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H ORTICULTURE 



January 25, 1908 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES. 



NEWPORT HORTICULTURAL SO- 

 CIETY. 

 A largely attended meeting of the 

 Newport Horticultural Society was 

 held in Mercury Hall, Tuesday evening, 

 Jan, 14. D. J. Coughlin for the ball 

 committee reported everything very 

 satisfactory and promising tor a large 

 MirpUis of cash when all bills arc pail. 

 The committee were awarded a vote 

 of thanks. Quite an interesting dis- 

 cussion was started by Mr. MacLellan 

 on the subject of plant registration by 

 the S. A. F. In the course of Mr. 

 MacLellan's remarks he said that 

 while he did not agree that the Secre- 

 tary of the S, A. F. should be blamed 

 for any mistakes occurring which he 

 could not have prevented, (if such 

 were the case that mistakes were 

 made,) still he was strongly of the 

 opinion that the S. A. F. should place 

 more safeguards around the registry 

 in order that only names of new varie- 

 ties which, after investigation by per- 

 sons of .qualifications tor the work, 

 could be guaranteed as such, would be 

 registered. It was generally conceded 

 that the proper registry of new varie- 

 ties of plants is a necessity. A case 

 in point was mentioned where an 

 amaryllis long known to gardeners 

 and grown by them under a certain 

 name is now advertised as something 

 new, though not under the name it 

 was known by. By such methods per- 

 sons are liable to be disappointed in 

 what they buy. Mr, MacLellan will 

 read a paper at the next meeting of 

 the society. 



NEW HAVEN COUNTY (CONN.) 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 

 The regular meeting of the above 

 society was held on Tuesday, the 7th 

 inst. Officers for the ensuing year 

 were elected as follows: John H. 

 Murray, president; Frank Duffy, vice- 

 president; David Kydd, treasurer; 

 Walter Koella, secretary; board of 

 managers, James Moore, Robert Paton, 

 Thos. Pettit, James Bruce, Ernest Car- 

 roi. The new president gave a short 

 address outlining the work for the fol- 

 lolowing year. A syllabus of speakers 

 on various subjects to be presented at 

 different meetings is being prepared. 

 It was voted to have the annual chry- 

 santhemum show again next Novem- 

 ber. 



AMERICAN BREEDERS' ASSOCIA- 

 TION. 



The fourth annual meeting of this 

 association will be held on January 

 28-30 at National Rifies Hall, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. On Wednesday and Thurs- 

 day from 2 to 5 P. M. the meetings 

 will be held conjointly with the Ameri- 

 can Carnation Society, and papers will 

 be presented as follows: 



Wednesday, Original Work among 

 Native Roses, by W. Van Fleet, Little 

 Silver, N. J; Some Observations in 

 Plant Improvement, by A. M. Soule, 

 Athens, Ga.; Report of Committee on 

 Breeding Roses, Peter Bisset, Wash- 

 ington; Development of the Immune or 

 Resistant Character in Plants, by H. L 

 BoUey, Fargo. N. D.; Report of Com- 

 mittee on Breeding Carnations, C. W. 

 Ward, Queens, N. Y. On Thursday 

 afternoon papers on Carnation Breed- 

 ing will be read and discussed. 



ENGELMAN BOTANICAL CLUB. 



The Engelman Botanical Club, St. 

 I<ouis, Mo., held its meeting on Janu- 

 ary 13, and officers for 190S were 

 elected as follows: C. H. Thompson, 

 l)resident; Drs. Green and Gladfelter, 

 vice-presidents: H. S. Barber, secre- 

 tary; John Kellog, treasurer. The 

 meeting was well attended and there 

 were some very entertaining features 

 during the evening, one of the best 

 being a lecture by Prof. M. Craig, who 

 has charge of the herbarium at the 

 Missouri Botanical Garden. The next 

 meeting will take place February lOth. 

 Anyone Intereated Is welcome, 



Leonard Kill 



Thp Xew President of the Chicago I'^lorists' 

 Club. 



