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HORTICULTUEE 



April 19, 1913 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS 

 AND ORNAMENTAL HORTI- 

 CULTURISTS. 



Meeting of the Board of Directors. 



The board of directors of the Socie- 

 ty of American Florists and Ornamen- 

 tal Horticulturists met on February 

 25th at the Hotel Radisson, Minneapo- 

 lis, Minn. There were present Presi- 

 dent J. K. M. L. Farquhar, Vice-Presi- 

 dent Theo. Wirth, Treasurer W. F. 

 Kasting, Directors E. Allan Pierce, 

 Harry A. Bunyard, Chas. H. Totty, J. 

 A. Evans. R. Vincent, Jr., Thomas Ro- 

 land, August F. Poehlmann and, as 

 secretary pro tem, George Asmus. 



The president announced that owing 

 to the serious Illness of Secretary 

 John Young, he had appointed secre- 

 tary pro tem. Mr. George Asmus, which 

 appointment was endorsed by the board. 

 A telegram was sent to Mr. Young, 

 who was an inmate of the Roosevelt 

 Hospital, New York, expressing with 

 him sympathy in his illness and the 

 hope that he would speedily recover. 



A sample of the proposed member- 

 ship badge for 1913 was submitted to 

 the meeting and the design being fa- 

 vorable to the board, it was adopted 

 and the secretary was ordered to pro- 

 cure a supply of badges for the August 

 convention. A design for a lite mem- 

 bership badge was submitted by the 

 secretary and was adopted. The sec- 

 retary was ordered to procure a sup- 

 ply of these badges at a price not to 

 exceed 7.5c each, and to place them at 

 the disposal of life member.s at the 

 cost price. 



A resolution was passed to the effect 

 that the leading florists, or others hav- 

 ing trade interests, forward any sug- 

 gestions or demands relating to tariff 

 legislation which they might wish 

 considered, as affecting their inter- 

 ests, to Wm. F. Gude, Washington, D. 

 C, Chairman of the Tariff and Legis- 

 lation Committee, which committee 

 would meet during the National 

 Flower Show fo be held in New York 

 City in April. 



The following were appointed as a 

 local advisory committee in connection 

 with the preparations for the conven- 

 tion in Minneapolis next August: 

 Theo. Wirth, Chairman; W. Desmond, 

 Hugh Will and George Asmus. 



Vice-President Wirth submitted a 

 plan covering the utilization of a large 

 piece of land adjoining the Armory in 

 which it was proposed to house the 

 convention for an outdoor exhibition, 

 the laying out of the ground, securing 

 exhibits from the growers and caring 

 for them, turning the whole over to the 

 society at the opening of the conven- 

 tion. The plan meeting with the ap- 

 proval of the Board, it was decided 

 that such outdoor exhibition be provid- 

 ed for. merged with the general trade 

 exhibit and made a part of the general 

 expense, and that the secretary and ad- 

 visory board be ordered to work out a 

 feasible plan for carrying out the idea, 

 and give public notice through the pa- 

 pers. Charles E. Critchell of Cincinnati 

 was appointed chairman of the sports 

 committee of the Convention. 



In regard to the rates for space in 

 the trade exhibition at Minneapolis, it 



was decided that the rate be 40c. per 

 sq. ft. with a minimum price of $20. 

 It was further arranged that the busi- 

 ness convention occupy four days and 

 that the trade exhibit should be 

 opened for the same period and that 

 all articles exhibited must be left in 

 place until the close of the business 

 session of the Convention, which would 

 be at 10 o'clock P. M., on the fourth 

 day. A resolution was passed that it 

 was the sense of the Board of Direc- 

 tors that some action be taken by the 

 society at the next Convention where- 

 by exhibits of artificial flowers at the 

 society's trade exhibits and flower 

 shows, be prohibited. 



On Wednesday morning. February 

 26th, the board visited the Armory to 

 inspect the building and arrange plans 

 for the Convention and trade exhibi- 

 tion. Afterwards, a convention pro- 

 gram was arranged and duly adopted. 



The following appropriations were 

 made: 



Entomologist $100 



Pathologist 100 



Botanist 100 



Convention badges 100 



-Vsst. to Sec'y at Convention 100 



Sports Committee ....._. 75 



fresident's messenger. .^ 25 



Sctiool Garden Committee 75 



The accommodations at the Hotel 

 Radisson having been found satisfac- 

 tory, that hotel was appointed head- 

 quarters for the Convention. 



Vice-President Wirth was invested 

 with authority to make arrangements 

 for the lease of the Armory. 



