HORTICULTURE 



Jauuary 11, 13D8 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES. 



WESTERN NEW YORK HORTICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY. 

 The oord annual meeting of tlie 

 Western New York Horticultural Sa- 

 ciety will be held in the Eureka Club 

 building. Rochester. January 22n(l and 

 2;';rd. The programme follows: 



Wednesday, Jan. 22, 10.30 a. m., ap- 

 pointment of committees, report of 

 secretary-treasurer, trustees of perma- 

 nent fund, .state fair exhibit. F. E. 

 Rupert, chairman, committee on pres- 

 ervation of the poniological history of 

 N. Y. state; Prof. John Craig, chaii-- 

 man, committee on botany and plant 

 diseases; Prof. F. C. Stewart, N. Y. 

 Agricultural Experiment Station. 



Afternoon session, 2 o'clock: "Twen- 

 ty-five Years of E.xperiment Station 

 Work," Dr. W. H. Jordan, N. Y. Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station; "Ai-e We 

 Planting Enough Varieties?'' Wm. A. 

 Taylor, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture; 

 "Tillage vs. the Sod-Mulch," Prof. U. 

 P. Hedriclv, N. Y. Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station: "Co-operation in the 

 Packing and Marketing of Orchard 

 Fruits," M. C. Burritt, College of Agri- 

 culture, Cornell University: "Atmos- 

 pheric Nitrogen as a Future Commer- 

 cial Source of Plant Food." Dr. L. L. 

 Van Slyko, N. Y. Experiment Station. 

 "Progress of Iru-pection Work with Ap- 

 ples," Prof. John Craig. Ithaca, N. Y. ; 

 Report of Legislative Committee, S. D. 

 Willard, chairman; a few words rela- 

 tive to fruit packing, by Prof. Lowell 

 Judson, College of Agriculture, Cornell 

 University. 



Evening session, 7.30 o'clock. — "Some 

 Observation on Fruit Insects." Prof. 

 P. J. Parrott, N. Y. Experiment Sta- 

 tion; "Relation of Birds to Horticul- 

 ture," Prof. Howard E. Eaton, Canan- 

 daigua, N. Y. ; Discussion. 



Thursday, Jan. 23rd, 9.30 A. M.— 

 Members' hour, conducted by Geo. T. 

 Powell, Ghent. N. Y.; "Planting and 

 Caring for a Peach Orchard. " S. H. 

 Fulton. Sleepy Creek. W. Va.; Report 

 of committee on nominations; Elec- 

 tion of officers: "Dwarf Appl^ Trees in 

 Commercial Orchards, and the Value 

 and Possibilities in Dwarfing Standard 

 Trees Through Special Means of Prun- 

 ing." George T. Powell. Ghent. X. Y.: 

 "Small Fruit Culture," W. W. Farns- 

 worth. Waterville, Ohio. 



Afternoon session, 2 o'clock. — Mem- 

 bers' hour for discussion of special 

 questions; Report of committee on 

 fruit exhibit at this meeting; Unfin- 

 ished and new business: Report of 

 committee on resolutions; Discussion 

 of questions for balance of session. 



Practical addresses by practical men 

 for practical fruit growers, is the key- 

 note running all through the pro- 

 gramme. One other great attraction 

 connected with this gathering is the 

 exhibition, of choice fruit. Not less 

 than a thousand square feet of space 

 will be required for the display. The 

 State Experiment Station will use on'->- 

 half to three-fourths of the space 

 Many of the addresses will be illustrat- 

 ed with streopticon views. This makes 

 a combination of entertainment and 

 instruction. 



WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY. 



The winter program of meetings at 

 Horticultural Hall, Worcester, Mass., 

 is as follows: 



Thursday. Jan. 2 — "Maintaining Soil 

 Fertility," by Prof. L. A. Clinton, di- 

 rector of Storrs Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station of Connecticut; Thurs- 

 day, Jan. 9 — "Italian Gardens," illus- 

 trated by stereopticon. John Farquhar 

 of Boston; Thursday, Jan. 16 — "Im- 

 provement of Vegetables by Selection 

 and Hybridization," M. F. Hall, horti- 

 culturist at the New Hampshire col- 

 lege; Thursday, Jan. 23 — "Embellish- 

 ment of Streets and Waysides by the 

 Planting of Trees," J. A. Pettigrew, 

 department of parks, Boston; Thurs- 

 day, Jan. 30 — "Children's Home Gar- 

 dens," O. A. Morton, superintendent of 

 schools, Marlboro. 



Thursday, Feb. 6— "Rural Ljfe," Jo- 

 seph K. Greene of Worcester; Thurs- 

 day, Feb. 13 — Ladies' day. Music, and 

 Mrs. George S. Ladd will speak on the 

 "Influence of Horticulture." Mrs. 

 David L. Fiske on "Practical Horticul- 

 ture." and Mrs. Sarah E. Brown . on 

 "Aesthetic Horticulture"; Thursday. 

 Feb. 20 — "A Campaign for Rural Pro- 

 gress," Kenyon L. Butterfield, presi- 

 dent of the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College; Thursday. Feb. 27 — "For- 

 estry," Philip W. Ayres of Concord, 

 N. H.. forester for the Society tor the 

 Protection of New Hampshire Forests. 



