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HORTICULTURE. 



February 6, 1909 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



FLORISTS' CLUB OF WASHING- 

 TON. 



The regular monthly inofUng ol llie 

 Florists' Club ol VVas-liinglon, was IieKl 

 ut Eagles Hall on the night of Feb. 

 2nd, with PiVsident Kramer in the 

 chair. The most imporlant business 

 was the ^noraination of ofUters. It is 

 the tUEtom of the club to nominate 

 the officers at the February meeting, 

 elect thfera, at thei March meeting and 

 at tJie April meeting they take their 

 t-eat";. Tlie nomination of President 

 Kramer to succeed himself was made 

 unaniniouE, also of John Robertson 

 for vice-president. Geo. Shaffer abso- 

 lutely declined to. be renominated for 

 the office of secretaiy, and O. A. C. 

 OtehniJer and Jas. L. Carbery were 

 nominated. Wm. F. Gude was nomi- 

 nated for treasurer. In the awards 

 commUlee, Geo. H. Cooke was notni- 

 r.ated to fill the vacancy made by the 

 departure of Mr. McCauley. In the 

 bc«.rd of directors, two out of five of 

 the terms had expired and Jas. L.. Car- 

 bery of Washington, and Theo. Doit- 

 rich of Anacostia, were nominated to 

 fill the vacancies. A most gratifying 

 Report of the finianola! end of the last 

 show was made by the secretary. 

 There will be the usual annual ban- 

 quet given in April when the newly 

 elected niembfers take their seats. 



Wm. F. Gude was warmly congratu- 

 lated by the club on his election to 

 the prtiudency of tJie Chamber of Coni- 

 rcerce, and in a few Well chosen words 

 be thanked the club for their unswerv- 

 ing loyalty to him and reiterated hi? 

 interest in and love for the i/lub in 

 particular and the trade in g'eneral. 

 Thanks are due Blmer D. Smith of 

 Adrian, Michigan, for a number of 

 pleasing catalogues which were dis- 

 tributed at the meeting. It was moved 

 and seconced that th'c Baltimore Bnw- 

 iing Team be invited over on Feb. llth 

 to play the Washi'igtons. 



CONNECTICUT HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



At the meeting of the society on 

 January 22, .President Huss announced 

 a gift from William B. May, a life 

 member of the society, of his valuable 

 collection of books on horticulture toi 

 the society. Mr. May is to make his 

 home in Jacksonville, Florida, in 

 future. A prize of $25 in cash from 

 A. T. Uo;ldingtcn for the best collec- 

 tion of vegetables at the fall show was 

 announced. A whist and smoker will 

 be the program, for the next meeting, 

 and on February 26 there will be an 

 exhibition of carna,tions. 



NEW HAVEN HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



The regular meeting of the New 

 Haven Co. Horticultural Society was 

 held on Tuesday, Feb. 2nd. at which 

 one of our members, John H. Slocombe 

 of East Haven, Conn., a well-known 

 florist, read a very interesting and in- 

 structive paper on "Violets," tracing it 

 as far back as 1S30. Our amateur gar- 

 den competition, which proved very 

 succey.sful last year, will be repealed 

 this year, it being the unanimous vot3 

 of the society. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLOR- 

 ISTS AND ORNAMENTAL 

 HORTICULTURISTS. 

 The executive committee of the 

 National Flower Show Committee of 

 I'lfty had a meeting in Indianapolis on 

 Thursday, Januaiy 28 arid later made 

 report to the committee of fifty that 

 they had received full reports from the 

 chairmen of all sub-committees. The 

 auditing committee's report showed an 

 unexpended balance of $1,083.75 and it 

 V. as voted to distiibttte 10 per cent, 

 dividend to each guarantor for money 

 actually paid in, the balance of nearly 

 $500.00 to go to the S. A. F. It was 

 decided that all records should be col- 

 lated and filed with the secretary of 

 the S. A. F., including samples of all 

 printed matter and other material that 

 m.ight prove of value for future shows 

 and help the management to steer 

 clear of any snags that had been en- 

 countered in the last. Records in 

 class 77 were repotted missing and 

 E. G. Hill was appointed a committee 

 of one to communicate with the ex- 

 bibifois and see that awards are duly 

 made. Owing to a misunderstanding 

 by the judges, no awards had been 

 made in class 347. It was voted to 

 refer this back to the judges for ad- 

 judication and award of the medals if 

 possible. 



Registration of Rose. 



