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HORTICULTURE, 



November 2, 1907 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY OF 

 AMERICA. 

 The annual meeting of the C. S. A. 

 will be held on the first day of the 

 annual show, Nov. 6th, at 4 p. m., in 

 the rooms of the American Institute, 

 New York City, and it is hoped that 

 the members and the craft in general 

 will avail themselves of the oppor- 

 tunity to be present at this meeting. 

 A very interesting programme has 

 been prepared. Mr. Wm. Duckham 

 has kindly consented to read a paper 

 on the Cultivation of the Chrysan- 

 themum for Exhibition Purposes, and 

 Mr. C. H. Totty one on Single Va- 

 rieties, which should prove interest- 

 ing. The exhibition promises to be 

 the best in the history of the society, 

 and, no doubt, the great show to be 

 held in Chicago next fall will form 

 an interesting topic for talk at this 

 meeting. 



Work of Committees. 



Chicago, Oct. 26. — Virginia Poehl- 

 mann; white (Bonnafon type). Ex- 

 hibited by Poehlmann Bros. Co., Mor- 

 ton Grove, Ills. Scored 89 points, 

 commercial scale. 



Chicago, Oct. 26. — Pacific Supreme; 

 pink (Glory of Pacific type). Ex- 

 hibited by Nathan Smith & Son, 

 Adrian, Mich. Scored 87 points, com- 

 mercial scale. 



New York, Oct. 26.— No. 90; 

 creamy white (Jap. reflexed). Ex- 

 hibited by John N. May, Summit, 

 N. J. Scored 74 points, commercial 

 scale. 



New York, Oct. 26.— No. 9; white 

 (Jap. incurved). Exhibited by John 

 Marshall, Newport, R. I. Scored 85 

 points, commercial scale. 



Philadelphia, Oct. 26.— No. 66-5-06; 

 white (Jap.). Exhibited by Nathan 

 Smith & Son. Scored 81 points, com- 

 mercial scale. 



Philadelphia, Oct. 26.— Miss Frances 

 P. D. Fell; orange yellow (Jap. in- 

 curved). Exhibited by H. B. Surman, 

 Ft. Washington, Pa. Scored 87 points, 

 commercial, and 85 points, exhibition, 

 scale. DAVID ERASER, Sec'y. 



TOLEDO FLORISTS' CLUB. 



Election of officers brought a good 

 many of the club members to the 

 last meeting, the first respectable 

 attendance which we have had in a 

 long time. The old oflicers were re- 

 elected by acclamation, but the office 

 of treasurer and secretary, Mr. Peck, 

 who resigned, was given to J. L. 

 Schiller. It was quite a lively meet- 

 ing, and it was decided to hold a 

 chrysanthemum show on a day be- 

 tween the 10th and 20th of Novem- 

 ber. This is mainly to interest the 

 public, and no prizes will be given. 

 Outsiders will be asked to contribute 

 and thus help to make the affair a 

 success. W. W. Krueger and J. L. 

 Schiller will have charge of the show. 

 On November 1st a number of the 

 members will join the Detroit Flor- 

 ists' Club, upon invitation, on their 

 outing to Mt. Clemens. 



NEW ORLEANS HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



Regular meeting of the abovo named 

 society was held at the residence of 

 President Chas. Eble on October 17. 

 P. A. Chopin, on behalf of the com- 

 mittee on chrysanthemum meeting to 

 l:e held during the month of No/ember, 

 reported that they had not been able 

 to secure a suitable hall. They were 

 granted further time. 



A geneial discussion ensued on the 

 jirospects of chrysanthemum flowers 

 for All Saints' Day, the ttst of Novem- 

 ber, and the consensus of opinion was 

 that there would be sufficient for all 

 purposes, although several growers 

 had practically lost their entiie crop 

 through thrips. 



The meeting then adjourned to the 

 dining room, where a sumijtuous re- 

 past was spread, and the members 

 were wailed upon by Mr. Eble's two 

 sons and his neice, whils his daughter 

 regaled the members with choice sclec- 

 lions on the piano. It was regretted 

 by all that Mrs. Chas. Eble was not 

 aijle to be present owing to illness. 

 Appreciative speeches were made by 

 several members. 



