March 1, 1913 



HORTICULTURE 



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CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



The annual banquet of the Hamp- 

 shire-Hampden Florists' & Gardeners' 

 Club will be held on March 4th at 

 Northampton, Mass. 



A. H. Seeker will read a paper on 

 "The Growing of Indoor and Outdoor 

 Sweet Peas" at the March meeting of 

 the Rochester Florists' Association. 



P. H. Weber will read a paper at 

 this month's meeting of the Retail 

 Florists' Association of St. Louis on 

 "The Daily Routine Work in a Retail 

 Florist Store." 



The St. Louis Florist Club will hold 

 its regular monthly meeting on March 

 13th. The annual carnation exhibi- 

 tion will be at Smith's wholesale 

 store at the same time. 



The Gardeners' & Florists' Club of 

 Toronto, Ont., held its annual Ladies' 

 Night on Tuesday evening, February 

 18th, and the occasion was enjoyed 

 by a large number of the members 

 and their friends. 



At the next meeting of the Ken- 

 tucky Society of Florists, to be held 

 at the home of George Sehultz, Jr.. 

 Kenilworth, Joseph Able, manager of 

 C. B. Thompson's office force, will 

 give a talk on "Bookkeeping." 



On February 9th. the Syracuse (N. 

 Y.) Florists' and Gardeners' Club was 

 organized. Officers were elected as 

 follows: President, M. T. Keenan; 

 vice-president, W. E. Day; secretary, 

 T. J. Godvine; treasurer, D. J. Mur- 

 phy. 



It has been rumored around that the 

 members of the St. Louis Florist Club 

 will extend an invitation to the Ameri- 

 can Carnation Society to hold its 1914 

 meeting in St. Louis. The Business 

 Men's League is also behind this in- 

 vitatioa. 



A meeting of the Rochester Florists' 

 Association was held recently and the 

 following have been elected officers for 

 the year 19J3: President, John Dun- 

 bar; vice-president, George Arnold; 

 secretary, H. B. Stringer; treasurer, 

 W. L. Keller; trustees, W. H. Dildine, 

 William Perie and A. H. Salter. 



Fine displays of carnations were 

 made before the Milwaukee (Wis.) 

 Florists' Club at their meeting on Feb- 

 ruary 6th. The Herald, shown by the 

 Chicago Carnation Company was the 

 leader. C. C. Pollworth Company ex- 

 hibited some promising white seed- 

 lings. Nic Zweifel won first prize on 

 three carnation classes. 



The remaining Saturday lectures 

 and dates in the series at Horticul- 

 tural Hall, Boston, are as follows: 



March 1— The Diseases of the Violet, by 

 Dr. Donald Reddick, Ithaca, N. Y. 



March 8— The Gladiolus aud its Culture, 

 by B. Hammond Tracy, Weuham, Mass. 



March 15 — No lecture on this date. 

 SpriuK Flower Show. 



March 22 — Fertilizer Problems of the 

 Orchard and Garden, by Dr. H. J. Wheel- 

 er, Boston. 



March 29— The Making of a Country Es- 

 tate, by Henry Wild, Greenwich, Conn. 



At the February meeting of the Al- 

 bany (N. Y.) Florist Club, the retiring 

 president, F. A. Danker, was presented 

 with a silver water service. The pres- 

 entation speech was made by Fred 

 Goldring. Louis H. Schaefer gave an 



interesting account of his recent visit 

 to the Buffalo Florists' Club. The 

 question of trade publicity came up 

 for discussion and many interesting 

 points and possibilities were brought 

 out. 



The regular monthly meeting of the 

 Tarrytown Horticultural Society was 

 held in the Corporation Building, on 

 Wednesday evening, February 19th. 

 A splendid vase of carnations. "The 

 Herald," staged by the Chicago Car- 

 nation Co.. was awarded a certificate 

 of merit. The dates for the fall show, 

 which is to be held in the Music Hall, 

 Tarrytown, were fixed for Tuesday, 

 Wednesday and Thursday, 4th, 5th 

 and 6th of November. 



The Nassau County Horticultural 

 Society held its monthly meeting at 

 Glen Cove, L. I., on Feb. 12. The com- 

 mittee on V. Cleres' seedling carna- 

 tion recommended certificate of 

 merit. It was decided to hold the an- 

 nual euchre and dance at Glen Cove 



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on April 3rd. In the monthly competi- 

 tion V. Cleres was first with gardenias, 

 J. MacDonald first with sweet peas. 

 J. Robinson was awarded honorable 

 mention for freesias. 



