February 12, 1910 



HOKTICULTURK 



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Banquet of Nkw York ani> New Jersey Association of Plant Growers. 



CONNECTICUT HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



The first business meeting of tlie 

 year was held at the County Building, 

 in Hartford, on the 2,Sth ult. Charles 

 H. Plump, of West Redding, Conn., 

 who is the secretary and treasurer of 

 the .Agricultural Experts' Association, 

 whose headquarters are in New York 

 city, was welcomed to membership in 

 the Society, making the 150th member. 

 J. A. Weber, gardener for Walter L. 

 Goodwin, e.xhibited at this meeting six 

 very handsome specimens of cineraria 

 plants, all in 12-inch pots. C. H. 

 Sierman and H. A. Pinney were ap- 

 pointed judges and awarded a certifi- 

 cate of merit to Mr. Weber. 



The secretary read communications 

 from various Connecticut congress- 

 men, and from the postmaster general, 

 acknowledging receipt of the recent 

 resolutions in favor of the parcel post, 

 and nearly ail expressing their sym- 

 pathy witli the movement. 



President John F. Huss delivered an 

 able address on the subject of hardy 

 ferns, and received a vote of thanks. 

 He gave a resume of his thirty-five 

 years' acquaintance with ferns, begin- 

 ning with his employment, in early 

 life, in the noted Clapton nursery of 

 Hugh Low, in London, England, 

 where he had charge of the tender 

 greenhouse ferns, and ending with his 

 recent experience in propagating 

 hardy ferns for the beautiful estate of 

 James J. Goodwin, in Hartford. To 

 Illustrate the method of propagation, 

 mostly from spores, Mr. Huss brought 

 pots fiom the greenhouse, shov«ing 

 the miniature plants in several stages 

 of development; some being just visi- 

 ble above ground, and others having 

 been pricked out for the first time. 

 The lecture showed great familiarity 

 with the minute paitioulars of suc- 

 cessful tern culture, and was the first 

 of a series of addresses that President 

 Huss hopes to obtain, from other 

 members, at future meetings. 



C. O. Purinton briefly told of his 



efforts to resuscitate old apple trees 

 infested with the San Jose scale, by 

 the use of judicious pruning, and 

 spraying with Scalecide. He men- 

 tioned a tree of the Peck (formerly 

 Peck's Pleasant) variety on his 

 gi'ounds. It is now 57 years old, and 

 was thought, four years ago, to be 

 irredeemably lost to the scale. As a 

 practical illustration of how he had 

 been able to save the tree by the 

 means above mentioned, he passed 

 around perfect samples of the fruit, 

 left from the three barrelfuls that the 

 tree bore last season. This is an old 

 Connecticut apple of first quality, not 

 now much employed as a commercial 

 variety, but highly esteemed for home 

 use. 



GEORGE W. SMITH. 

 Secretary. 



A NEW HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



A very interesting event took place 

 in Yonkers, N. Y., on the evening of 

 Jan. 28 — the inauguration of a horti- 

 cultural society. It has long been 

 felt that the time was ripe for such 

 a move, and it only needed some one 

 to make the initial start,' and the 

 first meeting was a very enthusiastic 

 one. That the efforts of the pro- 

 moters was a decided success is 

 shown by the fact that nearly sixty 

 members were enrolled. The follow- 

 ing officers were elected: President, 

 E. Bennett; secretary, W. H. Waite; 

 vice-president, R. Cochrane; corres- 

 ponding secretary, Lee Whitman: 

 treasurer, P. Macdonald. Executive 

 committee: H. Scott, J. Goff. T. Ma- 

 honey, R. Cummings, L. Taylor, 

 A. Macdonald. 



President Bennett and Secretary 

 Waite both had large experience in 

 such societies, and all the other offi- 

 cers and the executive committee are 

 good, live men and hustlers. 



LEE WHITMAN, Cor. Sec. 



ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 



At the second meeting of the vari- 

 ous committees of the society on Jan- 

 uary 25, the exhibits were far less 

 numerous than usual and those of 

 most importance were orchids, of 

 which only one received a first-class 

 certificate and three were distin- 

 guished by awards of merit. Messrs. 

 Sander & Sons. St. Albans, were ex- 

 hibitors of several varieties of Laelia 

 anceps, including L. A. Ballantinei, L. 

 A. Sanderiana and L. A. Hollidayana, 

 all of which are comparatively new in- 

 troductions. A very finely colored cat- 

 tleya Triana^ Magali Sander received 

 an award of merit. Charlesworth & 

 Co. showed Anguloa Cliftoni, a new 

 introduction from Columbia. The 

 flower is of the same size as A. 

 Clowesii, but is different in color and 

 form from that and all others. A first 

 class certificate. Mrs. Norman Cook- 

 son, showed Odcntioda Bradshawife, a 

 variety certificated by the R. H. S. in 

 March of last year. The plant had a 

 spike of ten flowers. 



CHICAGO FLORISTS' CLUB. 



The regular meeting of this club was 

 held Thursday, February 2, at the 

 Union Restaurant, and the installation 

 of officers was the chief business. 

 President Asmus appointed the follow- 

 ing committees; Transportation — E. 

 F. Winterson, M. Barker, F. Laut ens- 

 lager. Sports and Pastimes — T. C. 

 Yarnall, Allie Zeck, F. Avers. Good 

 of the Club— Herman Schiller, F. Pas- 

 ternick. J. Degnan. 



The 9.40 a. m. train, Illinois Central 

 Railroad. February 15th, was chosen 

 as the official train to carry the florists 

 to the meeting of the State Florists' 

 Association at Urbana. The secretary 

 was instructed to extend the thanks of 

 the Chicago Florists' Club to the Pitts- 

 burgh Club for their courtesies during 

 ihfr recent convention. 



