MEETINGS AND EXHIBITIONS IN OCTOBER 



1. Pasadena, Cal., Horticultural Society: meeting. 



Warrenton, Va., Garden Club: meeting. 



2,3. Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Boston, Mass.: 

 exhibition fruits and vegetables. 



4. New Jersey Floriculture Society, Orange, N. J.,: ioth 



annual dahlia, fruit gladiolus, and vegetable show. 

 New Bedford, Mass., Horticultural Society: meeting. 



5- Lake Geneva, Wis., Gardeners' and Foremen's Associa- 



tion: meeting. 



5,6. Oyster Bay, L. I., Horticultural Society: dahlia show. 



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



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



"Hardy Perennials," H. A. Bunyard. 

 Marshfield, Mass., Garden Club: meeting. 

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



dahlia show. 

 •8. Connecticut Horticultural Society, New Haven, Ct.: 



meeting. 



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



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



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



New York Florists' Club, New York City: meeting. 



Germantown, Pa., Horticultural Society: meeting. 



Park Garden Club, Flushing, L. I.: meeting. 



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



14. Worcester County Horticultural Society, Worcester, 



Mass.: exhibit. 



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

 Warrenton, Va., Garden Club: meeting. 



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

 Tarrytown, N. Y., Horticultural Society: meeting. 



20-22. New Hampshire Horticultural Society; annual meet- 

 ing and exhibit at Derry, N. H. 



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



"Color Schemes in the Herbaceous Border," Miss L. 

 Alderson. 



21. Marshfield, Mass., Garden Club: meeting. 



21-23. Long Beach, Calif., Horticultural Society: fall flower 

 show. 



21-26. National Fall Flower Show, Panama-Pacific Inter- 

 national Exposition, San Francisco, Calif. 



22. Connecticut Horticultural Society, New Haven, Conn.: 



meeting. 



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

 25. Park Garden Club, Flushing, L. I.: meeting. 



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



27, 28. Monmouth County Horticultural Society, Red Bank, 



N. J.: annual flower show. 

 28, 29. Nassau County Horticultural Society, Glen Cove, 



L. I.: fall show. 

 Duchess County Horticultural Society, Poughkeepsie, 



N. Y.: annual flower show. 

 28-30- Pasadena, Calif., Horticultural Society: fall show. 



Greenwich Garden Club 



THE Greenwich Garden Club is a little more 

 than one year old, during which time it has 

 been wonderfully active. The first meeting was 

 held on September 4, 1914, when the election of 

 officers took place. Mrs. Walter Mills Bennet was 

 chosen president; Mrs. H. Durant Cheever, vice- 

 president; Mrs. E. Dimon Bird, treasurer; and 

 Mrs. Frederick Gotthold, secretary. The con- 

 stitution and by-laws were framed at the next meet- 

 ing, and members admitted. 



The Club has had the benefit of listening, during 

 its one year of existence, to many interesting speak- 

 ers, among them being Maurice Fuld, on "Per- 

 ennials"; Charles Downing Lay, "Garden Design"; 

 Miss Alderson on "Roses"; Maurice Fuld, "An- 

 nuals"; David Fairchild, chief explorer of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture, Wash- 

 ington, D. C, "Plant Immigrants," illustrated by 

 lantern slides; Mrs. Francis King, "Color in the 

 Garden"; Miss Averill, "Japanese Flower Arrange- 

 ment." The Club has also had two field days, 

 and on both occasions several enjoyable gardens 

 were visited. The members are looking forward 

 to a second successful year. 



F. C. Gotthold, Secretary. 



Roses in a Virginia Garden 



SEVEN years ago I made a rose garden right 

 in a sand heap, and though every book I've 

 ever- read on the subject says a rose likes a clayey, 

 sticky, greasy soil, I have never seen anywhere 

 handsomer outdoor roses than I have grown at 

 Buckhead Springs. The soil is known on the coun- 

 ty soil map as "Norfolk Sand"; I suppose because 

 it seems to be of the same pure sand variety as 

 the sea coast itself. At any rate, it is amazingly 

 free from loam. 



My roses are all budded on manetti stock. Lots 

 of growers think a rose on its own roots in every 

 way more satisfactory, but my experience in my own 

 garden is that the budded roses seem better able 

 to stand our long, hot summers and give larger 

 blooms with longer stems. Of course, the suckers 

 from the stock must be kept cut down. They are 

 very easily distinguished from the rose itself as 

 the leaf is composed of seven petals, whereas the 

 finer rose leaf has from three to five petals. If the 

 rose is planted deep enough the suckers are not so 

 apt to shoot up. Before the roses were set out, 

 a spadeful of well rotted manure, mixed with bone 

 meal and leafmold, was put into each hole. The 

 bushes have been lifted once — three years ago in 

 late January — root pruned and replanted in the 

 same mixture. 



As to pruning, a lot depends on the effect that is 

 wanted. Climbers should only have the dead 

 wood cut out and the side branches kept within 

 bounds; bush roses for shrubbery effect are pruned 

 but little. I prune after Thanksgiving Day within 

 two feet of the ground. It keeps the winds of 

 winter from blowing them about and loosening them 



in the soil. Close pruning gives fewer but larger 

 blossoms with longer stems. If you prefer a mass 

 of smaller blossoms and a bushy rose, prune spar- 

 ingly. 



