October 19, 1907 



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died trade visitors are usually in at- 

 tendance at the Chicago shows the in- 

 ducements for commercial exhibits by 

 growers and others are exceptional 

 The preliminary list of premiums can 

 be had on application to the assistant 

 secretary, E. A. Kp.nst, 5700 Cottage 

 Grove Ave., Chicago, 11!. The final 

 premium list is ijromised for next 

 week. 



A SCOTCH PRIZE-WINNING GROUP OF FRUIT. 



San Diego (Cal.) Floral Association. 



At a meeting of this society held on 

 September 26, plans for the coming 

 flower show were discussed and Octo- 

 ber 25, 2C, 27 were the dates select=!d 

 for it. A committee was appointed to 

 solicit cups or other prizes of value 

 from interested citizens to be offered 

 to the exhibitors. Mrs. Rodney Stokes 

 is secretary. 



The Missouri Botanical Gardens, St. 

 Louis, will hold a chrysanthemum 

 show again this year in the large tent, 

 beginning on the first week in Novem- 

 ber if the plants are in exhibition form, 

 or as soon thereafter as possible. 



Adolph Brix of St. Louis Ave., St. 

 Louis, Mo., will hold a flower show on 

 November 7, S, 9. in the large hall of 

 the Y. M. C. A., at 19th and St. Louis 

 avenue. No admission will be charged. 

 Mr. Brix is an enterprising florist. In 

 addition to his large store on the av- 

 enue he has recentl>' purchased the 

 old Kluckenkemper place. 



The following have been mentioned 

 at length in preceding issues of HOR- 

 TICULTURE: 



Lenox Horticultural Society, Lenox, 

 Mass., Oct. 23, 24. G. H. Instone, sec- 

 retary. 



Marin County Horticultural Society. 

 San Rafael, Cal., Oct. 26. T. P. Red- 

 mayne, secretary. 



Monmouth County Horticultural So- 

 ciety, Red Bank, N. J., Oct. 30, 31. H. 

 A. Kettell, secretary. 



Morris County Gardeners' and Flor- 

 ists' Society, Morristown, N. J., Oct. 

 '31, Nov. 1. Edw. Reagan, secretary. 



New Haven County Horticultural 

 Society, Now Haven. Conn., Nov. 6-8. 

 Walter Koella, 58 Bishop St., New 

 Haven, secretary. 



Chrysanthemum Society of America, 

 American Institute, 19-21 West 44th 

 St., New York City, Nov. 6-8. David 

 Praser, Homewood and Penn Ave., 

 Pittsburg, Pa., secretary. 



Nassau County Horticultural Socie- 

 ty, Glen Cove. N. Y., Nov. 6-8. J. F. 

 Johnston, secretary. 



Denisori Civic Improvement League, 

 Denison, Tex., Nov. 6-8. T. W. Lar- 

 kin, secretary. 



Tarrytown Horticultural Society, 

 Tarrytown, N. Y.. Nov. 6-8. E. W. 

 Neubrand. secretary. 



Massachusetts Horticultural Socie- 

 ty, Horticultural Hall, Boston, Chrys- 

 anthemum show, Nov. 8-10. W. P. 

 Rich, secretary. 



Horticultural Society of Buffalo, 

 Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 11-17. J. H. Tran- 

 ter, P. O. Box 994, secretary. 



Florists Club of Washington (D. C). 

 Nov. 12-14. Chas. McCauley, ISth & 

 Kearney Sts., Washington, D. C, sec- 

 retary. 



Montreal Gardeners' and Florists' 



The elegant little collection of fancy 

 fruit shown in the picture was th? 

 winner of the silver challenge cup 

 which appears alongside, at the 95th 

 annual show of the Glasgow and West 

 of Scoiland Horticultural Society on 



Septenii^er 4 last. It was shown by 

 ■lanies i-.rown, gardener to A. A. Spiers. 

 Houston. The standard of quality 

 fchown in this collection of twelve 

 dishes of fruit is. we think, high 

 enough to make any aspiring gardener 

 "sit up and take notice." 



C'lV.b, Chrysanthemum show, Nov. 13, 

 14. Victoria Rifles Hall. Montreai, Que. 

 W. H Horobin. 283 Marquette St., sec- 

 retary. 



State Floral Society of Arkansas, 

 Little Rock. Nov. 14-16. 



Rhode Island Horticultural Society, 

 Providence. Nov. 15. 16. C. W. Smith, 

 27 Lxchange St.. secretary. 



Worcester Couuty Horticultural So- 

 ciety. Chrysanthemum show, Worces- 

 ter, Mass., Nov. 14. A. A. Hixon. sec- 

 retary . 



Ontario Horticultural Exhibition. 

 Massey Music Hall. Toronto. Out., 

 Nov. 12-16. H. B. Cowan, Parliament 

 Buildings, Toronto, secretary. 



Maryland State Horticultural Socio- 

 t\, Fifth Reg. Armory, Baltimore. Dec. 

 3. 4 T. B. Syraonds, College Park, 

 Md.. secretary. 



St. Louis Horticultural Society, 

 Grand and Park aves., St. Louis, Mo., 

 November 12-1;". 



Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. 

 Horticultural Hall. Philadelphia. Nov. 

 12-15 David Rust. Secretary. 



AMERICAN POMOLOGICAL SO- 

 CIETY. 



The A.nierican Pomological Society 

 at its Thirteenth Biennial session held 

 at the lamesiown Exposition. Norfolk. 

 Va., September 24th. awarded to Ell- 

 wanger & Barry the Wilder Medal, for 

 their display of fruit, consisting of 111 

 vaiieties of pears, 9f varieties of ap- 

 ples and 40 rarieties of grapes. 



Marshall P. Wilder who was for 

 many years the president of this So- 

 ciety, bequeathed to the Society $1,000, 

 the income of which was to be used 

 frotn time to time for Wilder Medals 

 for ob.iects of 2i)ecial merit. He also 

 added a further sum of |1,000 for other 

 uses of the Society. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY OF 

 AMERICA. 



Work of Committees. 

 New York, Oct. 12th, "Ko. 2n." dark 

 old rose (.lap) exhibited by C. H. 

 Totty, Madison, N. J. Scored 85 points, 

 exhibition scale. 



The Lord fe Biirnham Company offers 

 a gold medal for the best new chrysan- 

 theniun; which has never been ex- 

 hibited in this countrv before. 



DAVID FRASER. Sec'v. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



The Minnesota Horticultural Society 

 will hold its annual meeting at Minne- 

 apolis on December 3, 4, 5. 



The annual meeting of the Northeri 

 Illinois Horticultural Society will be 

 held in Polo, December 4 and 5. 



At a meeting of the directors of the 

 Arkansas State Floral Society. Little 

 Rock, on September 25, Paul M. Palez 

 was elected manager of the chrysan- 

 themum show. 



The regular monthly meeting of i.he 

 State Florists' Society of Indiana was 

 held October 1st. The fall show will 

 be held in A. Wiegand and Sons' con- 

 servatory, Indianapolis, the firm giv- 

 ing the use of the building and deco- 

 ratins it for the occasion. 



.Tosiah Young's store in Troy. N. Y., 

 was the meeting place for the Albany 

 Florists' Club on the 3d inst. Among 

 ether topics, that of holding the meet- 

 ings in a hall was talked over, and 

 P. Hyde, Fred Henkes and Edward 

 Tracey were appointed to look into 

 the matter and report. 



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