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HORTICULTUEE 



March 1, 1913 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



LANCASTER COUNTY FLORISTS' 

 CLUB. 



The bi-monthly visiting tour was 

 made February 20th to the florists of 

 Lancaster, Pa. 



Starting with The Wheatland Co.. 

 where carnations are grown for qual- 

 ity and price, and both obtained un- 

 der the efficient culture of B. F. Law, 

 secretary and treasurer of the com- 

 pany, we then went to his neighbor. 

 T. F. Friese, who grows well a gen- 

 eral line of plants for retailing pur- 

 poses. The next stopping place was 

 at the Keystone Nurseries, or better 

 known as B. F. Barr's, who is also an 

 exclusive retail man, growing roses, 

 carnations and a general line of plants. 

 From Barr's to A. M. Herr's exclusive- 

 ly wholesale place was the next and 

 here the party found one house of car- 

 nations as near a failure as it is pos- 

 sible to get, and the finest house of 

 coleus they ever saw and perhaps 

 more geraniums than they ever saw in 

 one establishment. From there to Ru- 

 dolph Nagle's place was a short walk 

 and here again was found geranium in 

 quality and a big lot of chrysanthe- 

 mum stock plants and cuttings. Mr. 

 Nagle keeps his place immaculately 

 clean. These places are all within 

 easy walking distance of each other. 



From Nagle's we went to Secretary 

 Lemon Landis' at the East End, who 

 grows roses, carnations and smilax in 

 a neatly arranged set of houses. From 

 there to Henry Rohrer's, and here the 

 carnation men were at home in the 

 best houses of carnations in or around 

 the city. His sweet peas and lettuce 

 were also near perfection, but the 

 most attractive thing on the place 

 was his new red carnation and its 

 ideal habit and high-class blooms. 

 Some of the out-of-town growers are 

 quietly picking up this variety by the 

 thousand and it is likely to make a 

 sensation next winter outside of the 

 city. From there we went to Gold- 

 bach's where the best thing was sev- 

 eral houses of callas, and lastly to 

 Seibold's, a recent addition to the 

 geranium growers of Lancaster. He 

 has a nice compact range of glass and 

 grows geraniums for the wholesale 

 trade, his strong specialty being 

 Jeunesse Poitevine, an improvement 

 on the old Poitevine in color and 

 habit. Mrs. Siebold served a potting 

 shed lunch that was more than ap- 

 preciated and was accepted with a 

 vote of thanks and many expressions 

 of good will. At Frank Bachler's, a 

 retailer who does an immense plant 

 trade, the houses were inspected by 

 electric light. From Bachler's to the 

 meeting and from the meeting to the 

 Wheatland bowling alleys finished up 

 a very interesting and profitable day. 

 ALBERT M. HBRR. 



Smith's Wholesale House for the 

 March meeting. The April meeting 

 will be held at the Missouri Botanical 

 Garden. John Steidel showed seedling 

 carnations which the committee say 

 are very promising. The publicity re- 

 port took an hour of time and some 

 interesting points were brought out. 

 R. J. Windier, chairman of the com- 

 mittee, started it off. The talk was 

 very interesting. S. S. Skidelsky of 

 Philadelphia was present and also 

 helped publicity along with a good 

 talk. The question box discussion 

 brought the meeting to a close. 



ST. LOUIS FLORIST CLUB. 



The St. Louis Florist Club held a 

 very interesting meeting on Thursday 

 afternoon, February 13th. The meeting 

 was known as Publicity Meeting and 

 brought out the members in full force. 

 The report of the publicity committee 

 was laid over until the end of the 

 meeting for discussion. It was decided 

 to hold our annual Carnation Show at 



COOK COUNTY FLORISTS' ASSO- 

 CIATION. 



At the Cook County Florists' Asso- 

 ciation, Chicago meeting, February 

 20th, .50 members and several guests 

 from out of the city were present. 

 The election of officers resulted as fol- 

 lows: President, A. C. Kohlbrandt; 

 vice-president, AUie Zech; secretary, 

 A. T. Pyfer; treasurer, John Zech; 

 Sergeant- at- arms, Michael Fink. 

 Trustees, Walter Scott, E. C. Amliug. 

 A. Henderson, W. J. Keimel. The fol- 

 lowing were elected to membership: 

 Otto Strobach, 736 Buckingham Place; 

 E. W. Siebrecht, 4641 No. Lincoln 

 street; John Swanson, 736 Bucking- 

 ham Place; Fred J. Rose, 1322 Nelson 

 street. The programs of the Illinois 

 State Florists' Association to be hold 

 at Peoria. March 4 and 5, were dis- 

 tributed and a letter from Secretary 

 Ammann inviting the club to attend 

 the eighth annual meeting was read. 

