July IS, 1908 



HORTICULTU RE 



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Mr. Adder told how he grew his rhu- 

 barb. 



Judgps for the fall show were au- 

 uounced as follows: Julius Roehrs, Sr., 

 of Rutherford, N. J.; Robert Angus, 

 of Tarrytown, and George Hale, of 

 Seabright, N. J. 



GARDENERS' AND FLORISTS' CLUB 

 OF BOSTON. 



The annual picnic of this club will 

 be held at Pine Banks Park, Maiden, 

 Mass., on Wednesday, July 29. A great 

 success is assured under the efficient 

 management of the club officers and 

 the following special committees: 



Baseball captains: Private, R. W. 

 Curtis; Commercial, P. B. Palmer. 



Ring Master: W. J. Kennedy; 

 starter, P. M. Miller; handicapper, Wil- 

 frid Wheeler. 



Judges: William Downs, T. J. Grey, 

 E. Holmes, E. Johansson, P. J. Turley, 

 Duncan Finlayson, Kenneth Finlay- 

 son and James Miller. 



Refieshments: D. Finlayson, J. P. A. 

 Guerineau, T. Pegler. 



There are eighteen classes in the 

 athletic sports for children and grown 

 people. 



LADIES' SOCIETY OF AMERICAN 

 FLORISTS. 



The secretary of the Ladies' Society 

 of American Florists congiatulates the 

 members upon their prompt payment 

 of dues. It shows her that all wish 

 to vote, and expect to be at Niagara 

 Falls in August. 



MRS. C. H. MAYNARD. Sec'y. 

 219 Horton Ave., Detroit, Mich. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



The Albany Florists' Club contem- 

 plate an outing and clambake at an 

 early date. Their next regular meet- 

 ing will be at Patrick Hyde's, Aug. 6. 



The Salem Cherry Fair scheduled to 

 take place at Salem, Oregon, has been 

 deferred till July 10, 17, 18, owing to 

 the cold weather and lateness of the 

 season. 



The Chicago party for the S. A. F. 

 Convention at Niagara Falls, will 

 travel via the Wabash R. R., leaving 

 at 6 P. M. Monday, August 17. F. F. 

 Benthey is chairman of the transpor- 

 tation committee. 



The St. Louis Horticultural Society 

 has issued its preliminary list of 

 premiums for the flower show to be 

 held next November. Class 1, Shaw 

 premiums for plants comprises 21 sec- 

 tions; Class 2, Chrysanthemum Blooms, 



11 sections, Class 3, Carnation Blooms, 

 14 sections; Class 4, Roses, 11 sec- 

 tions; Class 5, Floral Displays, 8 sec- 

 tions; Class 6 is for private exhibit 

 and Class 7 is the S. A. F. silver and 

 bronze medals for new plants or flow- 

 el's of American origin. 



The annual Sweet Pea Show of the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society 

 will be held at Horticultural Hall, 

 Saturday and Sunday, July IS and 19. 

 In adition to sweet peas there will be 

 displays of other summer flowers, and 

 of fruits and vegetables. A feature 

 of special interest will be the com- 

 petition for the largest and best col- 

 lection of midsummer fruits, artisti- 

 cally arranged, for which three prizes 

 are offered. The exhibition is free 

 to all and will be open Saturday from 



12 to 6 o'clock and Sunday from 2 to 

 <j o'clock. WM. P. RICH, Sec'y. 



During Recess 



NEW ORLEANS HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



The New Orleans Horticultural So- 

 ciety held its annual outing and ban- 

 quet at Mandeville, across the lake, 

 on July 8, and all of the members 

 expressed themselves as having had 

 a "jolly good" time. The party con- 

 sisted of thirty-two members and their 

 invited guests, and they made the trip 

 over the lake on the steamer New 

 Camelia. Each of the party was pro- 

 vided with a boutonniere of ferns and 

 China asteis, the members red, and 

 invited guests white asters. Among 

 the participants was Prof. A. H. Rosen- 

 feld, of the State Crop Pest Commis- 

 sion, who came down from Baton 

 Rouge as a special guest of the socie- 

 ty. The feast was spiead at Mug- 

 nier's Hotel. The hotel made a very 

 pretty sight, being gayly decorated for 

 the occasion with flags and bunting 

 of the national colors. President Eble 

 opened the banquet with a short ad- 

 dress, calling on the members to do 

 full justice to the feast and to enjoy 

 themselves to their hearts' content, 

 and then appointed Secretary Panter 

 as loastmaster of the evening. Speeches 

 were made by Chairman Chopin, of 

 the outing committee; John F. Tims. 

 C. W. Eichling, Jas. Newsham, H. Pap- 

 worth, Prof. Rosenfleld, R. Steckler, 

 R. P. Upton and A. A. Schalck. 



WHERE CHICAGO IS RUSTICAT- 

 ING. 

