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HORTICULTURE 



February 19, 1910 



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NEW JERSEY FLORICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



Jersey abounds in societies devoted 

 to the interests of tlie liorticultural 

 craft and the particular one to which 

 these lines refer is one of the best 

 known and best appreciated in the en- 



Malcolm MacRorik 



Retiring Presidont. 



tire list, located as it is in the heart 

 of "the Oranges" and drawing support 

 from many private and commercial es- 

 tablishments in the Oranges, Short 

 Hills. Summit, Madison, Chatham, and 

 neighboring communities. 



Once a year comes the ceremonial of 

 installing the new officers and this is 

 always made an interesting, although 

 unpretentious, social event for the 

 members and their friends. The affair 

 came off this year on Friday evening, 

 February 11, and despite the fact that 

 a very lively snow storm was busy 

 outside, a goodly attendance was pres- 

 ent to enjoy this unique combination 

 of oratory, smoker and conviviality. 



The report of the retiring secretary, 

 J. B. Davis, showed that the 15th year 

 of the society's career had been a pros- 

 perous one. It had held ten meetings; 

 1.57 certificates had been awarded for 

 meritorious floral exhibits; the mem- 

 bership is S4 and there has been one 

 death during the year, Mr. J. Crosby 

 Brown. The treasurer, Wm. Reid, re- 

 ported a balance of $313.51 in the 

 treasury. 



There were a few attractive exhibits 

 upon which the judges. Messrs. Wm. 

 Duckham, C. H. Totty and W. .T. Stew- 

 art, reported as follows: Lager & Hur- 

 rell, display of orchid blooms includ- 

 ing Laelia anceps alba, L. a. rosea. 

 Phalaenopses, etc.. cultural commenda- 

 tion; Wm. Reid, vase of unusually fine 

 carnations, cultural certificate: Frank 

 Drew, roses, cultural commendation; 

 Max Schneider, honorable mention for 

 display and cultural commendation for 

 carnations; C. H. Totty, hybrid hip- 

 peasirum seedling, vote of tlianks. 



Installation of the new officers was 

 pevf<irmed with due dignity by the re- 

 tiring president, Malcolm MacRorie. in 

 the following order: Albert F. Lar- 

 son, president; Dietrich Kindsgrab, 

 vice-president; Wm. Reid, secretary; 

 Walter M. Gray, treasurer. The secre- 

 tary then read the list of special prizes 

 provided by friends of the society for 



competition during the coming year, 

 as follows: Winner of highest number 

 of points on roses, commercial exhibi- 

 tor, silver cup; private gardeners' com- 

 petition, silver cup. Two cups, com- 

 mercial and private, respectively, as 

 above, for orchids, carnations, foliage 

 plants, flowering plants other than 



Albert F. Larson 



President. 



above mentioned, fruit and vegetables, 

 and one cup for best seedling carna- 

 tion, grown by the exhibitor; 13 cups 

 In all. 



George Smith, the silver-tongued 

 orator, here took the floor and ad- 



