HORTICULTURE 



January 2, 11)09 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



WASHINGTON HORTICULTURAL 

 ASSOCIATION. 

 The Washiiiglon Horticultural As- 

 sociation at its fifth annual convention 

 in Spokane, Dec. 8 to 11, when H. K. 

 Gilbert of North Yakima, president of 

 the organization, presided at the eight 

 sessions, adopted resolutions, recom- 

 mending the enactment of a law l)y 

 the Legislature of 1909, prohibiting the 

 liquor traffic, pool-selling and race- 

 track gambling at county, state and 

 Inter-state fairs; the repeal of the 

 state horticultui-al law and the enact- 

 ment of one which could be enforced; 

 making the National Apple Show an 

 annual affair; the insertion, if possi- 

 ble, in the local option law. if enacted, 

 making the unit no smaller than the 

 county. 



The association put itself on record 

 as favoring the immediate impi-ove- 

 ment of public highways and a practi- 

 cal method of raising funds to bring 

 this about; that industrial training in 

 the public schools be adopted; also en- 

 couraging the growing of sufficient 

 iiuiserv stock to supply the demands 

 of orciiardists in the state; encourag- 

 ing the importation and protec- 

 tion of song and insectivorous birds, 

 and reouesting the legislature to ap- 

 propriate $2,000 for the publication of 

 the annual horticultural report. The 

 Porter apple box bill, submitted to the 

 last Congress, was condemned. 



These officers were elected tor 1909; 

 President, J. L. Dumas. Dayton; first 

 vice-president, M. O. Tibbitts, Cash- 

 mere; second vice-president. F. F. 

 Benson. Frosser; secretary, Levi Grant 

 Monroe, Spokane; treasurer, H. W. 

 Greenberg, Spokane. The next annual 

 meeting will take place at Wenatchee 

 the first week in December. 



Recommendations by the legislative 

 committee were adopted as follows: 

 That the legislature appoint a state 

 horticulturarcommissioner and inspec- 

 tors for 20 or more districts: that ade- 

 ciuate provision be made for assistant 

 inspectors during the busy season; 

 tha't the commissioner and district in- 

 spectors be appointed for indefinite 

 terms and be removed only for neglect 

 or inefPciency or that an inspector may 

 be removed by a petition of the ma- 

 iority of the owners of commercial or- 

 chards in his particular dinrict; that 

 the inspectors shall be state officials 

 and paid as the other state officers 



It was also urged that the legislature 

 enact a law legalizing the apple and 

 pear boxes at present iu use; that the 

 name and address of grower and ship- 

 per mav be stamped on each Package; 

 that infected fruit where found by the 

 nspector may be repacked by the own- 

 er or in the case of non-appearance of 

 the owner that the inspector shall pack 

 the same at the expense of the owner; 

 that infected fruit used for by- 

 products may be sold or .shipped to 

 [he state with proper restrictions, and 

 that all nurseries be fined 10 times the 

 orfginal cost of trees sold not true to 

 name. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS 

 AND ORNAMENTAL HOR- 

 TICULTURISTS. 

 Registration of Plants. 

 Public notice is hereby given of the 

 application of the Conard & Jones 

 Company, West Grove. Pennsylvania, 

 for the registration of the plants speci- 

 fied below. These applications for reg- 

 istry were filed in this office on Dec. 

 23, "l90S, and any person knowing of 

 any reason why the registration of 

 these names should not be made is re- 

 quested to communicate with the 

 undersigned. 



Canna "Wawa": Parentage, Maidens 

 r.lush X a seedling; soft pink flowers, 

 green foliage, 3 to 4 ft. high, nicely 

 rounded flowers. 



Canna 'Mont Blanc Improved ; 

 Mont Blanc Improved has the same 

 vigorous constitution and luxuriant 

 green foliage as its antecedent, Mont 

 Blanc. It has large flowers which are 

 almost pure white and produced in 

 gi-eat profusion; height about 4 ft., 

 foliage greftn. 



Rose ■•Climbing Mosella': New 

 climbing rose, a sport from the bush 

 Rose Moselin and identical in the ap- 

 pearance of blossoms. 



W. N. RUDD, Sec'y. 



December :^3rd, 1908. 



GARDENERS' AND FLORISTS- 

 CLUB OF BALTIMORE. 

 Control of Insect Pests. 



Tlie Gardeners' and Florists' Club 

 held the semi-monthly meeting on the 

 2Sth and considering the holiday sea- 

 son ' the attendance was excellent. 

