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HORTICULTURE 



August 29, 1908 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



Pursuant to call made through the 

 newspapers, a meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Rose Society wax held during the 

 session of the Society of American 

 Florists and Ornamental Horticultur- 

 ists. I ii i iness in hand was the 

 formal (■'' inge of oilicers. Mr. Rob- 

 ert Simpson of Clifton. X. J., turned 

 over the office to Mr. August Poehl- 

 mann of Morton Grove, 111. Mr. Simp- 

 son has been president for two terms 

 during which the exhibitions at Wash- 

 ington, D. C, and Chicago were held. 

 Vice-president Philip Breitmeyer of 

 Detroit was succeeded by Mr. Wm. P. 

 Kasting of Buffalo, X. Y.. in which 

 city the annual exhibition of 1909 will 

 be held. Treasurer Harry O. May of 

 Summit, X. J., and the present secre- 

 tary continue in office. The Execu- 

 tive committee is as follows: J. J. 

 Curran, Salem, Va.; P. J. Lynch, West 

 Grove, Pa.; Peter Bisset, Washington, 

 D. C.; P. Welch, Boston; A. Faren- 

 wald, Roslyn, Pa.; Philip Breitmeyer, 

 Detroit; E. Gurney Hill, Richmond, 

 Ind. 



Mr. Simpson made a brief state- 

 ment of the condition of the society 

 showing an audit of all accounts up to 

 June 10th, at which time the finan- 

 cial statement showed a lack of 

 funds to close up the year. The habit 

 of the past was by necessity to carry 

 over certain charges. This the Ex- 

 ecutive committee took in hand to 

 remedy. The difficulty in the past 

 was that the cash prizes, independent 

 of special prizes awarded regularly by 

 the Society, reached an amount near- 

 ly equal to if not more than the rev- 

 enue, leaving nothing to cover the 

 necessary administrative expenses 

 and these had been paid by the offi- 

 cers. The members who made good 

 the amount are: J. A. Valentine, S. 

 S. Pennock, Ellwanger & Barry, 

 Henry Hentz. Jr.. P. O'.Mara. 

 Vaughan's' Seed Store, Carl Jurgens, 

 Aug. Poehlmann, Joseph Heacock, 

 Robert Simpson, Samuel Thorne, E. 

 G. Hill, Alexander Montgomery, Pat- 

 rick Welch, Gude Bros., Conard & 

 Jones, Benjamin Hammond and 

 others. 



President Poehlmann in a clear cut 

 address showed at once his ability as 

 an executive officer and promised to 

 do all in his power to extend the So- 

 ciety's usefulness. The following res- 

 olutions were adopted: 



That the Society offer Its medals and 

 certificates as may !>e directed by the Ex- 

 ecutive Committee at its Annual Exhi- 

 bitions. 



That the Secretary be, and is hereby 

 directed to publish the Annual Bulletin 

 of the proceedings of the American Rose 

 Society for the past year, and is also 

 authorized to solicit a limited number of 

 advertisements, and to print 1000 of the 

 Bulletins. 



The appointing of judges for the 

 approaching National Flower Show 

 was taken up and certain names sug- 

 gested by request of President Poehl- 

 mann to whom the matter was referred. 

 These gentlemen will be notified and 

 as soon as their acceptance is as- 

 sured the list will be published. Mr. 

 Otto G. Koenig of St. Louis, Mo., 

 joined the society as a new member. 



BENJAMIN HAMMOXD, Sec'y. 

 Fishkill-on-Hudson. X. Y.. Aug. 24, '08. 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY. 



The free midsummer show of this 

 SOCietJ held on Saturday and Sunday, 

 August 22 and 23, was a most gorgeous 

 affair. The great exhibition hall fairly- 

 blazed with thousands of gladioli, 

 phloxes, asters, lilies and herbaceous 

 flowers of every sort, and the small 

 adjoining hall presented a display of 

 choice fruits and luxuriant vegetables 

 in rare assortment and perfection. 



B. H. Tracy put up a collection of 

 gladioli such as has never been 

 equalled here for variety and for size 

 ot spike and bloom. One section of 

 1iii' vases filled for effect took first prize 

 in that class and honorable mention 

 was awarded to his Dawn and Mme. 

 Butterfly. Another extensive gladiolus 

 display came from John Lewis Childs 

 in which the superb America and many 

 varieties of the Childsii strain were 

 prominent. R. & J. Farquhar & Co. 

 were represented by a huge collection 

 of herbaceous flowers, dahlias and 

 auratum lilies, which filled one entire 

 end of the hall with a wave of gor- 

 geous color. In the collection were 

 two novelties, the Chas. Lanier dahlia 

 and a new lily collected by Wilson in 

 Northern China. 



Perennial phloxes were of superior 

 quality, and made a big display, T. 

 C. Thurlow, Blue Hill Nursery, W. 

 Whitman and George Hollis winning 

 first, second, third and fourth respec- 

 tively. Francis Skinner, Mrs. John 

 L. Gardner and Wm. Whitman were 

 the winners in the China aster classes. 