Our congratulations to the Chicago 

 Florists' Club on its good selection of 

 a president for this all important year 

 in its history. Leonard Kill is young, 

 wide-awake and popular. He will 

 "make good." 



DETROIT FLORISTS' CLUB. 

 The many members of the club who 

 assembled at the last regular meeting 

 were doomed to disappointment. The 

 special committee to decide whether 

 there should be a spring or fall show 

 recommended a fall show, but after a 

 lengthy discussion the matter was re- 

 ferred back to the committee for fur- 

 ther consideration. 



MINNESOTA CROP BREECTERS. 



The afternoon session of the State 

 Agricultural Society Jan. 15 was given 

 over to the Crop Breeders' Associa- 

 tion. Among other interesting papers 

 on field crop breeding was one on 

 potatoes by F. M. Libby and one on 

 growing onions by F. H. Gibbs, both 

 well-qualified, up-to-date growera o£ 

 vegetables. 



GARDENERS' AND FLORISTS' 



CLUB OF BOSTON, 

 The meeting of the Gardeners' and 

 Floiists' Club at Horticultural Hall, 

 Boston, on the evening of January 21, 

 was a record breaker. It was ladies" 

 night and there must have been close 

 to four hundred members with their 

 ladies in attendance. More or less 

 routine work was transacted briefly 

 before the entertainment began. The 

 secretary made the interesting state- 

 ment that the largest attendance during 

 the year 1907 was 316 and the smallest 

 110, the average being 153. Sixty- 

 three new members had been added. 

 The next meeting, in February, win be 

 carnation night and the March meet- 

 ing will be rose night. The report of 

 the treasurer showed a gain of $200 in 

 the treasury for the year. Resolutions 

 on the deaths of W. W. Edgar and 

 John Clark were adopted and placed 

 on record. An appreciative letter was 

 leceived from John Cook concerning 

 the award given at the last meeting 

 to his rose My Maryland. A letter of 

 gratitude came from John Clark and 

 Wm. S. Clark of Washington. On the 

 exhibition table were some superb 

 trusses of geranium trom \\ . in. 

 Craig, eucharis flowers from F. W. 

 Fletcher and Moschosma riparium 

 from David Weir. 



Among the speakers during the 

 evening were S. S. Skidelsky of Phila- 

 delphia, J. K. M. L. Farquhar and Thos. 

 I. Grey, all of whom stiuck an optim- 

 istic note and gave much pleasure with 

 their remarks. The musical program 

 rendered by kind friends of the mem- 

 bers gave unalloyed pleasure and the 

 refreshments so lavishly handed 

 around by volunteer young ladies and 

 gentlemen appropriately closed an 

 evening which will be long remem- 

 bered as one of the most enjoyable 

 occasions in the historj of this popu- 

 lar organization. Among the per- 

 formers were Frank Cannell, Mrs. 

 Whittet, Miss Hanigan, Mrs. and Mr. 

 Brough. 



With Boston's big department store 

 show windows all aglow with tartans 

 and Black Watch kilties in honor of 

 the 149th birthday of Scotland's be- 

 loved poet, it seemed perfectly natural 

 and fitting that a goodly proportion of 

 the music should find its best expres- 

 .sion through the exultant strains of 

 "Bonnie Dundee," "The March of the 

 Cameron Men," and the love cadences 

 of the land of heather and bonnie 

 lasses. But "Killarney" and "Barney 

 O'Hay" also had a hearing, and so for 

 everybody 

 ■•Till' golden hours on angel -n-ings flew — " 



GREENWICH GARDENERS' SO- 

 CIETY. 

 The Greenwich Gardeners' Society 

 held a meeting at Florist McMellen's 

 store, 67 Arch street, Greenwich, 

 Conn., to elect officers for the ensuing 

 year. All the old oflScers were re- 

 elected. President, Silas Frost; vice- 

 president, P. Flaherty; financial secre- 

 tary, P. Crighton; treasurer. A, Mead; 

 recording secretary, T. Young. After 

 the routine business had been dis- 

 cussed the meeting adjourned till 

 ]'eb, 5. 



THOMAS YOUNG, Secretary, 



