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HORTICULTURE 



May 7, 1910 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NUR- 

 SERYMEN. 

 Denver Convention Program. 

 Address of Welcome — Col. J. S. Irby 



representing City of Denver. 

 Response — Capt. C. L. Waltrous of Des 



Moines, Iowa. 

 President's address — F. H. Stannard, 



Ottawa, Kans. 

 Report of Secretary — John Hall, 



Rochester, N. Y. 

 Report of Treasurer — C. L. Yates, 



Rochester, N. Y. 

 Report TariH Committee — Irving 



Rouse, Rochester, N. Y. 

 Report Transportation Committee — W. 



P. Stark, Louisiana, Mo. 

 Report Legislative Committee — Chas. 



J. Brown, Rochester, N. Y. 

 Report Entertainment Committee — F. 



A. Weber, Nursery, Mo. 



Report Publicity Committee — Thos. B. 

 Meehan, Dresher, Pa. 



Report Committee on Exhibits — E. P. 

 Bernardin, Parsons, Kans. 



Report Forestry Committee — C. M. 

 Hobbs, Bridgeport, Ind. 



Report Nat'l Council Horticulture^ 

 Capt. C. L. Watrous. Des Moines, 

 la. 

 . "Publicity Campaigns on part of Nur- 

 serymen" — J. M. Irvine, St. Jo- 

 seph, Mo. 



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

 N. Y. 



"Orchard Pests Still Unknown to the 

 Colorado Fruit Grower" — Prof. G. 

 P. Gillette, Ft Collins. Colo. 



"Co-operation between Nurserymen 

 and Fruit Grower" — W. L. How- 

 ard, Sec. Missouri State Board of 

 Horticulture. 



"Practical Experiment with Root Gall 

 on Apple Trees" — Vice-President 



B. A. Smith, Lake City. Minn. 

 "Transplanted Raspberries for the Re- 

 tail Trade"— W. N. Scarff. New 

 Carlisle. O. 



"Should a Young Man Choose the 

 Nursery Business for a Voca- 

 tion?"— A. Willis. Ottawa. Kans. 



"Observations upon European Nursery 

 Stock and Their Plant Growing 

 Methods" (illustrated by lantern 

 slides) — Pi of. John Craig, Ithaca, 

 N. Y. 



"The Part Nurserymen Have Taken in 

 the Growth and Development of 

 the Nation" — J. B. Morey, Dans- 

 ville. N. Y. 



"Herbaceous Plants" — C. S. Harrison. 

 York. Nebr. 



"Magnifying Our Craft" — E. W. Kirk- 

 patrick, McKinney, Tex. 



"A Study of the Nursery Lands of the 

 United States"— W. H. Stark. 

 Louisiana. Mo. 



"The Commercial Side of the Nursery 

 Business" — H. W. Marshall. Ar- 

 lington, Nebr. 



"Effects of Tree Planting in the Mid- 

 dle West" — Geo. H. Whiting. 

 Yankton. S. Dak. 



"Resultant Evils of Replace Policy" — 

 J. W. Mayhew, Waxahachie. Tex. 



"Crown Gall and Its Effect on Orchard 

 Trees" — Peter Youngers, Geneva. 

 Nebr. 



"Is the Organization Known as the 

 American Association of Nursery- 

 men a Benefit To the Nursery 

 Business?" — E. M. Sherman. 

 Charles City. la. 



"Nurseryman's Peach Seed Supply" — 



C. C. Mayhew, Sherman, Texas. 

 "Soils and Fertilizers" — F. L. Rouns- 

 vel, Denver, Colo. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS 

 AND ORNAMENTAL HORTI- 

 CULTURISTS. 

 Registration of Violet. 



Public notice is hereby given that 

 Thomas DeVoy's Son of Poughkeep- 

 sie, New York, offers for registration 

 the Violet described below. Any per- 

 son objecting to the registration or 

 to the use of the proposed name, is re- 

 quested to communicate with the 

 Secretary at once. Failing to receive 

 objection tO' the registration, the 

 same will be made three weeks from 

 this date. 



Raiser's Description. — Sport of 

 "Marie Louise." 1907. Identical with 

 parent plant, in foliage and habit of 

 growth, flowers double and of a dainty 

 light Wistaria shade. 



Name, "Marie Elise." 



H. B. DORNER, Secretary. 



April 28, 1910. 



TUXEDO HORTICULTURAL SO- 

 CIETY. 



A meeting of the Tuxedo Horticul- 

 tural Society was held on Tuesday 

 evening. May 3, in the Parish House, 

 president Murray in the chair. The 

 schedule for the Rose Show was pre- 

 sented as ready for the printer, but 

 the date was changed from June 24-25 

 to June IS on account of the advanced 

 condition of roses in this section. 

