June 21, 1913 



HORTICULTURE 



923 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



ST. LOUIS FLORIST CLUB. 



The Florist Club held one of the 

 largest meetings on record on Thurs- 

 day afternoon, June 12, at the Mis- 

 souri Botanical Garden on invitation 

 of Director Geo. Moore. The meeting 

 was presided over by Vice-President 

 C. C. Young and Secretary Beneke 

 reported 65 members in attendance 

 besides quite a few students of the 

 garden. W. S. Wells of the garden 

 met the members at main entrance of 

 the garden and escorted them to the 

 Graduate Section rooms where the 

 meeting was held. The trustees have 

 selected Ramona Park for the yearly 

 picnic arid the date set is Thursday, 

 July 17th. Fifty dollars was donated 

 by the club. The report of the Pub- 

 licity Committee was made by Carl 

 Beyer which brought out a good dis- 

 cussion. Edwin Denker, state vice- 

 president of the S. A. F., made a re- 

 port as to transportation to Minneapo- 

 lis Convention. The fare will be 

 $19.50 round trip by railroad and $28 

 round trip by steamboat to St. Paul. 

 This will again be discussed at the 

 July meeting. 



The secretary read a letter from 

 the Coliseum management regarding 

 a flower show to be held this fall. H. 

 C. Irish, chairman; J. F. Ammann, W. 

 C. Smith, Fred W. Brunig and R. J. 

 Windier were appointed a committee, 

 they to report at the July meeting. 



After adjournment the members 

 were escorted to various points of in- 

 terest in the garden. Jules Bourdet 

 then invited the Club to visit his 

 place which they did with much pleas- 

 ure. 



The next meeting will be on July 

 10, when nomination of officers will 

 be in order. 



NASSAU COUNTY HORTICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY. 



The June meeting of this society 

 was held at Glen Cove, L. I., on 

 Wednesday, June 11th. The exhibition 

 of cut roses and other flowers was 

 very fine. First prize for best vase of 

 T. and H. T. roses was won by J. 

 Adler. For best basket of fruit A. 

 Fournier was first. H. Boettcher 

 showed some wonderful sweet peas for 

 this early date and received a certifi- 

 cate of culture. H. Gaut was awarded 

 a certificate of culture for a fine pink 

 Antirrhinum, "Glen Cove Beauty." 



Aaron Ward roses, exhibited by H. 

 Jones, received honorable mention. At 

 the next meeting. July 9th, prizes will 

 be offered for best three vases of sweet 

 peas, pink, white and red, 25 sprays in 

 a vase. J. M.\cDonai.d, Cor. Sec. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



The Hartford Hose Gardens will be 

 judged by the American Rose Society 

 on Saturday, June 21st. Meet in New 

 Haven station at 11.30 A. M. 



Superintendent of Parks Parker, 

 Hartford, Conn., invites all members 

 to be present. If you can go please 

 notify Mr. Parker. 



Judges: Wallace R. Pierson, Eber 

 Holmes and John Huss. 



Adolph Farenwald, Pres. 



Benjamin Hammond, Sec. 



GARDENERS' AND FLORISTS' CLUB 

 OF BOSTON. 



The club, at their next meeting, 

 which has been postponed for various 

 reasons until Wednesday evening, 

 June 25, at Horticultural Hall, will 

 have ladies' night. A splendid enter- 

 tainment has beeu prepared, some 

 noted ladies and gentlemen being in- 

 cluded on the program. In addition 

 M. Steinert & Son will send one of 

 their large Victor graphophones and 

 will at intervals favor the audience 

 with songs from the most noted vocal- 

 ists in the world. The usual collation 

 will be served and dancing enjoyed 

 later in the evening. It is hoped every 

 member who can possibly attend will 

 do so and that a large number of 

 ladies will be present. Plans are well 

 advanced for the annual club picnic to 

 be held in July. 



W. N. Cbaig, Secretary. 



AMERICAN PEONY SOCIETY. 



