January 10, 1909 



HORTICULTURE 



■was the presentation of a handsome 

 china closet to President Huss. Geo. 

 W. Smith made an able and appropriate 

 presentation address, which well con- 

 veyed the esteem and sentiment of the 

 members. In concluding his address 

 Mr. Smith complimented the society 

 on having as its president a man who, 

 in addition to his genial personality, 

 is a noted worker in the interests of 

 horticulture and the welfare of the 

 society. 



NEW YORK FLORISTS' CLUB. 



The January meeting of the New 

 York Florists' Club was a sort of in- 

 augural session and the attendance 

 was large and representative. The re- 

 tiring president, C. B. Weathered ad- 

 dressed the meeting in a few felicitous 

 words, thanking the members for the 

 assistance in maintaining the prestige 



of the country would prosper in pro- 

 portion as we have more love and less 

 fashion in floral matters. 



The other incoming officers were 

 then severally introduced and respon- 

 ded briefly and the retiring officials 

 presented their reports. Retiring treas- 

 urer Allen's report showed the treas- 

 ury to be in excellent shape and same 

 was confirmed by Mr. Marshall for 

 the Board of Trustees, a balance of 

 $3150.81 being duly accounted for. The 

 various committees for the coming 

 year: legislative, essays, awards, ex- 

 hibition, house, outing, bowling, e»c., 

 were then appointed by the president. 

 It was voted to donate to the Chrys- 

 anthemum Society of America one sil- 

 ver and one bronze medal of the New 

 York Florists' Club for award at their 

 next fall exhibition. 



Harry Turner reported for the com- 



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LENOX HORTICULTURAL SO- 

 CIETY. 



Saturday, Jan. 2, being an ideal 

 night, the members of the Lenox Hor- 

 ticultural Society turned out in full 

 force to support the newly-elected oflS- 

 cers, which argues well foi' the new 

 jear. The meeting was full of inter- 

 est from start to finish. President 

 Allan Jenkins occupied the chair. 

 Messrs. Arthur Reseanse and James 

 Rennie were elected active members 

 of the society. Percy EUings was 

 unanimously elected assistant secre- 

 tary. It was voted to hold the society's 

 annual ball, which is always looked 

 forward to with much interest in 

 Lenox and vicinity, also dinner, the 

 committee for the former being Messrs. 

 J. Clifford, H. P. Wookey and W. Jack; 

 for the latter Messrs. E. Jenkins, A. H. 



New York Florists' Club Officials. 



President Hallock Gives a Beefsteak Dinner to the Retiring and Newly Elected Officers and the Trade Piessj. 



of the organization through the year 

 of his incumbency and then introduced 

 his successor E. V. Hallock who, after 

 courteously putting a motion of thanks 

 to the retiring officers proceeded to ex- 

 press his views on the duty and work 

 of the club tor the coming year. He 

 said that a president counts for 

 naught without the support of loyal 

 members and while fraternal fellow- 

 ship is all right in its w-ay yet the 

 club stands for much more than that. 

 "A germ of thought is often worth a 

 pound of advice" and every member 

 would be expected to devote some of 

 his best thought to the interests of 

 the club during the coming year. He 

 referred to the movement tor horticul- 

 tural education and its influence on 

 the future happiness of the people and 

 declared that the floricultural interests 



mittee on awards that they had jour- 

 neyed to Scarboro and examined the 

 new rose White Killarney as growing 

 there and had awarded 89 points and 

 a certificate. Awards for the evening 

 were a cultural certificate to Harry 

 Turner, for some superb blooms of 

 hybrid amaryllises, certificate of merit 

 to J. A. Peterson for new Begonia 

 "President Taft," vote of thanks to F. 

 W. Fletcher for Violet "Baronne Roths- 

 child," On a fern shown by G. Giatras 

 the committee reported that it would 

 defer judgment until it could have an 

 opjjortunity to compare same with 

 other existing sports of Nephrolepis. 



The next meeting will be Carnation 

 Night and three prizes are offered by 

 A. H. I.angjahr for 2.5 blooms of a va- 

 riety not yet disseminated. The club 

 has now eight life members. 



Wingett, A. J. Loveless, S. Carlquist 

 and F. Heeremans, the dates to be de- 

 cided by the committees. 



The following questions were asked 

 and created lively discussion: What is 

 the proper deptb to lay drain tile? 

 The proper depth recommended by 

 those present for average soils was 

 from three to four feet, from thirty to 

 forty feet apart, though instances were 

 quoted where drains laid to the depth 

 of four feet in heavy clay soils had 

 failed to bring about the desired re- 

 sults, and from two and a half to three 

 feet in heavy tenacious soils had been 

 found more satisfactory. It must be 

 taken for granted that the shallower 

 the drains are laid the closer they 

 should be together; for instance, 

 drains laid at the depth of four feet 

 should be effective for a distance of 



