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HORTICULTURE 



September 20, 1908 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS 

 AND ORNAMENTAL HOR- 

 TICULTURISTS. 

 Freight Concessions on Cut Flowers. 



At the Niagara Falls Convention 

 the subject was brought up of express 

 rates on cut flowers going from North 

 to South, and in general shipping 

 where ice is necessary in warm weath- 

 er. This matter was referred to the 

 legislative committee and the papers 

 thai wire read at the session of the 

 Convention have been forwarded to 

 me. The papers so far received are 

 of such general character that in their 

 present form little can be done with 

 them. In shipping fish from a Hud- 

 son River point to New Orleans by 

 express, there would be an allowance 

 ill 25 per cent, on the gross weight for 

 ice, and after this deduction the 

 charge per hundred weight is $3.00; 

 on the other hand, if cut flowers are 

 sent no deduction is made for ice but 

 $4.50 is charged per hundred weight. 



What should be done is the revision 

 of classification for long distance ship- 

 ments. From New York City to Chi- 

 cago the rate for fish is as follows: 

 25 per cent, reduction for ice from the 

 gross weight and $1.90 per hundred 

 weight for the remainder. Over the 

 same line and in the same car a box 

 of cut flowers would go at the rate of 

 $2.50 gross weight, and at the present 

 time it seems that this is a fair sam- 

 ple of differential charges. What the 

 legislative committee would like is ex- 

 plicit information from any person di- 

 rectly interested and having any ex- 

 perience, as to quantities shipped from 

 given point to given point, over what 

 line, and the weight of the package. 1 

 have been speaking with an express 

 manager and he tells me that fish as 

 a commodity is heavy and that flowers 

 for the same cubic space are light, and 

 that where 100 pounds of fish would 

 be in a box, 25 pounds of cut flowers 

 would make a bulk package, and these 

 freighted by weight do not yield the 

 revenue that heavier and coarser 

 goods do. Mr. Edward Reid of Phila- 

 delphia has pressed this matter at 

 some length and the committee will 

 endeavor to get the cases into such 

 form that, acting for the S. A. F. as 

 a body, this matter may be laid before 

 the Express Companies' headquarters, 

 where it mav receive fair considera- 

 tion. BENJAMIN' HAMMOND, 

 Chairman of Committee. 

 Fishkill-on-Hudson, N. Y. 



The National Flower Show. 



Press day for the final edition of 

 the premium list is October first, and 

 before that date all special premium 

 offers which go into this list should 

 be in the hands of the secretary. A 

 list will be published in this book of 

 all subscribers to the guarantee fund 

 who have paid the first assessment, 

 and thos'e who have not paid by Octo- 

 ber first will be dropped from the 

 list of the guarantee fund by order 

 of the Executive Committee. All who 

 have overlooked paying the 20 per 

 cent, are urged to send their checks 

 to the Treasurer at once. A meeting 

 of the Executive Committee has been 



called bj Chairman W. F. Kasting to 

 taki place in Chicago, Sept. 25. Impor- 

 tant matters will he decided, and thosa 

 members who cannot attend will semi 

 in reports to be acted upon. 

 Very truly yours, 



J. H. BURDETTE. 



CHICAGO FLORISTS' CLUB. 

 A special meeting of the Chicago 

 Florists' Club was called for Friday, 

 Sept. 18th. Its object was a conference 

 with the executive committee of the 

 National Flower Show, but a telegram 

 was received announcing that Mr. 

 Kasting of Buffalo, chairman of the 

 Committee of Fifty, could not be pres- 

 ent. No business was therefore trans- 

 acted other than an informal discus- 

 sion of the coming show. A great deal 

 of enthusiasm was shown and Pres. 

 Leonard Kill says the members of the 

 Chicago Florists' Club are ready to do 

 their part in making this the best 

 flower show ever held here, which he 

 feels confident it will be. There was 

 a large attendance and much interest 

 shown in the discussions. Mr. Rudd 

 stated that he thought there would 

 not he sufficient room at the Coliseum 

 for properly staging the plants and 

 flowers. It is generally understood 

 that there will be no trade exhibit in 

 connection with the flower show. 



MINNESOTA STATE FLORISTS' 

 ASSOCIATION. 



The Minnesota State Florists' Asso- 

 ciation met on Sept. 15, at Columbia 

 Hall, Midway. 



The list of officers as elected for 

 the ensuing year is as follows: 



President, Theodore Wirth; vice- 

 president, August S. Swanson; secre- 

 tary, S. D. Dysinger; treasurer, E. C. 