This society held its annual exhibi- 

 tion last week in Cleveland, Ohio. 



Bektband H. Fake 

 President American Peony Society, 

 jointly with the Ohio Horticultural 

 Society. We regret that a promised 

 report of the exhibition has failed to 

 reach us, much to the disappointment 

 and chagrin of President Farr whose 

 portrait appears herewith and who 

 has informed us that the show was a 

 most excellent one. 



The following chairmen of commit- 

 tees were elected at a recent meeting 

 of the Rochester (N. Y.) Florists' As- 

 sociation for the annual flower show; 

 general committee, Charles H. Vick; 

 reception, Hiram H. Edgerton; adver- 

 tising, A. E. Crockett; decorations, F. 

 J. Keller; finance, W. L. Keller; 

 women's committee, Mrs. John Dun- 

 bar; executive committee, P. J. Kel- 

 ler, A. H. Salter, E. P. Wilson, W. H. 

 Dildine, George T. Boucher. H. P. 

 Neun, George B. Hart and George F. 

 Crosman. 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF 

 CHICAGO. 



The exhibition at the Art Institute, 

 June 12-13, was worthy to take Its 

 place in history as a creditable First 

 Annual Peony Show of the Horticul- 

 tural Society of Chicago. Other exhi- 

 bitions in those classic halls have 

 grown into public recognition little by 

 little, but this one found a place wait- 

 ing for It. The exhibitors were not 

 many, Peterson's Nurseries having 

 the largest display, with W. W. Bar- 

 nard, Vaughan's Seed Store, Iowa 

 State College, Ames, Iowa, and Rose- 

 hill Cemetery Association all staging 

 creditable collections of peonies. On 

 account of the unfavorable weather 

 conditions in May, when a frost dam- 

 aged the peony crop, the exhibit was 

 necessarily limited in size. The at- 

 tendance was 574 on Thursday and 

 considerably larger Friday, and neith- 

 er was a free day. Peony classes were 

 open to professionals, private garden- 

 ers and amateurs. 



For best display of blooms first 

 prize went to Iowa State College, 

 gard. John Reardon, which also won 

 a silver gilt medal for over 100 blooms 

 of Festiva Maxima. Second prize, a 

 silver medal, went to W. W. Barnard, 

 who also was first for collection of 

 standard named varieties. In the va- 

 rious classes for 50 blooms and 12 

 blooms of specified color Peterson's 

 Nurseries and Vaughan's Seed Store 

 were the main winners, while In the 

 classes for 10 blooms W. W. Barnard 

 took most of the prizes. The collection 

 of perennials was good considering the 

 limited number in bloom at this time. 

 Vaughan's Seed Store had the largest 

 display and C. O. Youngstrand, Golf, 

 111., also staged a collection which 

 won a silver medal. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS 

 AND ORNAMENTAL HORTI- 

 CULTURISTS. 



The committee charged with the se- 

 curing of funds wherewith to erect a 

 suitable memorial to the late Wm. R. 

 Smith, who was for over sixty years 

 superintendent of the U. S. Botanic 

 Garden, and father of the charter of 

 the Society of American Florists and 

 Ornamental Horticulturists, has so far 

 completed all preliminary steps and 

 are now ready to receive subscriptions 

 towards erecting a memorial worthy of 

 the man. 



The form which the memorial shall 

 take cannot be definitely decided until 

 we have an approximate idea of the 

 amount of money at the committee's 

 disposal. When this has been ascer- 

 tained the committee will then formu- 

 late plans, and submit them to the So- 

 ciety of American Florists and Orna- 

 mental Horticulturists, who will final- 

 ly pass on them. The committee there- 

 fore asks that you take immediate 

 steps with your organization to fur- 

 ther this cause, and forward subscrip- 

 tions toWm. F. Gude, chairman of the 

 committee, Washington, D. C. 

 Very respectfully yours, 



Wm. F. Gude. 

 Chairman of the Committee. 



