February 8, 1913 



HOETICULTUEE 



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without a leg. If you wish us to diag- 

 nose that jiroposition you will put us 

 in line for the "diplomat" prize; That 

 committee ought to be wa'.ied up. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



The Gardeners' and Florists' Club of 

 Baltimore will hold their semi-month- 

 ly meeting in Florists' Exchange Hall, 

 on Monday, February 10. at 8 P. M. 



The meeting of the New York Flor- 

 ists' Club next Monday night will be 

 "Carnation Night." By special request 

 all growers are invited to send in any 

 novelties in carnations or other tiowers 

 for the insiiection of the club. 



Officers for 1913 have been elected by 

 the Spokane, 'Wash., Horticultural So- 

 ciety are as follows: John W. Dun- 

 can, president; Denton M. Crow, vice- 

 president; Alexander Carr, secretary; 

 A. F. Kelly, treasurer. Executive com- 

 mittee: 'William J. Burnette, Samuel 

 ■younkln and Adam Noble. 



The St. Louis Florist Club will hold 

 Its "Publicity" meeting. Feb. 13. at 2 

 o'clock. President "Weber, Secretary 

 Beneke and Chairman Ossick of the 

 trustees are lining up the members and 

 have a promise of a large attendance. 

 There will also be plenty of good 

 cigars for the smokers to Ijurn up. 



The Nebraska State Florists' Society 

 met on January 22 at the Lindell hotel, 

 Lincoln. Officers for the ensuing year 

 elected were: Ed. 'Williams, Grand 

 Island, president: J. W. Lawson, York, 

 vice-president; Louis Henderson, Oma- 

 ha, secretary, and J. E. Atkinson, Paw- 

 nee City, treasurer; board of directors 

 named were: C. H. Prey, Lincoln; W. 

 E. Davidson, York, and Harry Pence, 

 Falls City. 



At the meeting of the Centr-'l N-in- 

 York Horticultural Society held in But- 

 ler Hall, New Hartford, January 24, the 

 members discussed "The Perennial 

 Flower Garden," and many interesting 

 points in raising flowers were sug- 

 gested. There was a large attendance, 

 good interest being shown by all pres- 

 ent. February 14, C. H. Totty of Mad- 

 ison, N. J., will give a talk upon "The 

 Culture of Chrysanthemums." 



On Saturday afternoon, February 1, 

 a large and interested audience heard 

 the third lecture of the regular series 

 given by the Massachusetts Horticul- 

 tural Society at Boston. Prof. B. S. 

 Pickett of Urbana, III., gave an inter- 

 esting talk on "The Factors Influenc- 

 ing the Formation of Fruit Buds in 

 Apple Trees," an especially timely sub- 

 ject at this moment owing to general 

 interest in fruit culture in the East. 



The next lecture will be on Saturday, 

 February 8, by 'W. W. Tracy of 'Wash- 

 ington, D. C, on "The Adaptation of 

 Local Grown Seed to Local Condi- 

 tions." 



At a meeting of gladiolus growers 

 at Cleveland, Feb. 1st, 191:;, in re- 

 sponse to a previous call. The Gladio- 

 lus Society of Ohio was organized, a 

 constitution adopted and officers elect- 

 ed as follows; President, C. Betscher, 

 Canal Dover, 0.; vice-president, Mrs. 

 A. H. Austin, 'Wayland, O.; secretary 

 and treasurer, 'Wilbur A. Christy, 'War- 

 ren, O. An executive committee was 

 also ordered, consisting of Messrs. Al- 



ford, Crawford and Hrntington. Other 

 committees were also • a iied, and the 

 society is ready for b s ness. The 

 membership is not to be confined ex- 

 clusively to Ohio, as the name might 

 seem to indicate, and the society hopes 

 to co-operate in a friend. y way with 

 other organizations of similar purpose, 

 in testing and exhibiting varieties of 

 its specialty. 



'WILBUR A. CHRISTY, Sec. 



Breck's Club, composed of salesmen 

 connected with Joseph Breck & Sons, 

 Corp., Boston, held its regular monthly 

 meeting and dinner on the evening of 

 February 1 at the Quincy House. The 

 following officers were re-elected for 

 the ensuing year: President, James T. 

 Carroll; vice-president, Henry L. 

 Haynes; secretary, George H. Sibley; 

 treasurer, 'William J. Collins; executive 

 committee, 'William F. Wilson, Harry 

 L. Stewart and Guy C. Small. The 

 principal speaker, George D. 'Winches- 

 ter of the Bradley Fertilizer Company, 

 spoke on commercial fertilizers and 

 chemicals. An entertainment by mem- 

 bers of the club followed. Music was 

 furnished by Breck's orchestra, Robert 

 E. Montgomery, leader. Alfred E. Rob- 

 inson of the Breck-Robinson Nursery 

 Company will address the club at its 

 next meeting: subject, "Modern, Up-to- 

 Date Nursery Methods." 



