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HOfiTICULTUKE 



January 4, 1913 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



LANCASTER (PA.) FLOR- 

 IST CLUB. 



On Dec. 19tli this club met 

 and had a very good paper 

 read by Harry Weaver of 

 Bird-in-Hand, on the subject 

 "Should We Grow More of a 

 Variety for Christmas?" in 

 which he emphasized the fact 

 that the grower who is sup- 

 plying the wholesale market 

 through a commission house 

 is better off if he sticks to one 

 or two things and grows them 

 well. He also deplored the 

 fact that in buying seeds for 

 special crops results were not 

 nearly so good from bought 

 seeds as could be procured 

 later on from seeds of one's 

 own growing and selection. In 

 the discussion that followed 

 it was generally conceded 

 that, situated as we are, con- 

 siderable distance from our 

 market, it is best to stick 

 to the standard varieties 

 where growing for cut flowers. 



A committee was appointed 

 to arrange for a banquet after 

 our next meeting, which will 

 be a sort of banner affair 

 starting with a visiting trip 

 to Strasburg at 1 P. M., 

 Thursday, Jan. 16th, and re- 

 turning to Lancaster for the 

 meeting and, after the meet- 

 ing the banquet in the form of a social 

 Session. Any out-of-town florist wha 

 happens to be in the city on this date 

 should meet the crowd at the Tractioi 

 waiting room and Join us. 



ALBERT M. HERR. 



John K. M. L. Farquhab 



President Society of American Florists and Ornamental Ilor 



tifultlil-ists. 



HORTICULTURAL CLUB 

 OF BOSTON. 



PYed Dawson of Olmsted 

 Bros., and W. P. Edgar were 

 guests of the Horticultural 

 Club of Boston at its month- 

 ly meeting, January 1. A 

 rich centrepiece of azaleas 

 and ferns by E. Allan Pelrce 

 graced the dining table. Wil- 

 liam Sim contributed two 

 large vases of Zvolanek's 

 new winter-flowering Spencer 

 sweet peas, this being the 

 first time they have been 

 shown. No word description 

 can do justice to these lovely 

 things, the names of which 

 were published for registra- 

 tion by the S. A. F., last 

 week. These names, given 

 by Mr. Zvolanek, were freely 

 criticised as being inappro- 

 priate. R. & J. Farquhar & 

 Co. presented an arrangement 

 of poinsettias with the grace- 

 ful sprays of Buddleia asiat- 

 ica. producing a brilliant and 

 really sensational effect. The 

 delightful perfume of the 

 Buddleia filled the room. 



An invitation to the S. A. 

 F. to hold its convention in 

 Boston in connection with an 

 outdoor summer show in 

 1914, was advocated and 

 unanimously favored by the 

 gentlemen present. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS 

 AND ORNAMENTAL HORTI- 

 CULTURISTS. 

 New Directors Appointed. 



President J. K. M. L. Farquhar has 

 appointed August F. Poehlmann, Mor- 

 ton Grove, 111., and Thomas Roland, 

 Nahant. Mass., as members of the 

 Board of Directors to serve three 

 years from Januarv 1, 1913. 



JOHN YOUNG. Secretary. 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY CREATES 

 A NEW OFFICE. 



One of the first official acts of Presi- 

 dent Farquhar of the Massachusetts 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



The 27th annual meeting of the Ore- 

 gon State Horticultural Society was 

 held December ISth to the 20th. It 

 was a very successful meeting. 



ArOtJST F. I'UEUL.MA.N.N 

 MenilitT of Board of Ilireclors, S. 



A. F. 



The meeting of the Oregon-Washing- 

 ton Association of Nurserymen will be 

 held on the 13th and 14th of January 

 at Kennewick, Wash., and immediately 

 following on the 15th. 16th and 17tb 

 will be the meeting of the Washington 

 State Horticultural Society at Nortli 

 Yakima, Wash. 



The Tarrytown Horticultural Society 

 will hold their Fourteenth Anni.al Din- 

 ner at the Florence Inn, Broadway, 

 Tarrytown, N. Y., on Wednesday 

 evening, January 8, at 7.30 P. M. Long 

 experience and a set of enthusiastic 

 officials give assurance that this event 

 will be one of the gala occa.sions of 

 the season, well-filled with wisdom, 

 wit and well-ordered festivity. 



Thomas Roland 

 Member of Bourd of Directors. 



S. A. F. 



