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HORTl CULTURE 



February 8, 1998 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES. 



ALABAMA STATE HORTICULTU- 

 RAL SOCIETY. 

 The lifth annual meeting will L>e '-t=ld 

 at Birmingham. -Mabama. Thursilay 

 and Friday. February Vi and 14, 190S, 

 at the rooms of the Commercial Club. 

 All persons interested in horticulturs 

 are cordially invited to attend. The 

 program is as follows: 



Opening exercises Thursday, i-w 

 p m • Address by President W. F. 

 Heikes, Iluntsville; History of Kruit 

 Growing in Alabama, Dr. P. J. Berck- 

 mans, Georgia; Montgomery Flower 

 Growers' Association. Mrs. W. A. 

 Gavle. Montgomery; Address by Prof. 

 Samuel B. Green, President Minnesota 

 Horticultural Society, St. Paul; School 

 Improvement. Mrs. L. H. Craighead. 

 Mobile; Improving our Country 

 Homes, Dv. W. S. McCain, Livingston; 

 Relation of Horticulture to the Schools 

 of the Slate, Prof. S. L. Chestuutt, 

 Montevallo; How to Reduce the Fer- 

 tilizer Bill: Some Truths about Seeds, 

 Mr C B McVay, Birmingham: Ad- 

 dress by Hon. .T. A. WilUinson. .Mont- 

 gomery, Results and Significance of 

 the Plant Disease Survey in Alabama, 

 Dr. E. Mead Wilcox, Auburn; Labora- 

 torv Methods of Studying Plant Dis- 

 eases Prof. Stone, .\uburn; Cowpeas, 

 Prof H. O. Sargent. Hamilton; How 

 to Set Out a Young Orchard, Prof. E. 

 F Cauthern, Wetumpka; Fertilizers, 

 Mr. C. H. Billingsley, Montgomery; 

 Fruit Growing in the South, Mr. D. C. 

 Tumipseed, Flora; Notes, Mr. Herbert 

 Chase. Iluntsville; Fi-uit Insects. Dr. 

 W E Hinds, .•\uburn; Notes on Kiuil 

 Growing in the West, Mr. M. C. Scott, 

 Montgomery; Fruit Soils. Prof. W. C. 

 Smith. Montgomery: Forestry, Hon. J. 

 B Powell, Montgomery; Best Way to 

 Sell Trees, Mr. A. G. Long. Andalusia; 

 Cantaloupe Culture, Mr. H. L. Trott, 

 Montgomery: Our Work at Lapine. 

 Mr C W. Landers- Home Fnut Grow- 

 ing Mr. J. A. Kernodlo, Camp Hill; 

 Notes, Prof. K. S. .Mackintosh, Au- 

 burn; Report of Committees, Business; 

 Reports of A'ice-Presidents. 



Program will probably not bt- lo.- 

 lowed as given above. 

 NATIONAL COUNCIL OF HORTI- 

 CULTURE. 



A meeting of the National Council 

 of Horticulture was held at the Audi- 

 torium Annex, Chicago, on .January 22. 

 Prof. R. S. Mackintosh, Auburn, Ala.; 

 W T Macoun, Ottawa; Prof. E. J. 

 Wickson. Berkeley, Cal., were elected 

 delegates. Plans for the Press Bureau 

 service included the use of sixty-eight 

 articles for a period of seventeen 

 weeks; an expenditure of $75 for the 

 preparation of fifty articles to be sent 

 to about 500 newspapers and syndi- 

 cates. The secretary reported $114.28 

 on hand with a promise of $.=)50 from 

 interested societies. Letters were read 

 from .1. Horace McFarland suggesting 

 an effort to encourage improvement of 

 planting conditions about country 

 schools, and .1. W. Fitch, secretary of 

 the Wisconsin Cranberry Growers' As- 

 sociation, suggesting articles on cran- 

 berries as an article of diet. The 

 secretarv was instructed to offer to use 

 four such articles at an approximate 

 cost of ?25. 



TARRYTOWN HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



The Tarrylown Horticultural So- 

 ciety held its regular monthly meet- 

 ing in Good Teni|)lars' Hall, Friday 

 evening, Jan. 31st, ]9ii8, Vice-President 

 Angus in the chair and a large at- 

 tendance of members. Several com- 

 munications were read from friends 

 regretting their inability to be pres- 

 ent at our last dinner; and an invita- 

 tion was also read from the New .Ter- 

 sey Floricultural Society to attend 

 their annual Smoker on Feb. 7th, 1908. 

 As it was carnation night and as 

 Treasurer J. T. l.awrie had offered a 

 prize for the best 18 blooms of three 

 varieties, six of each, a very flue dis- 

 play of flowers was in evidence. First 

 prize was awarded to Samuel Unter- 

 meyer (Gard. W. H. Waite), Yonkers 

 N. Y.. for Winsor, Enchantress and 

 White Enchantress. Second prize was 

 awarded to Geo. Legg (Gard. J. 

 Elliott). Tarrytown, N. Y., for White 

 Enchantress, Miss H. -M. Gould .-md 

 Mrs. M. A. Patten. 



