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HORTICULTUEE 



November 1, 1913 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



LANCASTER COUNTY AND CITY 

 FLORISTS' CLUB. 



October 16th was the first official 

 visiting day for the club and a trip to 

 the growers in the western end of the 

 city was the programme. At the es- 

 tablishment of H. A. Schroyer we 

 found carnations and chrysanthemums 

 better than ever before grown at this 

 place. At The Wheatland Co. the best 

 crop of Chrysolora were seen that it 

 has ever been the pleasure of this set 

 of florists to lay eyes upon, stems 12 

 feet long and size and quality unsur- 

 passed. At. B. F. Barr Co.'s, carna- 

 tions, the newer roses and a fine lot 

 of chrysanthemums were in evidence 

 and at A. M. Herr's a house of very 

 good carnations in full crop and the 

 healthy condition of the geraniums, 

 both in the stock houses and the cutting 

 houses was commented upon, as well 

 as a very finestrainof pink snapdragons 

 grown for cuttings. At Rudolph 

 Nagle's a complete assortment of 

 chrysanthemums was seen, almost 

 every one of which was of top-notch 

 quality. Here are also grown quite a 

 fine lot of geraniums and some miscel- 

 laneous stock. Taken as a whole, the 

 west end is lucky in having very few 

 bad spots of stock this season. Last 

 year there were more but club infor- 

 mation and visitations are going to 

 help keep these bad spots from spread 

 ing. 



At 7.45 P. M. the club meeting 

 was in full progress with the usual 

 good percentage of members in attend- 

 ance and a mixed programme. J. H. 

 Lankey, of Mountville, told us what 

 the club had done for him as did sev- 

 eral others. J. F. Siebold. of Lancas- 

 ter, told us how to grow snapdragons, 

 among other things mentioning that 

 they would not stand tobacco smoke. 

 In the discussion following, this 

 seemed to be the general experience, 

 although the writer has grown them 

 for a number of years in a small way 

 in carnation houses that are smoked 

 heavily twice a week, spring and fall. 

 and once a week during winter with- 

 out ever having had any noticeable 

 bad effects. L. S. