August 21, 1909 



HORTlCULTURi: 



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t-nce of our society, no money has been 

 left to it by will and no git'i has been 

 made which could be added to the per- 

 manent fund and which would iu any 

 way assist us to arrive at the perma- 

 nent home. It seems to your secretary 

 that we have been sadly neglectful iu 

 this respect and that a proper placing 

 before our members of the vast good 

 to be accomplished by such bequests, 

 would soon produce results. 



Of course we must continue to use 

 every eftort to increase our member- 

 ship in the way of annual members, 

 because our ability to carry on our 

 present work depends largely on the 

 income from that source. However, 

 too much stress has been placed on 

 the getting of new members, or per- 

 haps it would be better to say that not 

 enough stress has been placed on the 

 necessity of keeping the members we 

 have. We must at all times carefully 

 consider and carry out every possible 

 means of retaining the interest of the 

 members we already have. The man 

 who deliberately sends in his applica- 

 tion in the middle of the year because 

 a study of the conditions has led him 

 to believe that membership in the so- 

 ciety will be valuable to him, is a con- 

 tinuing source of gain, because he will 

 Slick, if the handling of the society 

 work is such as not to disappoint him 

 in his expectations. The man who 

 joins under the excitement of the con- 

 vention or through the strong solicita- 

 tion in a peisoi;al way of officers or 

 membeis, is often worth just $5 and 

 no more. His interest is only a fleet- 

 ing one and if he does not attend tne 

 next convention he fails to renew his 

 membership and drops out. In the 

 past we have been neglectful in the 

 nr.atter of getting into close and con- 

 tinuous touch with our individual 

 members; we have not shown them 

 that this is Their society and that 

 the whole strength of the society is at 

 their disposal at all times to every 

 reasonable degree. They should be 

 encouraged to submit their problems to 

 the secretary and should be led to ex- 

 pect, and should be given, prompt help. 

 Many of the inquiries coming in relat- 

 ing to the difficulties of our members, 

 especially the ones just starting in 

 business, can be readily attended to by 

 the secretary, while for those questions 

 of a more serious nature, we have hun- 

 dreds of able men in the society who 

 will, I am sure, be glad to help solve 

 the problems of their brother mem- 

 bers. 



The writer has for many years been 

 much interested in the matter of Ex- 

 periment Station work and has be- 

 lieved that the florists were not get- 

 ting their dues, largely because they 

 failed to appreciate the importance of 

 the work and to ask for what they 

 wanted. The work of the experiment 

 stations in comparatively a few years, 

 has revolutionized farming, dairying, 

 live stock breeding and fruit culture. 

 It has done nothing for us, compara- 

 tively speaking. The work at Illinois 

 being a combination of the best scien- 

 tific skill, with the close scrutiny and 

 advice of members of the trade, is go- 

 ing to be of enormous value and the 

 writer believes that the same condi- 

 tions can be brought about in nearly 

 everv state in the Union. In order to 

 lay "before you the facts, your secre- 

 tary some time since took up corres- 

 pondence with the experiment stations 



in the countiy. hoping to- be able to 

 tabulate the facilities at the various 

 stations and the work they were doing 

 and to urge upon you an active cam- 

 paign for securing better things. Un- 

 fortunately the correspondence has 

 dragged out and the information has 

 come in so slowly that the data can- 

 not be given to you at this time. I 

 hope to complete it, however, and ask 

 your permission to publish it in the 

 forthcoming volume. The results will 

 be so disappointing to everyone that I 

 hope it will arouse us all to the nec- 

 essity cf promoting an organization in 

 each state to secure better things and 

 also to appoint a central committee of 

 the society to advise with and to aid 

 the different state organizations. 



MEDALS. 



Medals have been delivered during 

 the past year as follows: 



SILVER MEDAI^— Henr.y A. Dreer (In- 

 corporated), for Nephrolepis Scholzeli, of- 

 fered through the St. Louis Horticultural 

 Societ.v aud awarded at their annual ex- 

 liibitiou, NoTeml>er, 190S. 



National Flower Show Medals. 



The medals listed below were awarded 

 at the National Flower Show, Chicago, 

 Xovemljer, 1908. 



SILVER GILT MEDALS. 



Elmer D. Smith & Co. For display ot cut 

 chr.vsanthemums. 



Julius Roehrs Co. For three Heliconias. 



Halfdau Skjoldager. For private gardener 

 winning most premiums. 



SILVER MEDALS. 



Thomas Proctor. For private gardener 

 winning second uuml:>er premiums. 



W. A. Mauda. Four Medals; (1) For col- 

 lection of orchid blooms; (2) For Kentia 

 Mandaiana; (3i i"or Dracaena Black Beauty 

 Improved; (4i For Polypodiura Mandaianum. 



E. (Jechslein. For collection of green- 

 house plants. 



Vaughau's Seed Store. For educational 

 eshitiit of outdoor planting. 



Martin A. Ryerson. For chrysanthemum 

 plant. 



W. J. Smyth. For vase of roses. 



M. Calvat. For seedling chrysanthe- 

 mums. 



