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HORTICULTURE 



January 18, 1903 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES. 



GARDENERS' AND FLORISTS' 

 CLUB OF BOSTON. 



The next resulai- monthly meeting 

 of the flub will be held at Horticul- 

 tural Hall, on Tuesday evening, Jan- 

 uary 21, 1908, at 8 o'clock. 



The officers elected at the Novem- 

 ber meeting will be installed. In 

 place of a regular lecture the meeting 

 will be an open one to which ladies 

 are particularly invited. A very pleas- 

 ing entertainment has been prepared 

 and other attractions will be added 

 which will render this a most delight- 

 ful gathering for all who attend. 



The February meeting will be Car- 

 nation night, which will be a record 

 breaker. Exhibits of all the season's 

 novelties and other attractions are be- 

 ing prepared. Plans for the March 

 meeting are also well under way. 



The- opening of 1908 finds the Gar- 

 deners' and Florists' Club of Boston 

 more prosperous than ever before in 

 its history. The officers for the pres- 

 ent year will strive with might and 

 main to make the club a power for 

 good, and to keep it in the van of 

 horticultural progi-ess. No gardener 

 or florist who wants to be up-to-date 

 can well afford to remain outside our 

 fold. May the new year be one of 

 happiness and prosperity to all our 

 members. W. N. CRAIG, 



Secretary. 



ST. LOUIS FLORIST CLUB. 



The St. Louis Florist Club made a 

 good beginning in the New Year, which 

 was very pleasing to President Young. 

 The first meeting in 1908 took place 

 on Thursday, January 9th, at 2 o'clock, 

 with thirty members present. The en- 

 tertainment committee reported in fa- 

 vor of economy and was granted fur- 

 ther time until the next meeting. The 

 proposed pottery stock company was 

 reported on by the committee in 

 charge. The report was quite lengthy 

 and a long discussion took place. It 

 was finally voted that a subscription 

 list be floated for stock, and that this 

 subscription be in the hands of the 

 committee until May 15th, and unless 

 by that time $10,000 is subscribed the 

 proposition will be dropped. 



It was voted that the club hold its 

 annual Carnation exhibition at the 

 regular meeting in February, competi- 

 tion to be open to local growers only, 

 and to invite growers of new varieties 

 to send exhibition blooms for the ben- 

 efit of our carnation growers, who are 

 always well represented at these meet- 

 ings. 



J. F. Ammaun of Edwardsville and 

 A. S. Halsted of Belleville invited the 

 members to come to Springfield Febru- 

 ary 18th to attend the meeting of the 

 Illinois State Florists' Association, and 

 promised them a good time. 



The question box brought out a live- 

 ly discussion on a number of impor- 

 tant questions. This ended the first 

 meeting of the Florist Club in 190S. 

 February 13th is the date of the next 

 meeting. 



NEWPORT HORTICULTURAL SO- 

 CIETY. 



The annual ball of the Newport 

 Horticultural Society took place on 

 Wednesday, Jan. 8th, in Masonic Hall. 

 The attendance was large and the en- 

 .ioyment yas unabated from the start 

 till the "Wee sma' 'oors" in the morn- 

 ing. The hall was tastefully decorated 

 by the committee assisted by another 

 committee from the Telephone Ex- 

 change, the employes of which had 

 e ball there the evening previous. 

 The committee, of which Mr. Jehu T. 

 Allan the president of the Horticul- 

 tural Society was chairman, deserve 

 great credit for bringing this ball to 

 such a satisfactory conclusion, finan- 

 cial and otherwise. Although at no 

 time uncomfortably crowded the hall 

 was full from beginning almost to the 

 end with active participants in the 

 pleasures of the dance. A few, of 

 course, looked on or chatted in cor- 

 ners but they were few in comparison 

 with the number so engaged on for- 

 mer occasions. D. M. 



PASADENA GARDENERS' ASSOCIA- 

 TION. 

 The regular meeting of the above 

 association was held on January 3, 

 President John Blake in the chair. 