Thursday, March 5 — Subject and 

 speakers to be announced; Wednes- 

 day, March 11 — Annual reunion of the 

 society; March 11 and 12 — Massachu- 

 setts Fruit Growers' convention; 

 Thursday, March 12— "How Can We 

 Develop Commercial Orcharding in 

 Massachusetts," F. C. Sears, pomolo- 

 gist at Massachusetts Agricultural 

 college. 



The program was arranged by Presi- 

 dent George Calvin Rice, Secretary 

 Adin A. Hixon, Arthur J. Marble, Ed- 

 ward W. Breed, J. Lewis Ellsworth 

 and Charles W. Wood, committee on 

 winter meetings. 



NORTH SHORE HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



This society held its regular meeting 

 January 3rd. In the absence of Pres. 

 McGregor, the chair was occupied by 

 Vice-President Thomas Jack. Reports 

 from officers for 1907 were read and 

 accepted, the treasurer and financial 

 secretary's report showing the society 

 to be in a flourishing condition with 

 an increase in finance and member- 

 ship. The annual election of officers 

 followed, resulting as follows for 190S; 

 President, AVilliam Till; vice-president, 

 A. E. Parsons; treasurer. John Baker; 

 financial secretary, Herbert Shaw; 

 recording secretary, James Salter; exe- 

 cutive committee, Philemon Sanborn, 

 J. B. Dow, .Joseph Clark, Sr., W. H. 

 Tyler, James McGregor. 



In accepting the chair, the president 

 thanked the members for their confid- 

 ence and stated that he would not 

 make or advocate any radical change 

 in the policy of the society. 



The annual banquet will be held in 

 Manchester Town Hall. January 29. at 

 1.30 P. M. W. T. 



NEW JERSEY FLORICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



The installation of the following ot- 

 ficers took place on the 3d instant 

 with the usual ceremony. President 

 Malcolm MacRorie; vice-president. 

 Henry Halbig; secretary, Orson A. 

 Miller; treasurer, William Read. After 

 discussion it was decided to hold spe- 

 cial public exhibitions of carnations, 

 roses, dahlias and chrysanthemums 

 and offer special inducements foi 

 flowers in season at the regular month- 

 ly meetings. , 



In the competition for 1907 the fol- 

 lowing winners of prizes were an- 

 nounced: 1st, Peter Duff, gardener for 

 John Crosby Brown; 2nd, William 

 Read, gardener for the Colgate Estate; 

 3d, Max Schneider, gardener for Chas. 

 Hathaway; and in the special class 

 for growers without glass, Arthur T. 

 Caparn, gardener for Stewart Harts- 

 horne. Among the non-competitive 

 awards certificates were given to F. 

 R. Pierson Co., Lager & Hurrell, Julius 

 Roehrs Company, W. A. Manda, Robert 

 Scott, Thomas Jones. Joseph A. Man- 

 da. J. C. Williams and Henry Horn- 

 acker. Cash prizes aggregating forty 

 dollars were donated by the following: 

 Peter Henderson Company, J. M. Thor- 

 burn & Co.. Vaughan's Seed store and 

 F. R. Pierson Co. 



In the floral display for the even- 

 ing, orchids preponderated. Cypripe- 

 dium Leeanum Clinkaburyanum, the 

 finest form of this genus in existence 

 and Cypripedium insigne Luciana, the 

 yellow form, by Lager & Hurrell; four 

 vases of cut blooms of Cattleya Tri- 

 anae alba of several distinct forms, by 

 Thomas Jones; Epidendrum lonopsis 

 and C> pripedium Leeanum Clinkabury- 

 anum by Orson A. Miller of East Or- 

 ange, the new secretary, who has come 

 out as a grower for the trade and is 

 now" in active competition with "Wil- 

 lowmead" of the same place. All of 

 these growers promise to revive dur- 

 ing the present year, the old lateni 

 partiality for the cypripedium claim- 

 ing that it is still alive though dor- 

 mant. Joseph A. Manda of West Or- 

 ange, contributed a vase of Anthurium 

 Andreanum giganteura; roses from the 

 estate of Douglas Robinson, John Gar- 

 van, gardener, and violets from 

 Charles Hathaway. Max Schneider, 

 gardener. An invitation from the 

 Morris County Gardeners to their 

 smoker on the 8th was read and a 

 committee appointed to go there. Sat- 

 isfactory reports were received from 

 secretarv and treasurer. 



JOSEPH B. DAVIS. 



SOUTHAMPTON (L. I.) HORTICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY. 



The first annual meeting of this so- 

 ciety was held on Thursday, January 

 2. President Clark in the chair. Offi- 

 cers elected for the ensuing year were 

 as follows: President. H. W. Clark; 

 vice-president, Wm. T. Halsey; record- 

 ing secretarv, B. C. Palmer; financial 

 secretary, Charles Gillouz, in place of 

 Wm. Gray, resigned; treasurer, Julius 

 Kins. The appointment of the execu- 



