December 25, 1909 



HORTICULTURE 



919 



GREETINGS: 



" Time steals our YEARS ; 

 But seals our FRIENDSHIPS truer 



Christmas Greetings and Sincere 

 Good Wishes for the Coming Year 



M. Rice & Co. 



PHILADELPHIA, DEC. 25th, 1909. " 



M. RICE & CO. 



LEADING 



FLORISTS' SUPPLY HOUSE 



Of America 



1220 RACE STREET 



Phila. 



A. H Deal sweet pea for the show 

 nest June. Prizes were also offered 

 by the Moore Seed Co. of PhiladelDhia, 

 for Primula Chinensis for the January- 

 meeting. All arrangements are com- 

 pleted for the joint exhibition of the 

 Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, 

 and the National Gardeners' Associa- 

 tion, March 15, 16 and 17 next. A 

 verj- good show is promised. Many 

 exhibitors will be on hand from New 

 York state and New England. 



Stringer, W. L. Keller and E. P. Wil- 

 son. 



J. O. Pi-idmore, W. H. Dildine and 

 C. H. Ogsten, who constitute the nom- 

 inating committee, will report at the 

 meeting of the association set for 

 January 10th, at which time the an- 

 nual election of officers will be held. 



ROCHESTER COMMERCIAL FLOR- 

 ISTS' ASSOCIATION. 



About sixty of the members of the 

 Rochester Commercial Florists' Asso- 

 ciation met Dec. 13, in the store of 

 James Vicks' Sons. Dr. Algernon S. 

 Crapsey addressed the members on 

 "Vacant Lot Gardening," and the as- 

 sociation adopted a resolution com- 

 mending the work of the Vacant Lot 

 Commission and pledging it support. 

 President F. W. Vick presided. 



The committee appointed some time 

 ago to select suitable association 

 rooms announced that such rooms had 

 been rented in the Cutler building and 

 that they would be ready for occu- 

 pancy by the beginning of the new 

 year. The committee was composed of 

 E. S. Osborne and J. W. Keller. 



A committee to superintend the 

 furnishing of the rooms, consisting of 

 George B. Hart, Charles H. Vick, R. 

 G. Salter and E. S. Osboine, was ap- 

 pointed. A committee to revise the 

 constitution and by-laws of the asso- 

 ciation was appointed. It is expected 

 that the changes will make provision 

 for the reception of members who are 

 not commercially allied to the associa- 

 tion. The committee includes H. B. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



The fame of the American Rose So- 

 ciety is spreading to the ends of the 

 earth. The people in New Zealand 

 have heard of the last Bulletin and 

 write from Wellington in behalf of 

 their parks, tor a copy. 



The Bulletin, giving the doings at 

 the Buffalo Exhibition and transac- 

 tions during the year, will be ready 

 for mailing about Christmas. We had 

 an inquiry from one of the private 

 gardeners at Madison, N. J., who prom- 

 ises to make an entry for the prize for 

 Pot Grown Roses. 



At the Chicago Exhibition Vaughan's 

 Seed Store made a show in that class 

 ■which took the Ladies' prize for its 

 general attractiveness. In the great 

 city there are thousands of places 

 where pot plants may be tended with 

 much attention and made a thing of 

 real beauty. In the metropolis of 

 America, there is no place for large or 

 even small gardens, but there are tens 

 of thousands of places where a pot 

 rose or two may be placed and we 

 want this fact known on behalf of the 

 Horticultural Society of New York, 

 whose aim is to reach the people in 

 an educational way and thus afford 

 encouragement to the men who make 

 their living by raising and selling 

 flowers. We expect to send out an ad- 

 ditional list of prizes next week. 



BENJAMIN HAMMOND, Sec'y. 



MARYLAND STATE HORTICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY. 



This society at its meeting in Balti- 

 moie last week, elected the following 

 named officers: President, R. Vin- 

 cent, Jr.; vice-president, J. S. Harris; 

 secretary-treasurer, C. P. Close; local 

 vice-presidents, C. L. Seybold, George 

 Morrison; executive board, the officers 

 and E. P. Cohill, W. I. Walker and 

 J W. Kerr. 



There was a very fine exhibition in 

 connection with the meeting — said to 

 have been the best on record. Among 

 the principal exhibitors were: R. Vin- 

 cent. Jr., & Sons Co., John Cook, H. A. 

 Dreer, H. F. Michell Co., H. Weber & 

 Sons Co. and J. G. Harrison & Sons. 



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