October 30, 1909 



HORTICULTURE 



625- 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



Officers of the National Horticultural 

 coiigress, in association with other lo- 

 cal men, have established a horticul- 

 tural publication, which is expected to 

 become the official organ of the con- 

 gress. It is to be called "The Na- 

 tional Horticulturist." Publication is 

 to begin immediately. The magazine 

 will be issued monthly and will be 

 modeled after "Better Fruit," a horti- 

 cultural magazine published in Hood 

 River, Ore. 



Articles of incorporation of the Na- 

 tional Horticulturist Publishing Co. 

 hava been filed for record. The incor- 

 porators are W. S. Keeline, J. P. Hess, 

 P. L. Reed, George Sancha and W. H. 

 Lynchard. W. S. Keeline is president; 

 J. P. Hess, vice-president; F. L. Reed, 

 secretary, and George Sancha. treas- 

 urer. The company has a capital stock 

 of $5,000, divided into shares of $100 

 each .--Council Bluffs Nonpareil. 



The catalogue for the eleventh an- 

 aual exhibition of the Tarrytown Hor- 

 ticultural Society, which will be held 

 In St. John's hall, White Plains, N. Y., 

 on Nov. 4, 5 and G, has been issued. 

 Among special prizes offered aie 

 these: 



By J. D. Archbold, $20 for the best 

 twelve blooms of chrysanthemums; 

 Mrs. William Church Osborn, $25 for 

 the besi thirty-six blooms; Miss 

 Blanche Potter, $35 for the best twelve 

 blooms, distinct varieties; William 

 Rockefeller, silver cup for best eigh- 

 teen blooms; Samuel Untermyer, $20 

 for the best four plants of Begonia 

 Gloire de Lorraine. 



Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish offers a hand- 

 some silver cup for the best arranged 

 floral decoration for circular dinner 

 table, six feet in diameter, seating 

 twelve persons, and Mrs. Isaac N. 

 Seligman $10 for the best basket of 

 cut flowers. 



James Sutherland, florist. Athol, 

 Mass., left his store last Friday, tell- 

 ing no one where he was going, and 

 has not been heard from since. 



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