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HORTICULTURE 



April 16, 1910 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



CONNECTICUT HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



Oiir second March meeting was omit- 

 ted, on account of having fallen on 

 Fast Day, a state holiday here. On the 

 8th inst., our first April meeting took 

 place, with President John F. Huss pre- 

 siding. The center of the room in 

 the County Building, Hartford, was 

 adorned with a beautiful collection of 

 plants and cut flowers, as follows: 

 Amaryllis hybrida, Bougainvillea gla- 

 bra Sanderiana, Haemanthus diadema. 

 Primula obconica, exhibited by Mr. 

 Huss; Antirrhinum gigantea alba, by 

 Alfred Cebelius, gardener for Professor 

 Jacobus; Calceolaria hybrida, by J. A. 

 Weber, gardener for Walter L. Good- 

 win; a freak geranium bearing two 

 kinds of blossoms, by T. B. Brown of 

 Windsor. The judges, who were H. A. 

 Pinney, John Gerard, and W. H. Shum- 

 way, made awards as follows: Diplo- 

 mas to Mr. Huss and Mr. Weber; cer- 

 tificate of merit to Mr. Cebelius, vote 

 of thanks to Mr. Brown. The Haeman- 

 thus diadema, Mr. Huss said, is quite 

 rare, coming from Belgium, but origi- 

 nating in the Congo. 



The Society voted to give the presi- 

 dent of the Lava Company of America, 

 of Passaic, N. J., a hearing, in case he 

 desires to come to Connecticut to ad- 

 dress our members, at his own expense, 

 on the lava fertilizer question, which 

 is receiving considerable attention 

 among some gardeners. 



Arrangements have been started for 

 our two fall exhibitions; and the ex- 

 ecutive committee have commenced 

 work on the schedules of prizes. The 

 dates are set as follows: Dahlia Ex- 

 hibition at Unity Hall, Hartford, Sep- 

 tember 22-23, and Chrysanthemum Ex- 

 hibition at Putnam Phalanx Hall, Harl- 

 ford, November 3-4. 



Concurrent bills before the Senate 

 and House, at Washington, granting 

 funds to each state agricultural college 

 for extension work, were brought to 

 the attention of our members; and the 

 secretary was instructed to convey to 

 the Connecticut senators and represen- 

 tatives our Society's desire for the sup- 

 port of the bills. 



James M. Adams, at the request of 

 the chairman, read an article concern- 

 ing horticulture in Japan, showing 

 many curious uses to which fiowers, 

 shrubs, and trees are put, especially in 

 pursuance of the legends and traditions 

 of that Oriental land. 



Our next meeting, which will be held 

 on the 22nd inst., will be Rose Night; 

 and a paper is expected from Howard 

 A. Pinney, on the subject of the rose. 



The season here is quite forward, 

 owing to high temperatures. Apricots 

 are in blossom. 



GEORGE W. SMITH, Sec'y. 



Melrose, Conn. 



CINCINNATI FLORISTS' SOCIETY. 



The regular monthly meeting of the 

 Cincinnati Florist Society was held at 

 the Jabez Elliott Flower Market, Mon- 

 day evening, April 11. Heretofore the 

 Society has always held its monthly 

 meeting on Saturday evening, but by 

 a unanimous vote same was changed 

 to Monday, thereby hoping to increase 

 the attendance. 



NEW YORK FLORISTS' CLUB. 



The regular meeting of this club on 

 Monday night, 11th inst., was a very 

 interesting one. There were about 

 seventy-five members present and the 

 outcome of the animated discussion 

 which ensued after the detailed report 

 made by W. H. Siebrecht, Jr., of the 

 committee on plant and flower market, 

 is likely to be a great permanent pub- 

 lic flower market, occupying an entire 

 block, built by the city of New York 

 and rented in the same manner as the 

 other public markets. A special joint 

 meeting of all interested organizations 

 will be held next Monday night for 

 the purpose of considering this im- 

 portant matter. The joint committee 

 of the Club and the plant growers, of 

 which Mr. Siebrecht is chairman, has 

 done some excellent practical work 

 and deserves the gratitude of the fra- 

 ternity. The location proposed is be- 

 tween -SOth and 60th street and is well 

 adapted to the purposes. A central 

 hall will be provided wherein exhibi- 

 tions and meetings can be held. It 

 is stated that the Park Commission is 

 after the site for a public playground 

 and prompt action is necessary in or- 

 der to secure the place. In the debate 

 it was Incidentally mentioned that the 

 installing of this market will have a 

 far-reaching effect on the plant and 

 flower trade, on prices of florists' 

 products, etc., possibly revolutionizing 

 the methods of distributing them. 



