December 12, 1908 



HORTICULTURE 



781 



vide a building at the fair grounds for 

 the exclusive use of horticultural and 

 floricultural exhibits. While the meet- 

 ings are mostly for the benefit of the 

 fruit growers, there is quite some in- 

 terest taken in landscape art and 

 ornamental horticulture. 



Professor Samuel B. Green of the 

 State Agricultural College was re- 

 elected president for a third term; 

 George W. Strand, Taylor's Falls, 

 treasurer; A. W. Latham, Minneapolis, 

 secretary; Clarence Wedge, Albert Lea 

 and T. M. Underwood, Lake City, ex- 

 ecutive board were all re-elected. 



C. N. RUEDLINGER. 



This society is made up of a band 

 of heroes. When Old Boreas threw 

 down the gauntlet and told them never 

 to invade his domain again, they bold- 

 ly accepted the challenge. Time ana 

 again their orchards were destroyed, 

 until finally they built up an iron-clad 

 tree — hardy from root to top, and now 

 they have met with cheering success. 

 The exhibit of fruit at their 42nd an- 

 nual meeting, at Minneapolis, was fine, 

 though this was an off year. Last 

 season carload after carload was 

 shipped down to Ohio from a state 

 where until of late we no more expect- 

 ed to raise apples than oranges. 



The number of fruit trees planted 

 is something amazing. Enthusiasm is 

 at high tide. The society has a mem- 

 bership of over 2800 and will probably 

 reach the 3000 mark by another year. 



The program was full and was start- 

 ed off briskly. Prof. Green is an ideai 

 presiding officer and Prof. Latham is 

 without a peer as an organizer and 

 everything was dovetailed and match- 

 ed to a perfect fit. 



The first paper was on the Bull or 

 ponderosa pine, so well adapted to all 

 the West and Northwest The writer 

 gave his experience in watching this 

 tree for 25 years. They can be raised 

 in the open as easily as one can raise 

 onions. A man in Manitoba — an ordi- 

 nary farmer — secured 3,000 from half 

 a pound of seed, with the first cost 

 only 50 cts. per 1,000. This hardy 

 tree grows with great rapidity and ad- 

 mirably fits the dry plains of the West 

 and Northwest; and were it not for 

 the fires would have covered all these 

 regions. He who plants a grove of 

 them plants a flock of sheep. Several 

 manufacturers are now distilling a val- 

 uable oil from the needles, and by a 

 chemical process are producing fibre 

 from the long, slender foliage which is 

 converted into cloth, making this tree 

 one of the most valuable that can be 

 planted. The paper will be issued as 

 a bulletin by the Nebraska Park and 

 Forest Society and can be had for a 

 postage stamp by sending to C. S. Har- 

 rison, York, Nebraska. There were 

 very interesting discussions on the 

 strawberry led by the veteran of 81 

 years, Geo. Kellogg, of Janesville, 

 Wis. 



There were associated societies which 

 matched their work in with that of 

 the parent society, the Rose Society, 

 Plant Breeders' Auxiliary, Bee Keep- 

 ers' Society and the Forestry Society 

 which carried out an extremely in- 

 teresting programme. 



Wednesday night was the carnival 

 banquet — the great unbend where 

 there was sense and nonsense, roast 

 and toast, where old men were boys, 

 where there was a "feast of reason and 



First Prize Table Dkcoration 



At Inhibition of New Orleans Horticult'irnl Society by J. A. Schwlndler ,v- Co 



a flow of soul" without the flowing 

 bowl. These meetings are culminative 

 — the last the best, and with reason, 

 for this is probably the largest and 

 best society in the world. 



C. S. HARRISON. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



Spring Exhibition 1909. 

 The schedule for the American Rose 

 Society's Annual Exhibition next 

 March is being revised. $350.00 is al- 

 ready subscribed as a guarantee tuna 

 to the Society's finances. There are 

 three silver cups offered as specials 

 and two prizes for pot plants amount- 

 ing to $300.00 The mayor of Detroit 

 offers a special prize for the exhibi- 

 tion to be held in Buffalo beginning 

 March 23rd. Vice President Wm. F. 

 Kasting, park commisioner of the city 

 of Buffalo, says that the people of that 

 city love roses, that it is a place 

 where the Society's motto. "A rose eoi 

 every home, a bush for every garden." 

 is a concrete fact, and the people will 

 turn out to the show. President Poehl- 

 mann has appointed several gentlemen 

 to solicit special prizes. The Schedule 

 Committee are the veteran rose mow- 

 ers, John N. May. Alexander Mont- 

 gomery, Robert Simpson and Frank K 

 Pierson and the schedule will be such 

 as to insure a capital display. The 

 annual bulletin is in press. 



BENJAMIN HAMMOND. Secretary. 



Fishkill on Hudson. N. Y. 



MICHIGAN HORTICULTURAL SO- 

 CIETY. 



A record-breaking attendance, in- 

 tense enthusiasm and a very interest- 

 ing programme made the 38th annual 

 meeting of the Michigan Horticultural 

 Society, Dec. 1-3, one of the best ever 

 held. The business meeting showed a 

 most healthy condition of the Society, 

 the T. T. Lyon Memorial Fund now 

 containing nearly $18.uuu. It was vot- 

 ed that the Society continue the plan 

 of making fruit displays each year at 

 the state fairs, the premiums earned 

 being used to increase the permanent 

 fund; that the executive board con- 

 tinue the plan of making contracts for 

 spraying materials and fertilizer, to be 

 supplied to society members at cost. 



Election of officers resulted in the 

 advance of vice-president Smythe 

 of Benton Harbor to the presidency. 

 C. E. Bassett of Fennville was con- 

 tinued as secretary for the ninth year. 

 James Satterlee of Lansing was re- 

 elected treasurer. New members of 

 the executive board are Chas. F. Hale, 

 Shelby; J. Pomeroy Munson, Grand 

 Rapids and Prof. H. J. Eustace of the 

 State Coll^ 



Three state societies are in session 

 this week: Illinois at Champaign, 

 l .: at Des Moines, and Washington 

 at Spokane. 



