June 19, 1909 



HORTI CULTURE 



86S 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NUR- 

 SERYMEN. 



In our account of the proceedings 

 at the annual convention in Rochester, 

 N. Y., in last weelv's issue, we left the 

 visiting nurserymen in Masonic Hall 

 on the night of Thursday. 10th inst., 

 up against the real thing in "smokers" 

 as presented by the Rochester con- 

 tingent. In an editorial note the pre- 

 vious week we remarked that the vis- 

 iting nurserymen would find Roches- 

 ter "a town with more snap and gin- 

 ger in it when it comes to jollification 

 than any place of its size on the 

 map." We don't doubt that a prac- 

 tically unanimous endorsement of our 

 statement would be forthcoming from 

 all who attended that smoker. It cer- 

 tainly was a daisy and it speaks well 

 for the staying powers of the aggre- 



mittee who manoeuvered the affair 

 consisted of E. S. Osborne, chairman; 

 C. L. Yates, J. JI. Pitkin, C. H. Vick, 

 W. W. Wyman, O. G. Chase and E. O. 

 Graham. 



AMERICAN NURSERYMEN'S PRO- 

 TECTIVE ASSOCIATION. 



At the Rochester convention last 

 week the American Nurserymen's Pro- 

 tective Association held its annual 

 meeting and elected the following offi- 

 cers: President, J. W. Hill, Des 

 Moines, Iowa; vice-president, W. F. 

 Heikes, lluntsville, Ala.; secretary, 

 Thomas B. Meehan. Dresher, Pa.; 

 treasurer, Peter Youngers, Geneva, 

 Neb.; executive committee, J. W. Hill, 

 Chas. .T. Brown, H. B. Chase, J. H. 

 Dayton, D. S. Lake, E. R. Taylor, J. S. 

 Kerr. 



THE SOCIETY OF GERMAN LAND- 

 SCAPE GARDENERS. 



On the 10th of May, last, a party of 

 the members of the Society of German 

 Landscape Gardeners, fatigued appar- 

 ently by their exertions at the Inter- 

 national Exhibition held in Berlin, 

 and desirous of a change, paid a visit 

 to the Royal Botanical Garden, and to 

 the Schiller Park, now in course of 

 formation, on May 17th, and on the 

 19th viewed the operations now in 

 progress in Rathausplatz at Stiglitz. 

 The visit to the Royal Botanical Gar- 

 dens on May 10th took place under the 

 friendly guidance of the oberinspektor, 

 F. Ledien. The grounds which were 

 first inspected showed, in spite of their 

 very exposed position and need of 

 shelter, great progress, the plantation 



Visiting Nurserymen among the Rhododendrons 



At HigLlana Park, Rochester, N. Y. 



gation that they were able to turn out 

 the next day, three hundred strong, 

 for the special train to Newark as 

 guests of the Jackson & Perkins Com- 

 pany and there traverse the com- 

 pany's 350 acre tract at Lyons and 

 Newark, enjoy supper at Gardinere 

 Hotel and return to Rochester at 

 10.45 p. m. without a grunt. 



The ladies were being well cared 

 for at theatre and luncheon by the 

 local committees while the sterner 

 sex were enjoying the smoker, the 

 music, the vaudeville, moving pic- 

 tures, etc., and chorusing themselves 

 hoarse with Yip-IAdd.v-I-Ay!. the Rhu- 

 barb song and "My Country, 'tis of 

 Thee," under the leadership of the 

 Rochester Male Quartette and with 

 the assistance of the band. The com- 



ST. LOUIS FLORIST CLUB. 



The regular monthly meeting of this 

 club was held on Thursday, June 10. 

 Only twenty members showed up. The 

 trustees reported that they had made 

 all arrangements for the annual outing 

 at Romona Park on the Suburban line, 

 on Wednesday, July 21. They also re- 

 ported that they had not as yet found 

 a suitable meeting hall so it was de- 

 cided to retain the old quarters for the 

 summer. Treasurer Weber's report 

 showed a healthy balance in the club's 

 treasury. Trustee Smith announced 

 that he had arranged with the Big 

 Four R. R. for a special car for the 

 convention at Cincinnati in August. 



President Young urged a large at- 

 tendance at the July meeting when 

 nominations would take place. 



of conifers more especially, which to 

 some extent begin to assume their 

 true characteristics, and must soon 

 be transplanted at wider distances 

 apart. The party then passed through 

 the Japanese Magnolia Grove, and over 

 the Primula field of the Himalaya, the 

 Aubrietia lawns of the mountains of 

 the Orient, and along the ridges of the 

 Riesengebirges to the German plains 

 of the lower lands. Everywhere was 

 noted abundance of material to stimu- 

 late the observer; too much indeed to 

 be more than alluded to in a notice of 

 this kind. At the following meeting at 

 Abbrechtshof at Stiglitz an interesting 

 discussion took place concerning the 

 past Exhibition and the efforts put 

 forth to create a central horticultural 

 society. F. MOORE. 



