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HORTICULTURE 



June 2, 1906 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES. 



NEWPORT HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



A regular meeting of this society 

 was held last Tuesday evening, Presi- 

 dent MacLellan in the chair. The 

 finishing touches were given the 

 schedule for the August exhibition. It 

 was expected that a lively discussion 

 would arise out of the question re- 

 ferred to the Executive Committee, 

 "What is an Annual?" but that commit- 

 tee judiciously rid itself of the whole 

 business by referring the question in 

 turn to the judges at the exhibition 

 which now to me seems the most sensi- 

 ble course to pursue. 



Again this year one of the features 

 of the Carnival will be a floral parade 

 and, considering the pronounced hit 

 made by the society's float last year, 

 the members voted to send a delega- 

 tion to attend the meetings of the 

 carnival committee with power to 

 co-operate in any undertaking sug- 

 gested and give the carnival commit- 

 tee to understand that the Horticul- 

 tural Society would again place a float 

 in the parade. It was also voted to 

 select judges for the exhibition from 

 among the gardeners of Newport in 

 order that the disappointed ones may 

 have a better chance to wreak ven- 

 geance. 



GARDENERS' AND FLORISTS' CLUB 

 OF BOSTON. 

 The next field day of the club will 

 be held on Tuesday, June 19, at the 

 estates of Larz Anderson and Mrs. W. 

 C. Brandegee, Faulkner Farm, Brook- 

 line. Members will meet at 3 o'clock 

 on this occasion and after the estates 

 have been inspected adjournment will 

 be made to Horticultural Hall where 

 the regular monthly club meeting will 

 be held, and for which a specially at- 

 tractive program is arranged. Full 

 details later. 



W. N. CRAIG, Secretary. 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTUR- 

 AL SOCIETY. 



The annual rhododendron exhibition 

 of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society will be held at Horticultural 

 Hall, 300 Massachusetts Ave., Satur- 

 day, June 2, from 12 to 6 o'clock. 



In addition to rhododendrons and 

 hardy azaleas there will be a fine dis- 

 play of orchids, irises, hardy herbac- 

 eous flowers, and ornamental trees and 

 shrubs. Collections of vegetables also 

 will be shown. 



Admission is free to the public. 



WM. P. RICH, Secretary. 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSO- 

 CIATION. 

 The twenty-fourth annual conven- 

 tion will be held at the Boody House, 

 Toledo, O., June 26-27-28, 1906. 

 OFFICERS 19051906. 



President.— W. H. Grenell, Pierre- 

 pont Manor, N. Y.; First Vice-Presi- 

 dent, L. L. May, St. Paul, Minn.; 

 Second Vice-President, G. B. McVay, 

 Birmingham, Ala.; Secretary-Treas- 

 urer, C. E. Kendel, Cleveland, O.; 

 Assistant Secretary, Frank H. Funk, 

 Bloomington, 111. 



Executive Committee. — C. N. Page, 

 Des Moines, la.; S. F. Willard, 

 Wethersfield, Conn.; G. B. McVay, 



Birmingham, Ala.; M. H. Duryea, New 

 York City; F. W. Bolgiano, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



Membership Committee. — Albert Mc- 

 Cullough, Cincinnati, O.; Alfred J. 

 Brown, Grand Rapids, Mich.; W. S. 

 Woodruff, Orange, Conn. 



Committee on Arrangements. — C. S. 

 Burge, Chairman; Wm. T. Phillips, F. 

 W. Jeager. 



ORDER OF BUSINESS. 



Reports of the Secretary and 

 Treasurer; Election of Members; Re- 

 ports of Committees; Reading of Com- 

 munications; Unfinished Business; 

 New Business; General Discussion and 

 Annual Election and Installation of 

 Officers. 



Opening Session, Tuesday, June 26, 

 10 A. M. 



PROGRAM. 



"The Seed Catalogue from the 

 Customer's Standpoint," Floyd Bral- 

 lier. 



"Varietal Description of Garden 

 Vegetables," Prof. W. W. Tracy (U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture). 



"Early History of the Seed Busi- 

 ness," Burnet Landreth (D. Landreth 

 Seed Co., Bristol, Pa.). 



"Desirable Imported Natural Grass- 

 es," Henry Nungesser (Henry Nunges- 

 ser & Co., New York). 



"Seedsmen and Civic Improvement," 

 J. Horace McFarland (President, The 

 American Civic Association). 



"Co-operative Publicity through the 

 Press Department, National Council of 

 Horticulture," James Burdette (Chi- 

 cago Tribune). 



