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HORTICULTURE 



Ot'tober 19, 1907 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



NEW YORK FLORISTS' CLUB. 



The October meeting of this club was 

 attended by between sixty and seven- 

 ty nnenibeis. The special feature of the 

 evening was a talk by George V. Nash 

 of the N. Y. Botanical Garden on 

 Water Lilies and other Aquatics.. Mr. 

 Nash illustrated his remarks by means 

 of numerous lantern slides, many of 

 which were beautifully colored, show- 

 ing views in the Bronx gardens, the 

 aquatic ponds of S. C. Xash, and por- 

 traits of beautiful nymphaeas of the 

 tender and hardy groups, nelumbiums 

 and other bright flowering water and 

 bog plants, also trees, shrubs and her- 

 baceous plants and grasses suitable for 

 the margins of lily ponds. The lecture 

 covered methods of treatment, plant- 

 ing, culture, insect enemies and other 

 pertinent subjects of interest to the 

 lover of water plants and i)roved very 

 entertaining to the audience. 



The change in the by-laws, consti- 

 tuting a lite member.ship on payment 

 of $75.00 was adopted and three new 

 members were added to the roll. 



On the platform were a number of 

 interesting exhibits. President Totty 

 showed some fine blooms of chrysan- 

 themums, including E. Newman, yel- 

 low, American seedling No. 60, white, 

 Mrs. Rider Haggard, white, Beatrice 

 May, white, O. H. Broomhead, maroon 

 incurved, Mme. Loiseau Rousseau and 

 Australian seedling No. HO, old rose 

 with gold reverse, the latter being 

 awarded ST points and honorable men- 

 tion. A. T. Boddington showed a fine 

 cosmos named Lady Lenox, grown by 

 Wm. Duckham and received a certifi- 

 cate of merit therefor. This novelty 

 will be introduced during the coming 

 season. Fred Hollander of Ozone Park 

 was awarded honorable mention for a 

 vase of named dahlias. From Robert 

 Scott & Son came a vase of their new- 

 rose, Mrs. Jardine, to which the judges 

 gave a preliminary certificate. Prom 

 opinions freely expressed by good 

 judges this beautiful rose is destined 

 to take high place as a commercial 

 florists' variety. Its parentage — Ki!- 

 larney and Liberty is a pretty good 

 guarantee of its qualities. In color it 

 is silvery pink, it has the fragrance of 

 La France and as seen on this occa- 

 sion is one of the most symmetrically 

 formed .and elegantly moulded blooms 

 in the Hybrid Tea class. Dailledouze 

 Bros, were awarded honorable mention 

 for carnation Afterglow and H. Beau- 

 lieu showed a nasturtium with pretty 

 variegated green and white foliage. 



PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



A dozen vases of cosmos and a few 

 vases of good early chrysanthemums 

 were the leading features outside of 

 routine business at the monthly meet- 

 ing of the above society held on the 

 15th in.it. Wm. Robertson got a first 

 and a cultural certificate on Beatrice 

 May chn'santhemum for a half dozen 

 flowers of gigantic size and unusually 

 good foliage. Nothing as fine in this 

 difficult variety has ever been shown 

 here and good judges declare no other 

 city has yet produced their equaL 



GARDENERS' AND FLORISTS' 

 CLUB OF BOSTON. 



The meeting of this organization on 

 Tuesday evening, October 16, was as 

 usual a big one, there being fully one 

 hundred and fifty present to hear the 

 paper on the cultivation of fruit, by 

 Mr. Wilfrid Wheeler. Mr. Wheeler is 

 a worthy representative of the young- 

 er element of fruit growers in Massa- 

 chusetts, fully imbued with the senti- 

 ment and love of his specialty and rec- 

 ognized as representing the spirit of 

 revival of an induFtry which had be- 

 come almost moss-grown, but which 

 under the impetus and stimulant of 

 new blood and modern progressive 

 ideas promises to exert a big influence 

 on the horticultural prosperity of New 

 England in the near future. We will 

 not anticipate the contents of Mr. 