After a contest for the presidency 

 involving the reorganization of the 

 Tacoma (Wash.) Dahlia Society into 

 a model of the English Shropshire 

 Horticultural Society, the Tacoma so- 

 ciety has decided to remain as it 

 is and re-elected the majority of its in- 

 cumbent olficers for the succeeding 

 year. 



President W. H. Reed took the chair 

 with a vigorous denunciation of the 

 plan to change the society, and of the 

 projectors of the plan, and was then 

 re-elected president in a three-cornered 

 contest with George M. Lee, treasurer, 

 and George A. Hill, superintendent of 

 parks of Tacoma. 



Mrs. Belle Freeman and Mrs. W. S. 

 Cutler were then by viva voca vote re- 

 elected first and second vice-presidents 

 of the society respectively. 



For secretary. Miss Marguerite Mc- 

 Conihe and Mrs. W. D. C. Spike were 

 nominated. Miss McConihe declined 

 the nomination and the election was 

 tendered Mrs. Spike unanimously. 



For treasurer, George M. Lee, incum- 

 bent, was re-elected unanimously, F. 

 Graham declining a nomination in op- 

 position. 



At Wyoming Park, which is a suburb 

 of Grand Rapids, Mich., a club of 

 women has done so much in the way 

 of landscape gardening, floriculture 

 and beautifying lawns that a new club- 

 house is to be built for them in the 

 spring. This organization, known as 

 the Wyoming Park Garden club, is the 

 only club of its kind in the city or vi- 

 cinity, and its object is to study flow- 

 ers, shrubs, lawn decoration and land- 

 scape gardening, and it has been an 

 important factor in adding to the at- 

 tractive and home-like appearance of 

 the flourishing suburb. Although this 

 club is just rounding out the first year 

 of its existence, having been organ- 

 ized last March, the commuters have 

 appreciated their work to the extent 

 that the firm H. H. Wilson & Co. is 



planning to build a clubhouse which 

 shall be an ornament to the place. Dur- 

 ing the year the club has acquired the 

 nucleus for a library, having a num- 

 ber of authoritative books on the sub 

 jects perlainins to everything essential 

 to gardening and floriculture, also the 

 leading magazines along that line. 

 Talks on gardening are given from 

 time to time by prominent persons in- 

 terested in gardening, one of the best 

 having been given by Charles W. Gar- 

 field. Flower shows, lawn and garden 

 contests will be held next summer. Be- 

 sides the regular offices the club has a 

 board of gardeners, a photographic 

 committee, committee on admissions 

 and librarian. Mrs. G. K. Mosher of 

 Ivenrest is president of the club. 



PERSONAL. 



Jacob Umlaff will take charge of the 

 new city greenhouses on Capital Hill, 

 Seattle, Wash. 



J. Canning, of Ardsly. N. Y., sailed 

 for Europe on the Carmania, on Wed- 

 nesday, Feb. 4. 



William Plumb has taken a position 

 with the Bound Brook Nurseries, 

 Bound Brook, N. J. 



Carl Becker of Cambridge, Mass., 

 was married on January 28th to Miss 

 Churchill of Plymouth. 



Henry Rohrbach of Baden, Mo., and 

 Miss Anna Schultz of St. Louis were 

 married on January 24th. 



Robert Halliday of Baltimore, who 

 has been ill for some time, has recov- 

 ered and is alile to be about again. 



Mrs. Adolphus Gude and two daugh- 

 ters of Washington. D. C, are spend- 

 ing a few weeks at Saranac Lake, N. Y. 



D. J. Dudley, Jr., member of the firmi 

 of Dudley & Son, Parkersburg, W. Va... 

 will be married to Miss Julia Savage 

 on Fel). 12th. 



Roy Erb, recently employed at 

 Wenatchee, has taken charge of the 

 L. W. McCoy floral establishment at 

 Madison Park, Seattle, Wash. 



L. W. Kervan of The Kervan Com- 

 pany, West 28th street. New York, 

 has gone to spend a few weeks at 

 Miami, Fla. 



M. W. Stallings, an employee of the 

 Nunnally Company, Atlanta, Ga., was 

 married on Jan. 22nd to Miss Alice 

 Webster who has also been an em- 

 ployee of the same company for sev- 

 eral years. 



New York 'Visitors — Wm. Kleinheinz, 

 Ogontz. Pa.; Arnold Ringier, Chicago. 



Boston visitors: W. R. Cobb. Lord & 

 Burnham Co., New York; F. G. Sealey, 

 representing Julius Roehrs Co., Ruth- 

 erford, N. J,; Robert Schoch, represent- 

 ing M. Rice Co., Phila.; Maurice Fuld, 

 representing H. P. Miehell Co., Phila.; 

 J. S. Hay, representing H. A. Dreer. 

 Phila.; E. J. Fancourt, of S. S. Pen- 

 nock-Meehan Co., Phila.; A. E. Thatch- 

 er, Bar Harbor, Me.; Prof. E. A. W^iite, 

 Amherst. Mass.; Eugene Dailledouze, 

 Broo'-lyn, N. Y.; C. W. Brownell, Wal- 

 den, N. Y. 



