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H R T I C U L T U B B 



April 12. 1918 



of agriculture in the West. H. H. 

 Bartsch, vice-president of the Boston 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Club, was next 

 introduced. Harry A. Bunyard an- 

 nounced that owing to sudden sick- 

 ness in the family of Mr. Pelton of 

 London, England, who was to lecture 

 at the meeting, he was prevented from 

 sailing for this side at the last mo- 

 ment. 



The secretary was called on next to 

 report on the doings of the Executive 

 Committee. After briefly reviewing 

 the financial condition of the Associa- 

 tion, showing a most substantial bal- 

 ance in bank, read a communica- 

 tion received from the New York Hor- 

 ticultural Society, inviting the Na- 

 tional Association of Gardeners to 

 hold its annual convention in New 

 York City this fall, in connection with 

 the fall show of the Horticultural So- 

 ciety. The invitation was accepted. 



Mr. Farquhar as president of the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society 

 extended an invitation to the Associa- 

 tion to hold its summer meeting in 

 July next at Boston, at the time of the 

 Summer Show of the Horticultural So- 

 ciety in conjunction with the Sweet 

 Pea Show of the American Sweet Pea 

 Society. This was also favorably 

 acted on by the committee which de- 

 cided to hold the summer meeting in 

 Boston. 



An invitation was read from Presi- 

 dent C. C. Moore of the Panama Pa- 

 cific International Exposition, ad- 

 dressed to the National Association of 

 Gardeners to hold its 1915 convention 

 in the city of San Francisco, during 

 the time of the Exposition. Resolu- 

 tions were passed extending thanks to 

 the Exposition Company, and that the 

 Association go on record that it was 

 the sense of the meeting that the 1915 

 Convention be held at San Francisco. 



The ratification by the Board of Di- 

 r^tors for the establishment of a 

 Service Bureau to offer an opportunity 

 to the younger men in the profession 

 for a source to which they can look 

 for betterment, was also reported at 

 the meeting. 



Notes. 

 Chrysanthemum Glory of Seven 

 Oaks showed up well in several ex- 

 hibits. 



The Ladies' S. A. F. held a meeting 

 at the Hotel Woodstock on Wednes- 

 day forenoon. 



The New York daily papers, despite 

 some boastful exaggerations, did pret- 

 ty well in their notes on the exhibi- 

 tion. 



J. Ausin Shaw made his first ap- 

 pearance at the show since his severe 

 illness and was joyously greeted by a 

 host of friends. 



The exhibition was exceptionally 

 favored as to weather which, at least 

 up to the time of this writing, has 

 been just right. 



The souvenir program is a record 

 breaker in amount of advertising and 

 when the returns are all summed up it 

 will prove no small factor in the asset 

 column. 



The giant bay trees which adornei 

 the grand stairway and flanked the 

 main aisles of the grand hall were the 

 finest specimens ever seen here. They 

 came from Julius Roehrs Co. 



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The collection of some twenty-five 

 varieties of Astilbes of the Arendsi 

 and Lemoinei types from the Bar Har- 

 bor Nurseries was greatly admired. 

 Some of the flower spikes were thres 

 feet tall. 



markable condition after being on the 

 water nine days. Hybrid odontoglos- 

 sums, plants and cut blooms, and 

 cypripediums were the principal items. 



A German sectional greenhouse 

 boiler, exhibited by Mr. Dahlborn, 

 seemed to attract much attention from 

 the visitors on account of novel fea- 

 tures. Several orders were taken for 

 installation. 



Vice-President Theodore Wirth was 

 making a big hustle among the trade 

 visitors for advertising in the Minne- 

 apolis Souvenir Program, In connection 

 with the S. A. F. convention next Au- 

 gust, and appeared to be doing a 

 "landofiice" business. The book prom- 

 ises to be a beauty. 



The white-robed ladies comprising 

 the orchestra were a potent attraction 

 for the susceptible young men who 

 crowded around the music pavilion, 

 not only to hear the music but to gaze 

 upon the players. 



Helen Keller, the wonderful blind, 

 deaf and dumb girl, was an enrap- 



Fred Lautenschlager, the popular 

 Kroeschell Bros, representative was 

 taken sick with grippe and compelled 

 to go to bed in his hotel under the 

 care of a physician. At last accounts 

 he was getting along nicely. 



The principal component of the de- 

 corations of the two winners in the 

 rose dinner table classes were Irish 

 Fire Flame, Sunburst and other yellow 

 roses. Mrs. Russell and Mrs. Shawyer 

 were centers of attraction in the vase 

 classes. 



A crowd constantly surrounded the 

 educational exhiliit by J. P. Huss, 

 showing the different stages of fern 

 raising from spores under glass up to 

 fully developed specimens. Adiantum 

 nebulosum in this exhibit was a much 

 admired novelty. 



A much sought-for exhibit was the 

 sensational Odontioda Bradshawiae 

 (Cochlioda Noetzliana x Odontoglos- 

 sum crispum var., Mary Colman). sent 

 over by Sir Jere Colman from Eng- 

 land. The flowers are rich vermilion 

 and the plant bore two fine spikes. 



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