A protest having been filed aganst 

 tbe registiation ot a rose offered by thra 

 Dingee & Conard Company under the 

 name ''Charles Dingee," the registra- 

 tion of the rose is held in suspense. 



tTnder the rules of this Society the 

 original matter ot the registration and 

 the protest against it have been placed 

 in the hands of Mr. Robeil Simpson, 

 certified to the undersigned by the sec- 

 retary of the Rose Society as the 

 chairman of their committee in charge 

 of such matters, and no further action 

 will be taken by tliis Society pending 

 the result of the' investigation to be 

 made by the committee ot the Rose 

 Societj-. \V. X. Rl'DD, Secretary. 



LADIES' SOCIETY OF AMERICAN 

 FLORISTS. 



The members of the Ladies' Society 

 of American Florists return thanks to 

 Indiana florists for the royal entertain- 

 ment given them at Indianapolis dur- 

 ing the Carnation meeting. 



MRS. CH.A.S. H. MAYNARD, Sec'y. 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF 

 NEW YORK. 



rhe meeting of the Hortieultui'al 

 Society of New York, in the American 

 Museum of Natural History on Wed- 

 nesday, Feb. 10, will be devoted to 

 carnations. Possessors and introducers 

 of novelties are invited to send blooms 

 for exhibition in competition for the 

 society's awards, to be judged purely 

 on the individual merits. 



Messrs Kugene Dailledouze and John 

 Eirnie have consented to act as judges, 

 and to take part in the discussion ou 

 modern carnations at the formal meet- 

 ing at four o'clock on that day. 



Specimens for exhibition should be 

 staged, ready for the judges, at one 

 o'clock. L. BARRON, Secretary. 



FLORISTS' CLUB OF PHILADEL- 

 PHIA, 



An exhibit of carnations and Albert 

 il. Herr were the star attractions at 

 tbe monthly meeting held on the 2nd 

 inst. Edward A. Stroud exhibited 

 l.ady Bountiful, Winsor, White Per- 

 fection, Enchantress, Beacon, and Mrs. 

 W. H. Burnett, the latter being an 

 English variety which Mr. Stroud 

 thinks highly of and which looks bet- 

 ter nov/ than when received two years 

 ago. Campbell Bros., Pennllyn, sent 

 three very fine vases of Enchantress, 

 White Perfection, and Pink Imperial. 

 V.'ra. Kleinheinz staged a vase of Pinli 

 Imperial, and White Perfection, the 

 latter containing three varieties, but 

 the committee did not observe the 

 joke; also a vase of light pink stock, 

 "Beauty of Nice." Samuel Batchelor 

 exhibited a vase of Cineraria stellata — 

 clear yellow in color and very free 

 flowering — a sport originating on the 

 Newbold place from seed received from 

 Sutton's two years ago. W. T. Le Croix, 

 Buena, N. J., sent a fine lot of Marly 

 lilac, with spikes a foot and more in 

 length, and exceptionally well done. 

 A vase of White Killarney rose from 

 the 'Waban Conservatories was staged 

 by the Pennock-Meehan Co. This ex- 

 hibit had been on show for eight days 

 previously, and the flowers were still 

 in good condition. 



Mr. Herr's address was very inter- 

 esting and the after-discussion quite 

 animated. Mr. Fahrenwald called at- 

 tention to the coming meeting of the 

 Rose Society on the "17th of Ireland," 

 and urged all members to be present. 

 Parker Thayer Barnes, of Suburban 

 Life, Harrisburg, was nominated for 

 active membership. A discussion took 

 place on boiler insurance. The gen- 

 eral opinion seems to be that the state 

 law does not apply to greenhouse boil- 

 ers. Tlie subject for next meeting will 

 bo "Gardenias" by William VCleinheiuz. 



TOLEDO FLORISTS' CLUB. 



The last meeting of our club was a 

 special one for the introduction of 

 novelties to tbe members, and was 

 largely attended. Invitations were 

 sent out early in January to the intro- 

 ducers of new varieties to favor us 

 with a dozen flowers of their noveliies 

 for this meeting. As judges the chair 

 appointed Messrs. Thos. Magee, Hari'y 

 Heinl and George Bayer, and asked 

 them to use the scale of the American 

 Carnation Society. Bassett & Wash- 

 burn sent O. P. Bassett, which proved 

 to be the best red we had ever seen, 

 and scoied 85 points. There will 

 surely be orders for this variety, as wa 

 are in need of a good red one. 



The Highland Park Floral Co. sent 

 us Lucille, a very large white flower, 

 pencilled with rose. This variety will 

 also be grown here. The flower has 

 a good substance and is one of the 

 largest we have ever seen, and the 

 stem carries the flower fairly well. W. 

 H. Shtimway's Edward arrived in a 

 poor condition, which did not permit 

 judging it. 



A prize was awarded to Emil Ku- 

 huke for the twelve best red carnations, 

 own seedlings. The color was good of 

 what Kuhuke staged, size rather small 



