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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE OF AMERICA. 
Conifers, collection of 25 plants, 25 va- 
rieties, in pots or tubs: 1st, Isaac Hicks iV- 
.Son. Westbury, N. Y. ; 2d, F. R. Pierson. 
Group of Heading Plants, arranged for 
effect, covering 200 sq. ft.: 1st, Julius 
i;.., his Co. 
Display of Peonies, 100 sq. ft.; 1st. John 
Lewis Childs, Inc., Flowerfield, N. Y. ; 2d, 
Bobbink & Atkins. 
Display of Cut Hardy Flowers. 100 sq. ft.: 
1st. Bobbink * Atkins. 
Displav of Cut Sprays of Flowering 
Trees and Shrubs, 100 sq. ft.: 1st, Isaac 
Hicks & Son. 
Display of Cut Roses: 1st, F. R. Pierson 
Co. 
Private Classes. 
Croup of Hardy Flowering and Foliage 
Trees and Shrubs, covering 50 sq. ft.: 1st, 
Mis. Win. G. Nichols, Rye, N. Y., gard. Geo. 
N. Sullivan. 
Group of Orchids, covering 25 sq. ft.: 1st, 
Clement Moore, Hackensack, N. J., gard, 
J. P. Mossman. 
Group of Foliage and Flowering Plants. 
Stove or Greenhouse, covering 50 sq. ft.: 1st, 
Mrs. John H. Flagler. Greenwich, Conn. 
Group of Hydrangeas, covering 50 sq. ft.: 
1st, Mrs. John H. Flagler; 2d, Mrs. Geo. D. 
Barron, Rye, N. Y., gard, James Linane. 
Group of Summer Flowering Bulbous and 
Tuberous Plants for effect, covering 50 sq. 
ft.: 1st, Mrs. Geo. D. Barron. 
Displav of Cut Iris Flowers, 50 sq. ft. : 1st, 
Mrs. A. M. Booth, Gt. Neck, N. Y., gard. E. 
Fardel. 
Display of Cut Hardy Flowers, 50 sq. ft.: 
1st, Mrs. Wm. G. Nichols. 
Special Awards. 
Collection of Tulips — Wm. Shillaber, Es- 
sex Falls, N. J., gard. J. P. Sorenson. 
Display of Nemesia compacta Triumph — 
Wm. Shillaber. 
Group of Foliage and Flowering Plants, 
100 sq. ft.— Mrs. A. M. Booth. 
Hemerocallis Gold Dust and fiava — John 
Lewis Childs, Inc. 
Calceolarias, hybrids — Adolph Lewisohn. 
Ardsley, N. Y., supt. J. Canning. 
Brassia verrucosa — Miss Scheffter, Sanga- 
buck. Conn., gard. Adam Paterson, silver 
medal. 
Collection of Herbaceous Peonies, seed- 
lings — Miss Scheffler. silver medal. 
Calceolaria Stuartii — Miss Scheffler. 
Vase of Outdoor Grown Sweet Peas — Miss 
Scheffler. 
Collection of Cut Flowers from Shrubs — 
Mrs. Wm. G. Nichols. 
Exhibit of School Garden plantings. Model 
Gardens, etc. — Dept. of Parks, Boroughs of 
Manhattan and Richmond. 
Collection of Cut Annual, Perennial and 
Bulbous Flowers — Harry A. Bunyard Co., 
New York. 
U. Crocker, chairman of the national coni- 
mittee ; Mrs. B. Hammond Tracy and Mrs. 
W. W. Edgar, together with a score of 
other ladies form the vicinity of Boston, 
looked after the programme and preparatory 
work previous to the convention and during 
its continuance in the most efficient manner. 
E. II. Wilson's talk on the Flowers of 
Japan, with stereopticon views, drew an at- 
tendance that filled Horticultural Hall to 
the limit. 
On Friday the ladies visited the Arnold 
Arboretum in autos, and were entertained 
at (he home of Prof. O. S. Sargent, tin Sat- 
urday they motored to Ipswich, stopping at 
places of interest along the North Shore, 
and while at Ipswich they were the guests 
of .Mrs. Geo. E. Barnard. In connection 
with the meeting there were many exhibits 
of flowers, plants, bees, garden work, cloth- 
ing and tools. 
