October 4. 1913 



HOETICULTURE 



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"They are doing things in Cleveland'' 



"The Ohio Horticultural Society" 



AND 



"The Cleveland Florists' Club" 



Announce Their 



Second Annual Flower Show 



November 13-14-15, 1913 



Write for Premium List to JOHN BODDY, Chairman Exiiibition Committee 



City Hall, In Care of Forestry Department, Cleveland, Ohio 



In Writing Advertisers Kindly Mention HORTICULTURE. 



the display being uniform in size and 

 color, and tbe flowers large and rug- 

 ged. W. D. Hathaway, of New Bed- 

 ford, Mass., received four firsts and 

 six seconds, and William Steele, of Au- 

 burn, captured two firsts and one sec- 

 ond. The judges were Alexander Mc- 

 Lellan, of Newport, and Eugene Apple- 

 ton, of Providence. 



at their quarters, 1214 F street. North- 

 west, Tuesday evening, October 7. 

 Many matters of importance are sched- 

 uled to be taken up and some little 

 entertainment may be expected. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



The Rochester Florists' Association 

 are planning for an extensive fall show 

 to be held in Convention Hall, opening 

 Nov. 4. 



The St. Louis Ladies' Florist Circle 

 will meet next Wednesday afternoon, 

 October 8th, at the home of Mrs. E. 

 Schray, 4100 Pennsylvania Ave. 



The St. Louis Florist Club will hold' 

 its regular meeting on Thursday, Oc- 

 tober 9th, at 2 P. M. The newly- 

 elected officers will officiate tor the 

 first time. 



The Preliminary Schedule of Prizes 

 of the Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 ciety for the year 1914 is out and 

 copies may be had on application to 

 the secretary, W. C. Rich, Horticul- 

 tural Hall, Boston, Mass. Twelve 

 regular exhibitions are listed for the 

 year. 



The Florists' and Gardeners' club of 

 Holyoke and Northampton, Mass., re- 

 sumed its monthly meetings for the 

 season at the greenhouses of G. H. 

 Sinclair on Tuesday evening, Sept. 23. 

 The chief business of the evening was 

 to make the necessary arrangements 

 for the flower show which is to be 

 held in Holyoke, Nov. 16. 



that it will surpass all the others. 

 There are 110 classes which include 

 flowering plants, miscellaneous, bulb- 

 ous, orchids, roses, ferns, palms and fo- 

 liage. There will be 46 cut flower class- 

 es. Medals for special features are 

 offered and 10 classes for private gar- 

 deners complete the list. R. J. Haight, 

 Secretary, .536 S. Clark street, will mall 

 lists upon application. 



DURING RECESS. 



The annual flower show of the Spo- 

 kane, Wash., Horticultural Society, 

 opened on Friday, September 19. The 

 city parks as well as many private 

 estates were well represented in the 

 displays. 



The florists of New^ark, N. .1., and 

 vicinity, have organized the Essex 

 County Florists' Club with the follow- 

 ing officers; Edward Jacobi, presi- 

 dent; G. W. Mueller, vice-president; 

 John Crossley, secretary; August Beg- 

 erow, treasurer. 



At the monthly meeting of the Min 

 nesota State Florists' Association, held 

 last week, the following officers were 

 elected for the coming year; Presi- 

 dent, O. J. Olson, St. Paul; vice-presi- 

 dent, Wm. Desmond, Minneapolis; sec- 

 retary, Gus Malmquist. Minneapolis; 

 treasurer, E. P. Holm, St. Paul; execu- 

 tive committee, Theo. Wirth, A. Lau- 

 ritzen, Hugh Will and Prof. L. R. 

 Cady. 



The Cook Co. (111.) Florists' Associ- 

 ation's bowling league is now organ- 

 ized with four three-men teams, to 

 play ninety games or thirty series. 

 The league is composed of Wm. Lor- 

 man, secretary; Allie Zech, John Zech, 

 J. Jacobs, F. Krause, E. Armstrong, 

 Wm. Wolf, F. Ayers, L. Koehler, J. 

 Byers, Geo. Econemopulos and Otto 

 Goerisch. The opening game was 

 scheduled for Oct. 1st., but was post- 

 poned one week owing to the death of 

 the secretary's father and of Mrs. 

 Goerisch. 



A team of five, known as The Flor- 

 ists, in the North Chicago League, 

 have been organized by Ernest Farley. 

 The bowlers are E. Farley, W. Wolf, J. 

 Huebner, Fred Price, W. Lorman. 



The Florists' Club of Washington, D. 

 C, will hold its next regular meeting 



A very tempting preliminary premi- 

 um list is being sent out by the Horti- 

 cultural Society of Chicago for its 

 Spring Flower Show, March 24 to 29, 

 1914. This will be the twenty-second 

 annual event and it is safe to predict 



The Extension Service ot the Massa- 

 chusetts Agricultural Society has In- 

 augurated the publication of a periodi- 

 cal news service covering the several 

 branches of the extension work and 

 other items of agricultural and general 

 interest, local and state-wide. Erwin 

 H. Furbush is Supervisor of Corres- 

 pondence and Lecture Courses. 



