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HORTICULTURE, 



February 24, 1906 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES. 



NORTH SHORE HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIET v BANQUET. 



It was a great turnout at Manches- 

 ter-by-the-Sea on the evening of Feb- 

 ruary 15. The youth and beauty, the 

 talent and experience of the old north 

 shore, together with twenty visitors 

 from Boston — a happy throng of two 

 hundred and fifty — sat down to the 

 annual spread of this wide-awake so- 

 ciety. The tallies were profusely 

 decked with flowers and the platform 

 was banked with the choicest prod- 

 ucts of the greenhouse. 



After the excellent repast had been 

 put out of sight President James 

 Macgregor called to order and intro- 

 duced Rev. W. F. Powers who made a 

 scholarly address on the mysteries of 

 plant life, the noble part played by 

 sentiment in human life and the civil- 

 izing influences of the gardeners' occu- 

 pation. 



.lames B. Dow then gave a brief 

 history of the society which, although 

 but five years old, already numbers 

 160 members. Twenty-four practical 

 subjects had been discussed at the 

 meetings of the past year and the or- 

 ganization was making its influence 

 felt throughout the community. 



Rev. E. H. Brewster spoke of the 

 beauties of .Manchester and the inter- 

 est her people take in the develop- 

 ment of horticulture. He elicited a 

 storm of applause when he asserted 

 that the attributes of the true gar- 

 dener are a love for the beautiful as 

 exemplified in ladies and flowers, love 

 for the mysterious and love for the 

 good. 



James Farquhar was next called 

 upon to tell some of his experiences 

 in a recent visit to Porto Rico, which 

 he did in most entertaining style. He 

 spoke of the equable temperature of 

 the island, its wealth of tropical vege- 

 tation, its delightful fruits, its fertile 

 soil, its simple people, and claimed 

 that it is destined to become the win- 

 ter home of the affluent American citi- 

 zen. 



J. W. Duncan spoke on behalf of the 

 Boston visitors telling appreciatively 

 of the elegant products of the expert 

 gardeners of Manchester, Beverly. 

 Prides Crossing and vicinity that the 

 visitors had been privileged to see 

 during the day. 



James Wheeler, president of the 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Bos- 

 ton, also spoke in a similar vein, con- 

 gratulating the sister society on the 

 grand work it has done and is doing 

 and referring eloquently to the natural 

 beauty and inspiring surroundings of 

 Manchester and the hospitality of the 

 iters. 



Between the spe'eches an excellent 

 vocal and instrumental program was 

 rendered by Miss Carolyn E. Allen, 

 Rev. C. A. Lincoln, Miss Harriett 

 Brewster, Mr. Fish. Allen S. Peabody 

 and the High School orchestra. The 

 hall was then cleared tor dancing, 

 and under the direction of I-. W. 

 Carter tripped "the lighl fantastic" 

 till the close. 



GARDENERS' AND FLORISTS' CLUB 

 OF BOSTON. 



There must have been close to one 

 hundred and fifty members present at 

 the club meeting in Horticultural Hall 

 on Tuesday evening, February 20. The 

 special attraction was a paper by Rob- 

 ert Cameron of the Harvard Botanic 

 Garden, giving some of his impres- 

 sions of the West Indies, he having re- 

 cently returned from quite an ex- 

 tended botanizing tour of that region. 

 He gave a most interesting synopsis of 

 the floricultural wealth he had been 

 privileged to see, the beauties of the 

 tropical jungle which are within less 

 than a week's travel from the frozen 

 regions of the north. The climate he 

 had found neither hot nor unhealthy 

 and the inhabitants are in some re- 

 spects more civilized than our own 

 people, there are no fierce wild ani- 

 mals and some small insects are the 

 only troublesome thing. He told 

 graphically of Trinidad, its Botanical 

 Garden, its agricultural and horticul- 

 tural industries, Granada and its 

 fruits. Venezuela, Panama and Colon. 

 Jamaica, which he characterized as 

 the most delightful of the West India 

 islands, and Cuba with its fertile ex- 

 panses and splendid openings for am- 

 bitious palm growers or market gar- 

 deners. After the address he was 

 plied with many questions which 

 elicited the statement that the so- 

 called double flowered poinsettia was 

 the most impressive object in the 

 floral line that he had seen. He rec- 

 ommended it strongly for greenhouse 

 culture in preference to the common 

 form. He had visited R. M. Grey 

 who is established in Cuba as repre- 

 senting Mr. Ames in some extensive 

 agricultural and botanical research 

 and experimenting. James Farquhar, 

 being called upon to answer some 

 queries regarding Porto Rico, spoke of 

 if as pre-eminent among the West In- 

 dies in its fruit products which 

 brought Mr. Cameron to the floor 

 again in defense of Cuba and Jamaica 

 and much merriment was created by 

 the witty sallies that for a time 

 passed between these gentlemen. 



