Evening star., 1941-09-13
News Views Of Horticultural Activities National Capital Area
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Rose Show
Intense
Blooms From Far
And Near Will
Be Displayed

Local entries for this Ninth Annual
Potomac Rose Show should be cut
Friday evening, September 10, be
placed deep in cold water over night,
and be brought to the New National
Museum at Constitution avenue
and Tenth street as early as possible
the next morning. In order to ac-
commodate rose home gardeners
who have to work in Federal depart
ments Saturday morning, the hall Is
to be opened at am. so that they
may bring and enter their roses en-
route to work or even leave them
to be entered by those present for
that purpose.
This rose display is to be assembled
in honor of the Pan-American Rose
Conference and the American Rose
Society, who are meeting in this
city for the first time Many Of the
rose men and women of America,
who are coming, plan to bring the
roses of their gardens with them to
supplement those produced locally.
Some of these roses will be trans
ported from gardens over 1000 miles
away. This example of interest in
the rose flower is firing the enthu-
siasm of local growers. who have but
to bring their roses a few miles to
this event.
The officers of the Potomac Rose
Society are: w. H. Youngman, presi-
dent; Mrs. Lomax Tayloe. first vice
president: L. L. Powers, second vice
president: N. J. Hansen. third
vice president; J. Preston Swecker
treasurer, and Mrs. George U. Graft
secretary. The members of the
Board of Directors are Col. w. H
England. John L. Bishop, George U
Graf, Mrs. L. w. Smith. Mrs
Herman Hollerith, Mrs. E. c. Powell
Mrs. w. H. Hough, C. z. Ross. j. w
Staalman. Mrs. Whitman Cross
w. H. Delhi. Mrs. Guy " Leadbettel
and NJ. K. Reading.
Entries in the show will close al
II noon on Saturday, September 20
The display. after being arranged
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to 4:30 and from $50 to 10 pm
on September 20, and from 1::30 tc
10 pm. on September 81.
Me rose show will consist OF
three main divisions, Amateur
Hybridizer and Greenhouse Grown
Roses. In addition to local home gar
| deners, the leading rose hybridizers
Of America and the Washington
Florist Club are cooperating.
In the amateur division specia
classes have been made for thos,
who have never exhibited at previous
Potomac Rose Shows. These garden
ers may also exhibit in the regula,
variety classes, of which there arr
So. with more in prospect for thi
particular display. Several of tn,
other rose societies in the Middle ant
Far West are sending roses by air
For these reasons. some of the reg
. ular classes will have in them rose
from several States to supplement
those produced in the gardens o
/ this area.
The displays in the hybridizer di
vision will include air shipments o
American-bred roses from Howar,
& Smith of Montebello. Calf: tn
E. G. Hill Co. of Richmond, Ind.
rail shipments from L. B. Codding
ton of Murry Hill, N. j., who is to b
1 presented with the medal of homo
of the American Rose Society for hi
rose breeding accomplishments a
this meeting, and those from Nan
| jemoy. the rose garden Of Dr.. Whit
man Cross of Chevy Chase, Md
honorary president of the Potoma
Rose Society. DR.. Cross is to b
presented with the gold medal O
that society for his great new rose
for American gardens. Another out
standing feature of this division wi
be the initial display of the nev
roses OF America and the world b
the nurSerymen Of the East.
The greenhouse rose division 1
being organized and will be put O.
by the Washington Florist Club q
usual. This will again present tn
finest roses which greenhouse al
can produce These will be especial
ly pleasing to the increasing thou
sands who come each year to Sc
the latest and best in cut roses.
In order to accommodate in com
fort all of the many local hom
gardeners interested in attending tn
educational session Of the America
Rose Society. the auditorium of tn
New National Museum at Constitu
ton avenue and Tenth street NV
has been secured. The subjects pre-
sented and discussed will be: "Earli
est Records of Roses in North Amer
ica," by Dr.. c. E. ResSer of the Nev
National Museum staff: Area Dis
tribution of the Different Wild Ros
Species of North America" by D.
T. M. Little of the National ResearcI
Center of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, and Bette
Roses for All Regions of Mort
America" by DR.. J. A. Gamble, chair
man of the Rosarium Committee @
the American Rose Society. Their
is no admission charge. This ses
sion is from 1890 am. to pm. O
Friday. September 10, and was move
to this larger hall to take care G
the many interested local home gar
deners as we'll as members of tn
American Rose Society and ros
friends from Central and Sout
America.