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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
March, 1915 
Totty’s ’Mums 
“Marion Sutherland” 
is one of the Novelties in the Sin- 
gle type of ’Mums, for this year! 
Suitable for garden or conserva- 
tory. Color is a most brilliant, 
golden yellow! 
We were the introducers of this type of 
’Mum, also the Early Flowering and the 
best of the greenhouse sorts. Handling, 
as we do, more Chrysanthemums than 
any other house in the world, we can 
supply your wants for any purpose and 
in any quantity. Our catalogue which 
describes over four hundred varieties, 
and containing a full list of Novelty 
and Standard ROSES and CARNA- 
TIONS, will be mailed on request. 
Let’s Get Acquainted! 
Note this Special Introductory Offer 
We will send you a dozen assorted HARDY 
’MUMS, of the newest types and include one 
plant of “Marion Sutherland” prepaid to any 
address for $2.00. 
CHARLES H. TOTTY 
Madison New Jersey 
Charles H. Totty, 
Madison, N. J. 
I enclose herewith $2.00 for which please send 
me, as advertised in March Garden Magazine, 
a dozen assorted Hardy ’Mums, of the newest 
types, and include one plant of “Marion Suther- 
land.” 
Name 
No Street 
Town State 
Meetings and Exhibitions in March 
2, 3. Illinois State Florists’ Association, Urbana, 111.: tenth 
annual convention. 
4. 5. Worcester County Horticultural Society, Worcester, Mass.: 
spring exhibition. 
5. Pasadena, Calif., Horticultural Society: meeting. 
6. Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Horticultural Hall, 
Boston, Mass.: lecture, by Dr. H. T. Fernald. 
8. New York Florists’ Club, New York City: meeting. 
Rochester Florists’ Association, Rochester, N. Y. : meeting. 
10. Nassau County Horticultural Society, Glen Cove, N. Y.: 
meeting. 
Shedowa Garden Club, Garden City, N. Y.: lecture by 
Bertrand Farr. 
Worcester County Horticultural Society, Worcester, Mass.: 
annual reunion and dinner. 
12. Connecticut Horticultural Society, Hartford, Conn.: 
meeting. 
13. Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., Horticultural Society: meeting. 
Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Horticultural Hall, 
Boston, Mass.: lecture by W. A. Manda. 
17. Tarrytown, N. Y., Horticultural Society: meeting. 
17- 23. International Flower Show, Grand Central Palace, N. Y. 
City. 
18- 21. American Rose Society, Boston, Mass.: annual show and 
meeting. 
Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Horticultural Hall, 
Boston, Mass.: spring exhibition. 
19. Pasadena, Calif., Horticultural Society: meeting. 
27. Connecticut Horticultural Society, Hartford, Conn.: 
meeting. 
Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., Horticultural Society: meeting. 
Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Horticultural Hall, 
Boston, Mass.: illustrated lecture by Prof. H. H. 
Whetzel. 
Secretaries are invited to forward dates of forthcoming meetings 
A New Salvia and a New Carnation 
T HE department of plant registration of the Society 
of American Florists and Ornamental Horticul- 
turists announces the registration of a new salvia, to 
be known as Red Cross, by the Swiss Floral Company 
of Portland, Ore. This salvia is the result of crossing 
Bonfire with Bavaria; its habit of growth is similar 
to Bonfire; the corolla or petals are bright scarlet; 
the calyx is a creamy white, slightly flushed with a 
tinge of red on the surface exposed to the sun’s rays, 
giving the calyx an appearance of salmon pink on white 
ground. The plant is a free and profuse bloomer. 
Mr. Richard E. Loeben of Gloversville, N. Y., has 
registered a new carnation, a sport of Benora. The 
growth, foliage and formation of the plant are identi- 
cally the same as the parent. It is light red, of about 
the same color as the red striping in Benora. 
New York Third International Show 
B EGINNING on Wednesday, March 17, this 
event will remain open until the 23d at the Grand 
Central Palace. At this most important of the spring 
exhibitions, the visitor may count upon seeing all the 
latest novelties in roses, carnations, orchids, and 
decorative plants generally. As in previous years, 
there will be special displays on particular days: Cut 
roses on Thursday; displays of roses, Saturday; 
carnation display, Wednesday; carnation competi- 
tions, Friday; sweet peas, Saturday; table decorations 
and violets, Monday. Other miscellaneous features 
and displays will be on the first day and continously 
throughout the whole time of the show. Table dec- 
orations will be a specially attractive feature this 
year. The prizes offered total in the neighborhood of 
$15,000, which is a trustworthy measure of the repre- 
sentative character of the displays as a whole. Several 
of the garden clubs and other organizations will make 
semi-official visits on different days. 