 The executive committee had ready 

 for the meeting a schedule for the 

 chrysanthemum exhibition. There 

 was so much business, however, in 

 connection with the other show that 

 the consideration of a fall show had 

 to be left to next meeting. 



D. McINTOSH. Secy. • 



ELBERON HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



The Elberon Horticultural Society 

 lield a monthly meeting on the 2nd oi 

 May. This society will hold its an- 

 nual Rose and Strawbeny Show in 

 June, the date to be fixed at the next 

 meeting. The date for the Chrysan- 

 themum Show this fall was set for 

 \ov. 9-10. 



The following points were awarded: 

 A. Bauer, 95 for antirrhinum; Wm. 

 Seymour. S5 for roses; L. Kelley, 75 

 for sweet peas. Peter Murray was 

 awarded a certificate of culture for a 

 very fine vase of O. P. Bassett carna- 

 tions. Chas De Wild received a cer- 

 tificate of culture for asparagus. 



ALEX FLEMING. Rec. Sec. 



The entertainment committee of the 

 New Bedford (Mass.) Horticultural 

 Society is making plans for the June 

 Rose Show. George H. Reynolds is 

 secretary of this committee. This 

 show, which may be held in a local 

 department store, probably Friday and 

 Saturday afternoon and evening, it is 

 thought will be made free to the pub- 

 lic. The date of the exhibition will 

 be announced later. It is hoped that 

 Miss Fay of Woods Hole will have a 

 display from her rose gardens. 



ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 

 Orchid Exhibits, April 19. 



Numerous as were the orchids on 

 this occasion, there were but few 

 which have not been observed before, 

 and their prominent features descant- 

 ed upon. In the collection of plants 

 contributed by Messrs. Sander & Sons, 

 among the many Cattleyas and Laelio- 

 cattleyas one of the handsomest was 

 L. C. Rowena. A pretty cream-colored 

 Stanhopea having very minute crim- 

 son spots all over it, the name of 

 which could not be determined, at- 

 tracted much notice. Odontoglossum 

 Rossi var., with bright brown spotting 

 on the sepals and petals was noted, 

 as likewise Miltonia St. Andre — a cross 

 of M. Roezlii and Sander's variety of 

 Bleueana. A pure white Sobralia was 

 shown under the name of Sanderae — 

 an acquisition worth possessing — and 

 received an award of merit. 



Charlesworth & Co. had a collection 

 abounding in good varieties of Cat- 

 tleyas and Laelio-cattleyas. Of the 

 latter was the variety Doris, bright 

 orange: Cattleya Empress, and C. Men- 

 delli Madame Rejane, white with a 

 beautifull.v fringed lip. were observed 

 in fine examples. Odontoglossum Ar- 

 mainvilliercnse xanthotes had a flower 

 of pure white, except for the crest, 

 which is yellow. 



From H. S. Goodson's garden came 

 Odontoglossum Amabile var. Lord 

 Carnarvon, a flower densely blotched 

 with brown on white, and 0. eximium 

 var. Clarksoni, brown markings on 

 white ground. Mr. de B. Crawshay 

 showed several Odontoglossums, the 

 variety O. Regale receiving an award 

 of merit. The flowers are large, petals 

 and sepals of yellow, with chocolate 

 brown markings. 



M. Henri Graire, St. Fusciens, Ami- 

 ens, France, received an award of 

 merit for Odontoglossum Rossianum 

 var. Rossianiae, lilac spotted with 

 brown. A similar award was bestowed 

 on 0. crispum var. St. Fusciae, white 

 with brown spotting. Walter Cobb 

 was the recipient of an award of merit 

 for Odontoglossum Lawrenceanum (O. 

 Insleayi). 



It may not be amiss if mention be 

 made here of a few good plants shown 

 by Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, viz., a 

 Cineraria 3 to 4 ft. in height and pro- 

 portionately broad and strong, named 

 Feltham Bouquet (C. multiflora x C. 

 stellata). The flowers are purple, of 

 medium size, and borne in great num- 

 bers on strong branching corymbs. 

 The plant was first shown three years 

 ago. The firm showed a plant with 

 one expanded flower of the var. Aris- 

 tolochia Sturtevantii. It measured 9 

 inches in width, and was decorated 

 with a tail-like appendage a foot long. 

 Begonia Lucernae with cerise red flow- 

 ers in massive pendulous corymbs, 

 and bronzy green foliage is a highly 

 ornamental species. F. M. 



NEW YORK FLORISTS' CLUB. 



At the next meeting of this club, 

 Monday evening. Jan. 9. P>rof. John 

 Craig, of the New York State College 

 of Agriculture at Cornell University, 

 will speak on some phases of experi- 

 mental work in relation to floricul- 

 ture. JOHN YOUNG, Secy. 



