May 26, 1907 



HORTICULTURE 



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NEW LONDON COUNTY HORTI- 

 CULTURAL SOCIETY. 



At the meeting of this society held ou 

 May 13 the final steps in incorporation 

 were taken. A board of ten directors 

 takep the place of the executive com- 

 mittee. Officers were elected as fol- 

 lows: President, Thomas W. Head; 

 vice-pres.. Rev. Nelson I'oe Carey; 

 sec, A. A. Hunt; treas., R. R. Willcox; 

 librarian, John Archer. President 

 Head then gave an interesting talk 

 upon Herbaceous Perennials. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



The Tri-City Florists' Club will hold 

 its annual picnic on July 11 at Black 

 Hawk's Watch Tower. H. Bryant, H. 

 Goethje and J. Staak are the commit- 

 tee in charge. 



August Poehlmann, Leonard Kill and 

 Philip Schupp have been appointed by 

 the Chicago Florists' Club to arrange 

 for the meeting and exhibition of the 

 American Rose Society at Chicago next 

 March. 



The June meeting of the State Flo- 

 rists' Association of Indiana will be 

 held at the Smith & Young green- 

 houses, Stratford. The annual picnic 

 of the Association will be held at Wil- 

 low mere. 



The date for the great flower show 

 to be held at Convention Hall, Buffalo, 

 under the auspices of the Horticultural 

 Society of Buttalo will be Nov. 10 to 

 17, 1907. The premium list provides 

 for $1700 in cash prizes. 



Plant Hardiness and Acclimatization 

 to be held by the Horticultural Society 

 of New York will take place Sept. 30th 

 and Oct. 1st and 2d in the rooms of the 

 American Institute and the Museum 

 Building of the New York Botanical 

 Garden. The second day, October 1st. 

 will be devoted to some form of pleas- 

 ure, possibly an excursion to some 

 place of interest in the neighborhood. 

 A preliminary program will soon be is- 

 sued. 



The next Provincial Horticultural 

 Exhibition will be held on November 

 12 to 16, at Toronto, Ont. It is prob- 

 able that the exhibits will include 

 spraying machinery and devices used 

 in the handling of fruits and flowers. 

 Ofllcers have been elected as follows: 

 Pres., R. J. Score, Toronto; vice-pres., 

 W. H. Bunting, H. R. Frankland; 

 secy., H. B. Cowan: treas., J. H. Dun- 

 lop. The government grant to the ex- 

 hibition will be $2000, instead of $1200 

 as last year. 



OBITUARY. 



E. A. Bronson, formerly in the 

 nursery business at Geneva, N. Y., 

 died on May 4, aged 81 years. 



Charles McLaughlin, for many years 

 engaged in the florist business at 

 Haverhill, Mass., died suddenly on 

 May 3. 



George H. Green died at his home in 

 Everett, Mass., on May 15. He was a 

 man of good personal character and 

 universally liked. He leaves a widow. 



MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL 

 COLLEGE. 

 Summer School of Agriculture. 

 The talk about teaching agriculture 

 in the schools has been revived in 

 many quarters by the announcement 

 that tTie Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College will this year hold a special 

 school of instruction for teachers in 

 order to show them how such subjects 

 as gardening, botany and insect life 

 may be used to good advantage in com- 

 mon school work. This summer school 

 opens in Amherst, July 8, 1907, and 

 will continue four weeks. A very 

 strong corps of teachers has been en- 

 gaged and preparations have been 

 made on a large scale for thorough 

 work. In view of the fact that teach- 

 ers are generally paid sinfully low 

 salaries the charges for this school 

 have been made very low. It will be 

 an excellent opportunity for ambitious 

 teachers, and it is gratifying to learn 

 that a considerable number have 

 already registered. 



The International Conference on 



THE MOTH FIGHT. 



During the season Just ended there 

 have been employed by Supt. Kirk- 

 land in the campaign against the gypsy 

 moth in Massachusetts about 1700 men. 

 When it is considered that each city 

 and town has also had its local gang 

 at work and many thousands of private 

 parties have attended to the clearing 

 of their own property, the magnitude 

 of the work in this moth fighting be- 

 comes apparent. 