"Modern Retail Conditions," Finley 

 Acker, Philadelphia. 



A glance through the program will 

 give but slight indications of the im- 

 portance of the topics presented. Mr. 

 McFarland's address and that of Mr. 

 Burdette will mark an era in the seed 

 business of which some of us have no 

 inkling. 



The Committee on Entertainment, 

 promises a fine program. 



Mayor Brant Whitloch will make 

 the address of welcome. 



The Boody House has been selected 

 for convention headquarters. Rates 

 on the American plan $3.00 to $5.00 per 

 day. Rooms may be engaged in ad- 

 vance by writing to the Boody direct. 



Toledo is easily accessible by rail 

 and by three boat lines and being cen- 

 trally located this should insure a large 

 attendance. 



C. E. KENDEL, Sec'y. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



A peony exhibition was held by the 

 Pennsylvania Horticultural Society on 

 Thursday and Friday of this week. 



June 7 and 8 are the dates set for 

 the Rose Show at Horticultural Hall. 

 Prize lists can be had by applying to 

 the secretary. 



The special attraction at the Flor- 

 ists' Club of Philadelphia meeting 

 Tuesday next will be peonies, and 

 there will also be a discussion as to 

 the coming convention at Dayton. 

 President Thomas B. Meehan will 

 have something special to say in open- 

 ing the discussion. 



ized at Chattanooga, Tenn., on May 

 22d, and elected the following officers: 

 President, R. C. Berckmans of Au- 

 gusta, Ga.; first vice-president, C. W. 

 Eichling of New Orleans; second vice- 

 president, C. O. Hunt of Chattanooga; 

 secretary, Dr. J. F. Wilson of Poulan, 

 Ga. ; treasurer, Jos. Steckler of New 

 Orleans. Forty-two members were en- 

 rolled and practically all of the south- 

 ern states were represented. 



PEONY NOTES. 



H. A. Terry of Iowa, the peony 

 specialist, has sold his collection to 

 Thos. Meehan & Sons, of Philadelphia. 

 Mr. Terry in a letter to the writer says: 



"I commenced growing peonies in 

 1858, getting my first stock from Prince 

 of Flushing, thirty varieties: includ- 

 ing Humei, Pottsi, Reevesi, Fragans, 

 Count of Paris, Festiva maxima, 

 Lutetiana, Edulis superba, Pleaissima 

 rosea, Queen Victoria, etc. Most of the 

 thirty produced sold freely, and I soon 

 had thousands of seedlings, but gen- 

 erally not five in a thousand would 

 be worth propagating, and often not 

 one. I have now a fine collection of 

 some two hundred choicest varieties 

 of my own raising. I am still of the 

 opinion that Festiva maxima is the 

 best all round white, and for pink I 

 think none much better than Plenissi- 

 ma rosea. Grover Cleveland is my 

 best dark crimson. In fancy colored 

 varieties: Carrie, Esther, La Reine, 

 Mrs. Pleas, Maude Hutchinson, and 

 Stephanea among the best. I am 

 now in my 78th year, and dp not know 

 how long I will continue to grow 

 peonies, but I want to be surrounded 

 with them as long as I live. They are 

 like my children, very dear to me." 



I have heard Mr. Terry's Morning 

 Star highly spoken of. It has light 

 delicate outer petals, and the inner 

 ones radiate like star rays from the 

 center. Said to be the most lovely, 

 fragrant and winsome flower. Mrs. 

 Harrison is also a fine one, with deep 

 red outer petals, center delicate pink. 

 GEO. C. WATSON. 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



The Waretown Rod and Gun Club 

 will hold its annual opening on the 

 15th inst. Commodore Westcott has 

 already got the invitations out and the 

 program all fixed. 



The glass factories in this vicinity 

 shut down for the summer on the 26th 

 ult. Prices will have a tendency to 

 harden until the start-up in the fall. 

 Those who have not already contract- 

 ed for their needs will save money by 

 taking the matter up without delay. 



Edward D. Drown of Weldon speaks 

 highly of the "Target Brand" scale de- 

 stroyer. It is easy to mix and apply, 

 and stays on, he says. It is also very 

 effective. His trees are now as clean 

 as a whistle. 



The Society of Southern Florists and 

 Ornamental Horticulturists was organ- 



William R. Smith of Washington 

 was a recent visitor. He looks well 

 and carries his years like an ancient 

 Roman. His intellectual power and 

 fighting spirit for right and truth re- 

 main keen as ever. This is personal 

 testimony. The writer is still a bit 

 out of breath from the last encounter. 



