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March 19, 19]n- 



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GARDENERS' AND FLORISTS' CLUB 

 OF BOSTON. 



The club will hold a field day with 

 W. W. Edgar Co., Waverly, Mass., on 

 Saturday, March 19, 1910. Members 

 and friends will please take electric 

 cars for Weverley, leaving Park Street 

 Station (Subway) at one o'clock. A 

 cordial invitation is extended to all 

 interested growers to join in this out- 

 ing. 



The next club meeting will be held 

 at Horticultural Hall on Tuesday even- 

 ing, March 22, at 8 o'clock. The 

 Speaker of the evening will be Arthur 

 E. Thatcher, of the Arnold Arbore- 

 tum on "New and Desirable Hardy 

 Herbaceous Plants." Many subjects 

 of interest will come up at this meet- 

 ing and it is hoped there will be a 

 large attendance. 



W. N. CRAIG, Sec. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



The Lenox Horticultural Society, at 

 their recent meeting, voted to offer a 

 prize of $25 for the best specimen tree 

 planted in Lenox since 1905, and also 

 $25 for the best orchard of not less 

 than 200 trees, which are ten years or 

 more growth. 



banquet and speaking there was danc- 

 ing. 



At the meeting of the New Haven 

 Horticultural Society which was held 

 March 9, the following new officers 

 were installed: President, John N. 

 Champion; vice-president, James 

 Kidd; secretary, Fred Woods; treas- 

 urer. Daniel Kidd; press agent. J. C. 

 Morton; board of managers, John N. 

 Champion, James Kidd. John H. Mur- 

 ray. Pred Woods, John C. Morton, 

 Richard Bell, William Beattie and 

 Robert Paton. 



CINCINNATI FLORISTS' SOCIETY. 



A meeting of this society was held 

 on March 11th at the Jabez Elliott 

 Flow.'^r Market. The committee on by- 

 laws made their report and same was 

 adopted as amended by the committee. 

 After the meeting adjourned the mem- 

 bers went to Wielert's as guests of the 

 Society, where they had lunch and re- 

 freshments, and spent the balance of 

 the PMiiins bowling. A. O. 



The Worcester County Horticultural 

 Society celebrated its annual reunion 

 the evening of March 9th with a ban- 

 (luet and reception in Horticultural 

 Hall. Mr. Joseph Green was toast- 

 master. The keynote of the addresses 

 was that New England having as fer- 

 tile soil as any other section of the 

 country should take its place in the 

 front rank in amount and quantity of 

 horticultural products. Following the 



At the Royal Horticultural Society's 

 exhibition on February 22, Carnation 

 Bay State was shown in excellent form 

 by II. Burnett. A first class certificate 

 was awarded to Sander & Son for 

 Odontoglossum splendens, a cross of 

 O. eximium with O. Wilckeanum and 

 an award of merit for Odontoglossum 

 Black Prince, a cross between O. Lam- 

 bertianutn and O. Rolfeae. Charles- 

 worth «6; Co. received an award of 

 merit for Odontoglossum Ceres, a cross 

 of O. rubescens with O. Rolfeae. Odon- 

 toglossum eximium var. E. C. Roger- 

 son, a cross between O. crispum and 

 O. ardentissimum won an award of 

 merit for the exhibitor, Mr. E. Roger- 

 son, and a similar award was given to 

 H S- Goodson for Cattleya Schroderae 

 The Prince. A gold medal was award- 

 ed to a grand collection of orchids 

 from Sir Jeremiah Colman. 



Florists are back of the bill for an 

 aiipropriation of $50,000 for teaching 

 floriculture at Cornell University. 

 William F. Kasting stated yesterday 

 that the bill was indorsed by the 

 florists of the state. The Buffalo 

 Florists' Association favors the bill. — 

 Buffalo Times- 



