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HOKTICULTURi: 



April 23, 1910 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



GARDENERS' AND FLORISTS' CLUB 

 OF BOSTON. 



The next meeting of the club will 

 be held at Horticultural Hall, Boston, 

 on Tuesday, April 26, 1910, at 8 o'clock. 

 The halls being rented on the date ot 

 the third Tuesday in the month, a post- 

 ponement was necessary. 



In lieu ot the regular lecture several 

 timely horticultural topics will be dis- 

 cussed, and a few minutes will be de- 

 voted to each of the following subjects, 

 which members have been asked to say 

 a few words on: 



1. The best early flowering shrubs 

 for Massachusetts. 



2. Useful annuals for cut flowers 

 under glass in winter. 



3. What varieties of herbaceous 

 perennials are better planted in the 

 spring than in the fall in New Eng- 

 land? 



4. What are some of the more de- 

 sirable early flowering herbaceous 

 perennials, varieties which will bloom 

 in April? 



5. What is the best time to propa- 

 gate Chrysanthemums to be grown as 

 single stems for the Boston market? 

 Do early, mid-season, or late varieties 

 pay the tjest? 



6. What is the best fertilizer for 

 strawberries in the open garden, and 

 when is it best applied? 



Any other questions members may 

 wish to have answered should be 

 mailed to the Secretary, or deposited 

 in the question-box on the evening of 

 the meeting. 



Resolutions on the death of our late 

 lamented treasurer, Mr. Edward Hatch, 

 will be presented by the committee ap- 

 pointed at the last meeting; a succes- 

 sor will also be elected. 



W. N. CRAIG. Sec'y. 



NASSAU COUNTY HORTICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY. 



A lively meeting was held on April 

 13. The winners in the monthly com- 

 petition were G. Wilson for best ciner- 

 aria and V. Cleres for best vase of 

 antirrhiniums. Cultural certificates 

 were awarded to E. Fardel for vase of 

 ranunculus, also for three fine plants 

 of Boddington's Matchless Calceolaria 

 hybrida. Paul Reul for geraniums, 

 also seedling geraniums and climbing 

 rose Hiawatha. Honorable mention to 

 I. Barton for spinach, H. Gaut for pe- 

 tunias, stocks and peas, V. Cleres for 

 carnations and P. Petroccia for mush- 

 rooms. I. F. Johnston read a most 

 interesting essay on "Evergreens," and 

 well deserved the thanks accorded by 

 the Society. 



A very interesting test ot Aphine 

 was made during the afternoon; green 

 fly, black fly, white fly, mealy bug and 

 scale all succumbed in short notice 

 without any injury to the foliage or 

 flower of the plant treated. A pelar- 

 gonium bloom dipped into the undi- 

 luted solution was not injured in the 

 least. It was a most successful test. 

 Harry F. Matz of Glen Cove has se- 

 cured the agency for this vicinity and 

 will no doubt receive many orders. 



OSCAR E. ADDOR. 



MORRIS COUNTY (N. J.) GARDEN- 

 ERS' AND FLORISTS' SOCIETY. 



April 13th was Rose Night. There 

 were no new roses in sight. "Radi- 

 ance" was expected but failed to ar- 

 rive. Joseph P. Ruzicha brought from 

 L. A. Noe's magnificent vases of Amer- 

 ican Beauty, Brides, Bridesmaids and 

 Killarneys, for which he was awarded 

 cultural certificates; and Wm. Muhl- 

 michel, grower for Chas. A. Work, 

 showed Richmond and My Maryland, 

 being about as fine as they have ever 

 shown here. H. B. Vyse brought sin- 

 gle stem specimens of Hydrangea Hor- 

 tense, the size, color and substances 

 of the trusses being very fine. 



The meeting of May 11th is to be 

 given over to the rose men for the ar- 

 rangement of their section of the final 

 schedule of this year's flower show. 

 All rose growers are invited and wel- 

 come to this meeting. We want the 

 classes to be as far as possible, satis- 

 factory all around, and if we get the 

 rose-growers together we will have no 

 trouble in that line. The committee 

 on the fall flower show reports en- 

 couraging progress. Other societies 

 and individual giowers show an in- 

 clination to come in and make this 

 show one of the best ever held in New 

 Jersey. If the outlook continues as 

 bright as it is, this show will be an 

 inter-society show. A great many so- 

 cieties — we may say practically all of 

 them — from Philadelphia to Boston, 

 have promised to assist and the Morris 

 County gardeners' and florists hope 

 there will be no cold feet when the 

 time comes. E. R. 



ST. LOUIS FLORIST CLUB. 



The St. Louis Florist Club held its 

 regular monthly meeting on the after- 

 noon of April 14th with a fairly good 

 attendance, considering the busy sea- 

 son for the greenhouse men and how 

 little time they have to attend a meet- 

 ing in the afternoon. All important 

 matters were laid over until the May 

 12th meeting. The trustees are ex- 

 pected to look up and arrange for the 

 club's annual outing for the month of 

 July. 



