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HORTICULTURE 



October 17, 1908 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES, 



GARDENERS' AND FLORISTS' 

 CLUB OF BALTIMORE. 



The Gardeners' and Florists' Club 

 had one ol the best attended and most 

 interesting meetings thai has been 

 had i'ii- some time. Some disappoint- 

 menl « .is manifi si u] on i > ceipt of a 

 telegram from Mr. Guille of Ports- 

 ni.Miiii. Va., who was slated to give a 

 talk on Virginian grown bulbs, stat- 

 ing bis inability to be present owing 

 to pressing business conditions. Mr. 

 Israel Rosnosky of Philadi Iphia who 

 was present as a visitor was pressed 

 into service and save a very interest- 

 ing talk on the Formosa lily, which 

 elicited a vote of thanks from the 

 club. 



Under the head of new business en- 

 sued a discussion on the desirability 

 of having a club badge or emblem, 

 that might be worn in any place upon 

 any occasion so that members of the 

 might readily recognize each 

 9ther although strangers. In opening 

 me discussion the Secretary said in 

 part: "It has often occurred to me 

 that while most other fraternal and 

 business organizations have their re- 

 spective emblems, we, a body of men 

 scattered over the whole world, in- 

 cluding a large part of the United 

 States, have no distinguishing emblem. 

 Surely a permanent emblem could be 

 devised for the fraternity— the whole 

 brotherhood— that some of us would 

 not blush to wear. 



'With Job gone into innocuous des- 

 uetude, and George Watson— genial 

 Seorge— gone to seed, and Patrick 

 O' Mara— where is Patrick? John Bir- 

 nie— inflammable John— alone is left 

 to tell the tale. Width, r can we turn 

 for advice except to some of those 

 strenuous youngsters— Harris, Kift. 

 Stewart. Lonsdale, et al.? They 

 might get their heads together and 

 devise something that would meet the 

 approval of the fraternity." 



A little more fraternization would 

 work no injury to the craft neither 

 socially, morally nor financially. After 

 a free discussion the question was 

 left open for future consideration. 



GARDENERS' AND FLORISTS' 

 CLUB OF BOSTON. 



The next regular monthly meeting 

 of the dub will be held at Horticul- 

 tural Hall on Tuesday evening. Oc- 

 tober 20, 1908, at S o'clock. William 

 Downs, vii nt of the club, will 



speak on "Fruit Culture under Glass." 

 There will ing exhibits of 



orchids, chrysanthemums and other 

 iwers and an enjoyable 

 ing will be spenl by all who at- 

 tend. 



W. X. CRAIG. 



DETROIT FLORISTS' CLUB. 



The las!t meeting of this club was 

 one o Quite a num- 



ber of old members who had become 

 disinterested have been reinstated. A 

 committee was appointed consisting 

 of Messrs. Dilger, Flowerday and Sul- 

 livan to confer with the local boiler 

 inspector. The latter wants to en- 

 force a law which demands that ev- 

 erj ! trying more than eleven 



pounds of steam should be attended 

 by an engineer holding second-class 

 papi is. 



NEW YORK FLORISTS' CLUB. 



1 here was a good attendance at the 

 October meeting of the .New York 

 Florists' Club last Monday evening. 

 Antoine Wintzer of West Grove, Pa., 

 read a li n « ■ paper on Hardy Clema- 

 tises and other useful Vines and 

 Shrubs, and brought an exhibit of 

 ( limbing roses, Lonicera Heckrotti, 

 L. Hendi rsonii, etc., from the Conard 

 & Jones Company nurseries. 



After the reading of resolutions on 

 the death of A. D. Rose and Alexand- 

 er Wallace by W. F. Sheridan and J. 

 Austin Shaw, respectively, the matter 

 of transportation to Chicago on the 

 occasion of the National Flower Show 

 was opened up by Patrick O'.Mara on 

 behalf of the committee in charge and 

 a long debate followed, participated in 

 by many members oi. the comparative 

 advantages of the various routes. It 

 transpired that the varying interests 

 of those who go as exhibitors, having 

 their exhibits with them, and those 

 who go merely as visitors, may not 

 be conducive to getting the entire 

 New York party on the same train 

 but the matter was finally left in the 

 hands of the transportation committee 

 for decision. A request from the Na- 

 tional Flower Show Committee for 

 the appointment of three judges was 

 received and in compliance President 

 Weathered named Messrs. C. H. Tot- 

 ty. of Madison, N. J.; Wm. Eccles, 

 Oyster Bay, and Harry Turner, Port 

 Washington. 



The following is a list of the ex- 

 hibits of the evening with the awards 

 as recommended by the judges: C. 