Considerable interest centered about the 
historical table. Here were seen specimens 
of plants and flowers from the historic spots 
of Massachusetts. Mrs. William L. Eaton, 
of Concord, showed the curious irises from 
Hawthorne's Old Manse, hollyhocks from 
Longfellow's garden, rare June roses from 
Ralph Waldo Emerson's home, lilacs from 
Shady Hill, the home of Charles Eliot 
Norton in Cambridge ; English ivies from 
Mt. Vernon, and Grey's ivy from Stoke 
I'ogis. 
These officers were elected : Mrs. Francis 
B. King, president ; Mrs. Hilda Loines, gen- 
eral secretary ; Miss Louisa G. Davis, treas- 
urer ; Miss Jean Cross, recording secretary, 
and the following vice-presidents : Miss Mira 
L. Dock. Mrs. H. B. Fullerton, Miss Jane 
B. Haines. Miss Elizabeth Leighton Lee, 
Mrs. J. Willis Martin and Mrs. Schuyler van 
Rensselaer. — Horticulture. 
WOMEN'S FARM AND GARDEN 
ASSOCIATION. 
Women garden enthusiasts by the hun- 
dred came to Boston on May 15 from all 
parts of the United States, and had a con- 
vention and incidentally a grand good time. 
They came as the Women's National Agri- 
cultural and Horticultural Association, and 
they went as the Women's Farm and Garden 
Association, which is more concise. Mrs. 
Francis King, of Alma, Mich., who is presi- 
dent, presided at the meetings in Horticul- 
tural Hall. Gover - McCall opened the 
convention on Thursday morning, May 18, 
with a short address and words of welcome 
were added by Stanley Wilcox, secretary to 
Mayor Curley, and President B. M. Salton- 
slall, of the Massachusetts Horticultural 
Society. The programme included talks by 
Mrs. Edith L. Fullerton. of Medford, L. I., 
N. Y. ; Miss Mabel A. Turner, of Milton, 
.Mass. ; .Miss Mary Youngs, Garden City, 
N. Y. ; Miss Annie E. Burke, of Brockton, 
Mass. ; E. II. Wilson, of the Arnold Arbo- 
retum : Geo. T. Powell, of N. Y. Experiment 
Station: K. W. Curtis, of Cornell Uni- 
versity; Jane B. Patton, of Simmons Col- 
lege; .lane H. Haines, of Penn. School of 
Horticulture for Women: Amy L. Coggs- 
well, of Lowthorpe School of Landscape 
Architecture: Florence I. Davis, of Bridge- 
water State Normal School; Miss Helen 
Holmes, of Kingston ; Miss Edna Cutter 
and A. A. Shurtleff. of Boston ; Miss Alice 
L. Day. of New Canaan. Conn. ; Mrs. A. H. 
Gross, of ('lib ago. and others. Mrs. George 
TULIP SHOW AT GLEN COVE. 
The Tulip show held by the Nassau Co 
( N. Y. ) Horticultural Society on the eve- 
ning of May 19 brought forth a magnificent 
display of these most popular flowers. The 
major part of the exhibition was comprised 
of Darwins, although Cottage and Breeder 
Tulips were also well represented. Almost 
every class was very keenly contested, and 
the judges who were Messrs. lames Bell, 
James Duthie and George Wilson, had a 
rather difficult task in making their awards. 
John F. Johnstone, gardener for George D. 
Pratt ; Ernest Westlake, gardener for Will- 
iam H. Porter, and Henry Gaut, gardener 
for Hebert S. Pratt, were the principal 
prize winners. Classes were for the best col- 
lection, and for the best nine according to 
color. 
Hydrangea in pot. not over six inches, 
1st, Percy Chubb (Robert Jones, gardener) ; 
vase of Saliglossis exhibited and two plants 
of Clarkia, by George D. Pratt, cultural cer- 
tificates; plants of Gvpsolphila, exhibited by 
George D. Pratt, honorable mention ; vase of 
Gladioli, exhibited by S. D. Brewster, cul- 
tural certificate ; three vases of Myosotis, ex- 
hibited by S. D. Brewster, special mention: 
collection' of Tulips, exhibited by William H. 
Porter, special mention. 
jamf.s McCarthy. Cor. Sec'y. 
CONNECTICUT HORTICULTURAL 
SOCIETY. 
This society held its second regular May 
meeting in its rooms in the County build- 
ing, Hartford, on the evening of the 26th. 
S > of our members had been requested 
to make an exhibit of Tulips, and Warren 
S. Mason, superintendent of the Pope estate, 
Farmington, and H. R. Hurd, of the Beach 
estate, West Hartford, responded to the ex- 
tent that the members were treated to a 
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