There was a review of the Easter 

 business in which all expressed them- 

 selves as having had a good trade this 

 year. 



The question box brought out a num- 

 Ijer of questions on which good discus- 

 sion was made. 



BUFFALO FLORISTS' CLUB. 



A special meeting of this club was 

 held at Kasling's Hall, April 12th, at 

 which it was decided to hold a flower 

 show in the fall. It is proposed to 

 make this one of the greatest and most 

 up-to-date shows Buffalo has ever had. 

 A most able committee has been ap- 

 pointed to arrange all details, and a 

 report is expected from them at the 

 next regular meeting. May 3rd. 



At that meeting Mr. Charles Guen- 

 ther will read a paper on "Summer 

 Roses," and it is expected that George 

 McClure, Jr., will be prepared with 

 criticisms on the paper recently read 

 by R. A. Slattery on "Color Harmony." 

 WM. LEGG. Sec'y. 



AMERICAN NURSERYMEN'S 

 ASSOCIATION. 



The chairman of the Program Com- 

 mittee of the American Association of 

 Nurserymen, J. W. Hill, Des Moines, 

 Iowa, announces the following prelimi- 

 nary arrangements tor the program for 

 the annual convention of the Associa- 

 tion at Denver in June: 



"Publicity cimpaigns ou part of nursery- 

 men," J. M. Irvine ot St. Joseph, Mo. 



"Varieties," E. S. Osborne, ot Rochester, 

 N. 1. 



"Orchard pests still uukuown to the Col- 

 orado fruit grower," 1-rot. G. P. Gillette 

 ot Ft. Collins, Colo. 



"Co-operation between nurseryman and 

 fruit grower," \V. L. Howard, secretary 

 Missouri State Board of Horticulture. 



"Practical experiments with root gall on 

 apple trees," Vice-President E. A. Smith, 

 Lake City, Minn. 



"Transplauted raspberries for the retail 

 trade," W. N. Scarft, New Carlisle, Ohio. 



"Should a young man choose the nur- 

 sery business for a vocation?" A. Willis. 

 Ottawa, Kans. 



"Observations upon European nursery 

 stock and their plant growing methods" 

 (illustrated by lantern slides). Prof. Craig, 

 Ithaca, N. Y. 



"The part nurserymen have taken in the 

 growth and development of the nation," J. 

 P.. Morey, Dansville, N. Y. 



"Herbaceous plants," C. S. Harrison, 

 York. Nebr. 



"Magnifying our craft," E. W. Kirkpat- 

 rick, McKinney, Tex. 



"A study of the nursery lands ot the 

 United States." W. H. Stark, Louisiana, 

 Mo. 



"The commercial side of the nursery 

 business," H. W. Marshall, Arlingtou, Neb. 



"Eflects ot tree planting in the Middle 

 West," Geo. H. Whiting, Yankton, S. Dak. 



"Resultant evils of replace policy," J. W. 

 MayhOTi-. Waxahachie, Texas. 



"Crown gall and its effects ou orchard: 

 trees." Peter Youngers. Geneva, Neh. 



"Is the organization knowu as the 

 Americ.in Association ot Nurserymen a 

 benefit to the nursery business?" E. M. 

 Sherman, Charles Cit.v, la. 



Paper tiy E. P. Taylor. Missouri State 

 Experimental Station, sub,iect not yet re- 

 ported. 



YONKERS' HORTICULTURAL SO- 

 CIETY. 



A very full and interesting meeting 

 of this Society was held on April 1.5th. 

 The executive committee reported that 

 prizes had been donated for every class 

 in the June show, also three specials. 

 The schedule for the fall show was dis- 

 cussed and adopted, there being sixty- 

 five classes in all. 



The prizes offered by Vice-President 

 Cochrane and Louis Milliot were very 

 keenly contested. H. Nichols won first 

 with a vase of antirrhinum, the finest 

 the writer ever saw. J. Goff was sec- 

 ond with Pandanus Veitchii; H. Scott 

 third, with a vase of Hydrangea 

 Otaksa. Prizes for the next meeting 

 were offered by Mr. J. Haughton and 

 Mr. Knapper. 



Mr. Nichols read a very interesting 

 and instructive paper on the "Vege- 

 table Garden." and a discussion fol- 

 lowed. Mr. Frankel, of the Standard 

 Nitrogen Co., was present and spoke 

 on the benefit to be derived from 

 using concentrated nitrogen and inocu- 

 lated humus. The next meeting will 

 be held on Friday, May 6th. 



LEE WHITMAN, Cor. Sec. 



ST. LOUIS LADIES' HOME CIRCLE. 



The Ladies' FIorists'Home Circle of 



St. Louis met on Monday, April 11th, 



and Miss Birdie Meinhardt was the en- 



