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HORTICULTURE 



April IT, 1909 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



NEW YORK FLORISTS' CLUB. 



The attendance at the April meetiag 

 of the New York Florists' Club on 

 Monday evening, 12th inst., was very 

 gratifying, considering that it was the 

 day following Easter Sunday. Theie 

 were between fifty and sixty members 

 present, among the visitoi-s being Wm. 

 II. KUiott, of Boston; E. J. Norman, of 

 Lee. Mass.; W. J. Buurman, represent- 

 ative of J. Schilpzand & Sons, Hille- 

 gom, HoHand and H. A. Barnard of 

 Hugh Low & Co., England, the last 

 named gentleman just concluding his 

 first visit to America and about to sail 

 for home full of honors and orders. 

 Mr. Elliott was present for the purpose 

 of reading his paper on rose culture, 

 deferred from the March meeting on 

 account of the death of President Hal- 

 lock. Easter trade reports have crowd- 

 ed out this very interesting essay, 

 but it will appear in next week's 

 Issue. It was to be regretted that 

 so few rose growers were present to 

 listen to it, there being not over half 

 a dozen rose men in the audiense. 

 There were no exhibits, the display of 

 roses Intended to supplement this lec- 

 ture having been staged at the March 

 meeting, at which time no business 

 was done, for reasons already stated. 

 Many reports and deferred matters 

 were disposed of at this time. Among 

 them was the report of the committee 

 on awards, giving cultural certificates 

 to F. R. Pierson Co. for White Killar- 

 ney, Robert Simpson for My Maryland, 

 Mrs. Jardine and Mme. Abel Chatenay, 

 to the Brant Hentz Flower Co. lor 

 .American Beauty, to W. G. Badgley for 

 Ixillarnoy, Biide and B:idesmaid, to V. 

 Hamman tor Bridesmaid, to A. Faren- 

 Wald foi Richmond and Killarney, and 

 to Henry Hentz, Jr., for Bride anj 

 Bridesmaid; vote of thanks to F. R. 

 Pierson Co. for My ilaryland, Mye.s 

 & Samtman for Jly Maryland, W. A. 

 Manda for Cherokee and South Orange 

 Beauty, and Robert Simpson for Kate 

 Moulton; first prize, book presented by 

 J. Austin Shaw, to Waban Rose Con- 

 servatories for White Killarijey. 



The outing committee reported full 

 particulars of the great annual picnic 

 to take place on July 1. 



Jos. A. Manda announced that a 

 series of fifteen games would be in- 

 augurated at the bowling alleys next 

 Monday to determine who the five for- 

 tunate men would be who should rep- 

 resent New York at the convention in 

 Cincinnati next August. Mr. Manda in- 

 cidentally suggested that the bowling 

 fraternity were ready to receive any- 

 thing in the way of prizes which their 

 friends might be disposed to bestow. 

 We hope the response to this will be 

 generous. It would help to stir up the 

 waning sporting spirit of the Metrop- 

 olis. 



H. A. Bunyard brought up the mat- 

 ter of the proposed institution of a 

 national Sweet Pea Association, and 



after a discussion by various mombes 

 a vote was carried offering the courte- 

 sies of the club, use of its hall, vases, 

 etc., on the occasion of the opening 

 meeting and sweet pea exhibition next 

 June. Cups for award at that time 

 havi' iFeii promised by Peter Hender- 

 son & Co., W. W. Hawion <fc (.o.. i\. i. 

 Boddington, W. Atlee Burpee, and 

 others are expected. 



After the reading of Mr. Elliott's pa- 

 per a very lively debate ensued. Re- 

 plying to questions, Mr. Elliott said 

 that in the case of Killarney, growths 

 should be pinched back two consecu- 

 tive times on young plants; the fallow- 

 ing growth may be allowed to come to 

 bloom. He had found that Killarneys 

 ail pinchf.d back at same time for a 

 holiday crop would bioom sim.iltaue- 

 ously. I'l.r an Eastt-r cut an inieival 

 of seven weeks should be allowed for 

 the crop to come on. Ri.^mond would 

 reqv.ire four days more. For Carist- 

 mas one week longer should be given. 



F. R. Pierson talked at some length 

 and very interestingly. He agreed with 

 Mr. Elliott as to the economy of the 

 large, modern rose house. The busi- 

 ness is rapidly becoming a manufactur- 

 ing business, with the opportunity of 

 cheap coal, cheap transportation and 

 cheap labor taken full advantage of, 

 &nd the day of the small grower has 

 gone. Permanency and durability ar.; 

 important factors in the structures of 

 today, which ought to be good for 100 

 years. You can't build too good and 

 tem.porary buildings are an extrava- 

 gance. Mr. Pierson said he was in- 

 clined lo go back to the system of 

 solid borders, partially because of the 

 saving in the matter of renewal of soil 

 and plants as compared with benches. 

