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HORTICULTURE 



December 21, 1907 



ST. LOUIS FLORIST CLUB. 



The St. Louis Florist Club held its 

 regular monthly meeting on last 

 Thursday in the Burlington Building. 

 The attendance was by far the largest 

 of the year, every seat in the room 

 being taken, which goes to show that 

 the new officers are doing good work 

 in entertaining the members and the 

 stay-at-homes missed another grand 

 treat. President Young was much 

 enthused when he took the chair to 

 open the meeting, on facing the large 

 attendance. There was quite a 

 sprinkling of visitors, among them 

 several young students from Shaw's 

 Garden. Fred. Ammann presented 

 resolutions on the death of P. J. Haus- 

 wirth, secretary of the S. A. F., which 

 were adopted and spread on the min- 

 utes and a copy was ordered sent to 

 the family and to each of the trade 

 papers. The trustees were ordered to 

 prepare an entertainment for the 

 members and their families and to re- 

 port at the next meeting, the enter- 

 tainment to take place early in Feb 

 ruary. 



Mr. S. L. Bray was introduced for a 

 talk on flower pots. In the course of 

 his talk he said he would like co-oper- 

 ation of the members in starting a 

 large pottery in this city and form a 

 stock company. A committee was ap- 

 pointed to look into the matter and 

 report at the next meeting. The com- 

 mittee consists of C. C. Sanders. W. 

 B. Guy, A. J. Bentzen, Emil Schray 

 and J. F. Ammann. 



The next on the program was a lec- 

 ture on the Royal Gardens of Kew 

 with stereopticon views, by G. H. 

 Poing who has charge of the orchid 

 houses at Shaw's Garden. This proved 

 one of the most interesting features 

 ever enjoyed by the club and Mr. 

 Poing was congratulated at the close. 

 ■Walter Mott. representing A. T. Bml- 

 dington. New York, was in attendanc h. 

 The first meeting in the new year will 

 take place .January 9th. 



GARDENERS' SOCIETY OF GREEN- 

 WICH. 



The Gardeners' Society of Green- 

 wich, Conn., whose membership in- 

 cludes about twenty-flve gardeners, is 

 formed to promote interest in horticul- 

 ture and to invite more direct atten- 

 tion to the important and ennobling 

 work involved. Silas Frost is presi- 

 dent and Thomas Young of Belle 

 Haven is secretary. Not alone is the 

 influence of the society expected to 

 improve the results from the work 

 of its members, but methods are to 

 be adopted that will, it is hoped, cre- 

 ate an enlarged interest among resi- 

 dents generally, and a special pro- 

 gram is already outlined for school 

 children. Grades are to be formed 

 and each of the children is to be given 

 a plant to take home and cultivate. 

 taking entire care of it until next 

 September, when there will be a care- 

 ful examination and inquiry into the 

 work of each child and the condition 

 of the plant in its charge. In each 

 of the grades there will be three 

 prizes. 



The society's aim will be to cause 

 the gardener and nurserymen to work 

 more in unison and enlarge upon the 

 community-ot-interest idea along most 

 worthy lines. It is reasonable to antic- 

 ipate that the organization will be- 



come a fixture which all will endeavor 

 to maintain, and it goes withoui, say- 

 ing that Greenwich will reap advan- 

 tages from what it accomplishes. 



T. YOUNG, Secy. 



KENTUCKY SOCIETY OF FLOR- 

 ISTS. 



At the recent meeting of the K. S. of 

 F. officers were elected as follows: 

 President, H. Kleinstarink; vice-presi- 

 dent, H. Fuchs; secretary, F. L. 

 Schulz; treasurer, J. Wettle. F. L. 

 Schulz, .1. Wettle, P. A. Reynolds, Jacob 

 Schulz, and J. E. Marret were ap- 

 jiointed a committee to arrange tor a 

 big chrysanthemum show next year. 



J. K. ALLEN 

 Treasurer-elect, New York Florists' 

 Club. 

