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HORTICULTURE 



April 28, 1906 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES. 



RHODE ISLAND HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



The regular monthly meeting of the 

 Rhode Island Horticultural Society 

 was held April 18th in Fallstaff Hall, 

 283 Westminster street. E. A. Stene of 

 the Agricultural College at Kingston 

 was the speaker of the evening, taking 

 for his subjet "Spraying Fruit and 

 Other Trees. 



At the business session President M. 

 M. Burdick presided. The committee 

 which was recently appointed to look 

 after the securing of a new hall re- 

 ported that the trustees of the Public 

 Library had consented to the using of 

 the lecture room in that building, and 

 the members then voted to accept the 

 offer. Another committee reported 

 favorably on the action of societies of 

 other States with regard to a measure 

 adopted to be presented to Congress 

 asking for legislation relating to the 

 packing, grading and marketing of 

 fruit. The Rhode Island society re- 

 solved that it was in hearty accord 

 with this action and would do its share 

 toward securing right legislation. 



Mr. Stene was then introduced and 

 spoke interestingly on the matter of 

 spraying fruit and other trees. He said 

 in part: "My department at the college 

 has been termed the missionary de- 

 partment, because wherever I have 

 had occasion to go the cry has been 

 'Let us (s)pray.' But this matter of 

 spraying is a very important one. 

 To-day there is a demand for better 

 fruit, and the marketmen tell us the 

 demand is greater than it ever has been 

 before. We are confronted with a vast 

 array of diseases among fruit and other 

 trees and there are insects to-day at 

 work on them to their destruction that 

 our forefathers never heard of. This 

 is because in recent years there have 

 been many insects imported. Out of 73 

 destructive insects it is said that 30 of 

 them are the products of other coun- 

 tries. And in the importation of these 

 destroyers we fail to get the parasite 

 which works against their operations. 



"Spraying the trees is the only 

 method I know of that can work suc- 

 cessfully toward the destroying of 

 them. This matter needs careful 

 study, and the more one knows about 

 the insect he is to destroy the better 

 it is. Spraying is far more effective 

 than painting the outside of the trees 

 or in using patent remedies said to be 

 beneficial in killing the insects. In 

 spraying there is need of special im- 

 plements, and a light spray is better 

 than a steady stream from a common 

 nozzle." 



The speaker explained to some length 

 the manner of spraying, and following 

 his talk there was an informal discus- 

 sion. 



COLUMBUS FLORISTS' CLUB. 



The regular meeting of this club 

 took place Tuesday evening, April 17, 

 at the bowling alleys of the Y. M. C. 

 A. This was arranged in order that 

 the larger part of the evening might 

 be given to bowling. Our club has 

 entered into the matter of forming a 

 bowl'rg <1"'- to pond fn Piston this 

 summer, with much enthusiasm; and 

 at our practice games the attendance 



has been good, and many good bowlers 

 are developing. The committee who 

 have had charge of the packaging and 

 distributing of the penny packets of 

 flower and vegetable seeds to the pub- 

 lic school children have about com- 

 pleted their work. Our club's next 

 meeting will be on Tuesday evening, 

 May 1st. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS 

 AND ORNAMENTAL HORTI- 

 CULTURISTS. 



Department of Plant Registration. 



The Southern Floral Nursery Co., 

 Fruitdale, Ala., submits for registra- 

 tion the following cannas: — 



Mount Washington, white. 



Mount Zion, very dwarf; red edged 

 with yellow; a seedling of Mont Blanc. 



Henry George, a dwarf crimson bed- 

 der. 



Telegraph, bright red; a little taller 

 than Express. 



Inman's Choice, dwarf red, edged and 

 shaded bright golden yellow. 



Britta, dwarf pink, with short, 

 rounded leaves. 



Golden Cluster, golden yellow in 

 large, compact clusters. 



Sensation, deep golden yellow spot- 

 ted with red. 



I'wanta, rich yellow with orange red 

 spots. 



Thelma, a seedling of Sec. Chabanne, 

 but a more profuse bloomer and a lit- 

 tle taller; color, more of a golden 

 orange. 



Pansy Read, red with light line of 

 gold on margin; dwarf. 



Crown of Gold, a seedling of Coro- 

 net, but a great improvement on that 

 fine variety; a little taller and a deeper 

 yellow. 



