August 9, 1913 



HOKTICULTUEE 



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CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



MARYLAND-DELAWARE HORTI- 

 CULTURAL SOCIETIES. 

 The joint summer meeting of the 

 Maryland and Delaware Horticultural 

 Societies was held at the home of J. 

 G. Harrison & Sons, Berlin, Md., to- 

 day. The meeting was largely at- 

 tended, there being between 1200 to 

 1500 present with representatives from 

 Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, Penn- 

 sylvania, New Jersey and New York, 

 the membership of the societies of 

 these representative states being in- 

 vited by the hosts and the Maryland 

 and Delaware Societies. The main ob- 

 ject of a summer meeting is to permit 

 the members of the societies to ob- 

 Berve practical horticultural develop- 

 ment and at the home of this notable 

 firm can be seen trees from their 

 earliest stage as seedlings, then bud- 

 ded on improved varieties to produce 

 successful nursery trees and in turn 

 develop into profitable orchards. One 

 of the most striking demonstrations to 

 be observed at this place is the re- 

 markable peach crop on 10,000 peach 

 trees which have been saved by a suc- 

 cessful treatment of spraying under 

 the auspices of the School of Horti- 

 culture. Maryland Agricultural Col- 

 lege, to prevent the loss of the fruit 

 by fungus disease known as "brown 

 rot." The rot was so persistent that 

 It was necessary to continue spray- 

 ing the trees for more than three 

 ■weeks at a time during the early 

 stages of the fruit, but under the care- 

 ful supervision of the School of Horti- 

 culture and thorough co-operation of 

 the firm, a most successful crop of 

 peaches has been produced amount- 

 ing to over 3,5.000 baskets of fancy 

 marketable fruit. 



The visitors were cordially met by 

 the representatives of the .Associa- 

 tions, the firm of J. G. Harrison & 

 Sons and invited to dinner, after which 

 a brief formal meeting was held. 

 President E. P. Cohill of the Mary- 

 land Society was unable to be nresent 

 on account of sickness and in his place 

 Vice-President Robert L. Graham of 

 Baltimore City presided. Hon. Orlan- 

 do Harrison extended in a few well 

 chosen remarks, a hearty welcome to 

 the visitors. A response was given 

 by W. E. Sanger, president of the Pen- 

 Insular Horticultural Society. Dr. H. 

 J. Patterson, president of the Mary- 

 land Agricultural College made a few 

 remarks, expressing his gratification 

 at the remarkable progress that has 

 been made in the general horticultural 

 industry on the peninsular. He pointed 

 out where the agricultural college is 

 trying to do its best to promote the 

 development of this industry and ex- 

 pressing a hope that the institution 

 would in the future be able to do 

 much more. Prof. T. B. Symons. Dean 

 of the School of Horticulture and Sec- 

 retary of the Horticultural Society, 

 made a few remarks callins? the atten- 

 tion of those present to the annual 

 meeting of the Maryland Society 

 which will be held at the Fifth Regi- 

 ment Armory, Baltimore, November 



17 to 22. After having a most delight- 

 ful day the visitors repaired to Ocean 

 City to enjoy an evening on Mary- 

 land's most famous beach. 



SOUTHAMPTON (N. Y.) HORTI- 

 CULTURAL SOCIETY. 



This Society is planning now for 

 its Exhibition. Overlooking the fact 

 that we have had a very dry season, 

 it promises to go ahead of any exhibi- 

 tion we have had, both as to quantity 

 and quality. This being called the 

 Newport of Long Island, we have 

 many wealthy summer residents from 

 various states. There is a strong com- 

 petition among them and their respec- 

 tive gardeners are furnished with 

 money and other facilities to produce 

 the best. Some of them give their 

 gardener a handsome sum for each 

 first prize they obtain and a smaller 

 amount for each second prize, thus 

 making it of double interest to the 

 gardener to do his best. 



We will pitch our tent this year on 

 a plot that has been especially pre- 

 pared and graded in Prospect Park, 

 near Lake Agawam. Our president, 

 Julius King, is head gardener on the 

 estate of the late Salem H. Wales, 

 and also the adjoining summer place 

 of Hon. Elihu Root. Our secretary, 

 Mr. Palmer, is a man who puts his 

 energies into anything he takes in 

 hand. Our financial secretary, F. 