Harry Turner. For celosia Pride of 

 Castle Gould. 



C. H. Tott.v. "Sweepstakes," best six 

 blooms chrysanthemums. 



BRONZE MEDALS. 



W. A. Manda. For Manda's Golden 

 Privet. 



Henry Eichholz. For carnation Alvina. 



J. A. Peterson. For Begonia Agatha. 



E. G. Uiblein. Two Medals; (1) For 

 one eattle.va: (2) For one orchid plant. 



.John Riordan. For private gardener 

 winning third number premiums. 



Thomas Roland. For cyclamen plants. 



J. J. Mitchell. For best flowering plant. 



Carnation Medals. 



Offered through the American Carnation 

 Society and awarded at their annual meet- 

 ing in Indianapolis. January, 1909. 



SILVER MEDAL— The F. Dorner & Sons 

 Co., for carnation Hoosier Lad. 



BRONZE MEDAL— A. C. Brown, for 

 carnation Superba. 



Various Awards. 



The following awards were made at the 

 National Flower Show, Chicago, November, 

 190S. 



CERTIFICATES OF MERIT. 



W. A. Manda. Three certificates: (1) 

 Dracaena Mandaiana: C-'i Anthurium Cut- 

 tingiaunm: (31 Yucca Menandii. 



F. R. Pierson Co. Two certificates; (1) 

 Nephrolepis Elegantissima compacta; (2) 

 Nephrolepis superbissima. 



Julius Roehrs Co. Croton Fred Sander. 



The Lincoln Park Commissioners. Group 

 of greenhouse plants. 



Henry A. Dreer (Incorporated). Nephro- 

 lepis Scholzeli. 



The South Park Commissioners. Group 

 of greenhouse plants. 



W. N. Rudd. Carnation Mrs. J. C. 

 Vaughan. 



F. Dorner & Sons Co. Carnation Pink 

 Delight. 



HONORABLE MENTION. 



.idam Wolnlewicz. Group of greenhouse 

 plants. 



Plant Registration. 



New plant names have been regis- 

 tered since last report as follows: 



Xo. 398— August 15, 190S. Rose, Amer- 

 ican Pillar, by the Conard 

 & Jones Company, West 

 Grove, Pa. 



No. 399— August 15, 1908. Canna, 

 Gladio-flora, by the Conard 

 & Jones Company, West 

 Grove, Pa. 



No. 400— August 15, 1908. Canna, 

 Minnehaha, by the Conard 

 & Jones Company, West 

 Grove, Pa. 



No. 401 — August 15, 1908. Canna, 

 Rosea Gigantea, by the 

 Conard & Jones Company, 

 West Grove, Pa. 



No. 402— December 1, 1908. Chrysan- 

 themum, President Taft, 

 by Elmer D. Smith & Co., 

 Adrian, Mich. 



No. 403— December 23, 190S. Canna, 

 Wawa, by the Conard & 

 Jones Company, West 

 Grove, Pa. 



No. 404— December 23. 1908. Canna, 

 Mont Blanc Improved, by 

 the Conard & Jones Com- 

 pany, West Grove, Pa. 



No. 405— December 23, 1908. Rose, 

 Climbing Mosella. by the 

 Conard & Jones Company, 

 West Grove, Pa. 



No. 406 — January 25, 1909. Cypripe- 

 diuin. Ursula, by Alfred J. 

 Loveless, Lenox, Mass. 



No. 407— February 5, 1909. Cattleya, 

 Oakland, by Charles G. 

 Roebling. Trenton, N. J. 



No. 408— February 5, 1909. Laelio- 

 Cattleya, Magenta, by 

 Charles G. Roebling, Tren- 

 ton, N. J. 



No. 409— February 27, 1909. Carna- 

 tion, Edward, by W. H. 

 Shumway, Berlin, Conn. 



No. 410— March 19, 1909. Clematis, 

 Clematis paniculata rubra, 

 by the Jackson & Perkins 

 Company, Newark. N. Y. 



No. 411— April 2, 1909. Begonia, 

 President Taft, by J. A. 

 Peterson, Westwood, Cin- 

 cinnati, Ohio. 



No. 412— April 23, 1909. Hydrangea 

 cinerea sterilis, by E. Y. 

 Teas. Centerville, Ind. 



No. 413— July 16. 1909. Rose, Climb- 

 ing American Beauty, by 

 Hoopes, Bro. & Thomas 

 Company, West Chester, 

 Pa. 



Members Lost by Death. 



Since the last report six members 

 have died: 



1909. 



February 6. W. C. Krick, Brooklyn, 

 N. Y. 



March 2, E. V. Hallock. (Life mem- 

 ber) Queens, N. Y. 



April 3, William Hagemann, New 

 York. 



April 19, John Scott, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



May 28, John E. Andre, Doylestown, 

 Pa. 



July 9, Herbert Heller, New Castle, 

 Ind. 



Death of John Thorpe. 



On July 1, 1909 occurred the death 

 of John Thorpe, the first president ot 

 this society. 