Charles H. Totty. chairman of the 

 National Flower Show Committee, re- 

 ported on the arrangements made for 

 the show to be held in New York, and 

 the report was accepted. 



The salary of the secretary was 

 fixed at $1000 per year, with an addi- 

 tional allowance of $300 per annum for 

 office rent. It was also decided that 

 in consideration of the additional work 

 as superintendent of the trade exhibi- 

 tion he be paid an additional salary of 

 $500 per annum, with a further allow- 

 ance of $200 to cover the expense of 

 a thirty-day stay in the convention 

 city which would be required through 

 his duties. 



After a resolution covering thanks 

 to the local societies and Vice-Presi- 

 dent Wirth for the hospitalities en- 

 joyed during the visit of the board in 

 Minneapolis, the board adjourned to 

 meet at the National Flower Show in 

 New York City. 



George Asmus, 

 Secretary, pro tem. 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. 



At the annual meeting, held at New 

 York on April 9, the election of offi- 

 cers for the ensuing year resulted as 

 follows: 



President, R. T. Brown, Queens, L. 

 I., N. Y. 



Vice-President, Herman Dorner. 



Secretary, A. F. J. Baur, Indianapo- 

 lis, Ind. 



Treasuier, F. B. Dorner. Urbana. 111. 



Director, S. J. Goddard, South Pram- 

 ingham, Mass. 



The location of the next meeting 

 was referred to the Board of Directors 

 to choose. 



GARDENERS' AND FLORISTS' CLUB 

 OF BOSTON. 



The April meeting of this club was 

 especially interesting to the gardener 

 fraternity, the special features being a 

 paper on musk melons under glass by 

 W. A. Carswell, of Bar Harbor, Me., 

 and a talk by Fred E. Palmer on how 

 a big crop of potatoes may be grown 

 on unpromising land. Mr. Carswell's 

 paper was an intelligent, practical pre- 

 sentation of the subject, covering all 

 the operations from start to finish and 

 the readiness with which he answered 

 the questions propounded and parried 

 the efforts to disconcert him placed 

 him in an excellent light with his audi- 

 ence. It was brought out during the 

 debate that the American varieties of 

 musk melon are much superior to the 

 English in flavor although not so at- 

 tractive to the eye. Mr. Downs as- 

 serted that Sutton's widely adver- 

 tised varieties are only turnips in taste 

 when compared with James Garthley's 

 Mrs. H. H. Rogers. W. N. Craig was 

 equally positive that the flavor of the 

 latter is immeasurably superior to that 

 of any variety Sutton ever sent out. 

 Another advantage in the favor of the 

 American varieties was that they can 

 be started and a crop ripened up in 

 about nine weeks whereas the English 

 varieties require fully four months. 

 One peculiarity, however, of the Amer- 

 ican is that it cannot be fertilized by 

 hand successfully, bees being indispen- 

 sable to the production of a crop. 



Robert Cameron, W. J. Stewart and 

 Herman Bartsch were called upon to 

 tell something about the International 

 Flower Show which they had visited. 

 Mr. Cameron was disposed to be criti- 

 cal as to the arrangement of the ex- 

 hibits and the architecture of the hall; 

 Mr. Stewart said his views were al- 

 ready in print and Mr. Bartsch said 

 complimentary things regarding Mas- 

 sachusetts' participation in the honors 

 of the exhibition, but declared the best 

 thing was the dinner. "It certainly was 

 some dinner," said he. President Ken- 

 nedy took occasion to differ with those 

 who had said the New York show was 

 greatly superior to that held in Boston 

 two years ago and deprecated the plac- 

 ing of greenhouse structure exhibits on 

 the main display floor. 



An invitation from W. H. Elliott to 

 visit his rose houses at Madbury about 

 middle of May was accepted and it is 

 hoped that a sufficient number will go, 

 to fill a special car. 



Ladies night will take place in June 

 and picnic in July, by unanimous vote. 



There was a superb exhibition of 

 sweet peas by Wm. Sim. It was di- 

 vided in two sections, one containing 

 only the grandiflora types and the 

 othei' comprising the cream of Zvo- 

 lanek's new winter-flowering Spencers. 

 There were about fifty named varieties 

 and seedlings under number, a vase of 

 fifty sprays of each. 



T. N. Cook, of Watertown, showed 

 blooms of the rose Bessie Brown, lovely 

 blush and full double. An interesting 

 novelty was Gaillardia Lady Rolliston, 

 a pure yellow hardy sort, shown by the 

 Breck Robinson Co., of Lexington, 

 Mass. 