C. R. PANTER, Sec. 



CONNECTICUT HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 

 The regular meeting of abo\ e socie- 

 ty was held in County Building, Hart- 

 ford, on Oct. 25. Vice-President Huss 

 occupied the cbair. There was a large 

 attendance of members. Mr. Huss ex- 

 hibited new strains of streptocarpus 

 and cosmos which, on account of the 

 extraordinary size and substance of 

 the flowers, created mucti interest and 

 were awarded liidomas. Both are of 

 English origin, and are distinct ac- 

 quisition, the cos-mos esjiecially being 

 valuable in that, in addition to the 

 greatly improved Mowers, it comes into 

 blooms several weeks earlier than the 

 familiar type. Mr. Huss .gave an inter- 

 esting and instructive talk, describing 

 the cultural methods he employed for 

 stieptocarpus and cosmos in order to 

 pet the best results, whether grown in 

 (he open borders or as pot plants. He 

 received a hearty vote of thanks for 

 his thoroughly practical address. The 

 question box contained a number of 

 pertinent queries, all of which were 

 answered satisfactorily. 



ALEX. GUMMING. 



NEWPORT HORTICULTURAL SO- 

 CIETY. 



A meeting of the Newport Horticul- 

 tural Society was held October 22, 

 President rsutteilon in the chair. Nine 

 new members were admitted. Mr. 

 MacLellan announced that Senator 

 Wetmore had offered the use of a part 

 of his lawn to the society, whereon a 

 tent may be erected for the accoramo- 

 daiion of a part or all of the exhibits 

 when the society settles to hold an 

 exhibition next year. The offer was 

 appreciatively received with the under- 

 standing pievailing that in all likeli- 

 hood there will be but one show next 

 year — a liig one and that on the 

 grounds of Senator Wetmore. D. M. 



THE NATIONAL FLOWER SHOW 

 COMMITTEE. 



It being impossible for me to write 

 a second time to every member of 

 the Committee of Fifty, individually, 

 I take this means of informing them 

 that the meeting of the committee 

 will open promptly at 2.30 p. m. on 

 Nov. 8, at the Auditorium Annex, 

 Chicago. 



WM. F. KASTING, Chairman. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



Walter P. Stokes will give an infor- 

 mal talk on forcing of lily of the val- 

 ley before the Flci-ists' Club of Phila- 

 delphia on Tuesday. November 5 



R. Vincent. Jr., iS Sons Co.. of White 

 .Marsh. Md., have promised an exten- 

 sive display of hardy pompon chrysan- 

 them\iRis, under the personal super- 

 vision of R. Vincent, Jr., and T. A. 

 Vincent, at the Boston chrysanthemum 

 show, November 8th. 



The .Pacific Coast Horticultural So- 

 ciety and the State F'loral Society com- 

 bined in giving a coraplimentan dahlia 

 show recently at San Francisco, at 

 which W m. Kettlewell, gardener for 

 Geo. A. Fope, and H. Maclean, gardener 

 for Mrs. W. H. Crocker, carried off all 

 Ihe first prizes. H. Maier, superinten- 

 dent of the Stockdale Nurseries, ex- 

 hibited a fine lot of cyclamens and 

 Nephrolepis Whitmanii, for which he 

 was awarded special prizes. 



HELPLESSNESS OF CULTIVATED 

 PLANTS. 



We rarely realize how helpless man ' 

 has rendered the plants he cultivates 

 by the centuries of protection from 

 their weed enemies that he has given 

 them. An experiment that well illus- 

 trates this point was made on one of 

 the Government farms some time ago. 

 A field about one acre in extent upon 

 which wheat had been grown for forty 

 years in succession was not harvested 

 but allowed to stand and shed its seeds 

 as it would. The next year a fair crop 

 of wheat came up, but the weeds were 

 gaining the ascendancy, and by the 

 fourth season all the wheat had dis- 

 appeared from the field and the weeds 

 held full sway. If man should sudden- 

 ly disappear from the earth it is cer- 

 tain that his cultivated crops would 

 soon follow him. And yet these very 

 plants held their own against their 

 competitors before man took them un- 

 der his care. The reason they can no 

 longer persist in the face of competi- 

 tion is not alone because they have 

 grown weaker, but in a measure be- 

 cause the weeds have grown stronger. 

 In protecting his crops man has co.i- 

 stantly killed out the weak and least 

 persistent weeds, and only those were 

 left to perpetuate their kind that were 

 able to elude man himself. One spe- 

 cies, the self-heal (Prunella vulgaris), 

 which ordinarily grows a foot or mora 

 high, has produced a variety so low 

 that it is able to thrive on a closely 

 mowed lawn. Darwin never consid- 

 ered the lawn-mower as one of the fac- 

 tors of evolution, but undoubtedly this 

 Yankee invention has played its part 

 in the great struggle. — American Bot- 

 anist. 



