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AFTER ADJOURNMENT. 

 Keep your eye on the Chas. Lanier 

 dahlia. It is "head and shoulders" 

 above anything in its cla&s. As a com- 

 mercial cut flower subject it will fill ;i 

 large place. 



Let every member of the Carnation 

 Society visiting Washington next week 

 take a look in at the Botanic Garden 

 and doff his hat to the Crittendon Oak 

 and its indomitable defender, Wra. R. 

 Smith. 



Don't look for a clean sweep of a 

 houseful of stock as a result of a 

 couple of dollars timidly invested in 

 advertising. ,Tust keep hammering 

 away and be reasonable. It's bound 

 to win. 



Hear that heavy rumbling in the dis- 

 tance? That must be old Jupiter and 

 his friend the weather clerk fixing up 

 a howler for Burns' birthday anniver- 

 sary and the Carnation Society's pil- 

 grimage. Watch out! 



That hydrangea problem now takes 

 on new magnitude. Our friend the 

 National Nurseryman opens its col- 

 umns to it as "the new Everbloom- 

 ing!'" 



"The worst Is not 

 So long as we can say, "This is the worst.' " 



The warm weather of the past 

 month has been very lenient on 

 the coal pile, and the man with 

 the Electric Circulator on his 

 heating system is to be envied. For 

 warm weather or coldest weather what 

 a comfort that Circulator is to the 

 grower! 



We are glad to see the double-flower- 

 ing lobelia coming into this market 

 at last. It is one of the grandest pol 

 plant and bedding plant novelties sent 

 out in recent years. It produces no 

 seed but may be propagated easily. 

 The color is a most beautiful blue and 

 it is '■'bound to take." 



At the Chicago meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Carnation Society, ten years ago. 

 preliminary certificates were won by 

 the following varieties: Mrs. Thos. W. 

 Lawson, America, Arbutus, Scarlet 

 Queen; three-year certificates by Em- 

 press, Evelina, Argyle, G. H. Crane. 

 How fleeting is fame! Wonder where 

 our present day beauties will be ten 

 years hence. 



On McKinley Day, January 29, it is 

 proposed to give away a lot of carna- 

 tions at the exhibition in Washington, 

 and request is made for donations for 

 this purpose from growers. Carna- 

 tions are plentiful and we hope the 

 growers will no the generous thing. 

 The McKinley sentiment has been 

 worth a good deal to the carijation in 

 its hustle for popularity. 



I think HORTICULTURE should be 

 complimented on several points but 

 especially on the fact that its columns 

 are not occupied by the effusions of 

 personal spite and spleen, under the 

 imaginary disguise of "wit" such as 

 can be found in some other trade 

 papers. Respectfully vours, 



PATRICK FLANAGAN. 



New Rochelle, N. Y., Jan. 6, 1908. 



PERSONAL. 



Detroit visitor: Mr. J. E. Roi.^er, 

 of New York. 



F. E. Palmer, florist, of Brookline, 

 Mass., has been elected president of 

 the Brookline Business Men's Associa- 

 tion. 



Parker Thayer Barnes, formerly 

 connected with the Garden Magazine, 

 has taken a position with Suburban 

 Life. 



Charles A. Davis, of Dover, N. H.. 

 who has been ill for three weeks with 

 grippe and pneumonia, is now reported 

 as improving. 



Edwin Lonsdale is in attendance 

 upon the meeting of the State Board of 

 Agriculture, of which he is a member, 

 at Harrisburg, Pa. 



Visitors in Boston: A. N. Pierson, 

 Cromwell, Conn.; S. S. Skidelsky, 

 Philadelphia; Winfried Rolker, New 

 York: H. R. Mitchell, Waterville, Me.; 

 E. J. Harmon. Portland, Me. 



D.wiD F. KoY 



Richard Engelman. florist, of Pitts- 

 field, Mass., was married to Miss Mar- 

 garet Wallner, of New York, on Jan- 

 uary 5, in the German Lutheran 

 Church, New York. 