 H. Totty. chrysanthemums White 

 Cloud, \\ m. Meredith, Beatrice May, 



C. H. Totty. Yellow Sport from Mrs. 

 .!. A. Miller, George Mileham, On- 

 gawa and Leon Truelle; certificate of 

 iim lit for C. H. Totty, Yellow Sport 

 and Geoige Mileham. Hartman & 

 Wagenfohr, Woodside, Pompon chry- 

 santhemums, cultural cetificate. J. 



D. Cockcroft, Northport, carnation 

 Georgia and Pink Sport from Glory 

 of Pacific chrysanthemum; prelimin- 

 ary certificate for Georgia. W. A. 

 Wanda, Salvia cucantha. vote of 

 thanks. Conrad & Jones Co., shrub 

 Hovers and fruit, vote of thanks. 



It was voted that the entertain- 



committee make preparations 



to be held some time 



in November. Si cretary Young gave 



ce of a motion to fix the life mem- 



■|. ;■ i $50. Mr. Marshall an- 



nounced that the bowling club would 



mi • t regularly at the Coogau Alleys, 



Sixth Ave. and 26th Street on 



Wednesday evenings. 



We hope to be able to publish in 

 full, next week. Mr. Wintzer's excel- 

 [enl paper. Following its reading 

 there was an interesting discussion 

 participated in by Patrick O'Mara, 

 Wm. Scott, and others. 



As a climax to the evening's in- 

 struction and entertainment Harry 

 ard. just b tck from England, 

 told of his impressions of his native 

 land which he had not seen for so 

 many years, also his regrets at having 

 " i. ass Ireland without stopping off. 



PITTSBURGH FLORISTS' AND 

 GARDENERS' CLUB. 



This club met on the evening of 

 October 6 with a good attendance. A. 

 W. Smith, Jr.. and Samuel McClem- 

 ents were elected to membership. 

 Prizes had been offered to the private 

 gardeners of $10 by Dr. Shafer for 

 the best three orchid plants in bloom, 

 and the book "The English Flower 

 Garden" by Mrs. Russell H. Boggs 

 for the four best varieties of herba- 

 ceous or annual flowers. For the 

 orchid piize the competition was be- 

 tween David Fraser, gardener for H. 

 ('. Frick, and Frank Crook, gardener 

 for J. H. Park, each showing Cattleya 

 Dowiana, Cattleya labiata and Onci- 

 dium varicosum Rogersi. The com- 

 mittee on exhibits, Wm. Falconer, P. 

 S. Randolph and J. W. Jones, after 

 careful examination decided that the 

 prize should be diivded between the 

 two exhibits as of equal merit. 



Owing to the lateness of the sea- 

 son there was not a large display of 

 herbaceous or annual flowers. The 

 prize in this class went to Jas. Wise- 

 man, gardener for D. M. Clemson, 

 Pittsburgh. A lovely group of orchids 

 for exhibition only was staged by Dr. 

 Shafer, Jas. Hutchinson, gardener. 

 The committee gave this charming 

 group special mention. Cultural com- 

 mendation was given Randolph & Mc- 

 Clements for Yellow Polly Rose chry- 

 santhemum, a new and excellent sport 

 originating with this firm. H. H. Neg- 

 ley showed a group of cypripediums 

 in fine and rare varieties. 



H. A. Dreer showed "Dreer's White" 

 dahlia, to which the committee gave 

 special mention as "a magnificent, 

 full, double, pure white flower," also 

 a splendid exhibit of single dahlias. 

 Special mention was given to Nephro- 

 lepis Scholzeli, "a crested form of X. 

 Scottii, shown by H. A. Dreer; a most 

 beautifully crested form, rigid in hab- 

 it and full in fronds, evidently a very 

 desirable acquisition to our new and 

 useful ferns." 



The secretary was instructed to 

 write a letter to B. L. Elliott extend- 

 ing the sympathy of the club for the 

 recent loss of his wife. 



A suggestion was made that on Xo- 

 ber 2, the day preceding the next 

 club meeting, the members meet at 

 Phipps Conservatories to inspect the 

 i hrysanthemum exhibit and from 

 there make the round of the various 

 large chrysanthemum establishments, 

 taking lunch at Randolph & McClem- 

 This suggestion was received 

 with much favor and the secretary in- 

 structed to make the announcement 

 in the next call. The subject for next 

 meeting will be "Chrysanthemums." 



H. P. JOSLIN, Sec'y. 



FLORISTS' CLUB OF WASHING- 

 TON. 

 Tickets are out for the Annual 

 Flower Show of the Florists' Club of 

 Washington, which is to be held at 

 tne old Masonic Temple on Nov. 12. 

 13, 14 and 15. The doors will be open 

 from 2 to 11 P. M. daily. Tickets of 

 admission will be 25 cents and it is to 

 be hoped that the flower-loving pub- 

 lic of Washington will respond, thus 

 helping along a most worthy cause. 



