May 19, 1906 



H ORTI CULTURE 



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anese cherry blossoms by O. B. Had- 

 wen attracted marked attention. 



THE SENIOR CLASS AT AMHERST AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 



At a meeting of the Cincinnati 

 Florists' Society held Saturday, May 

 12, it was decided not to give the usual 

 annual outing but to save the time, 

 energy and money for the Dayton con- 

 vention. 



At the annual meeting of the Conn. 

 Horticultural Society at Hartford, on 

 May 11. officers were elected as fol- 

 lows: 



President— A. C. Sternberg, West 

 Hartford. 



Treasurer — W. W. Hunt, Hartford. 



Secretary — Alexander Cumming, 

 Hartford. 



Statistician and Professor Vegeta- 

 ble Physiology— G. A. Parker, Hart- 

 ford. 



Pomologist— A. C. Sternberg, West 

 Hartford. 



Librarian — Alexander Cumming. 



County Vice-Presidents — Hartford, R. 

 A. Griffing; New Haven, J. X. Aml- 

 ryn; Windham, D. A. Lyman; New- 

 London, W. B. Colt; Fairfield. Edwin 

 Hoyt; Litchfield. Henry H. Bridgman; 

 Tolland, 0. A. Leonard; Middlesex, A. 

 N. Pierson. 



THE SPRING FEELING BREAKS 

 OUT IN PHILADELPHIA. 



Niessen's base ball team is open for 

 engagements with any similar nine in 

 the trade. Address: John Wilson, 1217 

 Arch street, captain, pro tern. 



The Philadelphia florists cricket 

 team is reorganizing for the season. 

 Wm. C. Smith has been secured as 

 wicket keeper. Other positions are 

 still open. Those who can play some 

 — or even make a stab at it — are re- 

 quested to send their names to G. C. 

 Watson, 1614 Ludlow street. 



The Florists' Gun Club of Philadel- 

 phia has again won the league cham- 

 pionship of Philadelphia and vicinity 

 — this time against strong opposition. 

 Meadow Springs club had a good 

 chance up to last Saturday's match. 

 The score then was 204 to 206. in 

 favor of the Florists. There were ten 

 clubs in the League, and each shot 

 two matches with every other team, 

 home and home. 



GEORGE C. WATSON. 



BOSTON'S GREAT PARK SYSTEM. 



Boston's park system contains 15,- 

 175 acres. They are connected by 

 nearly 26 miles of boulevard and there 

 are over 110 miles of park roadway. 

 They have cost to date $33,275,050 

 and require an annual expendi- 

 ture of $521,465. There are only two 

 cities in the world whose park sys- 

 tems even remotely approach that of 

 Boston in size or diversity; these are 

 London and Paris. When the Charles 

 river dam is completed Boston will 

 have a great fresh water basin of un- 

 surpassed beauty. 



SARRACEN1A HYBRIDS. 

 S. Cookeana x S. Courtii Veitch 

 gave two new crossings, one resem- 

 bling S. Cookeana and the other S. 

 Courtii Veitch. In both cases just the 

 opposite plants were used as male and 

 female parents with the result that 

 both hybrids show a much closer re- 

 semblance to the male parent plant. 

 The hybrids are both superior to the 

 parents in shape as well as in coloring. 

 — III. Gartenzeitung. 



We present herewith, through the 

 courtesy of Prof. Waugh, a group 

 photograph of the class in horticulture 

 which will be graduated at Amherst 

 this year. The picture includes only 



those students who elect fruit grow- 

 ing, floriculture or landscape garden- 

 ing in their senior year. The majority 

 of these promising young men expect 

 to go directly into some line of prac- 

 tical horticultural work. 



NEWS NOTES. 

 Frank Miller & Son are to open a 

 florist, store in Waterbury, Conn. 



cessive floral displays in this re- 

 nowned spot. 



The explosion of a powder magazine 

 nine miles away destroyed the glass 

 in a conservatory owned by D. S. 

 Whitcomb at Milford, Conn. 



Hermann Thiemann has disposed 

 of his business in Owosso, Michigan, 

 and will return to the Old Bay State, 

 locating in Belchertown. 



Among the remarkable escapes in 

 the California disaster is that of 

 Luther Burbank whose home and ex- 

 perimental garden at Santa Rosa were 

 undisturbed. His valuable collection 

 of photographic negatives was un- 

 broken, although the other half of the 

 gallery in which they were stored was 

 completely ruined. 



W. R. Boody & Co. have removed 

 from Northboro. N. H., to York, 

 Maine, where they will do a florist 

 and landscape gardening business. 



The greenhouses on the Coolidge 

 farm. East Sudbury. .Mass.. have been 

 leased by Christopher Johnston, who 

 has had charge of them for several 

 years. 



A spraying demonstration, similar 

 to the one held two years ago, but 

 on a considerably larger scale, was 

 given by the department of horticul- 

 ture of the Massachusetts Agricultur- 

 al College at Amherst, on May 17. 

 While primarily intended for the 

 students it was deemed of sufficient 

 general interest to invite file public, 

 and the operations were followed with 

 close attention by a large number of 

 spectators. 



Paul Kaese. of Wm. Hagemann & 

 Co., 55 Dey street, New York, sailed 

 on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, 

 May 15th, on a short business trip to 

 Europe. 



Mayor Fitzgerald has appointed 

 Daniel H. Coakley to succeed Laban 

 Pratt as park commissioner for the 

 city of Boston. The term is for three 

 years and there is no salary. 



A movement to organize the florist s 

 of the South, which originated with 

 the . New Orleans Horticultural So- 

 ciety, will probably take definite shape 

 on May 22d, when a meeting will be 

 held at Chattanooga, Tenn. 



The tulips in the Boston Public 

 Garden have made a gorgeous spec- 

 tacle during the past week. Over 400,- 

 000 are planted each year and they are 

 always the most effective of the suc- 



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