February- 15, 1913 



HORTICULTURE 



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CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



NEW YORK FLORISTS' CLUB. 



The meeting of this club ou Mon- 

 day evening, February 10, was a most 

 enthusiastic one, 128 members being 

 present. Plenty of able speakers were 

 there and the present situation with 

 the big International Show so close at 

 hand affords ample opportunity and in- 

 centive to oratory of the kind that en- 

 thralls and inspires. So the crowd 

 was there and it was in a mood to 

 listen, too. The matter of enter- 

 tainment of the visitois at the time 

 of the show is, of course, an engross- 

 ing subject, and it is gratifying to be 

 able to say that no idea of trying to 

 outdo other occasions will be allowed 

 to influence those entrusted with the 

 responsibilities of this department. 

 There will be no wild extravagance 

 and this is in accord with club senti- 

 ment and the well-known wishes of 

 the S. A. F. officials and members. 



Secretary Young called attention to 

 the meeting of State Federation of 

 Floral Clubs at Ithaca, Wednesday, 

 February 12, and urged as many as 

 possible to be present. President W. 

 H. Siebrecht, John Young and Harry 

 A. Bunyard will represent the club and 

 Mr. Bunyard will also deliver a lec- 

 ture. Charles H. Totty spoke enthu- 

 siastically on National Flower Show 

 matters and suggested that the florists 

 take liberally of trade tickets for use 

 only the first night of the show. C. 0. 

 Trepel immediately placed an order 

 for 5,000 tickets for the first day. 



Exhibits were made by the follow- 

 ing: A. S. Burns, Jr., carnation Elec- 

 tra; H. B. McKnight, three seedling 

 carnations: Cottage Gardens, carna- 

 tion Matchless; J. D. Cockeroft, car- 

 nation Northport. The judges gave a 

 preliniinery certificate to Electra. 



M. C. Ebel of Madison. N. J., read a 

 pertinent paper on the subject of "Pub- 

 licity." and was accorded a vote of 

 thanks. John Bodger of Los Angeles, 



Cal., and H. E. Philpott, of Winnipeg, 

 Man., Canada, who were present, also 

 made brief addresses. Another very 

 welcome visitor was Adolph Faren- 

 wald, president of the American Rose 

 Society. A committee with J. Austin 

 Shaw as chairman, was appointed on 

 the recent deaths of the mother of W. 

 G. Badgley and the mother of Geo. H. 



Blake. 



LANCASTER COUNTY FLORISTS' 

 CLUB. 



On January 30th a party of 22 mem- 

 bers visited the establishment of M. J. 

 Brinton at Christiana. Mr. Brlnton is 

 the successor of a very worthy sire, 

 who knew how and did grow a variety 

 of plants and flowers to perfection, and 

 is now living in the original homestead 

 taking an active interest in the work 

 and giving his big boy advice. Mr. 

 Brinton's carnation range is almost 

 ideal and his Gloriosa altogether 

 ideal, certainly the best in this part of 

 the world. A bed of O. P. Bassett was 

 absolutely without any imperfections. 

 If this bed could be duplicated every- 

 where all other reds would be rele- 

 gated to the rubbish heap. Mrs. Brin- 

 ton surprised us with a very fine 

 lunch, and that it was fully appreciated 

 goes without saying. She made an 

 ideal hostess and was extended a vote 

 of thanks by everyone of us. 



Comirg back toward Lancaster the 

 first stop was made at Mr. Ranck's 

 where the unusual spectacle of the 

 main crop of tlowers having been cut 

 over the holidays w-as seen, eveiy 

 other grower in this section having 

 bis main crop just coming on. Here 

 we saw an immense large pure pin': 

 sport of Gloricsa. The next stop was 

 at Mr. Denlinger's where a fine lot of 

 Alma Wai d were in evidence, the dark 

 weather making them closely resemble 

 Prosperity. The third stop was at Mr. 

 Landiss' of Paradise, where we saw 

 benches of Benora and Lawson En- 



chantress, also a few lupins, which 

 were a curiosity to most of us. 



The fourth and last stop was made 

 at the two adjoining and interlocking 

 establishments of Chas. B. and Elmer 

 Weaver, their glass combined making 

 the largest place in the coimty. Chas. 

 B. grows sweet peas in his new 400- 

 foot house exclusively as well as in 

 some others and calendula and mig- 

 nonette in the balance. Elmer Is a 

 carnation and tomato man. Here 

 Comfort was in strong evidence and is 

 well liked. He has discarded Enchant- 

 ress for Pink Delight and has a 

 fine lot of them, and contemp- 

 lates making White Wonder his 

 exclusive white. He uses concrete 

 benches for propagating and as he Is 

 building new ones they must be satis- 

 factory. His boiler cellars are con- 

 nected with a Chinese puzzle of alley- 

 ways and our Jacob Flear almost lost 

 himself in them. A search party found 

 him inspecting the ash carrier and 

 other mechanical appliances used 

 here. 



A jolly but tired party reached Lan- 

 caster at 5 P. M. Outside of the socia- 

 bility of these trips they are edu- 

 cators. Sometimes where there are 

 but one or two houses there are found 

 ideas that the larger grower overlooks 

 and that are worth money to him. 



Our next meeting is February 20th, 

 "Carnation Night," the one chance to 

 show a scattered bunch of carnation 

 growers your novelties at one point. 

 Any one sending flowers, have them 

 addressed to H. A. Schroyer, Lancas- 

 ter, Pa. ALBERT M. HERR. 



PITTSBURGH FLORISTS' AND 

 GARDENERS' CLUB. 



The club meeting on Feb. 4th was 

 unusually well attended for it was 

 both election and carnation night. 

 There being no opposition the secre- 

 tary was instructed to cast the ballot 

 of the club for the following nominees 

 who were declared the officers of the 

 club for 1913: 



President, Neil McCallum ; vice-president, 

 E. C. Eeineman ; secretary, H. P. JosUn; 

 :'-Ssistant secretary, W. A. Clarke: treasurer, 

 T. P. Langhans; executive committee, E. 



National Flower Show Quarters, No. 3. 



-Niticnal Flower Show Quarters, No. 4. 



