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HORTICULTURE 



January 30, 1909 



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CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



The National Association of Garden- 

 ers will hold their annual show on 

 March 17 and IS, at Shellel Hall. 3id 

 avenue and 17th street, New lork. 



The Florists' Club of Utlca, N. Y., 

 will hold their annual flower show and 

 banquet on February 18 at Arcanum 

 hall, to which ladies will be invited. 



The Colorado State Horticultural So- 

 ciety met on January 19-21 at Denver 

 The rrogram shows interesting fiuit 

 and orchard topics. 



A .ioint annual meeting of the State 

 Horticultural Society and the State 

 Nurserymen's Association was sched- 

 uled for .Tanuary 26, 27, at Nashville, 

 Tenn. 



Hon Harold Parker of Lancaster, 

 will speak Feb. 4 on "The Development 

 of the Roads oi Massachusetts," before 

 the Worcester County Horticultural 

 Society, Worcester, Mass. 



Officers of the'salt Lake County Hor- 

 ticultural Society, Utah, were elected 

 on Jan. 16 as follows: P/ffdent, J- 

 W. Fisher; vice-president, John Wood- 

 bury: secretary, J. C. Stay. 



The reception of the president of 

 the New Jersey Floricultural Society 

 and the annual smoker will be held on 

 February 12 at 8 o'clock, at the rooms 

 of the society. Orange, N. J. 



At the meeting of the Horticultural 

 Club of Burlington, Vt., at the home 

 of William Stuart on January -1, 1- V" 

 Kinney of So. Hero spoke on horti- 

 cultural conditions in the state. 



The Florists' Club of Cleveland, C, 

 will hold their annual carnation show 

 on P'ebruarv 10 at the club rooms, 2610 

 Detroit Ave. Out-of-town exhibits 

 should be prepaid and sent in care of 

 Isaac Kennedy, secretary. 



The lecture before the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society on Jan. 30. at 

 eleven o'clock, will be on "The Effects 

 of' Conditions of Growth in Certain 

 Horticultural Plants Upon Suscepii- 

 bilily to Fungous Diseases," by Prot. 

 B. M. Duggar, Ithaca, N. Y. 



At the regular meeting of the Pasa- 

 dena Gardeners' Association held on 

 Jan. ir)th. the following officers were 

 elected- President, Otto Heutschy; 

 vice-president, J. McGilvray; secretary, 

 R McKenzie: treasurer, John Blake?; 

 trustee. Robert Pegg: sergeant-at-arms, 

 R. Kroll. 



The Cambria County Horticultural 

 Society was organized at Wilmore, Pa., 

 on January 17 with 100 charter mem- 

 ber= I'he following officers were elect- 

 ed- ' Abram Hostetler, Johnstown, 

 president; Frank Westbrick, Patton. 



vice-president; George W. Settlemyer, 

 Wilmoic, secretary. 



One important matter under consid- 

 eration at the recent meeting of the 

 horticulturists and nurserj'men at 

 Brownsville, Texas, was the amend- 

 ment and improvement of the state in- 

 spection law. Closer relations between 

 the railroads and the producers was 

 urged by B. F. Yoakum. 



At the meeting of the Peninsula Hor- 

 tieiiltuial Society held on January 13, 

 1), at Wilmington. Del., interes<ting ad- 

 dresses were made by Richard Vin- 

 cent, Jr., on Floriculture, and l)y An- 

 toine Wintzer on Cannas and Roses. 

 W. Irving Walker of Chestertown, Md., 

 was elected president, and Prot. Wes- 

 ley Webb of Dover, Del., secretary. . 



The meeting of the Engelmaun 

 Botanical Club, St Louis, postponed 

 tiom Jan. 11 was held on Jan. 23, 

 when the one hundredth anniversary 

 of the birth of Dr. George Emgolmann 

 was ob-'.erved. The subject of the 

 evening was "TAxags of Woody Plants 

 in Winter" and C. H. Thompson of 

 the Botanical Garden was the speaker. 



The Florists' and Gardeners' Club of 

 Rhode Island enjoyed their annual 

 banquet on January 18. After a short 

 business session President C. S. Mac- 

 nair presented the retiring president, 

 Alex Macrae, with a gavel. C. Hart- 

 stra, gardener at the Rhode Island 

 Hospital, presented the club with two 

 volumes on "Medicinal Plants." An 

 enjoyable musical progi-am closed the 

 evening's festivities. 



The meeting of the Detroit Florist 

 Club on January IS was rendered very 

 interesting through the reminiscences 

 of the old times vividly pictured by 

 Robert Flowerday. He began with his 

 apprentice days in England and traced 

 the progress of the florist industry up 

 to the present time. Among other 

 items of local interest he stated that 

 the first flower store in Detroit was 

 opened in 1878, on Woodward avenue. 



FRUIT TREES UNDER GLASS. 



Up to the present time there has 

 been only one authoritative work on 

 dwarf fruit trees, in the English lan- 

 guage, "The Miniature Fruit Garden" 

 by Thomas Rivers. "The Miniature 

 Fruit Garden" went through some 

 twenty editions but for some years 

 has been out of print, and from some 

 correspondence I had a year ago with 

 the publishers, Longmans, Green & 

 Co., it is not likely to be republished. 

 Therefore, the present inportation of 

 "The Culture of Fruit Trees in Pots," 

 by Josh Brace, is exceedingly timely. 



Mr. Brace has been employed for 

 twenty-two years by Thomas Rivers & 

 Son, of Sawbridgeworth, as foreman 

 of the orchard house, a fact suSicient 

 to convince anyone that the author is 

 well grounded in the subject of fruits 

 under glass. 



In the 108 pages of this hook, Mr. 

 Brace thoroughly discusses the kind 

 of house, its location, ventilation, and 

 furnishing, as well as cultural details, 

 varieties best adapted for growing in 

 cool houses and for forcing, and in- 

 sects and other pests. 



There is also a calendar of opera- 

 tions that gives the gardener an idea 

 of what should be done each month. 

 Of course the dates and conditions in 

 this country differ from those of the 

 Old World but the book contains so 

 much valuable information regarding 

 fruit trees in pots, that it should be 

 owned by every person in this country 

 interested in their culture. 



P. T. BARNES. 



BUSINESS CHANGES. 



Louisiana, Mo.— T. L. Gulp is now 

 manager of the Foreman greenhouses. 



Clarinda, la.— J. F. Pfander has 

 taken a partner and the firm name is 

 now Pfander & Crosthwait. 



Washington, D. C— Robert Bowdler 

 has purchased the stand of George A. 

 Comley at the Centre Market. 



Dorchester. IVI ass.— Francis W. Wil- 

 son has purchased the Dickerman 

 greenhouses at 21 Mill street. 



Red Wing, Minn.— Decker & Fritze 

 have bought the Humphrey green- 

 houses and will carry on the business. 



Detroit, Mich.— The consolidation of 

 the American Blower Co. of this city 

 and the Sirocco Engineering Co. of 

 New York is reported. 



W. Marche, Washington, D. C, has 

 created a sensation by a wreath that 

 he has just completed to ship to Paris 

 to a French opera singer. The wreath 

 is about ^ ft. in diameter and is made 

 of imported laurel. On one side are 

 the French and American flags and on 

 the other light blue streamers bearing 

 tlie inscription in raised gold letters. 



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