 Incidentally he remarked that 1 he 

 much dreaded eel-worm is principally 

 dryness. 



Mr. Elliott was asked whether he 

 found the heating and management of 

 a IKOO foot house to compare favorably 

 with th.1t of an equal space cut up into 

 a number of smaller houses, and his 

 reply was Yes, because of simplicity 

 of operation, the even distribution of 

 the heated air over the lower part of 

 the house and the short time required 

 to teach the men their requited du.ies. 

 Patrick O'Mara had some interesti.ig 

 observations to present and H. A. Bar- 

 nard told of his amazement at the ex- 

 tent of some of the establishments he 

 had visited while in America and the 

 uniform excellence of the product. 

 Chas. Lenker deplored the tendency 

 away from art and towards the manu- 

 facturing idea in the cut flower indus- 

 try. A. J. Guttman and John Nugent 

 also contributed to the feast of rea- 

 son, Mr. Nugent advocating the estab- 

 lishment of a great central mar'.;ei in 

 New York for the sale of floweis. with 

 shipping facilities and other means for 

 recovering the business lost through 

 lack of these things. C. B. Weathere.I 

 interrogated Mr. Elliott on the leugih 

 of sEish bars and the dangers of spliced 

 bais. Mr. Elliott said that he had bars, 

 all one piece, 38 feet in length, but 

 this length was the limit. Spliced bars 

 seemed to be generally looked upon 

 with disfavor amongst those present, 

 but they are indispensable in the very 

 wide hotises many growers are dis- 

 posed to build nowadays. 



PITTSBURG FLORISTS' AND GAR- 

 DENERS' CLUB. 

 Change of Meeting Place. 



The regular monthly meeting, April 

 Gth, was the last the Pittsburg Flor- 

 ists' arid Gardeners' Club will ever 

 hold in the German Beneficial Union 

 building where the Club has met since 

 March, 1902. The building has been 

 sold and will be torn down May 1st. 

 The hall occupied was convenient and 

 accessible, and the boys will not soon 

 forget the interesting meetings, the 

 fine exhibitions and, above all, the 

 good-fellowship that was cemented by 

 the attendance and companionship at 

 the old hall. President Burki named 

 the exetntive committee, E. C. Reine- 

 man, Jno. L. Wyland and Jno. Bader, 

 as committee to have in charge the se- 

 curing of a new meeting place. Mean- 

 while the May meeting will be held at 

 the rooms of the Pittsburg Cut Flower 

 Co., 222 Oliver Ave. 



Headquarters for Carnation Conven- 

 tion. 



In the matter of the meeting of the 

 Carnation Convention with us in Jan- 

 uary, 1910, the exhibition and enter- 

 tainment committees reported that a 

 hall could be secured at the Fort Pitt 

 Hotel for the exhibition and could be 

 cleared in time and used for the ban- 

 quet, and guest rooms. The Fort Pitt 

 is a new hotel in the business part of 

 the city, convenient and accessible to 

 the theatres, and to Union Station, and 

 its management is first-class. The club 

 authorized the securing and making 

 the Fort Pitt Hotel, corner 10th St. and 

 Penn Ave., Pittsburg, as headquarters 

 of the Carnation Convention for 1910. 



The private gardeners' committee for 

 the season June 1909-May 1910 reported 

 a schedule of exhibits for prizes which 

 was accepted and ordered printed. 



Exhibits. 



The exhibits before the club were 

 not so large and varied as usual, it 

 being too near Easter, but Frank Crook, 

 gardener for J. H. Park, showed three 

 plants of Cineraria stellata in 8-in. pots 

 that had a spread of three lo four feet 

 each and two pots of Dendrobium no- 

 bile that showed a great profusion of 

 bloom and were unusually fine speci- 

 mens. Mr. Crook was awarded a cer- 

 tificate of merit for his exhibit. Phipps 

 Conservatories, Jno. W. Jones, fore- 

 man, showed a variety of hydrangeas 

 in bloom, one of which — Hydrangea 

 Japonioa — attracted attention from its 

 oddity. There were also a number of 

 specimen plants of ISaster lilies. 



Keeping Enchantress Carnations. 



Mr. Crall, a large carnation grower 

 of Monongahela, having taken notice 

 of the ..iiscussion at the last two meet- 

 ings in regard to the keeping qualities 

 of Enchantress carnations, bi ought in 

 two bunches of carnations, one each of 

 Rose Fjnk Enchantress and Enchant- 

 ress, one bunch cut on the 19th of 

 March and the other on the 29th of 

 March. The bunches were in fair con- 

 dition, especially the one cnt the 29th 

 of March. The other was a little the 

 worse for wear but was still present- 

 able. Mr. Crall says he does not wait 



