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HORTICULTURE 



June 20, 1908 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PARK 

 SUPERINTENDENTS. 



Preliminary Program. 



The Ameiican Assoiialion of Park 

 Superintendents will hold its annual 

 convention in Minneapolis, Minn.. 

 August 11, 12 and 13, aJid the Park 

 Board of the convention city has ap- 

 pointed a ?i ecial committee of five 

 members and the superintendent to 

 work out an interesting program and 

 provide tor the welfare and entertain- 

 ment of their visitors. 



The association has never met 

 further west than Buffalo, and Min- 

 neapolis will spare no pains to justify 

 its claim as the ideal convention city 

 of the great Northwest. As a park 

 city, Minneapolis stands second to 

 none in the country, and while its 

 system of parks and parkways is far 

 from completion and perfection as 

 compared with the systems of the 

 older cities of the East, the possibili- 

 ties offered by its present park pos- 

 sessions and through contemplated 

 extensions, will convince every visitor 

 that Minneapolis will have one of the 

 grandest systems of parks, parkways 

 and boulevards in the country. 



The mnny fine lakes, the grand 

 drives along the wooded banks of the 

 Mississippi River and Minnehaha 

 Falls and Creek, the many parkways 

 through the residential parts of the 

 city and the many smaller parks, must 

 of necessity attract and gratify every 

 visitor interested in park work and 

 development. 



The following preliminary program 

 has been prepared and will, in the 

 main, be carried out: 



Headquarters.— West Hotel, Henne- 

 pin Avenue and Fifth street. Rates 

 $1.50 and up. 



First Day — Tuesday. 

 9.30 .\. .M. — uprning of session. Park 

 Commissionei-s' Oflioe, City Hall. Address 

 of welcome by His Honor, the Mayor, 

 James C. Haynes. and Hon. Jesse E. Xortli- 

 nip. President of the Board of Park Com- 

 missioners. Respon.se by J. F. Cowell, 

 President of Park Superintendents. Bus- 

 iness meeting. 



12.13 P. M.— Automobile ride to Mini- 

 l;ahda Club, Lake Calhoun. 



12.45 P. M. — Luncheon at club house. 



2.01) P. M.— Reading of Kssays and dis- 

 cussions at the club house. (An interesting 

 program for this session is lieing prepared, 

 and the names of the essayists and the 

 sul>jects of the essays wUl be sent out 

 with the linal program some time in July.) 



7.00 P. M.— Start from hotel by trolley 

 car for Lake Harriet. Coniert and sail on 

 lake. 



Second Day — Wednesday. 



9.CM) A. IL— A thirty-five mile automo- 

 bile trip around the Park System. 



12.30 P. XL— Luncheon at Minnehaha 

 Pavilion. 



1.30 P. M.— Photo taken at foot of Min- 

 nahaba Tails. Stroll through Glen and 

 Park. 



2.30 P. M. — Continue autonioliile ride. 

 8.00 P. M.— Banquet. 



Third Day — Thursday. 



9.00 A. M- .\ trip to .Minnesota's finest 

 lake beautiful Lake MinnetonUa. 



lO.OO A. M.- Arrive at Excelsior Special 

 boat for two hours' sail around Lake 

 Mlnnetonka. 



12.30 P. M.— Luncheon at Big Island or 

 Tonka Hotel. 



3.00 P. M. — nnal business session. 



Lake Minnetonka, with its water 

 area of uO square miles, its 110 miles 

 of wooded and open shores and back- 



ground of rolling land, its number- 

 less bays, narrows and islands, is the 

 most picturesque of the thousands of 

 named lakes in the State of Minne- 

 sota. It is one great park, attrac- 

 tive and fascinating from every point 

 of view. 



The Park Board and different or- 

 .Katiizations of the Convention City 

 will act as hosts of the society, pro- 

 vidin,g for the entire entertainment 

 herein outlined. 



The 'VX'est Hotel, selected as head- 

 quarters, is centrally located within 

 ten blocks of all the railroad stations 

 and five minutes' walk from the City 

 Hall. 



It was originally intended to make 

 this convention a Twin City affair, 

 but the St. Paul authorities withdrew 

 from participation and ma.v extend a 

 separate invitation to visit their park 

 system. For that purpose the fourth 

 day of the original mapped out four 

 day meeting, would be available. 



PITTSBURGH FLORISTS' AND GAR- 

 DENERS' CLUB. 



The regular monthly meeting of the 

 Club for June 2d was postponed to 

 June 9th. in order that outdoor roses 

 and peonies mi.ght be at their best. 

 The postponement proved to be a mis- 

 take, however, as the fierce heat of the 

 last days of May threw the peonies into 

 flower and they were past their best at 

 the date of our meeting, with the 

 earlier sorts entirely out of bloom. 

 Roses, toe, were none too good. The 

 president appointed as .iudges of 

 the exhibit: P. S. Randolph, J. 

