, Minn. 



25. Short Hills, N. J., Garden Club: meeting. 



25-27. Garden Club of Marshfield, Mass.: third annual ex- 

 hibit. 



26. Worcester County Horticultural Society, Worcester, 



Mass.: exhibition. 

 26-29. American Gladiolus Society: exhibition at Atlantic 

 City, N. J. 



27.28. Lewiston and Auburn Gardeners' Union; Fall exhibi- 



tion, Lewiston, Maine. 



28.29. Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Boston, Mass.: 



exhibition of products of children's gardens. 



American Peony Society Meets 



THE twelfth annual meeting and exhibition of 

 the American Peony Society was held in 

 Horticultural Hall, Boston, Mass., June 19th and 

 20th. The executive officers were reelected as 

 follows: B. H. Farr, President; J. H. Humphreys, 

 Treasurer; Professor A. P. Saunders, Clinton, N. Y., 

 Secretary. At the stated meeting of the Society, 

 the President announced that progress was being 

 made with the peony book and that they looked 

 forward to having it published this year. 



The exhibition was exceptionally fine. One vari- 

 ety in particular, shown in the trade collection in two 

 great vases, a pure bright pink color, was very con- 

 spicuous, the variety being Walter Faxon. In the 

 specimen blooms, prizes were taken by generally 

 well grown collections, and the varieties in the prize 

 winning collections will help to serve the readers of 

 l.HE Garden Magazine as a practical guide to 

 varieties. 



The best six any variety: Therese, with Lady 

 Alexander Duff second. 



The best singles, with one whorl of petals: Vic- 

 toria, Prince Alexandre, Surprise, Queen of May, 

 Black Prince, Meteor, Duchess of Portland, Stan- 

 ley, Emily, Defiance. 



Among the best fifty double white, Festiva Max- 

 ima led with Marie Lemoine second. Dark pink or 

 rose, double, Modeste. Double flesh or salmon pink, 

 Venus and Triumphe de 1. Ex. de Lille. 



Specimen blooms, double: Mons. Jules Elie and 

 Indespensable. 



Prize winners in rose pink were Berlioz, Claire 

 Dubois, Mme. Balot, Chevreuil, M. Jules Elie, 

 Lamartine; in salmon pink, Georgiana Shaylor, 

 Lamartine, Mme. Barillet; red or crimson, Pierre 

 Dessert, M. Martin Cahuzac, Decandolle, Cherry 

 Hill, Plutarch, Adolphe Resseau. 



The prize for the best twenty-five blooms in white 

 or flesh was won by Duchesse de Nemours; in double 

 pink or rose, Mme. Ducel; in double red or crimson, 

 Mr. Manning. 



Roses at WUlowmere 



ANY one who may have gone solely for charity 

 sake to the garden of Admiral and Mrs. Aaron 

 Ward, when it was opened on June 8th, to the public 

 for the benefit of the American Ambulance Hospital 

 at Neuilly, was indeed a thousand fold rewarded. 



At the entrance to the garden proper one sees 

 flowers and more flowers as far as the eye can reach 

 — to the left various perennials and to the right hun- 

 dieds of roses, with a few irises here and there. 



Probably the most greatly admired rose was 

 Madame Edouard Herriot, sometimes known as the 

 Daily Mail Rose because it won the wealth-making 

 prize offered by that paper for the finest new rose. 

 It is the offspring of an Austrian Briar and a Tea 

 and is of the most wonderful shade of crushed 

 strawberries to which some champagne has been 

 added. The buds are deceptive, being of a deep, 

 rich red. 



In the bed next was rose Willowmere, named for 

 the Ward place, and although not in bloom that day 

 I would like to describe it in Miss Ward's words. 

 "It is much the color of the Herriot, only finer; it is 

 a stronger plant and a freer bloomer." Lady Ro- 

 berts was another rose much admired; it is of a 

 pale apricot color, very large and beautiful. 



The bed of Madame Segond Weber was wonderful, 

 being in full bloom, the individual blooms being of 

 extraordinary size. 



The foliage of all the roses in this garden was in 

 perfect condition and the careful labelling of all roses 

 was a joy to the visitor. The long beds were 

 charted, and these charts, under glass, were fastened 

 on posts the proper height and at the proper angle to 

 be easily referred to. 



It is interesting to know that the Hybrid Per- 

 petual roses, twelve hundred strong, have been dis- 

 carded from this garden, having been tried and found 

 guilty of too short a period of bloom. The beautiful 

 Frau Karl Druschki, however, has been kept, for 

 although she is classed with the Hybrid Perpetuals 

 she has most of the endearing characteristics of the 

 Hybrid Teas. 



