September 4, 1909 



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sincere thanks and his expressions of 

 appreciation. 



President Huss, who had just re- 

 turned from Lenox, Jlass., gave an ac- 

 count of his visit, and of the horticul- 

 tural glory that must abound there. 

 He announced that Messrs. James .f. 

 and Francis Goodwin, of Hartford, 

 have signified their willingness lo aid 

 our fall e.xhibilions by financial gratui- 

 ties; for which the society is very 

 giateful. 



J. A. Weber, of Hartfoid, gaiiiener 

 for Walter L. Goodwin, exhibited 

 vases of asters and received a vote of 

 thanks. 



President Huss referred feelingly to 

 the loss, by death, of our late brother 

 horticulturist, Amos Reynolds; and a 

 letter of condolence was unanimously 

 voted to be directed to his widow by 

 the secretary. 



Julius Cx^pperberg presented to the 

 society, as a relic, a framed certificate 

 of the once-existent Hartford County 

 Agricultural Society, to Jonathan 

 Goodwin, dated in 1841, of an award 

 of $20 prem-ium for the best kept farm 

 of 40 acres or upward. It will be 

 placed in the archives of our society. 



The secretary was appointed a dele- 

 gate to tlie 31st biennial meeting of the 

 American Pomological Society, at St. 

 Catherines, Ontario, September 14th- 

 16th. Our next meeting will be held 

 September 10th. 



GEORGE W. SMITH, Secretary. 



Melrose, Conn. 



RAILROAD GARDENERS VISIT 

 RIVERTON AND OGONTZ. 



Or Wednesday, a. m., August 25, the 

 R. R. G. Association went over the 

 P. R. R lines from Philadelphia to 

 Paoll as already reported in our issue 

 of last week and at 2 p. m. took boat 

 to Riverton. After inspecting the 

 mammoth plant of the Dreer corpora- 

 tion the party returned to Philadel- 

 phia. George B. JMoulder, president of 

 the Association introduced N. Stewart 

 Dunlap of the Canadian Pacific to 

 make a few appropriate remarks of 

 thanks to Messrs. Dreer which he did 

 in his happiest vein, and all departed 

 feeling that they had spent the most 

 profitable and enjoyable afternoon of 

 their stay in Philadelphia. There was 

 a feast of wonderful things indoors 

 and outdoors and also something for 

 the inner man. When Dreers make 

 up tJieir mind to do a thing they do 

 it well. We have never seen them do 

 it better than on this occasion. Mr. 

 Strohlein was genial, attentive and 

 patient with everybody; George Clark 

 was there bright and snappy and full 

 of life and cordiality; his brother 

 James was in front with full and ac- 

 curate information about every difiB- 

 •cult subject; Mr. Betz held his end 

 up and Mr. Hoyle and Mr. Ruppert 

 were genera! pilots and earned golden 

 opinions. A group photograph was 

 taken at the rockery. 



On Thursday the 26th ulto., the 

 members went to P. A. Widener's pala- 

 tial country residence at Ogontz, on 

 the invitation of William Kleinheinz, 

 the superintendent. A personally con- 

 •ducted tour through greenhouses, gar- 

 dens and grounds was greatly enjoyed; 

 after which the party repaired to Mr. 



American Association of Railroad Gardeners at Dreer's, Riverton, N. J- 



Kleinheinz's residence for lunch, 

 where the host and Mrs. Kleinheinz 

 surpassed themselves in making every- 

 body happy. J. S. Butterfield voiced 

 the sentiments of the association when 

 he said that instead of liquidating 

 some of the debt for previous courte- 

 sies, they had put themselves under 

 still deeper obligations to Mr. Klein- 

 heinz. The unanimous expression 

 among the visitors was that they had 

 seen more and learned more of value 

 to them and their profession than in 

 all the railroad trips they had taken 

 and that this and the Dreer visit v.eie 

 of far greater potential value for fu- 

 ture improvement than the inspection 

 of the planting along the various rail- 



stations; to encourage the beautifying of 

 grounds adjoining railroad property: to 

 eliminate wliatever unnecessarily detracts 

 from the beaut.v of the landscape as seen 

 from the car window: to stimulate univer- 

 sal interest in presenting more attractive 

 appearances to the travelling pi.blic. and 

 by so doing increase the value of the prop- 

 erty on which we worli." 



The last clause especially should ap- 

 peal to the powers utilitarian and fin- 

 ancial on the higher branches of the 

 lailroad tree, who are, alas! often 

 prone to take a narrow view of rail- 

 road gardening from the dollar stand- 

 point. 



Railway Station Gardening at Relay, Md. 

 J. A. Byi-ne, Gardener. 



roads. The young society's member- 

 ship nearly doubled and it it keeps on 

 as now. will be doubled again next 

 year. The next meeting place has not 

 been selected, although Boston has 

 been strongly urged. It was also sug- 

 gested that Rochester during S. A. F. 

 convention week would be a good 

 place. Tuesday. Wednesday and Thurs- 

 day and then go on to Boston. 



Section four of .\rticle one of the 

 by-laws of the association gives th>- 

 aims of the society in succinct form: 



"Aside from the social features the ob- 

 jects of the Association shall be to con- 

 sider a more thorough and systematic ex- 

 tension of railroad gardening: to improve 

 the appearance of all railroad way lands 

 — especially those adjacent to ' passenger 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



The New York Florists' Club will re- 

 sume meetings on September 13. 



The Pasadena (Cal.) Gardeners' As- 

 sociation will hold their fall flower 

 show October 28, 29, 30. 



The New England Dahlia Society 

 will hold its second annual exhibition 

 at Horticultural Hall, Boston, on Sept. 

 10, 11 and 12. 



The Gardeners' and Florists' Club 

 of Boston will visit the Bay State 

 Nurseries (W. H. Wyman) at North 

 Abington on Sept. 11. 



The Missouri State Fair takes place 

 October 2 to 8 at Sedalia, Mo; $40,000 

 in prizes are offered and of this $865 

 is set aside for floriculture. 



The Retail Florists' Association of 

 New York will give a big smoker at 

 one of the popular restaurants early 

 tliis month. Messrs. Bowe, Klausner 

 and Warendorft are the committee in 

 charge. 



Eighty members and guests of the 

 Lenox (Mass.) Horticultural Society 

 held a picnic at Lake Mahkeenac on 

 August 25. It was one of the largest 

 outings the society ever gave. There 

 was a long program of sports, which 

 included a base ball game between 

 teams captained by William Henry and 

 Alexander McConnachie. An especial- 

 ly pleasing feature of the day was the 

 presence of Mr. J. F. Huss of Hartford, 

 who had charge of George H. Morgan's 

 estate several years ago. 