A letter was received from Hitch- 

 ings & Co., offering a $25.00 silver cup 

 tor competition each year. It was re- 

 ferred to the exhibition committee and 

 thanks tendered. 



A motion was carried endorsing the 

 efforts being made to secure an ap- 

 propriation by the legislature of 

 .$50,000 for greenhouses and other 

 facilities for floricultural experiment- 

 ing and instruction at Ithaca. 



Messrs. Traendly, Young and Bun- 

 yard were appointed special commit- 

 tee on the S. A. P. convention, which 

 is to be held in Rochester next August. 

 The indications all point to a very 

 heavy participation in that event by 

 New York Florists' Club members. 

 President F. R. Pierson, who was pres- 

 ent, predicted that this will be the 

 greatest convention in the Society's 

 history. 



A. C. Zvolanek addressed the meet- 

 ing on the subject of sweet peas, giv- 

 ing a very entertaining account of his 

 recent trip to California. 



There were several exhibits on the 

 table, including a display of Stocks 

 Elizabeth and Queen Alexandra, and 

 Ranunculuses, from E. Fardell, Great 

 Neck, the first named being awarded 

 a certificate of merit. Kessler Bros, 

 showed a sport from the Scott fern, 

 grown by Emil Savoy, of Secaucus, 

 which won an award of merit. Louis 

 Dupuy got a certificate of merit for 

 Hydrangeas La Ijorraine (light pink) 

 and Avalanche (snow white). 



J. W. Pepper, Robt. E. Berry and 

 J. Austin Shaw were appointed a com- 

 mittee to send resolutions of sym- 

 pathy to Judge Vesey, in his great 

 bereavement. 



NEWPORT HORTICULTURAL SO- 

 CIETY. 



An unusually well attended meeting 

 of this society was held on the evening 

 of April 12. The attraction was the 

 announcement that E. O. Orpet of 

 Lancaster, Mass., was to give a talk 

 on orchids. This arrangement had 

 been made on account of the growing 

 demand for orchids during the sum- 

 mer season in Newport and the in- 

 terest the demand is causing. Mr. 

 Orpet was up to schedule time and 

 covered the subject in a very instruc- 

 tive and natural way which was much 

 appreciated by all present, the ac- 

 count of his experience in raising 

 seedling hybrids being particularly in- 

 teresting as he had a collection of 

 those flowers present which were ad- 

 mitted by experts to be great improve- 

 ments over the species. Among them 

 were Laelio-cattleyas Latona, Caronia, 

 Balliana, Mercia and Kerchoveae, 

 Cattleya Thayeriana, C. intermedia 

 and others. After Mr. Orpet had fin- 

 ished his address many questions 

 were asked him in connection with 

 orchid culture and all were answered 

 in a way that brought out a great deal 

 of valuable information both old and 

 new. On the exhibition table was a 

 remarkably well grown Amaryllis in a 

 seven-inch pot which had twenty-one 

 large open flowers on three stems that 

 came from the one bulb. This was 

 examined by the committee on awards 

 and awarded the society's silver med- 

 al for superior culture. The exhibitor 

 was Paul Valquardson, gardener for 

 Mrs. W. G. Weld. John T. Allan, gar- 

 dener for Mr. John R. Drexel had also 

 on exhibition a collection of seedling 

 Amaryllis which were all good and 

 one exceptionally well formed variety 

 which Mr. Allan named Miss Alice 

 Drexel was awarded a silver medal. 

 The color of this is rich scarlet, very 

 attractive under artificial light. The 

 society gratefully accepted an offer of 

 fifty dollars from Mrs. W. S. Wells to 

 be used for some special exhibit at 

 the September show. 



AMERICAN POMOLOGICAL 

 SOCIETY. 



The American Pomological Society 

 passed its sixty-second milestone at the 

 time of its last meeting in St. Catha- 

 rines, September, 1909. The formal 

 meeting which brought this historical 

 horticultural organization into exist- 

 ence was held in New York in Septem- 

 ber, 1S4S, although that meeting was 

 preceded by a preliminary conference 

 held by those interested in the organi- 

 zation some time previous in the city 

 of Buffalo. 



The report of its thirty-first biennial 

 session is now going through press and 

 will be distributed to its members in 

 a few weeks. 



In view of the many inquiries re- 

 garding the scope and purposes of this 

 Society, the Secretary makes the fol- 

 lowing statement: 



The Society is non-sectional, and Is 

 as comprehensive in its aims as the 

 broadest interests of fruit-growing de- 

 mand. Its purpose is to co-ordinate, 

 unify and further the interests of the 

 various horticultural societies by stim- 

 ulating the best methods of culture, 

 popularizing .scientific advances, and 