I've never given my rose garden a winter 

 covering of manure but once, when the growth 

 started so early they were all killed back, and I 

 decided it did not suit the Southern exposure of my 

 garden. Most people, however, think a manure 

 cover of great benefit. The first of March I give 

 each plant a trowel of bone meal about its roots; 

 and every ten days, from the first of May till the 

 first of August, I give a liberal treatment of liquid 

 cow manure to each bush. I never force after 

 August 1st, as the new growth is apt to be caught 

 by frost. 



I've kept my garden pretty free from pests by 

 spraying with slug shot as soon as the foliage growth 

 starts in the spring; and later on I give three spray- 

 ings about two weeks apart. Slug shot is non- 

 poisonous to birds and animals, does not injure the 

 most delicate foliage, and can be applied wet or 

 powdered. I've found a few rose beetles in my 

 garden which I easily exterminated by hand picking. 

 They bury themselves in the heart of the rose. 

 For leaf spot (which generally comes with the cool 

 nights of latter July and August) and all forms of 

 mildew or blight, I use bordeaux mixture. 



As to the propagation of new roses, I have never 

 tried budding or grafting, but I find roses very easy 

 to grow from cuttings. The only hazard is the 

 transplanting of them after they have been rooted. 

 I take a cutting in the autumn, put it in a small 

 3-inch pot of sand, bury the pot deep in the ground 

 and put a glass preserve jar or broken bottle over 

 it. By spring I have a nice little plant that may 

 be set in place without disturbing the roots. I 

 have had them bloom in midwinter under the jars. 

 Care must be taken not to remove the jar covering 

 too early; I take mine off the last week in May. 

 Of course you can avoid the risk of transplanting 

 by rooting the roses where they are to grow and 

 not using the pot; but as I do not like the looks of 

 the glass jar or broken bottle all winter in the rose 

 garden, I prefer to root them in a sunny part of 

 the vegetable garden 



My sister was induced to try a rose garden in 

 Memphis this way from a bunch of roses she gath- 

 ered in my garden in October. She had 135 little 

 plants by the spring and her loss during the summer 

 was so small it was negligible. Of course they were 

 kept well watered all summer. The rich soil of 

 the Mississippi Valley is particularly agreeable to 

 roses, but we of the poor soil have our compensation 

 in the added fragrance. Mr. Jas. Atkinson of 

 London, who is a large manufacturer of fine soaps 

 and perfumes, told me he invested in a large acreage 

 in Louisiana for a rose farm for the "Otta" of the 

 rose. He had a magnificent growth in the rich 

 lands and a wealth of blossom, but alas, no per- 

 fume ! It takes the hot sands of Arabia — of Damas- 

 cus — for the Damask rose and its large per cent, 

 of fragrant oil. 



Helen Gould, an ever-blooming rose is excellent, 



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wonderful in fragrance, of a rich crimson, and blooms 

 all summer. The Paul Neyron, a clear pink, is 

 more showy in my garden than the American 

 Beauty. The Duchess of Albany is a lovely pink 

 rose with a stiff stem. I have also had success with 

 Madame Caroline Testout, pink, and Bessie Brown, 

 pure white flushed with pink. I have had poor 

 success with yellow roses. The Pearl of the Garden, 

 a great old time favorite of mine, blooms shyly 

 with me and always winter kills to the ground. 

 Virginia. Laura Martin Wheelwright. 



Gladiolus at Newport 



THE Casino Theatre at Newport, R. I., was 

 filled completely with flowers — floor, stage, 

 balcony and outside gallery — when the sixth annual 

 meeting of the American Gladiolus Society opened 

 on August 1 8th. The most remarkable feature of 

 the gathering was that so great a display of one 

 flower could be made in the ordinary sequence of 

 events. Significant, too, was the fact that varieties 

 of American origin loomed large in the foreground 

 as may be seen by a study of the names of the win- 

 ning varieties in the color classes, thus: white, 

 Europa, Alaska; pink, Panama, Pink Perfection; 

 yellow, Sulphur King, Schwaben, Mongolian, 

 Canary Bird; blue or lavender, Miss Julia Fair- 

 banks, Badenia, Baron Hulot, Blue Jay; red, 

 Liebesfeuer, Rajah, Mrs. Francis King; any other 

 color, Loveliness, Mrs. A. C. Beal. 



Other noticeable kinds, worthy of place in the 

 garden, were: Golden West, Princepine, Princeps. 

 For the best seedlings never before exhibited the 

 awards went to Mrs. Dr. Morton, palest pink 

 (Gage) ; Newport (Childs); and Z. W. G. 50 (Swett). 

 Of notable kinds seen in the collections, selec- 

 tions are made of the following: Violet Perfection, 

 a purple red or bordeaux color; La Luna, re- 

 sembling Prophetesse; Gen. Marma, claret purple; 

 Alice Tiplady, an apricot coppery shaded seedling 

 from G. primulinus, with wavy petals; Scarsdale, 

 magenta, shone out conspicuously. The variety 

 Julia Fairbanks referred to above, is most alluring — ■ 

 it may be aptly described as a lavender prototype 

 of Mrs. Pendleton. The two most important ama- 

 teur collections were from Charles F. Fairbanks 

 and T. A. Havemeyer. 



This Month's Cover 



THE illustration shown on this month's cover 

 will be recognized by those who visited the 

 exhibition of the American Peony Society at Bos- 

 ton this year. A pair of large vases filled with 

 blooms of Walter Faxon peony eclipsed anything 

 else in the show, both on account of the pure bril- 

 liant coloring of the flowers and the massiveness of 

 the exhibit. 



This peony is one of Richardson's seedlings and 

 only a small part of the stock has, until recently, 

 come into commerce. It is a pure, clear, luminous 

 pink, equally good in the garden and indoors under 

 artificial light. 



