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HORTICULTURE 



February 16, 1907 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



PITTSBURGH AND ALLEGHENY 

 FLORISTS' AND GARDEN- 

 ERS' CLUB. 



Tuesday, Feb. 5th was carnation 

 night, always one of the most import- 

 ant meetings of the year. There was 

 a good attendance of members who 

 listened with interest to the secretary's 

 report on the past year, showing that 

 on Feb. 1st the club membership was 

 159, resignations during the year 6, 

 deaths 1, members dropped 8 and 

 new members 17, and a larger bank 

 balance to the credit of the club than 

 ever before. The auditing committee 

 reported the secretary's books had 

 been examined and found correct. 



When the election of officers for 

 1907 was taken up, the vote of the 

 club was cast for the officers of the 

 previous year, viz.: Jno. W. Jones, 

 president; E. C. Reineman, vice-presi- 

 dent; Fred Burki, treasurer; H. P. 

 Joslin, secretary; E. C. Ludwig, assist- 

 ant secretary; P. S. Randolph, Jno. 

 Bader, Fred Burki, executive commit- 

 tee. The salary of the secretary was 

 increased for the ensuing year. 



It was proposed by Mr. Burki that 

 the delegation from Pittsburgh to the 

 Carnation Convention at Washington, 

 D. C, in 1908, be authorized by the 

 club to extend an invitation to the 

 convention to meet in Pittsburgh in 

 1909. The club viewed the proposition 

 with favor and so ordered. 



There was not as large a showing 

 of carnations as usual from distant 

 growers. The F. R. Pierson Co., sent 

 fine blooms of their leaders, Winsor 

 and White Enchantress. Winsor 

 added to the reputation gained at the 

 Toronto Convention, where this carna- 

 tion won the prize for the best one 

 hundred pink, the consensus of opinion 

 being "the best carnation of its color." 

 White Enchantress was well-liked also. 

 The Pittsburgh Rose and Carnation 

 Co. and J. L. Wyland, were the largest 

 exhibitors of the home growers, the 

 former showing fourteen or more large 

 vases. Good stock was also shown by 

 A. T. Lorch, A. R. Peacock, gardener 

 Thos. Jenkinson, E. C. Ludwig, and the 

 Pittsburgh Florists' Exchange. The 

 Baur Floral Co. had on view several 

 split carnations which had been 

 mended with their new clips. The 

 work was very neat and scarcely 

 noticeable. The Maxfield & Dimond 

 Co., Warren, R. I., also showed their 

 artificial brass calyx. This seems to 

 be a preventive rather than a restorer, 

 and is applied to the calyx at the 

 first signs of splitting. When it has 

 served its purpose on one carnation 

 it can be used on another. 



When the subject for the next meet- 

 ing came up, it was decided that a 

 change from our stereotyped exhibi- 

 tion would be pleasant, and Mr. Wm. 

 Falconer, was appointed a committee 

 of one to obtain a specialist to address 

 the club at its March meeting; the 

 club furnishing any material in the 

 way of flowers, etc., that the lecturer 

 might need for illustration. 



H. P. JOSLIN, .Secretary. 



FLORISTS' CLUB OF WASHINGTON. 



The regular monthly meeting of the 

 Florists' Club of Washington, D. C, 

 took place Tuesday evening, February 

 6. The meeting was of unusual impor- 



tance, embracing features of much in- 

 terest to the trade in general. P. Jo- 

 seph Lynch read an instructive paper 

 on rose culture. 



Quite a fine display of roses and new 

 carnations was made. A vase of Gold- 

 en Gate roses, grown by F. H. Kramer, 

 was awarded a first-class cultural cer- 

 tificate. He also showed his rose. 

 Queen Beatrice, not yet disseminated, 

 but which had previously been favor- 

 ably passed upon by the awards com- 

 mittee. W. S. Clark showed a seed- 

 ling rose under the name of "Colum- 

 bia," though not in suflScient quantity 

 to be noted upon, and it will be shown 

 later 



Among the new carnations shown by 

 the F. R. Pierson Co. were vases of 

 Winsor and White Enchantress, both 

 exhibited for the second time here. 

 H. Weber and Sons Co., of Oakland, 

 Md., showed a seedling of Prosperity 

 type named "Toreador" which was 

 awarded 91 points. Mabelle, from the 

 same grower, was favorably passed 

 upon. 



Nominations for annual election of 

 officers resulted as follows: Peter Bis- 

 set, president; Z. D. Blackistone, vice- 

 president; Charles McCauley, secre- 

 tary: Wm. F. Gude, W. H. Ernest, 

 treasurers; board of directors: G. C. 

 Shaffer, F. H. Kramer, W. S. Clark, 

 Mr. Mayberry and Jno. Robertson. 