The officers of the New Eng- 

 land Nurserymen, who held their 

 annual convention in Worcester on 

 February 22nd and 26tb, are: Presi- 

 dent, J. Woodward Manning, No. 

 Wilmington, Mass.; vice-president, C. 

 R. Burr, Manchester, Conn.; secretary 

 A. E. Robinson, Lexington, Mass.; 

 treasurer, V. A. Vanicek, Newport, R. 

 I. Executive committee: Chas. R. 

 Fish, Worcester, Mass.; Stephen Hoyt, 

 New Caanan, Conn.; Daniel A. Clarke, 

 Fiskville, R. I. 



The meeting of the Indiana State 

 Florists' Association, which was held 

 on February 4th at Lafayette, was 

 well attended and after the regular 

 routine of business an invitation to 

 visit the establishment of F. Dorner 

 & Sons Co. was taken advantage of. 

 The carnation seedling benches were 

 particularly interesting to the visitors 

 and all who were in attendance were 

 enthusiastic as to the prospect for 

 some record-breaking varieties from 

 among the beauties which they found 

 there. 



The Vert Assembly Bill was opposed 

 as unjust, unworkable and unneces- 

 sary at the annual meeting of the Na- 

 tional Association of Retail Nursery- 

 men, held on February 13th in the 

 Chamber of Commerce assembly room, 

 Rochester, N. Y. Besides discussing 

 the Vert Bill, the association reelected 

 officers. They are: President, Edward 

 S. Osborne; vice-president, J. H. Pit- 

 kin; secretary and treasurer, F. E. 

 Grover. About 40 retail nurserymen 

 attended the meeting, representing tor 

 the most part New York and other 

 Eastern states. 



Much interest is manifested in the 

 open-air and tent exhibition to be held 

 on the estate of Mrs. John Nicholas 

 Brown by the Newport Garden Asso- 

 ciation, which is made up of the ladies 

 of the summer colony, and the New- 

 port Horticultural Society combined. 

 The ladies are going to try to have 

 something similar to the shows held in 

 Paris and other European centres, but 

 on a smaller scale. The first day will 

 probably be "Society Day "when the 

 admission will be $1.00; the second 

 day admission will be 25c. The dates 

 are June 25 and 26. 



At the convention of the New 

 York State Fruit Growers' Associa- 

 tion, held at Poughkeepsie, February 

 21st, it was voted to petition Gov- 

 ernor Sulzer to appoint a commission 

 of "broad-minded men, who shall 

 promptly examine the whole question 

 of grading, packing and selling prod- 

 ucts on commission and recommend 

 legislation to the end that justice may 

 be established." The association would 

 have the commission consist of one 

 grower, one commission merchant and 

 a suitable number of others identified 

 with the handling or sale of farm 

 products. 



Ten new members were added to 

 the roster of the Rhode Island Horti- 

 cultural Society at its meeting, Feb- 

 ruary 19th. The session was of short 

 duration, to allow the members to at- 

 tend a hearing at the city hall in the 

 interests of the establishment of a 

 public market in Providence. Charles 

 W. Thompson of Seekonk, Mass., gave 

 a short address on the advantages of 

 a public market. Richard M. Bowen 

 of Warwick, Ashley M. Parmalee of 

 Norwood and Frank M. Lawton of Au- 

 burn were named delegates to attend 

 a meeting of the League of Improve- 

 ment Societies, to be held in Boston 

 some time next month. S. A. G. 



An exceedingly interesting meeting 

 of the Central New York Horticultural 

 Society was held on Feb. 14, at New 

 Hartford, N. Y., when Charles H. 

 Totty addressed the organization on 

 chrysanthemums. The platform was 

 adorned by flowers, including a bou- 

 quet of Killarney roses which were 

 presented to Mr. Totty by Peter 

 Crowe. Mr. Totty discussed the meth- 

 ods of fertilizing chrysanthemums and 

 the system of bud selection. There 

 was a general discussion and Mr. 

 Totty answered many questions. A 

 vote of thanks was given to Mr. Totty 

 and the band. The next meeting will 

 take place Feb. 28, when flower show 

 matters will be taken up. 



At the annual meeting of the Con- 

 necticut Association of Nurserymen, 

 held at the State Agricultural Ex- 