 Superb displays of herbaceous flowers 

 were made by Bellevue Greenhouses. 

 Blue Hill Nurseries, F. J. Rea and 

 others, and there were promiscuous 

 groups from Mrs. E. M. Gill and other 

 regular contributors to these shows. 



A first-class certificate of merit was 

 awarded to Walter Hunnewell for hot 

 house peaches, variety Sea Eagle. In 

 the melon competition H. H. Rogers. 

 gardener James Garthly, won first 

 with Farquhar's Honey-Drop, Freder- 

 ick Mason, gardener E. L. Lewis. 

 second with Tip Top and third with 

 Long Island Beauty. 



cutive for three years, Ed. Annandale, 

 James Collins and W. Walker; for two 

 years. C. II. Janzen and Mr. Upton. 

 It was voted to hold the next meeting 

 at Toronto at tin- time of the chrysan- 

 themum show. 



NEW ORLEANS HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 

 The regular meeting of the New 

 Orleans Horticultural Society held on 

 Thursday P. M., August 20, was well 

 attended. Messrs. DeLapouyade, Doe- 

 scher and Eichling were appointed a 

 committee to act with the Southern 

 Florists who will give a trade exhibit 

 in conjunction with the Horticultural 

 Society's chrysanthemum show. A 

 Finance Committee was also appointed 

 consisting of Messrs. Otto Abele, Otto 

 Werner and Chas. Eble. The com- 

 mittee in charge of the chrysanthemum 

 show reported progress. 



CANADIAN HORTICULTURAL AS- 

 SOCIATION. 



As recorded in our issue of last 

 week, this organization held its 

 eleventh annual meeting at the Clif- 

 ton House, Niagara Falls, Ontario, at 

 the same time as the S. A. F. conven- 

 tion in Niagara Falls, N. Y. Cordial 

 visits were exchanged between the two 

 bodies, mention of which has also al- 

 ready been made. The routine pro- 

 ceedings, including addresses by the 

 Mayor of Niagara Falls, President 

 Walsh and reports by the various offi- 

 cers, took place on Wednesday, August 

 19. On Thursday papers were read on 

 Forcing Tomatoes, by W. S. Blair: 

 Care of Private Greenhouses, by Wil- 

 liam Wilshire: Nomenclature, by John 

 Cavers; Grapes Under Glass, by Thos. 

 Pewtress. On Thursday evening the 

 officers for next year were elected as 

 follows: President. Ed. Dale: first vice- 

 president. H. E. Philpot: second vice- 

 president, J. Connors; secretary, A. H. 

 Ewing; treasurer. H. Simmers: exec- 



FLORISTS' HAIL ASSOCIATION OF 

 A M F R I C. A 



At the annual meeting of this asso- 

 ciation on August 18 officers were 

 elected as follows: President, E. G. 

 Hill; vice-president, H. H. Ritter; 

 treasurer, Joseph Heacock; secretary, 

 John G. Esler; directors, J. C. 

 Vaughan and J. A. Valentine. The di- 

 rectors voted to raise the bond of the 

 treasurer from $5,000 to $25,000 and 

 proposed an amendment to the by- 

 laws providing that in future the bond 

 of the treasurer shall not be less than' 

 the average amount in bank during 

 the previous year. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



At the last meeting of Dracut Grange, 

 Lowell, Mass.. James McManmon, flor- 

 ist of that city, gave an interesting 

 talk on plants. 



Mr. J. Guille, Portsmouth. Va., will 

 address the Florists' Club of Philadel- 

 phia at their September meeting; sub- 

 ject, "Bulb Growing in Virginia." 



The Indiana Horticultural Society 

 met at Greenfield on August 20 and 

 21. Considerable attention was given 

 to the treatment of San Jose scale. 



The Douglas County Horticultural 

 Society met with A. H. Griesa, 

 Lawrence. Kansas, on August 15, and 

 E. B. Cowgill was the speaker of the 

 day. 



The Tri-City Florist Club met with 

 Henry Pauli. Davenport, Iowa, on Au- 

 gust 13. The handling of cold storage 

 bulbs was the subject under considera- 

 tion. The next meeting will be with 

 Harry Bills on September 3. 



The New Jersey Horticultural Socie- 

 ty held its meeting on August 19 with 

 Albert Repp of Glassboro. State 

 Entomologist J. B. Smith, H. W. Col- 

 lingswood and Prof. M. J. Blake were 

 among the speakers. Dinner was 

 served to nearly five hundred people 

 in one of the big barns. 



The .Montreal Horticultural Society 

 has just awarded the prizes in the 

 garden competition and the list of 

 winners has been published. Classes 

 were for city gardens, suburban gar- 

 dens, back yard gardens, and "special 

 cases." The judges were Joseph Ben- 

 nett. George Trussell and C. A. Smith. 



