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HORTICULTURE 



March 24, 1906 



ciety being of one accord in the belief 

 that the free distribution of seeds is 

 simply wasting the people's money, 

 besides to some extent doing an injus- 

 tice to certain business interests. The 

 consensus of opinion was that a united 

 effort should be made to stop this vote- 

 baiting business, and that if a strong 

 stand is now made, there is every like- 

 lihood of success. Dr. A. J. Anderson, 

 a prominent Newport physician and a 

 member of the Society, made a very 

 pleasing and instructive address on 

 Jamaica, from whence he but recently 

 returned, whither he had gone to in- 

 vestigate the reports frequently made 

 to him regarding the island as a health 

 resort. The doctor said he returned 

 more than pleased with all he saw, 

 and fully convinced of the truth of all 

 that had been told him in favor of the 

 climate of Jamaica. The industrial 

 conditions, the speaker said were 

 rather unsatisfactory, all through lack 

 of capital, but this, he said, was being 

 gradually supplied in the shape of 

 American money, just what the natives 

 had all their eyes and some of their 

 senses out watching for. At one time, 

 when labor was obtained under differ- 

 ent conditions from the present, sugar 

 cane was extensively cultivated on the 

 island, but now very little of it is 

 grown, but of late years banana grow- 

 ing has been extensively engaged in, 

 and it is reasonably certain to prove a 

 profitable industry. Fruit of many 

 kinds grows on the island, and very 

 little care is necessary to raise most 

 kinds. A vote of thanks was accorded 

 the speaker for his address, which, 

 while out of the ordinary run of ad- 

 dresses heard at meetings of this So- 

 ciety, it was, perhaps, for that reason, 

 as much as for any other, exceedingly 

 well received and listened to with close 

 attention by every one of the large 

 attendance. 



Prof. Kenyon L. Butterfield, of the 

 Agricultural College at Kingston, is 

 expected to address the Society at the 

 next meeting, March 27. Prof. Butter- 

 field soon will assume the presidency 

 at Amherst, and it is more than likely 

 that his visits to Newport will be far 

 between after he betakes himself to 

 Massachusetts. 



NEW BEDFORD HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



At the meeting on March 12, H. A. 

 Jahn gave an instructive talk on "Hy- 

 bridization of the Dahlia." Arrange- 

 ments were made for an illustrated 

 lecture on the brown-tail and gypsy 

 moths by Prof. Wm. Lyman Under- 

 wood of Boston, on the evening of 

 March 23, and by the Messrs. Farquhar 

 of Boston, on March 27, on "Flowers." 



NEW HAVEN COUNTY HORTICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY. 



At the meeting on March 20, papers 

 were read by Henry Cliff, gardener to 

 O. G. Jennings, on Carnations, and by 

 J. N. Champion, on Cut Flowers. Mr. 

 Cliff exhibited some 50 new seedlings 

 of his own raising, a noticeable feature 

 in most of them being the fine fra- 

 grance that so many of the commercial 

 varieties now lack. Both papers were 

 very interesting. 



April 24. Ladies are invited, and there 

 will be entertainment and dancing. 



The first field day of the year will 

 be held by the Gardeners' and Florists' 

 Club of Boston at the establishments 

 of Wm. W. Edgar and Pierce Bros., 

 Waverly, on Saturday, March 31. 



The Worcester County Horticultural 

 society celebrated the 64th year of its 

 work by a banquet and dance on 

 March 14. The guests of honor were 

 President Carroll D. Wright of Clark 

 College and Mayor Duggan. 



The next meeting of the New York 

 Florists' Club will be held Monday 

 evening, April 9, and will be Rose 

 Night. Any one having a novelty in 

 roses, also growers of standard va- 

 rieties are requested to make an ex- 

 hibit. The essayist of the evening will 

 be Benjamin Dorrance, of Dorrance- 

 ton, Pa. 



A meeting of the Elberon (N. J.) 

 Horticultural society was held on the 

 19th inst. The night was a very 

 stormy one and the attendance small. 

 Two visitors were present, W. W. Ken- 

 nedy, vice-president of the Monmouth 

 County society, and W. F. Ross, rep- 

 resenting F. R. Pierson Co. of Tarry- 

 town, N. Y. 



The Missouri State Horticultural So- 

 ciety will hold its summer meeting at 

 Moberly, June 12, 13, 14, 1906. Part 

 of the program was arranged at the 

 last meeting of the Executive Com- 

 mittee, but suggestions for topics for 

 discussion, questions, facts and ex- 

 periences from any of the fruit grow- 

 ers will be welcomed. 



