May 18, 1907 



HORTICULTURE, 



655 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NUR- 

 SERYMEN. 



Convention program, Hotel Cadillac, 

 Detroit, Michigan, June 12, 13, 14, 1907: 

 JUNE 12TH, 9.30 O'CLOCK A. M. 



Calling to Order — Presideut Oilaudo Har- 

 rison, Maryland. 



Welcome to Micli'gau — Cbarles A. 111- 

 genfrltz, Michigan. 



Response — Charles T. Smith, Georgia. 



Welcome to Detroit — Mayor Wm. H. 

 Thompson. 



Response — Stanley H. Watson, Texas. 



President's Annual Address — Orlando 

 Harrison, Maryland. 



Report of Standing Committees— Trans- 

 portation, Tar:Cf, Legislation, Ways and 

 Means, Uniform Inspection, National Cjuu- 

 cU of Horticulture. Arrangements, Public- 

 ity, Editing Report. 



Report of Secretary; report of Treasurer. 



Report of Special Representative — B. 

 Albertson, Indiana. 



Selection of State Vice Presidents. 

 JUNE 12th, 1.30 O'CLOCK P. M. 



Preparing Nursery Land — R. G. Chase, 

 Geneva, N. Y. ; C. C. Mayhew, Sherman, 

 Texas; John Slebanthaler, Dayton, Ohio. 



Cultivating Nursery Stocli — G. N. Hobbs, 

 Bridgeport, Indiana; J. P. Doualdsou, 

 Warsaw, Kentucky; Geo. Marshall, Arling- 

 ton, Nebraska. 



Growing and Grading Apple Seedlings 

 and Apple Trees — F. W. Watson, Topeka, 

 Kansas; E. S. Welch, Shenandoah. Iowa; 

 B. J. Bagby, New Haven, Missouri. 



Glowing Peach — J. C. Hale, Winchester, 

 Tennessee; W. T. Hood, Richmond, Vir- 

 ginia; F. D. Green, Perry, Ohio. 



Meeting of Nurserymen's Mutual Pro- 

 tective Associaticn at 4 o'clock p. m. 

 (Place to be announced.) 



JUNE 12TH, 8.00 O'CLOCK P. M. 



Nurseries of the United States. (Illus- 

 trated.) Prof. John Craig, Cornell Uni- 

 versity, Ithaca, N. Y. 



JUNE 13TH, 9.30 O'CLOCK A. M. 



Growing, Grading and Storing Grape 

 Vines— E. H. Pratt, Fredoi la, N. Y. ; 

 Eugene Willets, North Collins. 



Growing Ornamentals — W. H. Wymau, 

 North Arlington, Md. ; R. C. Berckmans. 

 Augusta, Georgia; Geo. C. Perkins, New- 

 ark, N. Y. 



Growing Cherry — W. F. Heikes, Hunts- 

 vllle, Ala; J. W. Gaines, Zenia,Ohio; Harry 

 D. Simpson, Vlncennes, Ind. 



Growing Small Fruits— W. N. StarCE, 

 New Carlisle, Ohio; N. E. Chandler, Ar- 

 gentine, Kas. ; C. A. D. Baldwin, Bridge- 

 man, Mich. 



Spraying Nursery Stock — J. H. Hale. 

 South Glastonbury, Conn.; H. McDonald, 

 Salem, Oregon. 



JUNE 13TH, 1.30 O'CLOCK P. M. 



Storage of Nursery Stock — D. S. Lake. 

 Shenandoah, Iowa; J. M. Underwood, 

 Lake City, Minn.; H. G. Bryant, Daven- 

 port, Iowa. 



How Can Nurserymen Prevent Apple 

 Crown-Gall and Hairy-Root — Prof. C. G. 

 Hedgecock, U. S. Department Agricul- 

 ture, St. Louis, Mo. 



Marketing Nursery Stock — Charles E. 

 Greening, Monroe, Mich; C. J. Maloy, 

 Rochester. N. Y.; Geo. H. Whiting, Yank- 

 ton, So. Dakota. 



Shall this Association Attempt to Es- 

 tablish Standard Sizes or Grades for Fruit 

 Trees— J. M. Pitkin, Newark, N. Y.; E. P. 

 Bernardin, Parsons, Kansas: Abner 

 Hoopes, Westchester, Pa. 



Meeting of American Nursei.vmen's Pro- 

 tective Association at 4 o'clock p. m. 

 (Place to be announced.) 



JUNE 14TH, 9 O'CLOCK P. M. 



Managing Salesmen — J. W. Hill, Des 

 Moines, Iowa; C. R. Burr, Manchester. 

 Conn. 



Need of Co-operation Among Niirser.v- 

 mcn — J. H. Dayton, Painesville. Ohio; H. 

 S. Bird, Benton Harbor, Mich. 



Shall We Change the Date of Annual 

 Meeting?- Wm. Pitkin. Rochester, N. Y.; 

 Peter "Youngers, Geneva, Nebraska. 



Report of Committee on Exhibits; Re- 

 port of Committee on Resolutions; Elec- 

 tion of Officers; Selection of next place 

 of meeting. 



ST. LOUIS FLORISTS' CLUB. 



A very large attendance at the club 

 meeting on last Thursday afternoon 

 enjoyed a most interesting meeting. 