F R. Pierson Co. had for display 

 (mly, a very fine lot which was 

 awarded honorable mention; the varie- 

 ties were White Perfection. Red Chief, 

 Victory, Melody, Beacon, Winsor, Rose 

 Pink Enchantress, White Enchantress, 

 Var. Lawson and Mrs. M. A. Patten. 

 Honorable mention went to Scott Bros., 

 Elmsford Nursery, for ten vases of 

 Beacon and Miss H. M. Gould. A cul- 

 tural certificate was also awarded to 

 Mr. Waite for a very finely grown vase 

 of MaVs Giant Mignonette. Quite a 

 lengthly discussion followed on car- 

 nation culture, viz., cutting, method of 

 striking, temperature, growing ready 

 for the field and indoor culture, and 

 all listened with pleasure to the in- 

 teresting remarks of F. R. Pierson, 

 Wm. Scott, D. McFarlane and .lohn 

 Woodcock. The most entertaining fea- 

 ture of the evening was the brief ac- 

 count of visits by F. R. Pierson to 

 several growers in different parts of 

 the country, also his attendance on 

 the convention of the American Car- 

 nation Society at Washington, its great 

 exhibition, great banquet and reception. 

 LOUIS A. MARTIN, 

 Cor. Sec'y. 



NORTH SHORE HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



The ninth annual baiKinet of this 

 prosperous society was held at Man- 

 chester, Mass., on Wednesday even- 

 ing, January 29, and is recorded as one 

 of the most successful in the society's 

 history, from every point of view. 

 The tables were handsomely decor^ited 

 with flowers and the walls screened 

 with pine and laurel. A fine group of 

 palms screened the orchestra on the 

 stage. Two hundred and nineteen 

 guests were present, including several 

 from Boston. President Till acted as 

 toastmaster. .\mong the speakers 

 were D. L. Bingham, 95 years old; 

 Rev. W. F. Powers, J. K. M. L. Far- 

 quhar. J. W. Duncan, Rev. L. H. Ruge 

 and E. H. Brewster. 



FLORIST CLUB OF PHILADEL- 

 PHIA. 

 Carnations, sweet peas, and Queen 

 Beatrice roses divided honors with E. 

 A. Harvey at the monthly meeting 

 held the 4th inst. Mr. Harvey proved 

 an ideal essayist, giving his views in 

 oractical, commonsense form and 

 with admirable and commendable 

 brevity. This is Mr. Harvey's first ap- 

 pearance here and the tact of his hav- 

 ing already acquired the rare and ra- 

 diant secret of how to boil it down 

 enshrines him to the thirty-third de- 

 gree in the hearts of a hustling, get- 

 there community. Along with his talk 

 Mr. Harvey gave concrete evidence of 

 his ability as a carnation grower by 

 exhibiting nine vases of magnificent 

 blooms, among them being Aristocrat, 

 White Perfection, Victory, Winsor, 

 Lawson Robert Craig and Enchan- 

 tress. He also exhibited a new white 

 seedling carnation, raised by E. C. 

 Marshall of Kennett Square, and a 

 vase of the new pink forcing sweet 

 pea, Mrs. William Sim. The latter is 

 a strong grower of pleasing light pink, 

 a shade brighter than Daybreak carna- 

 tion. It has fine long stems and is 

 about two weeks later than the well- 

 known Pink Christmas variety. The 

 Strafford Flower F'arms sent a fine 

 lot of Enchantress, Beacon, Lady- 

 Bountiful and Winsor. Also a vase of 

 a new carnation from Guernsey, Eng- 

 land, Mrs. W. H. Burnett, a light 

 pink, finely formed, good substance, 

 a little under-sized but thought by Mr. 

 Stroud to be valuable as a spring and 

 Slimmer variety. .Joseph Heacock ex- 

 hibited new pink seedling No. 100, 

 fresh from its blushing honors at 

 Washington. A giand vase of Queen 

 Beatrice came from F. H. Kramer. We 

 have never seen better flowers of this 

 beautiful variety. Samuel Batchelor 

 staged White Enchantress, Lady Boun- 

 tifid and a new pink sport from Law- 

 son. Also two pots of white cyclamen 

 with very large flowers of the grandi- 

 florum type and showing high culture. 

 The Henry A. Dreer nurseries exhibi- 

 ted Clematis indivisa which was quite 

 a revelation to many. It was stated 

 that it had proved very useful as a 

 florist's decorative plant, the sprays 

 being freely produced during February, 

 March and April. One florist who 

 bought two plants found it so good the 

 first vear that he followed tip with an 

 order for fifty the next season. This 

 variety is a native of New Zealand and 

 is but little known here, although in- 

 troduced in 1847, being only half 

 hardy. Thrives well in about the tem- 

 perature of an ordinary carnation 

 house. Closely allied to C. montana, 

 flowers white, and 1 1-2 Inches in 

 diameter, produced in large clusters 

 like C. paniculata, leaves evergreen. 



SECRETARIES FOR 1908. 



The New Jersey Horticultural So- 

 ciety; H. G. Taylor of Riverton. 



The Forest Grove Horticultural So- 

 ciety, Oregon; Harry Paynes, Forest 

 Grove. 



North Dakota Horticultural Society; 

 Prof. Thompson, Bottineau. 