In connection with the flower shows there will be 
an extra attraction in the form of a Red Cross Tea 
Garden, under the direct management of the several 
Relief Committees of the Red Cross Chapters of New 
York, Brooklyn, Dutchess County, The Bronx, etc., 
a special day being devoted to each one. Tea will be 
served and there will be dancing afternoon and evening. 
The schedule of arrangements is: 
DAY 
Wednesday 
Thursday 
Friday 
Saturday 
Sunday 
Monday 
Tuesday 
Women’s 
RELIEF COMMITTEES 
Committee of Mercy 
Secours National Committee 
Polish Relief Committee 
Belgian Relief Committee 
Servian Relief Committee 
British Relief Committee 
German Relief Committee 
RED CROSS CHAPTERS 
N. Y. County 
Brooklyn County 
Westchester County 
Bronx County 
Vacation Committee 
French Committee on 
Hostels 
Spuyten Duyvil & 
Kingsbridge 
National Horticultural and Agricultural 
Association 
I N MAY, 1913, a small group of women, Keenly 
interested in applying the principle of cooperation 
to farming and gardening, formed the Women’s 
National Horticultural and Agricultural Association, 
modeled somewhat after the English Association 
which has been so effective a help to individual garden 
enterprise. 
It is a thoroughly practical organization, a horti- 
cultural clearing house, a fitting establishment where 
those who need and those who can supply the need are 
brought together. It conflicts with no existing organi- 
zation and members of the more important gardening 
associations have already joined it, for it welcomes 
expert gardeners and writers on horticulture. 
The association has a general secretary, Miss Mar- 
garet Jackson, Englewood, N. J., who will give all in- 
quiries careful and exact attention, and to whom those 
interested should apply for information. 
The objects of the association are: The assistance 
of the individual member by the interchange of ideas 
directly between members; the increase in the knowl- 
edge and use of existing institutions; the bringing 
together of producer and consumer, employer and 
employee, gardener and land, individuals who might 
form a partnership; the furtherance of horticultural 
and agricultural interest; the holding of conferences; 
the establishment of a standard for diplomas; the 
organizing of local branches, independent in their 
working, but affiliated with the parent society, such 
branches to hold local conferences and exhibitions, 
to encourage and facilitate the direct sale of produce 
from women or farms to those in town. 
The officers of the association are President, Mrs. 
Frances King. The corresponding secretary, Mrs. Susan 
Vollmer. Vice-Presidents, Mrs. H. S. Fullerton, Miss 
Myra Dock, Miss Jane B. Haines, Miss Elizabeth Lee, 
Mrs. Willis and Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer. 
Council, Miss Louise Klein Miller, Mr. George Powell, 
Mrs. B. Hammond Tracy, Miss Lee, Miss Leonard, 
Miss Mary Rutherford, and Mrs. John L. Manning 
(Frances Duncan). 
American Carnation Society’s Meeting and 
Exhibition 
T HE annual meeting and exhibition of the American 
Carnation Society was held in Buffalo, N. Y., Jan- 
uary 27 and 28. President Samuel J. Goddard presided 
and the attendance of members was large. Affiliation 
with the Society of American Florists was resolved upon 
and President Goddard thus automatically became a 
director in the S. A. F., representing the interests of 
the A. C. S. St. Louis and Indianapolis both made 
efforts to secure the holding of the meeting next year in 
those cities, but St. Louis was finally selected. It was 
also decided that a special exhibition beheld two months 
later in Philadelphia, in connection with the National 
Flower Show to be held there. The silver jubilee of the 
Society will be celebrated at the same time. Joseph 
Hill of Richmond, Ind., was chosen president, and J. F. 
Ammann, Edwardsville, 111 ., vice-president; A. F. J. 
Baur, Indianapolis, Ind., and Fred E. Dorner, Lafay- 
ette, Ind., were reelected secretary and treasurer re- 
spectively. Chas. S. Strout, Biddeford, Me., was elected 
a director. A lengthy discussion on the subject of the 
relative merits of cuttings taken from the flower stems 
of carnations and those from the short blooming shoots, 
or from cut back stock, ended with opinions about 
equally divided. The exhibition was, as usual, very 
fine, the quality of the exhibits excellent. The gold 
medal of the society was not awarded there being no 
exhibit of sufficient merit to secure it. Albert Roper, 
of Tewksbury, Mass., carried off the silver medal with 
Miss Alice Coombs, a beautiful pink. Four candidates 
passed the preliminary stage for the Dorner Memorial 
medal to be awarded next year. Matchless, exhibited 
by the Cottage Garden Co., Queens, N. Y., gained the 
Plitchings Sweepstake Prize for the best vase of 100 
blooms in the show. 
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