December 26, 1908 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS 

 AND ORNAMENTAL HOR- 

 TICULTURISTS. 

 The Next National Flower Show. 



The cup offered by Ellwanger & 

 Barry. Rochester, New York, not 

 having been won at the late National 

 Flower Show, has been turned over to 

 the undersigned, by the donors, to be 

 offend as first prize at the next Na- 

 tional Flower Show. 



There has been much talk of the 

 next National Show, but so far as the 

 writer knows, this is the first really 

 tangible offering which has been made. 

 Should any other firms or individuals 

 see fit to make any offers in connec- 

 tion with the next proposed show, the 

 writer will be very glad to accept them 

 temporarily and turn them over to 

 whatever organization may be made 

 for the purpose of conducting another 

 show. W. N. RUDD, Sec'y. 



Morgan Park, III. 



VIOLET GROWERS' MUTUAL ASSO- 

 CIATION. 



The violet growers of Rhinebeck, N. 

 Y., have been incorporated under the 

 laws of the State of New York. 



One hundred and twenty-three 

 growers, representing over one million 

 square feet of glass, have joined al- 

 ready and more are to follow. Much 

 enthusiasm is shown and it promises 

 to be a success for both ends, al- 

 though only the one end is likely to 

 be acted upon at present, except to 

 compare notes and select and favor 

 those dealers showing the most just- 

 ice to the members of the association. 

 They already have a list of the bottom 

 wholesale prices on coal, manure, 

 boxes, parafine paper, twine, sulphur- 

 ic acid, cyanide of potassium and 

 minor supplies which such a repre- 

 sentation could use in very large 

 quantities and reduce cost to a mini- 

 mum. 



HORTI CULTURE 



offered cash prizes for various things, 

 and we also expect to have a sample 

 dozen of each of the new carnations 

 and roses for this meeting. 



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CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



The Western New York Horticultur- 

 al Society will hold its annual meeting 

 in Rochester, January 27-28. 



Jesse C. Stevens of Centerville is the 

 newly elected president of the Wayne 

 County Horticultural Society, Ind. 



The Iowa Horticultural Society at its 

 meeting in Des Moines on December 

 10 re-elected its board of officers for 

 the coming year. 



The Totowa Dahlia and Flower 

 Growers' Association of Paterson, N. 

 J., held their second annual smoker on 

 Dec. 11, which was well attended. 



A banquet at the Phillips House on 

 January 11 for the members is the 

 next interesting feature on the pro- 

 gram of the Dayton (O.) Florist Club. 



George McWilliam of Whitinsville, 

 Mass., has invited the members of the 

 Worcester County Horticultural So- 



DETROIT FLORIST CLUB. 



At the last meeting of the Detroit 

 Florist Club it was decided to change 

 quarters and move into larger rooms 

 in the Cowie building. A hearty vote 

 of thanks was offered to the Michigan 

 Cut Flower Exchange, which in re- 

 sponse through Mr. Dilger assured the 

 club that in future their rooms will, be 

 at the club's disposal for special meet- 

 ings or the like at any time. January 

 7, 1909, will be Ladies' Night in Har- 

 monie Hall, and a very interesting pro- 

 gram has been mapped out. B. Schroe- 

 ter read a most interesting paper on 

 Christmas 37 years ago, bringing out 

 the fact that Christmas then held no 

 excitements in store for the llorist but 

 New Year's day was quite important. 

 The trade mainly was in flowering 

 plants and decorations were only used 

 in churches. Christmas greens were 

 unknown quantity, as also flower boxes 

 or covered wagons. Poinsettias, prim- 

 roses, callas, camellias and Marechal 

 Neil roses were the principal flowers. 



TOLEDO FLORISTS' CLUB. 



The Florists' Club had a very lively 

 meeting at H. A. Mills' on Dec. 1C. We 

 expected to have a big flower show in 

 February with several hundred dollars 

 as prizes, but the project fell through. 

 Our next meeting will see some lively 

 competition, as several members have 



evening. The next meeting will be 

 with W. H. Weston, 277 Rutgen St., 

 Utica, 



The Montreal Gardeners' and Flor- 

 ists' Club at the meeting on Decem- 

 ber 7 elected the following officers: 

 President, W. G. Pascoe; vice-presi- 

 dents, Julius Luck, H. J. Eddy; 

 secretary-treasurer, W. H. Horobin; 

 assistant secretary, Thomas Arnold. 