 There was a large attendance of mem- 

 bers and also visitors from Los An- 

 geles. A general discussion on roses 

 and various topics took place. At the 

 close Mr. Nilsson addressed President 

 Blake and presented him with a gold 

 and marble clock and pair of gold 

 candlesticks to match as a mark of 

 the appreciation of the good work done 

 by him and his untiring endeavors in 

 the interests of the association. Nine- 

 teen hundred and seven was a very 

 successful year, each meeting being 

 well attended, and at the present time 

 there are 102 members in good stand- 

 ing and a neat sum In the bank in 

 reserve for the next flower show. Offi- 

 cers elected at the December meeting 

 were: President, John Blake; vice- 

 president. Otto Heutchy; secretary, R. 

 Mackenzie; treasurer, G. F. Nilsson; 

 trustees, Howard Coolidge, J. M. Ross. 

 H. E. GEORGE. 



THE CARNATION MEETING AT 

 WASHINGTON. 



The all-absorbing topic of conversa- 

 tion in the Washington florist world is 

 the approaching carnation show to be 

 held Jan. 28th to 30th inclusive, at 

 National Rifles Armory. The banquet 

 to be given on the evening of the 

 iiOth will be held at Rauscher's 

 There was a special meeting of the 

 executive committee of the local club 

 called on January 10th to dispose of 

 some final matters, and the following 

 gentlemen were appointed on the ban- 

 quet committee, Peter Bisset, Geo. 

 Cooke. Geo. Shaffer, John Robertson, 

 Wm. F. Gude, F. H. Kramer and 

 Chas. McCauley. With such an effici- 

 ent committee there should be plenty 

 of good things coming. 



CONNECTICUT HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



This society held its regular meet- 

 ing on January 10, President Huss oc- 

 cupying the chair. The newly ap- 

 pointed officers were duly installed and 

 a program of the work for the coming 

 year was outlined. Various commit- 

 tees were appointed and it was de- 

 cided to hold a pansy show sometime 

 during May. As we have a number of 

 pansy enthusiasts in our community 

 the success of the coming show is 

 practically assured. As an indication 

 that the exhibition will be on a con- 

 siderable scale, John Gerard, the 

 pansy specialist of New Britain, 

 promises at least 2.500 pots from his 

 district. President Huss exhibited 

 tor the first time here the new Mos- 

 chosma ripariuni, which promises to 

 be of considerable value as a winter 

 flowering subject. It was awarded a 

 certificate of merit. 



Certificates of merit were also 

 awarded to Mr. Huss for a fine dis- 

 play of cut orchids and a specimen 

 plant of Reinwardtia triginum. and 

 to A. J. Weber, gardener to Walter 

 Goodwin, for Nephrolepis Whitmanii. 

 President Huss presented the society 

 with a block and gavel made from the 

 Washington elm, which until within 

 a few years was one of the famous 

 landmarks of Hartford. 



A. CUMMING, Jr., 



Secretary. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



The Executive Committee of the 

 American Rose Society met at the 

 Hotel Martinique, New York City, on 

 Monday afternoon, January 13. Au- 

 gust Poehlmanu of Morton Grove, III., 

 has been appointed special committee- 

 man for the Chicago Show. J. A. Val- 

 entine will prasent a paper at the an- 

 nual meeting, upon Roses in Colorado; 

 Adolph Poehlmann will present one 

 upou Practical Rose Growing, and Wm. 

 H. Elliott of Brighton, Mass., will give 

 a paper upon the Proper Size of a 

 Greenhouse for Commercial Rose 

 Growing. Mr. Elliott has the largest 

 single rose house in New England. 

 Robert Craig of Philadelphia will have 

 a paper upon Forcing Roses in Pots 

 for Easter. A new rose from Sharon 

 Hill, Pa., Mrs. Jardine, will be one of 

 the novelties on exhibition. 



The following judges have been ap- 

 pointed; Messrs. J. F. Wilcox, Coun- 

 cil Bluffs, la., Adam Graham, Cleve- 

 land, 0., and John H. Dunlop, Park- 

 dale, Out. 



The Secretary reported that many of 

 the members had paid up their annual 

 subscriptions within ten days from 

 mailing the bills, and that the Society 

 needed as many as a thousand annual 

 members, all interested. The details 

 of schedules had been attended to and 

 the first edition had already been 

 printed and mailed. There will be a 

 supplementary list of prizes issued to 

 cover those that are given for special 

 objects. 



BENJAMIN HAMMOND, Secretary. 