The convention of the Massachusetts 

 Fruit Growers' association opened in 

 Worcester on March 15. The matter 

 of setting apart a national apple day 

 was discussed and the hearty approval 

 of the society given to it. Among the 

 speakers Prof. F. W. Card of the Rhode 

 Island agricultural college spoke elo- 

 quently of the need of modern business 

 methods in fruit growing, laying par- 

 ticular stress upon the necessity of ad- 

 vertising. Prof. F. A. Waugh of Am- 

 herst called attention to the necessity 

 of pruning trees, a feature that has 

 been overlooked in late years since 

 spraying has become so necessary. 

 The meetings have been largely at- 

 tended, and the fruit exhibited has 

 been a credit to the county. 



MOVEMENTS OF GARDENERS. 



Harold Vyse has taken charge of G. 

 E. Kissell's estate at Morristown, N. J. 



H. L. Hand leaves G. E. Chisholm. 

 Morristown, N. J., to accept a more 

 remunerative position at Portchester, 

 N. Y. 



Hugh Birch, lately with D. H. Mc- 

 Alpin, Morris Plains, is now in charge 

 of Hon. Seth Low's place, Mt. Kisco, 

 N. Y. 



Robt. McMullen, for 15 years gar- 

 dener to Mrs. G. F. Stow, Morristown. 

 N. J., resigns his position, to take 

 effect April 1. 



John Whalen, now in charge of R. 

 A. McCurdy's place, takes charge of 

 the Armour place, Normandie Heights, 

 on March 15 next. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 

 The Gardeners' and Florists' Club o£ 

 Boston, will hold a club banquet on 



Prof. Harold H. Hume, for the past 

 four years connected with the State 

 Agricultural College at Raleigh, N. C, 

 has been appointed professor of horti- 

 culture at the new Macdonald College, 

 at St. Anne de Bellevue, Canada. 



NEWS NOTES. 



The wholesale flower store of John 

 J. Perkins, 115 West 30th street, New 

 York, was broken into and a type- 

 writer stolen last Sunday. 



Edwin Hoyt of the New Canaan Nur- 

 series, Conn., has recently added sixty 

 acres to his already large grounds, and 

 will plant the tract with young trees. 



The town of Greenfield, Mass., has 

 voted $50u0 for the commencement of 

 work on a mountain park, with a plan 

 for further appropriations when re- 

 quired. 



Frank W. Ball, for several years 

 with J. A. Peterson of Cincinnati, has 

 accepted a position with George & 

 Allan and will have charge of the cut 

 flower and design work. 



Fred Windmiller, the manager of the 

 Livingston Seed Company's green- 

 houses at Columbus, Ohio, has for 

 some years been hybridizing and work- 

 ing for new varieties in the carnation 

 line. He has obtained some most sat- 

 isfactory and extremely elegant new 

 sorts. 



A bowling match between the gar- 

 deners of Wheatley Hills and Glen 

 Cove, L. I., N. Y., took place on Tues- 

 day evening, March 13, at Glenwood, 

 resulting in a victory for Glen Cove 

 by 26 pins. Messrs. Trepass, Cleres, 

 Harrison, Willesen and Brown com- 

 posed the Glen Cove team; Messrs. 

 Johnson, Bertanzel, Kennedy, Dum- 

 broski and Everett, the Wheatley Hills 

 team. The scorer was A. J. Richards. 



FORCING LILACS FOR THE HOLI- 

 DAYS. 



One German lilac grower writes: 

 "We forced our pot-grown lilacs this 

 year for Christmas and New Year's 

 with great success; had practically no 

 miss, there being only three plants out 

 of several hundred that did not do 

 well. We used Marie Legraye and 

 Charles X., and cold stored them three 

 weeks before forcing in a temperature 

 of about 23 deg. to 25 deg. Fahrenheit; 

 this evidently helped them consider- 

 ably. Had the same good results with 

 our lily of the valley; forced 150,000 

 for the holidays and did not lose five 

 per cent. 



NEWPORT NOTES. 

 The prospects for a good season in 

 Newport are growing brighter as the 

 time approaches. Stock is plentiful in 

 most lines with nearly all the growers. 

 Quality is good and growth in an ad- 

 vanced state. The demand for out- 

 door planting promises to be above the 

 average. Easter stock is not over 

 abundant nor too far in advance as to 

 growth for the time for which it is in- 

 tended. Tree planting and tree mov- 

 ing has been going on all winter and 

 the places where these operations were 

 carried on will soon receive finishing 

 touches. 



BUSINESS CHANGES. 



The Alameda Greenhouses at Ros- 

 well, N. M., have been taken by F. O. 

 Santheson. 



Harry Rowe. formerly at 35 E. Mon- 

 roe street, Chicago, is now located in 

 his new and larger store at the Palmer 

 House. 42 E. Monroe street. 