 Wheeler's address, the publication of 

 which is deferred until next week on 

 account of material of prior date, and 

 will only say that it was clean-cut and 

 practical and was listened to with close 

 attention and was discussed at consid- 

 erable length after its reading. There 

 were on the platform many dishes of 

 fine fruit left from the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society's fruit exhibition 

 of last week, and Mr. Wheeler made 

 use of these frequently to illustrate his 

 remarks and show the different varie- 

 ties under, varying conditions of cul- 

 ture. The impression generally, we 

 may safely say, was one of hopefulness 

 for the future prosperity of garden cul- 

 ture of choice fruits throughout New 

 England districts. The various prep- 

 arations for the control of San Jose 

 scale and other insects were discussed 

 and It was shown that while "Scale- 

 cide" is all right in its effectiveness, 

 it is entirely too expensive for any 

 use outside of garden culture, and that 

 for large operations in orchard work 

 the lime-sulphur wash is the only 

 practical preparation, its chief draw- 

 back being the difficulty of preparing 

 it in small quantities. 



The committee on landscape classes 

 for the coming season reported reali- 

 ness to begin work at an early date, 

 and requested that all wishing to take 

 advantage of the opportunity offered 

 by the elementary class and the ad- 

 vanced class send in their names at 

 once. It was stated that J. A. Petti- 

 grew had agreed to occupy three even- 

 ings of the course with instruction in 

 practical work in road-making, tree- 

 planting, etc.. and that one of the 

 most prominent landscape architects 

 in New York would take charge of 

 one evening. 



There were some excellent exhibits 

 on the platform. Nerine Fothergilla 

 major from W. N. Craig, received a re- 

 port of merit for superior cultivation. 

 Wm. Downs received a similar award 

 for a beautiful plant of Celosia plu- 

 mosa pyramidalis. W. W. Rawson 

 was given honorable mention for a 

 vase of anemones, one of dahlias anJ 

 an exhibit of colchicums. George 

 Page of Newton Centre showed a vase 

 of flowers of Climbing Kaiserin rose. 



Messrs. Wheeler, Holbrow and Rust 

 were appointed nominating committee 

 to report a list of officers to be voted 

 for at the November meeting, and 

 eight new members were admitted. 



ST. LOUIS FLORISTS' CLUB. 



The local florist club held its month- 

 ly meeting on Thn'sday with 21 mem- 

 bers present. President Young in the 

 chair, and all the new ofltcers in at- 

 tendance performing their duties like 

 veterans. A vase of dahlias was at the 

 inesident'.s right from Henry .Tenne- 

 mann, a dahlia expert of Webster 

 Grove. The trustees reported through 

 their new chairman, Chas. Schoenle, 

 that the club's show goods had not 

 been disposed of as the offers were too 

 small. They were given full power to 

 act. 



Votes of sympathy were extended to 

 our friend George M. Kellogg in his 

 loss of half of his plants by an ex- 

 plosion; and to the Chicago Florists' 

 Club in the loss of their fellow-mem- 

 ber, Edgar Sanders, who had often at- 

 tended our club meetings. 



Adolph Brix invited the members 

 with ladies to attend his flower show 

 on November 8, and the invitation was 

 accepted. Fred Ammann of Edwards- 

 ville, 111., spoke of the flower show of 

 the Illinois State Fair given the past 

 week at Springfield, of which he had 

 charge. G. H. Pring of the Missouri 

 Botanical Garden was called on for 

 remarks on what he saw in England 

 this sutnmer. He stated that he had 

 taken photographs of many interesting 

 things and would give a lecture with 

 stereopticon views before the club if 

 desired. This offer was accepted and 

 the December meeting selected, when 

 the entire trade will be invited. The 

 question box brought out many good 

 discussions. 



The next meeting of the club will 

 come during Flower Show week, and 

 the trustees were instructed to prepare 

 to entertain visiting florists. On 

 motion J. J. Ben eke and Prof. H. C. 

 Irish were added to this committee to 

 confer with a committee from the 

 Horticultural Society to unite in this 

 matter. After adjournment lunch was 

 served at a near-by restaurant where 

 short talks were given. The club 

 seems to have a prosperous year before 

 it. 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY. 



The nominating committee of the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society 

 announces the following list of candi- 

 dates for the various offices of the 

 Society for the ensuing year which are 

 to be filled at the annual ele<;tion, 

 November 16: President, Stephen M. 

 Weld; vice-president, Walter Hunne- 

 well; trustees, for three years, Walter 

 C. Baylies, Charles W. Parker, John 

 A Pettigrew, William Whitman; 

 nominating committee, Wm. H. Bow- 

 ker, John W. Duncan. J. Henry 

 Fletcher, David F. Roy, WUfrid 

 Wheeler. 



The members of the nominating 

 committee for the present year are: 

 A. F. Estabrook, W. H. Heustis, Wil- 

 liam Nicholson, E. B. Wilder and 

 Loring Underwood. 



WM. P. RICH, Sec'y. 



