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HOETICULTUEE 



December 28, 191S 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



NEW ENGLAND NURSERYMEN'S 

 ASSOCIATION. 



The seventh annual convention of 

 the New England Nurserymen's Asso- 

 ciation will be held at Hotel Bellevue, 

 Boston, Tuesday and Wednesday, Jan- 

 uary 28th and 29th, 1919. 



A program has been arranged which 

 it is expected will attract wide inter- 

 est among the growers of trees and 

 plants in New England, inasmuch as 

 important topics are to be discussed 

 by able speakers. Among the more 

 important are the "Proposed Quaran- 

 tine on Importation of Nursery Stock" 

 recently approved by the secretary of 

 the United States Department of Agri- 

 culture, and which is to take effect on 

 or after June 1st, 1919, the "New 

 Rules Efiecting Transportation," and 

 "New Laws Relating to the Distribu- 

 tion of Nursery Stock in Interstate 

 Commerce." The latter will be dis- 

 cussed by Curtis Nye Smith, Esq., of 

 Boston, Counsel for the American As- 

 sociation of Nurserymen. Perhaps 

 the most interesting feature to the 

 general public will be the illustrated 

 lecture to be held Tuesday evening, 

 the subject being "How can we make 

 New England more Fruitful and more 

 Beautiful?" Another timely topic for 

 discussion which will interest all 

 growers will be presented by Mr. Wil- 

 liam H. Judd of the Arnold Arbore- 

 tum. His subject will be "New Orna- 

 mentals of Real Merit Nurserymen 

 Should Grow." The war has brought 

 changes to nurserymen as well as to 

 those in other lines of trade, and un- 

 der the new conditions it will be nec- 

 essary to grow a wider range of hardy 

 ornamental trees, shrubs and plants 

 to take the place of those, as far as 

 possible, which have heretofore been 

 imported from foreign countries. 



WESTCHESTER AND FAIRFIELD 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 



The annual meeting was held in 

 Greenwich, Conn., December 13. The 

 following named officers were elected 

 for 1919: President, William Graham, 

 Greenwich; vice-president, Thomas 

 Atchison, Mamaroneck, N. Y.; finan- 

 cial secretary, John D. Wilson, Green- 

 wich; Robert Williamson and John 

 Conroy were unanimously chosen to 

 succeed themselves in the offices of 

 treasurer and corresponding secretary, 

 respectively; executive committee, 

 William Whitton, John Orr, James 

 Tough, Alex. Smith and John Forbes. 

 Awards were made as follows; bou- 



vardia from William Graham 1st prize 

 and cultural certificate; roses from 

 James Stuart 2nd; carnations from W. 

 Smith 3rd; begonias and roses from 

 Robert Williamson, highly commend- 

 ed; Cypripedium insigne from W. 

 Smith and carnations from W. Mor- 

 row highly commended;, single seed- 

 ling chrysanthemums from Alex 

 Geddes, certificate of merit; collec- 

 tion of vegetables from James Stuart, 

 highly commended; flint corn from 

 Thomas Ryan, cultural certificate. 

 Robert Williamson read his annual re- 

 port, which received a hearty vote of 

 thanks. 



Jack Conkot, Cor. Sec. 



treasurer. Mr. Saltford is superinten- 

 dent of parks in this city. A sched- 

 ule of prizes was arranged for ex- 

 hibits of flowers at the monthly meet- 

 ings of the society. There will also 

 be question boxes to be answered by 

 the members at these meetings, and 

 in this and other ways the society 

 plans to progress. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY OF 

 AMERICA. 

 Report of New Chrysanthemum. 

 Chicago, Dec. 9.— Exhibited by E. 

 H. Mazey, Minneapolis, Minn., Pom- 

 pon variety; "Agnes Mazey," bronze, 

 scored as follows: Color, 37; form, 

 18; stem and foliage, 19; fullness, 17 

 —total, 91. 



The variety from Wm. Whitton, 

 Greenwich, Conn., published as Alex 

 Clarke, should be Alex Clarkson. 



Chas. W. Johnson, Sec. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED 



The Carnation Support Co., of Con- 

 nersville, Ind.. have sent out a neat 

 circular to the trade of their new 

 self-tying flower supports, for roses, 

 chrysanthemums, etc., and other allied 

 specialties. 



Holmes-Letherman Seed Co., Can- 

 ton, O.— Holco Quality 1919 Seed 

 Book. Quite an enterprising cata- 

 logue, 100 pages fully illustrated and 

 covers showing vegetables and flow- 

 ers in natural colors. 



Weeber & Don, New York. — Novel- 

 ties and specialties for 1919. Asters, 

 sweet peas, pansies, mignonette, glad- 

 ioli and other things specially in the 

 needs of the gardener and the flor- 

 ist are included in the very prac- 

 tical list of desirable novelties. 



At a meeting of the Dutchess 

 County Horticultural Society held in 

 Poughkeepsie, N. Y., officers for the 

 ensuing year were elected as follows: 

 George Saltford, president; William 

 Marshall, of Staatsburg, vice-presi- 

 dent; N. H. Cottam, of Wappingers 

 Falls, secretary; George W. Sweet, 



ST. LOUIS. 



Oscar Ruff of Bergstermann Floral 

 Co. has returned to his post. 



St. Louis Seed Co. disposed of a car- 

 load of the finest berried holly seen 

 here in many a day; also mistletoe. 



Alex. Laurie, horticulturist at Shaw's 

 Botanical Garden, has left for New 

 York state on a holiday vacation. 



POPULAR CHRISTMAS PLANTS 



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