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HORTICULTURE 



October 17, 1908 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 

 The Arkansas Slat.- Floral Society 



is sending out an attractive postal 

 card advertising their chrysanthemum 



show at Little Rock. 



COMING EVENTS. 



Pasadena, Calif., Pasadena Gardeners' 

 Association, exhibition, Oct 22, 23, 24. 



The Northern Indiana Florists' As- 

 sociation was organized at N. Man 

 Chester on October I with \V. \V. Ded- 

 erich president and W. E, Hand sec- 

 retary and treasurer. 



The new officers of the Horticultur- 

 al Society. Lake Forest. 111., are E. 

 L. Parshall. president; Fred Jackson, 

 vice-president; .J. W. Scharfenberg, 

 secretary; II. C. Peterson, treasurer. 



The Florists' Club of Cleveland, O., 

 tinted officeis as follows at their 

 meeting on September 28: president. 

 George W. Smith; vice-presidents, F. 

 Friendley, John Kelley; secretary, 

 Isaac Kennedy; treasurer, Herman 

 Hart. 



The Florists' Club of Albany, N. Y., 

 met with Alfred Whittle on October 

 1. A lively and prolonged discussion 

 took place regarding what are known 

 to the trade as "crape chasers," and 

 a statement of the members' views 

 for the local papers was authorized. 



Articles of incorporation of the Na- 

 tional 'Horticultural Congress have 

 been filed with the county recorder 

 at Council Bluffs, la. Until the first 

 annual meeting J. P. Hess will serve 

 as president and G. W. Reye as sec- 

 retary, with a large board of direc- 

 tors. 



OBITUARY. 



Lenox, Mass., Horticultural Society, 

 chrysanthemum show, Oct. 28, 29. 



Madison, N. J., Morris County Gar- 

 deners' and Florists' Society, exhibi- 

 tion, Oct. 29, 30. 



The nominating committee of the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society 

 has published its list of nominations 

 for the offices of the Society to be 

 filled at the annual meeting, Novem- 

 ber 14. 



The list is as follows: For presi- 

 dent, Gen'l S. M. Weld; for vice-pres- 

 ident. Charles W. Parker; trustee for 

 two years. Geo. B. Dorr; trustee for 

 three' years, W. H. Bowker, Charles 

 S. Sargent, Peter Fisher. Thomas Rol- 

 and; delegates to the State Board of 

 Agriculture, Wilfrid Wheeler; nomin- 

 ating committee, X. T. Kidder, Thom- 

 as J. Grey, G. V. Fletcher, William 

 Sim, William T. Thatcher. The mem- 

 bers of the nominating committee for 

 the present year are \V. H. Bowker, 

 John W. Duncan. J. H. Fletcher. Dav- 

 id F. Roy, and Wilfrid Wheeler. 



St. Louis, Mo., St. Louis Horticul- 

 tural Society, November 3-6. 



Hartford, Conn., Connecticut Horti- 

 cultural Society, chrysanthemum show, 

 Nov. 3. 4, 5, Unity Hall. 



Shreveport, La., State Fair, Novem- 

 ber 3, 4, 5. 



Worcester, Mass., Worcester County 

 Horticultural Society, annual meeting, 

 Nov. 4; chrysanthemum show, Nov. 12. 



Red Bank, N. J., Monmouth Horti- 

 cultural Society and Elberon Horticul- 

 tural Society, joint chrysanthemum 

 show, November 4, 5. 



Tarrytown, N. Y., Horticultural So- 

 ciety, show, Nov. 4, 5, 6. 



Glen Cove, N. Y., Nassau County 

 Horticultural Society, show, Nov. 5,6. 



Chicago, 111., National Flower Show, 

 Society of American Florists, Nov. 6-14. 



Boston. Mass., Massachusetts Horti- 

 cultural Society, Chrysanthemum show, 

 Nov. 6, 7, 8, 9. 



New Haven, Conn., New Haven 

 County Horticultural Society, show, 

 Nov. 10, 11, 12. 



Philadelphia, Pa., Pennsylvania Hor- 

 ticultural Society, annual exhibition, 

 Nov. 10, 11, 12, 13, Horticultural Hall. 



Toronto, Ont., Ontario Horticultural 

 Society, exhibition, Nov. 10-14. 



Little Rock, Ark., State Floral So- 

 ciety, show, Nov. 10-25. 



lake Geneva, Wis., Gardeners' and 

 Foremen's Association, chrysanthe- 

 mum exhibition, Nov. 11, 12. 



Providence, R. I.. R. I. Horticultural 

 Society, Nov. 11, 12. fall exhibition. 