Wayne County Horticultural Society, 

 Ind., at their meeting on Dec. 12 

 elected the following officers: Presi- 

 dent, Jesse Stevens; vice-president, 

 Thomas Elleman; secretary, W. S. 

 Ratliff; corresponding secretary, Wal- 

 lace Reynolds; treasurer, T. E. Ken- 

 worthy. 



On invitation from the Retail Flor- 

 ists' Protective Association of New 

 York, seven members of the Whole- 

 salers' Protective Association were 

 present at the meeting of the retailers 

 at the Waldorf-Astoria on Friday, lsth 

 inst., and matters of mutual interest 

 were discussed. 



James Robertson 



President-Elect Newrjort Horticultural 

 Society. 



ciety to visit his greenhouses while the 

 calanthes are in bloom. 



The Stark County Horticultural 

 Society met at Canton, O., Dec. 16, and 

 elected 0. W. Foust, president; E. F. 

 Graybill, vice-president; Mrs. S. O. 

 Eggert of Ma'ssillon, secretary. 



The . Missouri Horticultural Society 

 elected officers as follows at its recent 

 meeting: President, A. T. Nelson; 

 vice-president, W. D. Maxwell; secre- 

 tary, Ceo. T. Tippin, Nichols Junction. 



The florists of Rockford, 111., have 

 organized a club with seventeen char- 

 ter members and as many more pros- 

 pective members. George S. Birks will 

 be president and M. C. Sadewater, sec- 

 retary. 



The Westchester County Horticul- 

 tural Society met at White Plains, 

 N. Y., on Dec. 18, and elected officers 

 as follows: President, Oliver Harri- 

 man; vice-president, L. C. Piatt; 

 secretary, Daniel Maloney. 



The Utica (N. Y.) Florist Club met 

 with E. J. Byam of Rome. The stormy 

 weather prevented a large attendance 

 but those who were there enjoyed the 



NATIONAL APPLE SHOW. 

 Michael Horan, orchardist, stock- 

 grower and banker at Wenatchee, 

 Wash., and a native of Stockbridge, 

 Mass., is the apple king of America, 

 having gained that distinction by cap- 

 turing the chief prize of $1,000 for the 

 best carload exhibit at the National 

 Apple Show in Spokane, December 7 

 to 12, when $35,000 in premiums was 

 awarded to competitions from various 

 parts of the United States. Washing- 

 ton growers took 58 first prizes, Can- 

 ada captured 15, 11 went to Idaho, one 

 to Montana, and the rest were scat- 

 tered. Much to the disappointment of 

 the management and the thousands of 

 visitors, representing every state and 

 province on the continent, practically 

 all the fruit sent from the states east 

 and south of the Rocky mountains 

 was spoiled in transit. The apples had 

 been taken out of cold storage and 

 were sent to Spokane iu heated cars, 

 thus making them unpresentable. To 

 show the displavs would have been 

 manifestly unjust to the districts, so 

 Harry J. Neely, secretary and man- 

 ager,' decided not to place them in com- 

 petition or on exhibtion, though prize 

 monevs, medals and diplomas will be 

 forwarded to the growers from every 

 state entered in the district. 



Records at the stiles showed 102,762 

 paid admission tickets, 4,000 season 

 tickets and several hundred press and 

 comolimentarv tickets, bringing the to- 

 tal attendance to 107,000 for the week. 

 The statement of the daily paid admis- 

 sions follows: December 7, 14,352; 8, 

 14 070- 9, 18,000: 10, 20,070: 11, 19,270; 

 12.' 17,000; total, 102,302. The first ex- 

 hibition of its kind and scope was so 

 successful that it will be made an an- 

 nual affair. It is likely that the prize- 

 winning displays in 1909 will be sent 

 to Chicago or some eastern city for ex- 

 hibition purposes. 



James M. Zion of Clarkshill, Ind., is 

 actively working for the introduction 

 of a bill in the Legislature abolishing 

 the office of State Entomologist and 

 substituting a State Commissioner of 

 Horticulture who shall be a skilled 

 horticulturist. It will be identical 

 with the Goodwine bill of two years 

 ago. 