Much interest was manifested in the 

 meeting of the American Rose Society, 

 to be held here March 13, 14, 15. The 

 annual banquet will be given on the 

 evening of March 14 at the Arlington 

 Hotel, to which members of the Rose 

 Society will be invited. 



NEW BEDFORD HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



This society at its February meet- 

 ing was favored by a visit from the 

 secretary of the N. E. Dahlia Society, 

 Morris Fuld. who took an active part 

 in a discussion upon the classification 

 of dahlias, and as the discussion was 

 mainly upon the revising and prepara- 

 tion of the schedule for the autumn 

 show, his remarks were highly appre- 

 ciated. Owing to inability to obtain 

 information as to dates and hall facili- 

 ties, the executive committee was un- 

 able to present the schedule in a com- 

 plete form, but hope to have it ready 

 for distribution at the March meeting. 



The monthly examination of plants 

 and flowers, which it is hoped will be 

 an interesting feature of future meet- 

 ings, was left in the hands of the en- 

 tertainment committee. 



Mr. Fuld in the course of an inter- 

 esting address spoke very highly of 

 the position held by New Bedford In 

 the dahlia growing world, both for the 

 standard of its exhibition and the in- 

 troduction of new kinds. Several 

 names were enrolled on the member- 

 ship list of the N. E. Dahlia Society. 



GARDENERS' AND FLORISTS' CLUB 

 OF BOSTON. 



The next regular meeting of the club 

 will be held at Horticultural Hall on 

 Tuesday, February 19, at 8 o'clock. 

 Mr. C. W. Ross of Newton will lecture 

 on "Road Construction". There will 

 be some very interesting exhibits on 

 the tables. All florists having steam 

 boilers or who use steam pumps are 

 invited to meet the executive commit- 

 tee at 6 o'clock; any also who are not 

 club members are just as freely asked 

 to be present. The threatened drastic 

 State legislation in regard to steam 

 boilers should be an incentive to all 

 who are directly interested to attend. 

 The club hopes to be able to do some- 

 thing towards mitigating what now 

 appears to be a serious menace to 

 commercial florists and market gar- 

 deners. W. N. CRAIG, Sec'y. 



DOBBS FERRY HORTICULTURAL 

 ASSOCIATION. 



The regular meeting of this society 

 was held on Saturday evening, Feb- 

 ruary 9, in their room in Odd Fellows' 

 Hall, R. Boreham in the chair. The 

 prize of the evening was won by H. 

 Keiling with a fine bunch of roses. 

 There was an excellent display of cut 

 flowers and pot plants, including mig- 

 nonette, cyclamens and violets. C. 

 Wilson staged a handsome new as- 

 paragus; H. Kastberg some very fine 

 seedling amaryllises. The prize for 

 the next meeting is to be for the best 

 collection of cut flowers. 



NEWPORT HORTICULTURAL SO- 

 CIETY. , 



The schedule of premiums for the I 

 early summer or rose show of the ■ 

 Newport Horticultural Society is 

 about completed; all that is now need- 

 ed is the final approval of the whole 

 society, which approval is already as- 

 sured. This show will, it is hoped, 

 this year be a good one; at least a 

 generous amount of money is appro- 

 priated for premiums, and the list is 

 made as comprehensible as possible. 

 Last year there was no rose show — a 

 lapse that many regretted. Five hun- 

 dred dollars will be given for premi- 

 ums listed in the schedule as now ar- 

 ranged, and the expectation is that 

 the special prizes will be fully as nu- 

 merous as usual; several are heard of 

 already. As soon as the schedule for 

 this has been approved the committee 

 will go straight to work on that for 

 the autumn or dahlia show, which 

 will be bigger still; it will be held in 

 September. 



DETROIT FLORIST CLUB. 



The last meeting of the Detroit Flo- 

 rist Club was well attended, the prin- 

 cipal attraction being a carnation 

 show The Chicago Carnation Co. ex- 

 hibited vases of White Perfection, 

 Aristocrat and Red Riding Hood. Van 

 Booslager showed Moonlight and Pink 

 Lawson, and the F. R. Pierson Co. 

 Winsor and White Enchantress. 

 Among local exhibitors were Malost 

 with 200 Lawson of the quality of five 

 years ago, also the largest and best 

 violets seen hereabouts this season. 

 Thos. Brown excelled all others with 

 White Enchantress. Albert Staehlen, 

 a progressive young carnation grower, 

 surprised all with excellent vases of 

 White Lawson, Rose-pink Enchantress, 

 Pink Lawson and fifty blooms of a new 

 and very promising white seedling, 

 and the same may be justly said of 

 fifty blooms of a seedling of darker 

 pink and much larger size than Law- 

 son. These are two seedlings which. 