 Professor A. B. Gahan, assistant horti- 

 culturist at Maryland Horicultural Col- 

 lege read a paper on "The Control of 

 So'm'e Insect Pests of the Plant House." 

 He said, in part, that potassium cyan- 

 ide is recognized as a practicable treat- 

 ment when properly handled, for most 

 pests The amount of the gas whicu 

 different plants will stond varies wide- 

 ly He had frequently treated coleus 

 badlv infested with mealy bugs with a 

 strength of 3-4 of an ounce per 1000 

 cubic feet without injury to the plants 

 but it required several repetitions to kill 

 them all. The eggs were not affected. 

 Roses and chrysanthemums were 

 treated with excellent results. The gas 

 proved more efficient and cheaper than 

 tobacco fumigation. Violets are unin- 

 jured bv four ounces of cyanide per 

 lOAO cubic feet and a charge of four 

 or five ounces should be used for them. 

 The exposure should not be for less than 

 one hour and two hours' exposure re- 

 >=uUs in no injury to the plants. It :s 

 against white fly, thrips, mealy oug 

 and the aphids- that it is especially 

 valuable. Against the scale insects 

 tne cyanide treatment is not effective, 

 as the «cale covering protects the in- 

 sect from any strength of gas which 

 would not be fatal to tender growing 

 plants. Plants are less liable to iiijury 

 when the fumigating is done at night. 

 A long exposure to a moderate amount 

 of "as is 'ess lilcely to cause injury to 

 the^plant. and is at the same time more 

 effective against the insects than is a 

 shorter exposure to a heavy charge. 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY. 

 Free Horticultural Lectures. 

 A notable course of nine lectures on 

 subjects of horticultural interest is an- 

 nounced by the Massachusetts Horti- 

 cultural Society to be given at Horti- 

 cultural Hall, Boston, on Saturday 

 mornings at eleven o'clock, beginning 

 Jan. 9. 



These lectures are free to all and 

 after the reading of the papers oppor- 

 tunity is given tor full discussion of 

 the topics treated. 



The inaugural meeting of the society 

 will be held on the first Saturday of 

 the new year at twelve o'clock. At 

 this meeting the president will make 

 an inaugural address, and the annual 

 reports of oflicers and chairmen of 

 committees will be presented. 



The lecture program is as follows: 

 January 9. The Yeast of the Soil. Dy 



Wm. H. Bowker, Boston. 

 January lb. Garden Insects and How 

 to Control Them. By Prof. E. Dwight 

 Sanderson, Durham, N. H. 

 January 23. Ornamental Gardens and 

 Garden Materials. Stereopticon Il- 

 lustrations. By Prof. E. A. White, 

 Amherst. 

 January 30. The Effects of Conditions 

 of Growth in Certain Horticultural 

 Plants Upon Susceptibility to Fun- 

 ijous Diseases. By Prof. B. M. Du.g- 

 gar, Ithaca, N. Y. (The John Lewis 

 Russell Lecture). 

 Feiiruary G. The Etherization of 

 Plants for Forcing Purposes. By 

 l^rof. William Stuart, Burlington, 

 Vt. 

 Februarv 13. Plant Breeding. Stere- 

 opticon Illustrations. By Prof. 

 Herbert J. Webber, Itliaca, N. Y. 

 Februarv 20. American Landscape Ar- 

 chitecture. By Prof. F. A. Waugh, 

 Amherst. 

 Februarv 27. Rural New England. By 

 Mrs. Charlotte E. F. Ladd, Stur- 

 bridge. _ „, . 



March G. The Propagation of Plants 

 by Various Methods. By Jackson 

 Dawson, Jamaica Plain. 



WM. P. RICH, Secy. 



NEWPORT HORTICULTURAL SO- 

 CIETY. 



A regular meeting of this society 

 was held on the evening of Dec. 22nd, 

 with a good attendance of members, 

 and President Robertson in the chair. 

 After the routine business had been 

 settled A. McLellan stai-ted a discus- 

 sion on the daMia disease which was 

 so prevalent throughout the New Eng- 

 land States the past season. Mr. Vol- 

 quardson gave it as his opinion that 

 this trouble is often caused by a 

 species of aphis, which inhabit and 

 feed on the under side of the foliage, 

 and when left undisturbed in dry, 

 warm weather multiply very rapidly, 

 quickly weakening the constitution of 

 the plant. The speaker said the best 

 remedy he had found was water ap- 

 plied with some force to the little pests 

 with a syringe or hose. Red spider 

 was also admitted by those present to 

 be a powerful agent toward bringing 

 on this disease and the same treat- 

 ment as for the aphis is good. 