There were some fine specimens of Rosa rugosa, 

 several as perfect Blanc Double de Coubert as it has 

 been my good fortune to see, and several of the in- 

 comparable Conrad F. Meyer. Admiral Ward and 

 his daughters were kept busy answering various 

 questions and were gracious and explicit in their 

 answers. To an admiring group around a Conrad 

 F. Meyer, Miss Ward explained that the Rugosa 

 family should be pruned only to remove dead wood 

 or to check a too rampant growth. All roses at 

 Willowmere are pruned in the spring. 



Of course I might give a list of all the varieties in 

 the garden but it would look like a trade catalogue. 

 In an all too short hour or two one could not see 

 everything but I seemed to feel the absence of the 

 single flowering roses of the Fireflame type. I fancy 

 though, that I am quite in the minority in my pen- 

 chant for the single varieties. 



Few of the climbers were in bloom, but I noticed, 

 among many others, some thickly budded plants of 

 the exquisite Aviateur Bleriot on the arbor over the 

 central path. When in bloom its buds and flowers 

 are like miniature Mrs. Aaron Wards borne in clus- 

 ters and these, when arranged in combination with 

 forget-me-nots or blue cornflowers, are not soon to 

 be forgotten. 



One is apt to think of the Ward garden as entirely 

 of roses, but the collection of perennials is not to be 

 overlooked. 



The collection of Iris is by no means indifferent 

 and contains some very lovely varieties belonging 

 to the Squalens section of the Germanica group, 

 many yellows, from the very dark to the dear pale 

 favorite, Flavescens. Pallida Dalmatica, never 

 to be passed hastily, planted at the top of slop- 

 ing ground with shades of yellow in front, made a 

 picture. 



There were Siberian irises of the deep and pale 

 blue varieties and the beautiful white, Snow Queen; 



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one good clump of the European water flag, Pseu- 

 dacorus; and a most interesting stranger which to 

 its owner is known only as a dwarf iris. It has the 

 foliage of the Japanese, only dwarf er, and a lovely 

 and distinct flower of lavender with veinings of deep 

 purple on the falls. I would fancy that it must be 

 a native of either China or Japan. 



Aquilegias filled many beds with their delicate 

 and precious flowers, one deep purple demanding 

 special attention. There must have been quite 

 twenty varieties. The raised beds overlooking the 

 water were edged with Cerastium tomentosum and 

 the beauty of the silver gray foliage and starry white 

 flowers was quite beyond description. 



I say with emphasis that if you have an oppor- 

 tunity to visit this garden do so by all means, but 

 not without a notebook and pencil. 



Lawson Melish 



Exhibition of the American Dahlia Society 



THE American Dahlia Society, which was re- 

 cently organized, will hold its first exhibition 

 on September 23 to 25, at the Museum of Natural 

 History in New York City, in conjunction with the 

 Horticultural Society of New York, the latter 

 society having made a resolution to donate $100 

 toward premiums. The president of this associ- 

 ation is Mr. Richard Vincent, Jr., of White Marsh, 

 Md., and the secretary, from whom additional in- 

 formation regarding the society may be obtained, 

 is Mr. Joseph J. Lane, of n West 32nd Street, 

 New York. 



Award of a Gold Medal 



THE gold medal of the Massachusetts Horti- 

 cultural Society was awarded on June 24th 

 to Miss Sarah B. Fay of Woods Hole, Mass., whose 

 enthusiastic encouragement and support has made 

 possible many of the wonderful achievements of Mr. 

 M. H. Walsh, whom Miss Fay has had for many 

 years as superintendent of her estate. She has now 

 a most wonderful collection of thousands of estab- 

 lished plants in hundreds of varieties, perhaps the 

 most extensive collection of its kind in the country, 

 and there is also an amazing number of rambler 

 roses. The Society has done well in bestowing 

 this mark of appreciation upon one whose love of 

 the rose has made possible so many important im- 

 provements in that flower. 



Medals to New Roses 



THE award committee of the American Rose 

 Society, which has under inspection the trial 

 plots in the rose garden at Elizabeth Park, Hart- 

 ford, Conn., has awarded the Society's silver medal 

 to three roses in this season's trials, namely: Purity, 

 a white Wichuraiana Rambler rose, very free flow- 

 ering (Hoopes Bros. & Thomas); American Pillar, 

 single dark red Multiflora Rambler, very strong 

 grower (Conard & Jones) ; and Lady Pirrie, a large 

 flowered Hybrid Tea, a light reddish salmon in 

 color (Dickson) . 