Admiral Togo, yellow; strong, rapid 

 grower. 



Queen of Orange, golden orange. 



The American Duchess, dwarf yel- 

 low specked with red. 



Golden Dawn, golden yellow. 



Royal Neighbor, purple bronze foli- 

 age, now two years old but never has 

 bloomed. 



Golden Express, a seedling of Ex- 

 press much like it but of a golden yel- 

 low color. 



Amalgamated, a seedling of Express, 

 having the dwarf habit of its parent 

 and of a peculiar blend of red and cop- 

 pery yellow color. 



Ohio, a giant bronze foliage with 

 bright red flower; 8 to 9 feet high. 



Buckeye, a tall green foliaged sort 

 with a flower of golden yellow, striped 

 and blotched with red in a very pecu- 

 liar manner. 



Dayton, yellow; seedling of Sam Tre- 

 lease. 



Nymphea, light pink edged with 

 cream; foliage dark green; a seed- 

 ling of Hiawatha. 



Leader, seedling of Mont Blanc; very 

 dark rose pink of a shade new in can- 

 nas. 



Royal Bronze, foliage purple bronze 

 with long, upright leaves; dark crim- 

 son flowers. 



Fairhope, an improvement upon the 

 popular Chas. Henderson; a little tall- 

 er than Henderson and a shade darker 

 in color. 



\V. J. STEWART, Secretary. 



MORRIS CO. (N. J.) GARDENERS' 

 AND FLORISTS' SOCIETY. 



Our April meeting was well attended, 

 Morristown came down with a full 

 delegation. Wm. Duckham's theme 

 "A Journey Abroad" was the drawing 

 card. He gave a very interesting 

 story of his trip of four months. His 

 account of the Edinburgh show was 

 interesting from more than one point 

 of view. The city itself, through 

 which he was piloted by the veteran 

 grower, Peter Barr, he declared to be 

 the finest he was ever in. In this 

 town of something like 280,000 popu- 

 lation, the paid admissions to the show 

 were over 75,000. In chrysanthemums, 

 he said, varieties which do but indif- 

 ferently here under the best culture, 

 were the best flowers he ever saw, and 

 again varieties which are our pride 

 were only medium or not seen at 

 all. The conclusion he draws is that 

 climatic conditions as well as culture 

 play a large part in influencing the 

 chrysanthemum. He had visited 

 largely in Scotland and England many 

 private places of note as well as the 

 Kew Gardens and the great commer- 

 cial places and many interesting and 

 instructive notes were given of them. 

 Some new things are added by this 

 trip to his already noted collection. 

 A hearty vote of thanks was given the 

 speaker. 



We had but one plant exhibit this 

 month. It was a magnificent group of 

 Spiraa Gladstone put up by Otto Koch, 

 florist of the N. J. State Hospital, 

 .Morris Plains, N. J. The judges 

 awarded a certificate of merit, declar- 

 ing it to be the grandest lot of this 

 they had ever seen. An invitation 

 was extended by Mr. Koch to visit his 

 place and view these and other Easter 

 plants, which courtesy was accepted. 

 Four new members were elected. Our 

 next flower show will be held in Madi- 

 son, N. J., November 1 and 2 next. 

 The schedule is to be revised in com- 

 mittee for next meeting. 



E. REAGAN. 



NEWPORT HORTICULTURAL SO- 

 CIETY. 



The schedule of premiums of the 

 Newport Horticultural Society is about 

 completed, and when issued (which 

 it will soon be) it will be found to be 

 much more attractive to intending ex- 

 hibitors than the schedules of this 

 society have recently been. More at- 

 tention has been given to specimen 

 plants and more liberal premiums 

 offered. Groups of plants of various 

 kinds are also more generously pro- 

 vided for. There are more classes 

 than in any schedule hitherto pre- 

 pared for one exhibition and there is 

 more money available to meet the 

 necessary cost of the increased number 

 of clas?es. Dahlias are still given the 

 prominent position their popularity 

 continues to demand. Carpet bedding 

 is supposed to be coming in to vogue 

 again and to encourage this class of 

 work or something akin to it, liberal 

 premiums are offered for practical 

 demonstrations of the effects that can 

 be produced with sub-tropical bedding. 

 Gardenias, carnations and American 

 Beauty roses are scheduled to be 

 awarded premiums exceeding in amount 

 those of former years. The schedule 