 A letter from Richard Vincent, Jr.. ac- 

 knowledging courtesies from the club, 

 was listened to with pleasure. It was 

 voted to make the New York Central 

 R. R. the official route to the National 

 Flower Show. The Chicago, Milwau- 

 kee & St. Paul R. R. was chosen as 

 the oflicial route to the 3. A. F. at Min- 

 neapolis in August. The treasurer's 

 report showed $359.59 on hand. 



The next regular meeting will be on 

 March 27th, instead of the 20th, on ac- 

 count of Easter. 



Messrs. Praefke of Milwaukee, Wis.. 

 King of Butte, Mont., and Skidelsky of 

 Philadelphia were club visitors. 



ILLINOIS STATE FLORISTS' ASSO- 

 CIATION. 



The next annual convention of the 

 Illinois State Florists' Association will 

 be held at the Jefferson Hotel, Peoria. 

 III., March 4, 5. The program includes 

 an address of welcome by Mayor E. 

 N. Woodruff of Peoria; response, by 

 Vice-President C. W. Johnston, Morgan 

 Park; President's address, Chas. Lov- 

 eridge, Peoria; report of secretary, J. 

 F. Ammann, Edwardsville; report ot 

 treasurer, by F. L. Washburn, Bloom- 

 ington; report of advisory committee 

 of the Illinois Florists' Experiment 

 Station, W. N. Rudd, Morgan Park; 

 reports of work at the experiment sta- 

 tion, by H. B. Dorner, F. W. Muncie 

 and G. L. Peltier, Urbana; reports of 

 auditing committee and judges; ad- 

 dress on Landscape Gardening, Per- 

 manent planting of shrubs, etc., W. N. 

 Rudd. 



The annual banquet will take place 

 at the Jefferson Hotel, Tuesday even- 

 ing, March 4. 



CONNECTICUT HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



February 14th was "Carnation 

 Night," and evoked a superb display 

 of blooms. The members' usual ex- 

 hibition was augmented by fine collec- 

 tions from A. N. Pierson, of Crom- 

 well; George W. Eraser, assistant 

 horticulturalist of Storrs Agricultural 

 College; Scott Brothers, of Elmsford, 

 N. Y., and Cottage Gardens Company. 

 Awards were as follows: Cottage 

 Gardens Company, for Matchless, first- 

 class certificate; Whiting Green- 

 houses (Carl Peterson, manager), first- 

 class certificate; Scott Brothers, for 

 British Triumph, William Eccles and 

 Lady Northcliffe (82, S5 and 79 points, 

 respectively), first-class and cultural 

 certificates; A, N. Pierson, for Benora, 

 etc., first-class certificate; Alfred Ce- 

 belius, certificate of merit; George W. 

 Fraser, for seedlings, certificate of 

 merit; J. Alfred Weber, cinerarias, 

 certificate of merit. 



James T. Scott, of Scott Brothers, 

 was present and gave much pleasure 

 by his many advices regarding the 

 merits and the demerits of the leaa- 

 ing varieties of market carnations. 

 Mr. Fraser also addressed the society, 

 as did R. T. Beers, of Cromwell, rep- 

 resenting Mr. Pierson. Many valuable 

 facts were elicited by the impromptu 

 addresses, and by the discussions that 

 ensued, chiefly concerning modern 

 commercial carnation culture. 



Our society is temporarily deploring 

 the withholding of the annual state 

 appropriation, through a new and ap- 

 parently technical interpretation of 

 the statute providing the fund. Sev- 

 eral new bills have consequently been 

 presented to the present Legislature, 

 to cure the defect in the phraseology 

 of the present statute. We hope for 

 the enactment of the best one of these 

 bills, retroactive in character, and 

 hence covering our share of the state 

 fund for last season. 



GEORGE W. SMITH, Sec. 



Melrose, Conn. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



A letter received from Coubert, 

 France, inquires concerning the prize 

 for the new rose, as offered by Mrs. 

 Frances Roche, the improvement upon 

 the Marechal Niel. 



There has been discussion regard- 

 ing the prize offered by Moore, Hentz 

 & Nash of a .$50 cup for six roses. 

 Mr. Moore says some small grower 

 may have just a few flowers, as fine 

 as grown in the largest establish- 

 ments, and it is just here that he has 

 his chance against the big man. A 

 small bunch spreads the offer far 

 more widely and that is what we want 

 to do, if it gets more exhibitors and 

 gets a medley of varieties and sets 

 people talking about such a valuable 

 prize for "only six roses." No stem 

 longer than 20 inches, not over two 

 roses ot any one variety, the roses of 

 each variety to be judged on their 

 own merits and not by comparison 

 with the other varieties. 



Illinois growers will be heard from 

 at the show. 



BENJAMIN HAMMOND. 