 Smith, is head gardener at the Mead- 

 ow Club, where they demand the best 

 in everything. He always adds much 

 to our exhibition and carries off many 

 prizes. We have several large sum- 

 mer residences here and I may speak 

 about some of them later, but If you 

 can, come and see them for yourself. 

 D. T. Weu-S,- 

 Corresponding Secretary. 



FLORISTS' CLUB OF PHILADEL- 

 PHIA. 



The August meeting of the Florists' 

 Club of Philadelphia, held on the 5th 

 Inst., was fairly well attended for a 

 mid-summer event. Routine business 

 of little public interest took up most 

 of the time. The only ripple of liveli- 

 ness arose over the propriety of the 

 Club's extending an invitation to the 

 S. A. F. to hold its next International 

 Show in Philadelphia. Most of the 

 members expressed themselves as per- 

 fectly willing to shoulder the respon- 

 sibility and quite confident of carry- 

 ing the big affair through on the same 

 high standards as set by Chicago, Bos- 

 ton and New York. But there is one 

 initial difficulty which up to the pres- 

 ent seems insoluble, and that is that 

 Philadelphia has no suitable building 

 available. The matter was finally left 

 open so that if any new solution of the 

 difficulty turned up a special meeting 

 might be called and appropriate action 

 taken. From present indications the 

 party from Philadelphia to Minneapo- 

 lis will not be large. Chairman We.st- 

 cott reported that the 10.25 A. M. 

 from Broad street on the 17th, allowed 



them an hour in Pittsburgh for supper, 

 etc., and a day in Chicago to visit 

 friends. From Chicago the intention 

 is to join the New York and Boston 

 delegations. Of course, a good many 

 Philadelphians go on ahead to prepare 

 their exhibits. Among the firms who 

 will have interesting displays are the 

 Robert Craig Co.. Henry A. Dreer, Jo- 

 seph Heacock Co., Pennock-Meehan 

 Co., M. Rice Co., H. F. Michell Co., 

 and H. Bayersdorfer & Co. Nothing 

 has been heard of a bowling team this 

 year, so that if Philadelphia is repre- 

 sented in that line it will have to be 

 by a scratch aggregation and not by 

 the usual bunch of picked experts. 



STORM IN WASHINGTON, D. C. 

 A 70-mile-an-hour wind, accompanied 

 by hail and rain and a drop in the 

 temperature of over thirty degrees, did 

 damage approximating $250,000 in less 

 than half an hour. Trees two feet and 

 more in diameter in the White House 

 grounds and the public parks were 

 lifted up by the roots and everywhere 

 blooming plants were destroyed. The 

 storm seemed to center in the north- 

 west section, although all parts of the 

 city suffered to a greater or lesser 

 extent. On the property of George 

 Field, on Georgia avenue, about one 

 hundred boxes of glass was destroyed. 

 A large rose house was blown down 

 and while all of the other houses will 

 be repaired, this one will not be re- 

 built. The wind and hail threatened 

 to destroy his orchids, but the wrap- 

 ping of the plants in cotton batting 

 prevented this additional loss. 



The grounds of William F. Gude, 

 which are located nearby, also showed 

 considerable wreckage, for the Japa- 

 nese pagoda and the rose arbor were 

 demolished. The galvanized iron sup- 

 ports of these, set in cement blocks 

 running fifteen inches below the sur- 

 face of the ground, were pulled up 

 by the roots; large trees on the lawn 

 were splintered and ferns and other 

 potted plants on the porches around 

 the house were blown across the lawn. 

 Nearly all of the windows on the north 

 side of the house were blown in. 



In the downtown section, the large 

 plate glass window in the new build- 

 ing of the S. S. Pennock-Meehan Com- 

 pany, at 1216 H street, was splintered. 

 A gust of wind split one of the larger 

 windows of the store of Z. D. Blackl- 

 stone, at Fourteenth and H streets, 

 across the center and another gust de- 

 posited the upper portion in back of 

 the lower within the store. At about 

 the same time a smaller window was 

 also blown in. Florists in Anacostia, 

 D. C, and in Alexandria, Va., also suf- 

 fered the loss of glass in varying 

 amounts. 



A large section of grill-work, 20 feet 

 long, about three feet nigh and nearly 

 a foot in thickness on top of the 

 store of O. A. C. Oehmler, 1329 G 

 street, N. W., was thrown into the 

 street within a few feet of where Mr. 

 Oehmler was standing and the roof of 

 an adjoining building was also blown 

 away. 