 W. Ludwig and J. W. Jones, who 

 awarded first prize of $10 for the best: 

 twelve outdoor roses to N. C. Madsen, 

 gardener for R. H. Boggs. Sewickley, 

 Pa.: second prize of $5 to Robt. Lilley, 

 gardener for Mr. Barnsdale, Pittsburgh. 

 There were no peonies shown that the 

 judges considered worthy of first prize. 

 The second prize for the best twelve 

 was awarded to M. C. Madsen. Frank 

 Crook, gardener for J. H. Parks, 

 showed a very fine large Adiantum, 

 which was specially commended by the 

 judges. Fred Wissenbuch. gardener 

 for W. L. Mullen, showed a collection 

 of roses, delphiniums, foxgloves, etc. 

 Phipps' Conservatories showed exceed- 

 ingly fine foxgloves, and a good collec- 

 tion of herbaceous material. 



The matter of the club outing was 

 decided in favor of Bakerstown, on ihe 

 grounds of the Pittsburgh Rose and 

 Can\at:on Co. Mr. F. Burki, who is 

 president of this company, as well as 

 of our club, extending a kind invita- 

 ti(ra to the club to avail itself of his 

 hospitality. The date was set for June 

 L'5, a basket picnic. This affords a 

 rare chance for our members not only 

 to have a pleasant outing, but also to 

 inspect the laige and thoroughly mod- 

 ern plant of the Pittsburgh Rose and 

 Carnation Co. J. AV. Jones. P. S. Ran- 

 dolph and J. W. Ludwig are the coi'n- 

 mittee in char.ge. Subject for the next 

 meeting: "Herbaceous Plants and 

 Flowers." 



H. P. JOSLIN, Se; itiary. 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NUR- 

 SERYMEN. 



Convention Report Continued. 



HORTICULTURE'S early report of 

 the proceedings at the Milwaukee con- 

 ^ention gave much pleasure to many 

 members who were obliged to forego 

 attendance at the convention and. 

 was a very complete although brief 

 account of the meetings up to Thurs- 

 day noon. Thursday afternoon's pro- 

 ceedings were mostly behind closed 

 doors and not of general inter- 

 est outside the membersihip of the As- 

 sociation. 



On Friday morning the party, num- 

 bering about -17.5, started in three trol- 

 le\' cars for Oconomowoc. a ride of 

 about fifty miles throu,gh rolling farm- 

 ing country interspersed with patches 

 of woods and the larger pai^: of the 

 way in sight of beautiful lakes, the 

 shores of which are the summer homes 

 of Milwaukee and Chicago people. A 

 stop was made at the farm of Mr. Fred 

 Pabst, a very wealthy scion of the 

 well-known brewer famous every- 

 where. At this farm are gathered to- 

 gether as choice hackneys as the world 

 has produced, and the most renowned 

 of them were brought out and put 

 through their paces, and rounds of ap- 

 plause greeted the performance. There 

 w-ere on the farm 200 hackneys and on 

 another farm Mr. Pabst has over 2000 

 Percheron brood mares. Mr. Pabst 

 had thrown open his mansion to his 

 guests but lack of time prevented ac- 

 cepting the invitation. At Oconomo- 

 woc ari-angements were perfect for 

 giving dinner to the good-natured 

 throng, and in the afternoon carriages, 

 automobiles and steamers were free to 

 the guests of the city to take them on 

 drives of many miles along the lake 

 shores. Nothing was lacking to make 

 a delightful summer outing. Ocono- 

 mowoc is a charming old summer re- 

 sort in a cluster of lakes, and all who 

 were in the party carried back with 

 them a memory of typical Wisconsin 

 rural scenery. One of the party, Mr. 

 Hooker, of Perfection currant fame, 

 whose long trip from his Rochester 

 home was principally undertaken for 

 the purpose of seeing the Pabst stud 

 of hackneys, was in a i)articularly 

 beatific state of mind. 



Notes of the Exhibition. 



A notable feature of the exhibition 

 in connection with the nurserymen's 

 meeting at .Milwaukee was the new 

 Reed-Bell graft-wrapping machine. In 

 looking at the machine in operation 

 one's doubt as the practicability of 

 doing this work by a machine vanish- 

 es at once. An operator can do from 

 5,000 to 15.000 grafts a day, and do 

 every one alike and far better than 

 they are done by hand. The use of 

 such a hard and unyielding wrapper 

 overcomes the hard crown gall so 

 often produced at the junction. This 

 is nothing more than an overgrown 

 callous knot, an overflow of repair tis- 

 sue. This machine was invented by 

 Mr. Bell of the Huntsville Nurseries, 

 and his invention joined with decided 

 improvements in details of operation, 

 made by Mr. Reed, superintendent of 

 the Stark Bros. Xurseiry, is a machine 

 that no nurseryman should be without. 



D. Hill of Dundee, Ills., had some 

 fine specimens of evergreens, and Ell- 



