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HORTICULTURE 



March 26, 1910 



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MORE ABOUT GLADIOLUS. 



In regard to Mr. L. Merton Gage's 

 article on the Gladiolus in HORTICUL- 

 TURE of February 5th, on page 182, 

 in which he states that he bought a 

 certain variety under two names, I 

 should say that such things occur with 

 those growers who grow no seedlings 

 or who do not hybridize, but select 

 some certain kinds out of a lot of 

 purchased bulbs and name them, while 

 these same varieties may already be 

 under name for some time, but he 

 don't know it. 



Just such an accident occurred to 

 me about twelve years ago when I 

 first began gladiolus growing. I bought 

 a strain which was called Extra Florist 

 Mixture, which was a very high grade 

 at that time. I found a few of one 

 kind which struck my fancy and kept 

 them separate. In five years I had 

 a nice lot of them and made up my 

 mind to name them "Wisconsin." 

 Gladiolus May was then getting exten- 

 sively advertised and I invested, and 

 when May came into bloom it proved 

 to be my Wisconsin. After that I 

 never picked out another one of any 

 mixture I bought, and I think no 

 grower should do so, no matter how 

 nice a variety looks — at least not to 

 name them. I have the following re- 

 marks in my Gladiolus list: 



Remember, that I reserve the right of 

 any one l)uying Koerner's New Giant Flow- 

 ering Hybrid Gladioius not to seiect any 

 kind and name them, for I have selected 

 about lOO lihids which I intend to name 

 from time to time as I get stock: all these 

 same kinds can be found in the mixture 

 and if any one should select any and name 

 them there will he a confusion In the 

 names. 



H. W. KOERNER. 



THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF 

 GARDENERS. 



William Kleinheinz of Philadelphia, 

 was re-elected president; W. E. May- 

 nard, secretary and treasurer, and 

 James Bell, vice-president at the an- 

 nual business session held in Horti- 

 cultural Hall, Philadelphia, 7 p. m., 

 March 16th, 1910. Routine business 

 only was taken care of at this session. 

 A committee was appointed as follows, 

 to get a charter: Thomas Logan, 

 Xavier Schmitt, W. E. Maynard, W. 

 Kleinheinz, W. Robertson and James 

 Bell. 



MRS. ELLEN M. GILL. 



The Gardeners' and Florists' Club be- 

 stowed a well-deserved compliment on 

 its oldest member when, at its meet- 

 ing on Tuesday evening, March 22, It 

 unanimously endorsed the recommen- 

 dation that Mrs. E. M. Gill be made 

 an honorary member of the club. 



Mrs. Gill, whose portrait appears 

 herewith, is past eighty years of age, 



Mrs. Ellen M. Gill 



but still devotes her well-preserved 

 energies to her beloved occupation as 

 florist at Medford. Mass. For nearly 

 fifty years Mrs. Gill has been a regu- 

 lar exhibitor at the shows of the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society 

 and a constant prize winner in the 

 classes calling for the exercise of re- 

 fined taste in horal arrangement. 



Mrs. Gill was born on Essex street, 

 Boston, and counts among her ances- 

 tors John and Priscilla Alden and 

 Richard Warren, who came over in the 

 Mayflower. 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



Lloyd G. Blick, Norfolk, Va., is the 

 latest entry at Philadelphia in the 

 "Race to Rochester" by auto, next 

 August. He will make the journey ac- 

 companied by Mrs. Blick and friends. 

 It is expected that about twenty-five 



machines — each with four to ten occu- 

 pants—will make the start from Phila- 

 delphia. 



Visitors in Philadelphia last week 

 (among many others) were: Lloyd G. 

 Blick, Norfolk, Va. ; Adolphus and Wil- 

 liam F. Gude, Washington. D. C; P. 

 Welch, Boston, Mass.; E. Howard 

 Smith, Hazelton, Pa.; George H. Cooke, 

 Washington, D. C; Fred Burger, Miss 

 Held. E. A. Siedewitz, Mrs. Thos. Schu- 

 ler, Mr. and Mrs. Johnston, all of Balti- 

 more, Md.; Frank Clark, Trenton, N. 

 J.; F. E. Ridenour and Parker Thayer 

 Barnes, both of Harrisburg, Pa.; May- 

 berry and Hoover, Washington, D. C. 



There is a society with headquarters 

 in Dublin, Ireland, for the suppression 

 of caricatures of the Irish. "The Irane 

 rubbish in the way of post-cards, etc., 

 is certainly in very bad taste. The 

 noble qualities of any nation are what 

 should be emphasized. We are with 

 the Irish every time in this endeavor 

 and in our own line are fighting the 

 same evil. Only in our business it 

 happens to be "Artificial Flowers." Of 

 course, we know the growers of "Real 

 Flowers" are not interested in this 

 fight. So we only mention the matter 

 "out of pure contrariness," as Robert 

 Craig would say. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



The Gardeners' and Florists' Club of 

 Boston, to the number of about fifty, 

 had a delightful time at the annual 

 visit to the greenhouses of the W. W. 

 Edgar Company at Waverley, Mass., on 

 Saturday, March 19th. The Easter 

 stock was found, as described in the 

 previous issue of this paper, in splendid 

 shape and readiness. Refreshments 

 were served to the visitors, several of 

 whom made appreciative speeches. 



A meeting of the ex-employes of the 

 late firm of Pitcher & Manda was 

 called at the Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, New York, on the occasion of 

 the Rose Society exhibition and some 

 eighteen or twenty gentlemen respond- 

 ed. It was voted to organize and the 

 following officers were duly elected: 

 President, Charles Russell; vice-presi- 

 dent, F. L. Atkins; secretary, W. Mer- 

 kel; treasurer, Harry A. Bunyard. The 

 secretary's address is Bronx Park, New 

 York. Jlessrs. Bunyard, Coan and J. 

 Russell were constituted a committee 

 to arrange for a banquet or other so- 

 cial affair in the near future. 