 John Kruch, at Fox Lake. Miss 

 Martha Gunderberg with relatives in 

 Minnesota. Lillian Bloom, (whose 

 name is distinctly floral) at Lakeside, 

 Mich. J. Kidwell, at Boulder Lake, 

 Wis. N. J. Wietor, in Wisconsin. Mr. 

 and Mrs. Rogers, of Wieland & Risen, 

 at Spring Lake, Mich. C. M. Dickin- 

 son of E. H. Hunt's, at Pelicon, Wis. 

 Peter Reinberg at his post of duty as 

 an alderman after returning from the 

 Denver convention full of patriotism. 



Everybody talks conven- 

 DETROIT tion and we look for- 

 ward to a large number 

 attending the S. A. F. meeting at 

 Niagara. The younger element of the 

 trade played a very spirited game of 

 base ball at Belle Isle. Thanks to the 

 efficient leadership of Capt. Rahaley 

 and the excellent work of Andy Fergu- 

 son, Jr., Bob Flowerday, Jr., the Michi- 

 gan Cut Flower team took the laurels 

 from the Detroit Cut Flower repre- 

 sentatives with a score of 19 to 5. 



FRANK DANZKH. 



The annual picnic of the Omaha 

 (Neb.) Florists' Club will be held at 

 Krug's Park, Thursday, July 23, after- 

 noon and evening. Good music and 

 entertainments of various kinds are 

 promised. Foot races at 4.30 P. M., 

 comprising a ladies' race, men's race, 

 girls' race and boys' race, for which 

 prizes will be awarded. Group photo- 

 graph to be taken at 5.30 P. M. Sup- 

 per, 6 P. M. 



Obituary 



Rudolph Reynders. 



Rudolph Reynders, florist, of Oil 

 City, Pa., was struck by a Lake Shore 

 train at the railroad crossing on. the 

 evening of July 4, and died a few 

 hours later. Mr. Reynders was a 

 native of Lancaster, Pa., where he was 

 born Sept. 18, 18G5. He has lived in 

 Oil Citv for about 12 years and has 

 conducted with much success a green- 

 house business near the St. Joseph 

 and Grove Hill Cemeteries. He leaves 

 a wife and two children. 



Few men in the city were so weil 

 known and none was more generally 

 popular. He was a man of wonderful 

 physique, and his heart was in pro- 

 portion. He was kind and affable 

 with strangers and the soul of gener- 

 osity with his friends. No man ever 

 lived in the community who was more 

 industrious. His perfect physique 

 enabled him to do the work of two or 

 three ordinary men and he worked 

 early and late, but was never so busy 

 but that he could find time and in- 

 clination to do an errand of mercy. 

 The fact that he was carrying flowers 

 to a sick friend and to a house of 

 mourning on the day of his death is 

 typical of the man and in part ex- 

 plains the unanimous expressions of 

 sorrow that his frightful death has 

 aroused. 



James Cole. 

 James Cole, one of the oldest florists 

 in Illinois, died at Peoria on June 30, 

 aged 87 years. Mr. Cole was born in 

 Devonshire. England. He came to this 

 country in 1857, settling first in Toron- 

 to. Canada, and afterwards removing 

 to Chicago and in 18G3 to Peoria. His 

 wife died in 1902. Three sons survive 

 him. 



Carl R. Pfening. 

 Carl R. Pfening, florist and land- 

 scape gardener died of pneumonia at 

 Jamaica Plain, Mass., on June 27. 



Isabella D. Poynter. 

 Isabella D. Poynter, wife of Thomas 

 Poynter, a retired florist of Brook- 

 lyn, N. Y., died on July 6, aged 67. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 

 The West Virginia Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station, at Morgantown, 

 sonds out a valuable calendar under 

 the title of "Let us Spray," giving di- 

 rections for the preparation and use 

 of the various spraying remedies for 

 fungous and insect enemies, together 

 with a list of the dealers in these ma- 

 terials. 



The Declaration of the Governors, 

 as adopted at the White House con- 

 ference on the conservation of natural 

 resources, May 13-15, 1908, and "The 

 Value of Natural Scenery." an ad- 

 dress delivered before the conference 

 by J. Horace McFarland. are contained 

 in the latest pamphlet published by 

 the American Civic Association. 



The Lake Forest (111.) Horticultural 

 Society will hold an exhibition of out- 

 of-door flowers and vegetables July 15. 

 In conjunction with this the Women's 

 Club will give an exhibit and the 

 stores will be closed for the day. 



INCORPORATED. 

 The Newcastle County Agricultural 

 Fair Association, Brandy wine, Del.; 

 to promote agricultural and horticul- 

 tural interests; capital, $50,000. 