Among the items of the evening 

 were the admission of twelve new 

 members, a song by Mr. Cann'ell, an 

 abortive attempt by George M. Ander- 

 sen to have the vote passed at the last 

 meeting admitting ladies to member- 

 ship, declared illegal and the usual 

 recess lunch. On the exhibition table 

 were a fine plant of D'endrobium no- 

 bile from Robert Marshall, carnation 

 Red Warrior from George B. Ander- 

 son, samples of fine tea roses grafted 

 on Mannetti from the Montrose Green- 

 houses, a purplish sport of carna- 

 tion Harlowarden from Mrs. J. P. 

 Snow, a red seedling carnation from 

 John Murchie of Sharon, Pa., which 

 arrived in sleepy condition and a 

 specimen of Nephrolepis Whitmanii 

 from H. H. Barrows & Son, which 

 Secretarv Craig pronounced the best 

 fern, without exception, in existence 

 today. A box of new sweet peas ex- 

 pected from A. C. Zvolanek failed to 

 arrive. Wm. Sim told of a recent visir 

 to Mr. Zvolanek's and the many prom- 

 ising new varieties to be seen there. 



NATIONAL COUNCIL OF HORTI- 

 CULTURE. 



The second called meeting of the 

 National Council of Horticulture con- 

 vened at the Auditorium Annex, Chi- 

 cago, February 5, 1906. There were 

 present, Prof. W. W. Tracy, of 

 Washington, D. C; Professor S. B. 

 Green, of Minnesota; C. E. Kendel, of 

 Cleveland, Ohio; L. A. Goodman, of 

 Kansas City; H. C. Irish, of St. Louis; 

 C. C. Simmons, P. J. Hauswirth and 

 J C. Vaughan. Telegrams or letters 

 v ere received from the following; J. 

 H. .McFarland, Prof. E. J. Wickson, 

 Prof. L. R. Taft, Prof. L. H. Bailey, 

 Prof. John Craig, Philip Breitmeyer 

 and J. H. Dayton. 



The plan outlined at Cleveland for 

 securing funds from florists, nursery- 

 men and seedmen showed $210 in the 

 treasury for promotion of trial work 

 of the Bureau of Publicity. The 

 methods for carrying out the plans 

 arranged at Cleveland were discussed 

 and definite propositions read by D. 

 J. Thomas and J. H. Burdette of Chi- 

 cago, giving their views as to the 

 best methods of securing high class 

 newspaper publicity lor the Council. 

 Subjects for preliminary articles were 

 discussed, and many suggestions given 

 to the secretary, with instruction to 

 take up the matter with Messrs. 

 Thomas and Burdette and arrange for 

 sending out the preliminary articles 

 to such an extent as the funds in hand 

 would provide for. 



It was conceded that material on 

 general subjects coming from a 

 national body covering broad lines and 

 from all parts of the country and 

 bearing no evidence of commercialism, 

 would be eagerly accepted through 

 our own or other press bureaus by 

 hundreds or even thousands of the 

 best newspapers in all part of the 

 country. It is believed that this part 

 of the Council work can be placed on 

 a self-supporting basis. 



There being a vacancy of one mem- 

 bei in the delegates at large of the 

 National Council, Professor S. A. 

 Beach of the Iowa State College of 

 Agriculture was appointed. 



It was voted to invite the Secretary 

 of Agriculture to appoint two delegates 

 from the United States Department of 

 Agriculture to become a part of the 

 Council on a similar basis as are the 

 delegates from the national societies 

 of the florists, nurserymen, and seeds- 

 men. 



Warren H. Manning. landscape 

 designer of the Jamestown Exposition, 

 asked for the advice and assistance of 

 the Council in his work at the Expo- 

 sition, and asked the Council to sug- 

 gest names for committees to aid him 

 on the following sections of the Expo- 

 sition work in horticulture: Classifica- 

 tion, Awards. Standards of Excellence. 

 Call for National Congress, Special 

 Events and Programs. These ap- 

 pointments were made as requested, 

 and the secretary instructed to submit 

 same to Mr. Manning for his approval. 

 H. C. IRISH, Secretarv. 



