August 3, 1907. 



HORTICULTURE 



137 



MARYLAND STATE HORTICUL- 

 TURAL DAY, SEPT. 24, 1907. 



The Mar.viaud State Horticultural 

 Society will hold its summer meeting 

 at the .Jamestown Exposition, Septem- 

 ber 24th. Arangements have been 

 made through the department of spec- 

 •ial events to have this date known as 

 the Maryland Society's Day. Every 

 effort will be made to have a full at- 

 tendance of the association from all 

 parts of the State. It is thought that 

 the reduced rates from all parts of th'? 

 State, together with the selection of 

 date, which will be an ideal time to 

 visit the Exposition, as well as the fact 

 of the American Pomological Society, 

 and the Society for Horticultural 

 Science and Nut Growers' Association 

 meeting at the Expositon during that 

 week, will be inducements that the 

 members of the Maryland Association 

 cannot afford to miss. 



Prof, T. B. Symons, secretary of the 

 society, is now arranging an attractive 

 program for the day, which he hopes 

 to issue together with the premium list 

 to be offered for the annual exhibit in 

 Baltimore, December 3d and 4th. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



At a meeting of the Greenwich 

 Gard'eners' Society, Greenwich, Conn., 

 held on July 17. ofHcers w-ere elected 

 as follows: Pres.. Robert Williamson; 

 vice-pres., P. Flaherty; rec. sec'y.. 

 Thomas Young: fin. sec, John Harper: 

 treas., A, Mead. 



At the next meeting of the Florist 

 Club of Philadelphia, August 6. the 

 competition for the Craig prizes for 

 specimen plants of Nephrolepis Amer- 

 pohlii will be a centre of interest. A 

 paper is promised by Mr. George 

 Redle.s on "Some observations on 

 native plants." 



The Rhode Island Horticultural So- 

 ciety spent a pleasant day at the State 

 Experiment station, Kingston, on July 

 23. A clambake, speaking by President 

 Howard Edwards, Dr. H. H. Hartwell. 

 Prof. Adams and Dr. L. J. Cole, de- 

 monstrations of fruit culture and other 

 branches of the w-ork, were among the 

 enjoyable features. 



The New Hampshire Horticultural 

 3oci3ty was royally entertained by 

 George B. Leighton at Monadnock 

 Farms, Dublin, on July 18. It was the 

 annual summer outing of the society. 

 Secretary Hall called the meeting to 

 order at the close of the dinner and 

 after a welcome by Mr. Leighton, Wil- 

 frid Wheeler of Concord. Mass., spoke 

 on growing of small fruits: T. F. 

 Boorst reviewed the forestry situation, 

 statin.g that in Massachusetts there are 

 18,000 acres of young trees under cul- 

 tivation: E. D. Sanders stated that the 

 gypsy and brown tail moths seemed to 

 be under control in the State, and L. 

 J. Fosdick spoke on cranberry culture. 

 The winter meeting will be held in 

 October. 



The new giant-white perennial pea, 

 Lathyriis latifolius White Pearl is said 

 to be a great advance on the old varie- 

 ty in size of flower, purity and pro- 

 fuseness of bloom, and is strongly 

 recommended by The Garden as a 

 first-class subject for cutting and for 

 garden decoration. 



NEWROSE-Mrs. Jardine 



Will be distributed in March, 1908 



H Florists comirg to Philadelphia in August are cordially invited to visit our 

 Nurseries, and see the habit and growth of this sterling novelty. 



^ Mrs. Jardine was raised by Messrs. Alexander Dickson & Sons of 



Newtownards, and is in the same class for winter forcing as their previous 

 introductions — Liberty and Klllarney. 



ROBERT SCOTT & SON, Sharon Hill, Del. Co., Pa. 



OBITUARY. 



Homy P. Weber, vice-president of 

 the H. Weber & Sons Company and 

 in charge of the farm operations of 

 the company, at Oakland, Md., w<>.s 

 found, on the morning of July 20, 

 lying unconscious across his rifle in 

 the chicken coop with a bullet wound 

 back of his temple. He died four 

 houis later without regaining con- 

 sciousness. He had purchased a rille 

 some years previously for the purpose 

 of shooting minks and skunks which 

 wore destroying many af his chickens. 

 It is thought that he had heard a dis- 

 turbance in his chicken coop and had 

 taken his rille with him with the 

 thought of possibly shooting the dis- 

 tuiber and from the surroundings and 

 the location and direction of the 

 wound it i is thought that he had 

 stumbled and the rifle being thrown 

 from his hands was accidentally dis- 

 char.ged. There was nothing in the 

 attendant circumstances to indicate 

 suicide. Mr. Weber was 39 years of 

 age and is stirvived by a wife, five 

 children, his mother, five brothers and 

 five sisters. He was a devoted hus- 

 band, a loving father, a kind neighbor 

 and a man of the highest integrity. 

 His death cau.'^ed widespread sorrow 

 in the neighborhood where he lived. 



Christoph Meier, father of Carl 

 Meier, died at his son's home. Green 

 Bay, Wis.. July 18. The effects of 

 dropsy and old age caused the demise. 

 Mr. Meier was 84 years old. 



A speaker before the Springfield Bo- 

 tanical Society recently in discussing 

 the insect pests of New England trees, 

 declared that good pine lumber had 

 doubled in price in six years, and that 

 pine shingles, once in common use, are 

 now so high priced as to be practically 

 out of the market. The substitutes 

 which have taken their place are also 

 much higher than formerly. White- 

 wood, used largely for interior finish, 

 is one-third higher than five years ago. 

 while spruce lumber has doubled in 

 price in ten years, a set of facts which 

 show that the time has arrived for 

 conserving our stores of wood, through 

 forest reservations, better protection 

 against fire, and more systematic 

 methods of fighting insect pests. But 

 for the coming of concrete and other 

 non-combustible building materials 

 which lessen to some extent the de- 

 mands on our forests, the outlook for a 

 supply of housebuilding materials at 

 reasonable prices would be most dis- 

 quieting. 



A GERANIUM PEST. 

 .Ml the geraniums planted out In the 

 parks at Sandusky, O., and with some 

 of the florists are being slowly eaten 

 up by cutworms. I have not seen a 

 perfect leaf of flower on the many 

 thousands of plants used. It does not 

 sound true, but it is a fact. 



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