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HORTICULTURE 



February 3. 1906 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES. 



TARRYTOWN HORTICULTURISTS 

 DINE. 



The annual dinner of the Tarrytown 

 Horticultural Society took place at 

 the Florence Hotel on Wednesday 

 evening, January 24. 



No dinners anywhere are served 

 better than those at the Florence 

 Hotel. The village is exceedingly for- 

 tunate in having a place of this kind, 

 managed as well as Mr. John Hennes- 

 sey manages the Florence. It was 

 a well selected menu and elegantly 

 served. Mr. Hennessey tried to keep 

 it in character by obtaining butter 

 from the buttercups that grow in the 

 meadows by the brooks, milk from the 

 milk-weeds of the fields and oysters 

 from the oyster plant. He made a 

 diligent search for the "ham tree" 

 about which much has recently been 

 said in New York City but it was un- 

 availing. Its whereabouts could not be 

 located although search was made in 

 the sandwich forest and among the 

 bread fruit and plum tart bushes. The 

 dinner was as horticultural in char- 

 acter as a horticultural dinner could 

 well be. 



There were present about sixty 

 members and guests. The tables were 

 decorated with handsome roses and 

 carnations, among the latter being 

 some beautiful examples of the new 

 variety, Winsor; for which Mr. F. R. 

 Pierson recently paid a large price. 

 Mr. Scott donated a beautiful Begonia 

 Gloire de Lorraine, of his own raising 

 — the most exquisite plant of this kind 

 we ever saw. 



After the feasting was over, Mr. Ed- 

 ward W. Neubrand, secretary of the 

 society, called the diners to order and 

 introduced Mr. Frank V. Millard as 

 toastmaster, a position which he filled 

 with great satisfaction to the society 

 and his friends. — Tarrytown, N. Y., 

 Record. 



NASSAU CO. (N. Y.) HORTICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY. 



The first of the society's annual din- 

 ners was held in the parlors of the 

 Oriental Hotel, Glen Cove, on Satur- 

 day, Jan. 27. The dinner was set for 

 4 p. m. Guests and members to the 

 number of forty seated themselves to 

 tables laden with sumptuous viands. 

 After appetites had been appeased, 

 songs were sung, speeches made and 

 jokes cracked, and all present seemed 

 bent on making the evening a most 

 enjoyable one. This they certainly 

 accomplished. There was dominant 

 throughout the evening that spirit of 

 good fellowship and kindly feeling. 

 The spacious banquet room and tables 

 were gayly and artistically decorated 

 with the choicest of flowers. President 

 Harrison presided. The guests in- 

 cluded John McNichol, Lawrence, L. 

 I.; J. White, New Rochelle; W. S. 

 Fischer, J. Austin Shaw, J. W. Pepper, 

 A. J. Guttman and J. Low, New York; 

 George Burnett, Jersey City; and F. L. 

 Atkins, Rutherford, N. J. The follow- 

 ing gentlemen sent letters of regret: 

 Alex. Wallace, New York; W. J. Stew- 

 art, Boston; John Scott, Brooklyn; 

 and G. Anderson, S. Lancaster, Mass. 

 At 9.30 p. m., the company dispersed 

 to the strains of "Auld Lam: Syne." 

 J. F. JOH.YSTON. 



NEWPORT HORTICULTURAL SO- 

 CIETY. 



Tuesday evening last, the seven- 

 teenth anniversary of the Newport 

 Horticultural Society was celebrated 

 at the Clifton House, Bellevue avenue. 

 About seventy sat down and partook 

 of an excellent dinner well served by 

 Proprietor Adams. During the prog- 

 ress of the dinner a very enjoyable 

 musical program was rendered by Mr. 

 Archie Stark, A. S. Swan, R. Rosson 

 and Master John H. Allan, the latter, 

 John T. Allan's young son. 



When the waiters had cleared away 

 the evidences of satisfied appetites 

 from the tables, President MacLellan 

 sanctioned the lighting of cigars and 

 introduced Col. A. K. McMahon as 

 toastmaster of the evening. In this 

 capacity the colonel has few equals, 

 and suffice it to say that he did the 

 occasion justice. The list of toasts 

 follows: 



"The Horticultural Society," re- 

 sponded to by A. MacLellan; 



"The State"— Hon. R. S. Franklin; 



"The City"— Colonel Bliss; 



"Our Parks and Drives" — Bruce 

 Butterton; 



"Florists" — Joseph Gibson; 



"Fruit Growers" — James McLeish; 



"Our Gardeners" — David Mcintosh; 



"Amateurs" — B. F. Tanner; 



"Vegetables Grown Under Glass" — 

 Arthur Griffin; "The Ladies" — Joseph 

 S. Milne; 



"The Press" — Fred. L. Hammett. 