 Nagel: executive committee, Otto Will, 

 Olaf Olson, James Sanden, J. Jorgen- 

 son. 



The president was authorized to tip- 

 point a committee of five to work out 

 a premium list and attend to matters 

 in general pertaining to the State Fair. 



Messrs. Olson and Howland of St. 

 Paul and H. Will and Ruedlinget' of 

 Minneapolis are to organize bowling 

 teams in their respective cities. F. J. 

 Mense, of Glen Cove, N. Y., was made 

 an honorary member. 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. 

 List of Varieties. 

 We have received from Secretary A. 

 M. Hei r a typewritten list of between 

 eight and nine hundred names of va- 

 rieties which is probably intended to 

 give a fairly complete list of carnations 

 that have been given names in this 

 country for the past twenty-five years, 

 so far as such could be obtained. We 

 have, however, some doubts as to its 

 value in its present shape, seeing that 

 such well-known varieties as Fair 

 Maid, Mrs. M. A. Patten. Bay State, 

 Helen Goddard, Glendale, Hannah Ho- 

 hart, Jessica, John E. Haines, White 

 Perfection, Cressbrook, Daheim and 

 Norway and others of lesser note seem 

 to have been overlooked, as they do 

 not appear in the list. 



NEW ORLEANS HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



The regular meeting of the New 

 Orleans Horticultural Society was held 

 Thursday, Sept. IS, R. Sleekier presi- 

 ding. J. A. Newsham of the Magnolia 

 Nursery, had rare results of his recent 

 visit to the tropics to show the asso- 

 ciation. He exhibited two fine speci- 

 mens of Odontoglossum graude, from 

 Guatemala, and Cattleya Bowringiaua, 

 from British Honduras. Mr. Newsham 

 grew the specimens in his nursery 

 from the plants taken from the tropical 

 countries. He now has 5,000 of the 

 plants in flourishing condition. 



Messrs. C. Eble and H. Papworth 

 gave an interesting description of 

 their trip to the S. A. F. Convention 

 at Niagara Falls. President Steckler 

 made his usual gratifying report to the 

 i Sect that the Society was in a healthy 

 and flourishing condition. The New 

 Orleans Floral Society, through Mrs. 

 B. Williams, sent a check for $16.95, 

 as that society has decided to disband. 

 Secretary Chas. R. Panter was in- 

 structed to write to Mrs. W. J. Behan, 

 the President of the Society, thanking 

 her. 



Mr. Newsham resigned as chairman 

 of the arrangement committee of the 

 flower show because of press of busi- 

 ness and Mr. Papworth was appointed 

 to succeed him, with Chas. Eble as 

 vice-chairman. The committee on the 

 fall flower show and the committee on 

 the floral exhibit reported satisfactory 

 progress. 



The resignation of W. P. McLennon 

 was accepted and the following new 

 members elected: John Heme, H. A. 

 Steckler, and xVI. J. Gurtler. 



CHAS. R. PANTER, Sec. 



NEW ENGLAND DAHLIA SOCIETY. 



The prizes were awarded to some 

 twenty-five competitors in the various 

 classes at the exhibition in Boston on 

 which we made a partial report last 

 week. In the seedling competition, 

 "Award of Recognition" was made to 

 W. W. Rawson & Co. for Cactus Dahlia 

 Marblehead and to Wm. H. Richardson 

 for Cactus Dahlia Marion. The Sy- 

 monds special prizes for 25 assorted 

 were won by W. F. Turner & Co., Uor- 

 chester Dahlia Gardens, and F. L. 

 Tinkham. The Amend special for best 

 American seedling was won by George 

 B. Gill. The Manuel prizes for twelve 

 Duke Alexis and twelve Countess of 

 Lonsdale were won by E5. W. Ela and 

 Dorchester Dahlia Gardens respect- 

 tively, the Stredwick prizes for twelve 

 Cactus by N. A. Lindsay and E. F. 

 Dwyer, the Rawson, Michell and Bur- 

 rell prizes, also the German Dahlia 

 Society's medal for Cactus Dahlias of 

 German origin and the Dobbies medal 

 for the most successful exhibitor, were 

 all taken by W. F. Turner & Co., and 

 the Charmet medal for twelve French 

 went to E. S. Manuel. Henry A. 

 Dreer was given "Honorarium" for his 

 new Show Dahlia Dreer's White. In 

 the regular classes, the above named, 

 also Ed. Lefavour, W. P. Hayden, 

 Johnson & Hall, W. H. Symonds, J. K. 

 Alexander. A. L. Brown and H. F. 

 Burt were the principal winners. Many 

 classes were not competed for. 



