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HORTICULTURE 



January 25. 1913 



fied under an entirely new type, as 

 Primula malacoides stellata. 



Mr. Huss, who lately attended a 

 national flower show committee meet- 

 ing in New York, reported the progress 

 already made, and also told of his pa- 

 thetic interview with J. R. Trumpy, 

 the veteran plant breeder who did so 

 much in former years to propagate 

 and introduce the maples. The secre- 

 tary entertained the members by 

 reading an article from HORTICUL- 

 TURE of Nov. 23, 1912, by Richard 

 Rothe, on "Individuality a Factor in 

 the Advance of Horticulture." 



The next meeting will be held on 

 the 24th instant. 



GEORGE W. SMITH, Sec'y. 



Melrose, Conn. 



NEW CARNATION THE HERALD. 



COOK COUNTY (ILL.) FLORISTS' 

 ASSOCIATION. 



The Cook Co. Florists' Association 

 held its regular meeting Jan. 16 and 

 the chief business was the nomination 

 of officers, with the following result: 



President — A. C. Ivolilbrand, N. Miller; 

 vice-president — Geo. Wienhoeber, AUie 

 Zecli ; secretary — A. T. Pyfer; treasurer — 

 John Zech ; sergeant — Michael Finli. 



The same trustees were renominated. 



The following were elected to mem- 

 bership: 



A. E. Marine, 1134 Byrn Mawr, 111.; 

 Herbert Craig, 120 S. Wabash Ave. ; James 

 Novak, 2055 Devon Ave. ; John Evert, 20.">0 

 Devon Ave. ; Martin George, Schermer- 

 ville. 111. 



Those proposed for membership: Otto 

 Stroback, E. W. Siebrecht, John Swanson, 

 Fred J. Rose. 



The Chicago Carnation Co., showed 

 their new scarlet carnation, the Herald. 

 The large full flowers of a clear even 

 red, borne on 36 inch stems were held 

 straight as arrows and contrasted 

 beautifully with the clean, beautiful 

 green foliage. It was unanimously 

 voted a club certificate and the mem- 

 bers then took possession of the 

 flowers as souvenirs. 



CLUB AlVID SOCIETY NOTES. 



Harry A. Bunyard of New York will 

 deliver a lecture at the meeting of the 

 Newport Horticultural Society, New- 

 port, R. I., on January 28th. His topic 

 will be the "Royal International Hor- 

 ticultural Exposition at London." 



The Omaha Florists' Club held its 

 annual meeting on January 9. Officers 

 were elected as follows: President. 

 Charles Faulkner: vice-president, M. 

 Stanch; treasurer. George Swanson: 

 eecretary. Lewis Henderson; trustees. 

 George Sw-oboda, A. Hooge and Paul 

 Floth. 



The next in the series of lectures 

 in Horticultural Hall. Boston, will be 

 on "Factors Influencing the Formation 

 of Fruit Buds in Apple Trees." by 

 Prof. B. S. Pickett. Urbana, 111., on 

 Saturday, Feb. 1. at 2 P. M. 



On the following Saturday, Wm. W. 

 Tracy of Washington. D. C. will talk 

 on the "Adaptation of Local Grown 

 Seed to Local Conditions." 



The tenth annual meeting of the 

 Alabama State Horticultural Society 

 is being held at Bay Minette, Ala., this 

 week. The program includes many 

 valuable addresses on the fruit tree in- 

 dustry of the South, also on vegetable 

 growing and marketing. Bulb grow- 

 ing is to be considered in a paper by 

 L. H. Read of Deer Park. Ala. J. C. C. 



The Herald carnation, as seen by 

 the writer at Joliet, 111., on Jan. 20th. 

 would make a grower's heart rejoice. 

 Five thousand clean, strong plants 

 filled with buds and blooms, when with 

 most growers, carnations have re- 

 sponded charily to all efforts to secure 

 a reasonable crop this winter. The 

 Herald houses were a blaze of bright 

 red and the long stiff stems held the 

 flowers high in the air. The bloom is 

 large for so free a variety, full, com- 

 pact and regular in form; not a burst- 

 ed calyx was to be seen. Peter Olsem. 

 grower for the Chicago Carnation Co.. 

 said that he cut the first blooms in 

 quantity from these plants about Sept. 

 1.5th. and has cut regularly each day 

 since. At the holidays a very heavy 

 cut was made, proving its claim to be 

 a valuable new commercial red. 



Benches of two-year-old Pink En- 



Price Is acting secretary of the so- 

 ciety. 



The schedule of prizes for the mid- 

 winter and spring exhibition for 191:! 

 has been issued by the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society and those in- 

 leiested may obtain copies on applica- 

 tion to the secretary. W. P. Rich, Hor- 

 ticultural Hall, Boston. The dates are 

 Feb. 1 and 2. and March 14, 15. 16. Pri- 

 mulas, begonias, azaleas, orchids, bul- 

 bous plants, roses, carnations, fruits 

 and vegetables are listed for the first 

 one and the usual liberal prizes are 

 offered at the second, for acacias. Ram- 

 bler roses, cyclamen, azaleas, palms, 

 ericas, cinerarias, orchids, etc., the full 

 list of forced bulb stock, carnations, 

 roses, sweet peas, antirrhinums and ta- 

 ble decorations. For this latter show 



chantress were seen carrying an almost 

 unbelievable quantity of buds and 

 blooms. These plants were cut back 

 last year and left to summer in the 

 bench, with a top dressing given in 

 the fall. It was noticeable that they 

 were producing much more freely than 

 the one-year bench. White Wonder 

 fully justified its name. Washington 

 was producing plenty of blooms but 

 has to have settled weather to keep a 

 steady color. The Aviator at this time 

 leads all the reds in freedom of bloom 

 and we were told that it has done so 

 "611 the season. A very bright color. 

 Among the seedlings were No. 77. 

 light silvery pink; a large white pen- 

 ciled with carmine, and No. 246 which 

 is of a color hard to describe — deep 

 pink without a trace of purple. A 

 Lawson placed beside it makes it ap- 

 pear almost red. It is a beautiful thing 

 and will be heard from later. 



the prizes include three silver and two 

 bronze medals and J1700 in cash. 



The Tri-City Florist Club adopted 

 the following resolutions on the death 

 of John T. Temple: 



"Whereas, God, in His Infinite wisdom, 

 has called from our midst our brother 

 flori.^ts. John Temple; therefore, be it 



"Resolved, That our organization has 

 suffered the loss of a loyal member, eacli 

 of us a true friend, and the interest of 

 floriculture and horticulture an energetic 

 and tireless worker: also, be it 



"Resolved. That the members of the as- 

 sociation attend the funeral of our de- 

 parted member in a bod.v and extend our 

 s.vmpathy to the bereaved family; also 



"Resolved, That a copy of these resolu- 

 tions be sent to the family, the dally 

 paners, the trade papers, and spread on 

 the books of the association." 



John Staack, Harry Bills. Henry 

 •Meyer, Committee. 