New Orleans, La.. N. O. Horticul- 

 tural Society, chrysanthemum and 

 flower show, Nov. 12, 13, 14, 15. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 

 Pari I of Transactions for the year 

 1908 has been issued and contains the 

 various lectures and addresses deliv- 

 ered befoie the Society during the 

 early part of the year, in full, with 

 the discussions which followed their 

 presentation. A portrait of Ephraim 

 \\ Bull, who raised the Concord grape, 

 appeals as a frontispiece. 



Proceedings of the Columbus (O.) 

 Horticultural Society, S. Hine, secre- 

 tary.— This volume of 220 pages is a 

 model. Typographically it is far ahead 

 of the average horticultural society 

 document as it excels them in breadth 

 and quality of contents. Every branch 

 of horticultural science and its appli- 

 cation is given a due share of the 

 space, and anyone interested in fruits, 

 vegetables, flowers, forestry, botany, 

 rfild flowers, orcharding or entomology 

 will find something in the pages of 

 this report well worth having. 



The program and schedule of prizes 

 lor the Annual Flower Show at Deni- 

 son, Texas, under the auspices of the 

 Denison Civic Improvement League, 

 contains interesting notes on the ex- 

 cellent local work done by this organi- 

 zation during the past year and 

 presents much that will be suggestive 

 and helpful to parties engaged in 

 similar effort elsewhere. The exhibi- 

 tion will ta';e place on November 11 

 and 12. The prize list contains no 

 less than 474 classes, of which a liber- 

 al slice is devoted to the school chil- 

 dren. 



Bulletin No. 3, Issued from the office _ 

 of the Superintendent for Suppressing 

 the Gypsy and Brown-tail Moths in 

 Massachusetts, gives information con- 

 cerning the predacious beetles import- 

 ed for the purpose of preying on the 

 gypsy caterpillars. Illustrations show- 

 ing these beetles in their various, 

 stages are given, with a view to ac- 

 quainting the public with their ap- 

 pearance so that in the general war- 

 fare against caterpillars and moths 

 they may not be destroyed. The most 

 successful of these insects is known as 

 Calosoma sycophanti, many colonies of 

 which have already been established 

 and are spreading satisfactorily in the 

 moth -infested districts in eastern Mas- 

 sachusetts. Copies of this valuable 

 document can be had on application to 

 A. H. Kirkland, 6 Beacon St., Boston. 



Charles Storer. 

 This well-known artist and flower 

 painter died at Xatick. Mass , on Octo- 

 ber 1. Mr. Storer, who has been lo- 

 cated in Providence, R. 1., for some 

 years, had a studio in Boston for a 

 number of years previous, which wa- 

 thc resort of many of the noted gar- 

 deners and flower lovers of that time, 

 still as David Allan, F. L. Harris, Wil- 

 liam Robinson, James Comley and 

 others now passed away, Alfred Dim- 

 mock. W. A. Manda, etc., for all of 

 whom he did more or less work in 

 painting their pet varieties. He was 

 particularly successful with orchids, 

 for which he also had a passionate 

 love. He was a genial, kindly gentle- 

 man who was held in affectionate es- 

 teem by all who knew him. 



New York, N. Y., American Institute 

 of New York, chryanthemum show, 

 Nov. 11-13, Berkeley Lyceum Building. 



Denison, Texas, Denison Civic Im- 

 provement League, show, Nov. 11, 12, 

 13. 



Washington, D. C— American Asso- 

 ciation of Farmers' Institute Workers, 

 Nov. 16, 17. 



New York, N. Y., Horticultural 

 Society of New York, annual exhibi- 

 tion, Nov. 17. IS, 19. 



Baltimore. Md.. Horticultural Socie- 

 ty, Dec. 1. 2. 3. Fifth Regt. Armory. 



Spokane, Wash.. National Apple 

 Show Association, Dec. 7-12. 



Indianapolis, Ind.. American Carna- 

 tion Society, Jan. 27. 28, 1909. 



DENISON CIVIC IMPROVEMENT 

 LEAGUE. 

 Arrangements are well under waj 

 for the third annual flower show at 

 Denison. Texas, which will be held 

 Nov. 11 and 12. The splendid suc- 

 cess of the two previous shows en- 

 courages the expectation of an even 

 greater success this season. Much in- 

 terest is manifested locally and com- 

 munications received from other 

 towns and cities indicate a larger 

 number of outside exhibitors than 

 was had at either of the previous 

 shows. The catalogue is very credit- 

 able in appearance and the list of 

 prizes is liberal and varied. The show 

 will be held under the auspices of the 

 Denison Civic Improvement League. 

 which organization is doing very ef- 

 fective wrrk for the improvement of 

 conditions in the city and sur- 

 rounding country. 