 Good delegations from Kirkwood. Ed- 



wardsville and Collinsville were in at- 

 dance. According to Secretary Beneke 

 the membership has again reached 100. 



The trustees made a report that they 

 had made all arrangements for the 

 celebration of the club's twentieth an- 

 niversary, which will take place in the 

 new and elegant Hibernian Hall. This 

 will be for florists only. Members and 

 their florist friends will be invited. It 

 will be a stag affair, with music, sing- 

 ing, dancing and refreshments — as 

 Chairman Smith says, a round of pleas- 

 ure during the entire evening. The 

 trustees were also instructed to prepare 

 for the club's annual picnic during the 

 month of July, and report arrange- 

 ments at the meeting in June. 



A great discussion was started on 

 the question as to the different ways 

 of fumigation. Prof. Irish, G. H. Pring 

 and G. Fulgraf of the Missouri Botan- 

 nical Garden were present and took 

 part in the discussion. J. F. Amann 

 and Frank Fillmore added greatly to 

 the discussion by their long experience. 

 This question of fumigation will be 

 continued at the next meeting. Presi- 

 dent H. C. Irish will, it is said, map 

 out a programme for the June meeting 

 which will take place June 13, at 2 

 o'clock. 



CONNECTICUT HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



The regular meeting of th;s body 

 was held in County Building, on Fri- 

 day, May 10. President Sternberg oc- 



cupied the chair and there was a large 

 attendance of members. It was 

 pansy night, and considering the back- 

 wardness of the season the quality of 

 the exhibits was surprisingly good. 



The bright particular event of the 

 evening was a lecture on "The His- 

 tory of the Modern Pansy" by John 

 Gerard, New Britain, Conn. Mr. 

 Gerard, who is one of our active mem- 

 bers, is a noted pansy specialist and 

 handled his subject ii) masterly style. 

 He traced the descent of the famous 

 strains of today back to the original, 

 small violas and proved conclusively 

 that the credit of "creating" the mod- 

 ern pansy belonged to a Miss Mary 

 Bennett (daughter of an Earl of Tan- 

 kerville) who began the selection and 

 hybridizing of violas at Walton-ou- 

 Thames. England, in ISIO. The ad- 

 dress was listened to with much in- 

 terest and the lecturer was awarded 

 a hearty vote of thanks. 



The committee appointed to judge 

 the exhibits announced their awards 

 as follows: John Gerard, diploma; T. 

 F. Huss, J. A. Weber and E. F. Mc- 

 Dermott, certificate of merit; Amos 

 Reynolds and J. Ketzmeyer, honora- 

 ble mention. The committee on exhi- 

 bitions reported progress and inti- 



mated that the fall show would be 

 held early in November. The society 

 is in a nourishing condition and at 

 this meeting seven new members were 

 added to the roll. 



ALEX. GUMMING. 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. 

 Carnation Registered. 



By Mrs. Jennie P. Snow. Andrew 

 Carnegie. A red sport of Harlowar- 

 den, a perfect glowing scarlet, good 

 keeper and fine shipper, much freer 

 than Harlowarden and a continuous 

 bloomer with a perfect non-bursting 

 calyx. This name is used provision- 

 ally to be approved or rejected at the 

 next annual meeting of this society. 

 A. M. HERR, Secretary. 



Lancaster, Pa. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



The San Diego Floral Association, 

 San Diego, Cal., will hold their flower 

 show on May 29. 



The Naturalist Society of Central 

 Falls, R. I., has appointed a commit- 

 tee to arrange for a flower show in 

 June. 



The rhododendron show of the Mas- 

 sachusetts Horticultural Society has 

 been postponed from June 1 to June 8, 

 on account of the backward season. 



The Amateur Horticultural Society 

 of Springfield, Mass., at its meeting on 

 May 3 decided to hold a flower show 

 In June, the date to be decided on 

 later. 



The Rose Society of Portland, Ore., 

 are making plans for an extensive rose 

 show. The Forestry building at the 

 Lewis and Clark fair grounds has been 

 secured for the display. 



The. California State Floral Society 

 of San Francisco, which is the oldest 

 of its kind on the Pacific Coast, will 

 join with the Pacific Coast Horticultu- 

 ral Society in holding a flower show 

 in October. 



The American Association of Park 

 Superintendents is considering the ad- 

 visability of changing the date of its 

 Toronto meeting from August 6, 7 and 

 S, to August 15, 16 and 17, for the con- 

 venience of those of its members who 

 v.'ould like to include in this vacation 

 trip the convention of the S. A. F. at 

 Philadelphia, which opens on August 

 20. 



The annual meeting of the Ameri- 

 can .\ssociation of Nurserymen will be 

 held at Detroit, Mich., on June 12, 13, 

 14, 1907, in the Hotel Cadillac, and ex- 

 traordinary efforts are being put forth 

 to make this the largest convention In 

 the history of the Association. The 

 officers are: President, Orlando Har- 

 rison, Berlin, Md.; secretary, George 

 C. Seager, Rochester, N. Y.; chairman 

 of exhibits, Thomas B. Meehan, Dresh- 

 ertown, Pa. 



A CORRECTION. 



The Siberian Iris (I. Sibirica) which 

 was the subject of our frontispiece 

 in last week's issue, was inadvertently 

 designated in the title as Spanish 

 Iris, a mistake which was no doubt 

 immediately apparent to most of our 

 readers. 