 .T. K. Allen was born in Wippany, 

 Morris Co., N. J., received his educa- 

 tional training in Morristown schools, 

 and subsequently was engaged with 

 Jos. Towell at Paterson, N. J. for 

 several years. In 1S82 he embarked 



J. Iv. Aj.len 



in the florist business at Garfield, Pas- 

 saic. N. J. During the past twenty 

 years he has been engaged in the 

 wholesale commission flower business 

 in New York, where he has built up a 

 large tiade by his energy and ability 

 and integrity. 



Mr. Allen has also taken an active 

 interest in public affairs in the town 

 of Kearny, where he resides. He has 

 served on the board of Education and 

 is at the present time a member of the 

 Free Carnegie Library commission. 

 Foi- seven years he served in the 

 Kearny fire department holding re- 

 sponsible positions at various times In 

 that organization. He has always been 

 highly esteemed by all who know him 

 and it is well to say the finances of 

 the New York Florist Club will be 

 well cared for. 



Milwaukee Florist Club on December 

 5 elected officers as follows: F. H. 

 Holton. president: Chas. Menger, vice- 

 president: M. P. Vallier. secretary; J. 

 E. Pollworth, treasurer. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



At the recent meeting of the Vir- 

 ginia Horticultural Society the Emer- 

 son cup for the best fruit exhibit was 

 won by Dr. S. S. Guerrant of Franklin. 



The Montgomery County Horticul- 

 tural Society held its annual meeting 

 in Dayton, 0., on December 4. The 

 officers were re-elected for the coming 

 year, P. W. Ritter, president; D. Ber- 

 ger, secretary. 



Officers for the Menlo Park Horti- 

 cultural Society, California, for the 

 coming year are: President, Sidney 

 Clack; vice-president, M. W. Carter; 

 secretary, F. G. Hutchinson; treasurer, 

 George Munn. 



The Southwestern Iowa Horticultural 

 Society opened their annual meeting on 

 December 2, at Council Bluffs. Reports 

 presented show that the fruit industry 

 i-anks near the head of agricultural 

 interests in this section and is increas- 

 ing each year. 



The Horticultural Society of North- 

 ern Illinois met at Polo on December 

 3 and 4. An unusually fine display of 

 fruits and vegetables was made. 

 Among the valuable papers presented 

 was one by O. C. Simonds of Chicago, 

 on landscape gardening. 



The :\Iiehigan Horticultural Society 

 held its annual meeting in Battle Creek 

 during the week of December 1. The 

 fruit exhibit was magnificent. A fine 

 display was made by the State Agri- 

 cultural School and the experiment 

 station at South Haven. 



The new officers of the Nassau 

 County Horticultural Society, Glen 

 Cove, N. Y., are: A. Jaenecke, presi- 

 dent; S. J. Trepeas, vice-president; 

 W. S. Rennie, secretary; H. Matz, 

 treasurer; V. Kurz, corresponding sec- 

 retary. During the winter months 

 meetings will be held in the afternoon. 



The third annual conference under 

 the auspices of the committee on 

 children's gardens of the Massachu- 

 setts Horticultural Society was held 

 on December 14 at Horticultural Hall, 

 Boston. Henry Saxton Adams, the 

 chairman, stated In his address that 

 thirty-two localities have taken up 

 school and home gardening and the 

 interest is increasing. Principal Boy- 

 den of the State Normal School at 

 Bridgewater stated that in four normal 

 schools in the middle west there are 

 natural science gardens. Mr. Adams 

 awarded eight prizes and four specials 

 for school gardens, one for school 

 giounds, and six for home gardens. 



BUSINESS CHANGES. 



The nurseries of the Realty Syndi- 

 cate Co., Oakland, Calif., have been 

 leased by J. A. Furtado. 



Joseph Menny of Fresno, California, 

 has purchased the Macomber estate at 

 Chicopee, Mass., and will engage in 

 market gardening. 



"William White has purchased the 

 business of Robert Miller at B. Brook- 

 field, Mass. It is reported that Mr. 

 Miller will locate near Salt Lake City, 

 Utah, and take up the business of rose 

 growing on a large scale. 