The dinner, enjoyable as it undoubt- 

 edly was, was nothing compared to the 

 exercises following. Every one left 

 home with a determination to enjoy 

 the evening, and after they got there 

 they found out they could do nothing 

 else even had they desired. The 

 speeches were instructive, some of 

 them, off-hand all of them. They cov- 

 ered everything bearing on horticul- 

 ture and other kinds of culture "from 

 'way back." Some revealed the true 

 cause of non-success, while others 

 showed the road to fortune, and still 

 others disputed good-naturedly be- 

 tween the two extremes. 



"Auld Lang Syne" and "America" 

 were sung at the close, and both songs 

 were well sung — considering. Besides 

 the members of the society there were 

 present John S. Hay, representing H. 

 A. Dreer; H. A. Folger, representing 

 Bonnie Brae Nurseries; J. A. Thomp- 

 son, representing The Thompson Fer- 

 tilizer Co.; John H. Cox, representing 

 R. Smith, Worcester, England. 



Letters of regret at their inability to 

 be present were read from Alex. Wal- 

 lace, New York; President Butterfield. 

 Agricultural College, Kingston; and 

 W. J. Stewart, Boston. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



The complete schedul'e of prizes of- 

 fered for the Boston exhibition has 

 been issued and mailed to members of 

 the society. Copies may be had on 

 application to the secretary. Rose 

 growers will do well to consult it, as 

 the list comprises nearly two hundred 

 classes in cut blooms, pot plants, and 

 decorative arrangement, many of 

 these being special premiums of great 

 value. WM. J. STEWART, Sec'y. 



11 Hamilton Place, Boston. 



CARNATION NIGHT AT THE FLOR- 

 ISTS' CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA. 



At the next meeting of the Florists' 

 Club of Philadelphia to be held on 

 Tuesday evening, February 6, 1906, Mr. 

 A. M. Herr, Secretary of the American 

 Carnation Society will- review the Car- 

 nation Meeting recently held in Bos- 

 ton, and the committee in charge ear- 

 nestly request those having some of 

 the bread winners among Divine Flow- 

 ers to forward same, or better still 

 bring them to the meeting, so that the 

 essayist may use them to illustrate his 

 remarks; besides it will give those who 

 were unable to attend the annual 

 meeting an opportunity to examine 

 them. Kindly forward same express 

 prepaid in care of David Rust, Horti- 

 cultural Hall, Broad street above 

 Spruce street, Philadelphia, Pa., when 

 they will be properly taken care of and 

 staged. Kindly forward them in time 

 so that they may reach destination not 

 later than Tuesday afternoon, Feb- 

 ruary 6. 



EDWIN LONSDALE, Secretary. 



FLORISTS' CLUB OF WASHING- 

 TON. 

 The Florists' Club of Washington, D. 

 C, will meet in the Scottish Rite Hall, 

 1007 G St., N. W., on Feb. 6th at 8 P. 

 M. An exhibition of carnations and 

 other flowers will be staged by local 

 and out-of-town growers. An address 

 by Prof. A. F. Woods, Pathologist and 

 Physiologist of the Department of 

 Agriculture, on the diseases of the car- 

 nation will also be a drawing card. 

 As this gentleman is one of the best 

 posted men on the subject in America, 

 we expect to have a full house. Any 

 grower desiring to make an exhibit 

 at this meeting can send flowers to the 

 Secretary at the above address, express 

 charges prepaid, shipment so timed as 

 to arrive in Washington on the morn- 

 ing of the 6th of February. 



THE POSTAL PROGRESS LEAGUE. 



This energetic organization has had 

 printed and is distributing copies of 

 an argument in behalf of the substitu- 

 tion of the old and simple United 

 States Parcels Post of 1874, with its 

 uniform rate, 8c. per lb. on all mer- 

 chandise, for our complex, double- 

 headed parcels service of today, with 

 rates on some classes of merchandise 

 8c, on others, 16c. per lb. This propo- 

 sition is strongly endorsed by the 

 Post Office Department. If it com- 

 mands your support, please have your 

 local club or society adopt the follow- 

 ing or a similar resolution and 

 forward same to the chairman of the 

 Committees on Post Offices and Post 

 Roads of the United States Senate and 

 House of Representatives: 



Hon. Boies Penrose, Chairman Sen- 

 ate Committee; Hon. Jesse Overstreet, 

 Chairman House Committee; also to 

 other Senators and Representatives as 

 may seem to you best, and to Postmas- 

 ter-General George B. Cortelyou: — 



"Resolved, That House Resolution 

 4549, of the Fifty-ninth Congress, pro- 

 viding for the consolidation of third 

 and fourth class mail matter at the 

 third class rate, one cent for two 

 ounces, as recommended by the Post 