Miss Any K. Luffman, daughter o1 

 George E. Luffman. laiidscape garden- 

 er of Birmingham, Ala., and Mr. Jas. 

 R. Lambly were married at Spokane, 

 Washington, on January 18, 1908. 



H. J. Corfield, who for the past three 

 years has been designing and con- 

 structing a large estate nearly three 

 hundred acres in extent, near Detroit, 

 has resigned and will return east. 



Carl E. Kern, formerly with J. H. 

 Troy of The Rosary Flower Company, 

 New York, has been appointed head of 

 the landscape department of the Na- 

 tional Cash Register Company at 

 Dayton, 0. 



David F. Roy, for many years head 

 gardener at the Converse Estate and 

 superintendent of Pine Banks Park, 

 Maiden, Mass., has resigned those posi- 



tions and will take charge of "The 

 Moorings," Col. H. E. Converse's es- 

 tate at Marion, Mass. Mr. Roy's re- 

 moval from the Boston district will 

 be a decided loss to the gardening fra- 

 ternity of the New England metropolis 

 who have recognized in him one of 

 the most skilful of the growers and 

 exhibitors at the Massachusetts Horti- 

 cultural Society's shows. The place 

 he is about to take charge of is practi- 

 cally new and offers abundant scope 

 for constructive ability. A range of 

 greenhouses will eventually be erected. 

 The best wishes of a host of friends 

 will acompany Mr. Roy and his family 

 to their new home. 



LADIES' SOCIETY OF AMERICAN 

 FLORISTS. 



All members of the Ladies' Society 

 of American Florists attending the 

 carnation meeting at Washington, 

 please wear your Badge Pin. 



MRS. W. J. VESEY, Pres. 



MRS. CHAS. H. MAYNARD. Sec y. 



OBITUARY. 

 William Adams, a highly esteemed 

 florist of Great Neck, N. Y.. died on 

 January 2. 



Frances E., wife of J. E. Linfoot, 

 florist of Cincinnati, passed away on 

 January 11. 



Wm. Cunningham, florist, of Cincin- 

 nati, O., who has occupied a stand in 

 the flower market since it was started, 

 died on January 12. 



Robert Mann, one of the pioneer flo- 

 rists of Lansing, Mich., died on Janu- 

 ary fi, aged 77. A wife, two daughters 

 and two sons sun'ive him. 



Jacob Katz, a retired landscape gar- 

 dener and florist of Mt. Airy, Pa., died 

 on January 11. He was born in Phila- 

 delphia 75 years ago. Two sons sur- 

 vive. 



James W. Davis, born in Godfrey 

 township. 111., where he has spent his 

 entire life, passed away on January 13, 

 aged 67. He has been very successful 

 in raising and propagating small 

 fruits. 



Patrick McDonough. who has carried 

 on a florist business in Kearny and Ar- 

 lington, N. J., for many years, died at 

 his home in East Newark on January 

 13. A widow, two sons and a daugh- 

 ter survive him. 



Maj-or llihliani bas put his oliiclal ban 

 ujion the use ot the potted plants and 

 tioral decorations from the municipal con- 

 servatories for private social affairs 

 throughout the city of Boston. 



The mayor was called upon by a com- 

 uiittee of .voung people who wanted to bor- 

 row potted plants from the city's conser- 

 vatories, and he was amazed at such a re- 

 quest. "When informed that it was cus- 

 tomary for years to secure such displays 

 for the asking, he immediately notitied 

 those in charge of the municipal conserva- 

 tories not to loan any more flowers or 

 potted plants for private use. 



In years gone by and until the present 

 administration it was a very common oc- 

 currence for the city to distribute plants 

 at lialls where social nlfairs were being 

 licld. aud the cit.v paid for all the carting. 



Ilpform is surely under way. 



