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HORTICULTUEE 



October 18, 1913 



Clubs and Societies 



GARDENERS' AND FLORISTS' CLUB 

 OF BOSTON. 



The October meeting of this club 

 happened to strilce upon one of the 

 most stormy and disagreeable nights 

 ever experienced at this season. Some 

 sixty or seventy members, however, 

 managed to show up, which was cer- 

 tainly a compliment to M. C. Ebel, of 

 Madison, N. J., who was scheduled to 

 read a paper on "The Real Gardener." 

 Mr. Ebel was on deck all right and 

 accompanied by his fellow-townsman, 

 Chas. H. Totty, who took advantage 

 of the opportunity to show the Boston 

 people some of the beautiful early- 

 blooming chrysanthemums which he is 

 exploiting. 



Chairman Downs reported for the 

 committee on landscape gardening 

 class, regretfully stating that owing 

 to the lack of pupils and general in- 

 difference to the advantages offered 

 by these classes the committee could 

 not recommend the resumption of the 

 work. Mr. Downs asked to be re- 

 lieved from the responsibilities which 

 he had carried during the past year, 

 and his request was finally acceded 

 to with reluctance and a standing votp 

 of thanks. 



Resolutions on the death of the late 

 J. M. Gleason were read by the secre- 

 tary. 



Mr. Ebel's paper gave much pleas- 

 ure to the audience. He urged the 

 professional gardener to help clear the 

 field of pretenders and incompetents 

 by application, study and organization 

 and thus elevate his profession to its 

 rightful position before the world. He 

 said that the great problem confront- 

 ing the profession just now is how to 

 properly bring to the knowledge of 

 people who employ gardeners the abil- 

 ity of the practical gardener, the lack 

 of such knowledge and consequent 

 recognition causing the loss of oppor- 

 tunity to conscientious and capable 

 representatives of the craft. He par- 

 ticularly urged that the gardener en- 

 deavor by attire, deportment and pa- 

 tient fidelity to foster closer confiden- 

 tial relationship between his employer 

 and himself. We shall take opportu- 

 nity to publish some extracts from Mr. 

 Ebel's paper in our next issue. 



J. K. M. L. Farquhar followed with 

 some interesting remarks. He said 

 that the only way to advance horticul- 

 ture is to advance the horticulturist. 

 Elevate the gardener and you elevate 

 the profession. Time, patience and 

 self-denial are needed for the founda- 

 tion for a successful life work in the 

 field of gardening. Facilities for ac- 

 quiring a good horticultural education 

 are available now in this country, of 

 which the young men of European 

 countries would gladly avail them- 

 selves, but cannot. If the young gar- 

 deners do not occupy the great land- 

 scape gardening field now open it ,will 

 be pre-empted by the landscape archi- 

 tects and engineers and their great op- 

 portunity will be irrecoverably gone. 

 William Downs talked in similar strain 

 and instanced the indifference dis- 

 played towards the landscape garden- 

 ing classes of the Gardeners' and 

 Florists' Club as showing the fatal 

 mistake the young men are making. 

 Robert Cameron did not agree with 

 the preceding speakers. He admitted 



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that some of the craft are not inter- 

 ested as they should be, but declared 

 that there is no class in existence that 

 are studying like the gardeners and 

 that lots of young men are aiming 

 high, but are not adequately paid for 

 what they do. Mr. Cameron created 

 much hilarity by his piquant remarks 

 on the relationship usually existing 

 between the gardener and his em- 

 ployer as he sees it. Mr. Westwood 

 spoke optimistically of the gardener's 

 future. W. N. Craig described the re- 

 cent visit of the members to the Far- 

 quhar nurseries at Dedham and a ris- 

 ing vote of appreciation and thanks 

 for the invitation and the hospitality 

 so lavishly dispensed by Messrs. Far- 

 ouhar on that occasion was accorded. 

 The chrysanthemums exhibited by 

 Mr. Totty were briefly described by 

 him as having originated with J. 

 Nonin. of Paris. France. They are 

 practically a new type and nobody 

 would have believed it possible, a few 

 years ago. that such fine blooms could 

 be produced so early. Mr. Totty hav- 

 ing had fifty-one Tarietiea in flower. 

 October 1. The flowers being grown 

 in the open, keep longer than those 

 grown under glass. They are mostly 

 full double and of good medium size, 

 some disbudded specimens being quite 

 large. Mr, Totty said that a batch 

 planted in late July had come into 

 flower ahead of those planted early, 

 but the plants were not as large. 

 Peter Fisher showed large vases of 

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Press and Bulletin Committee — Hen- 

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 Cooper. Calcium, N. Y.; L. Merton 

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Exhibition Committee — H. Youell, 

 Syracuse, N. Y.; Clark W. Brown, Ash- 

 land, Mass.; J. L. Moore, North boro, 

 Mass. 



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 Cowee. Berlin, N. Y. ; S. E. Spencer, 

 W'oburn, Mass.; H. E. Meader, Dover, 

 N. H. L. Merton- Gaoe, 



Secretary. 



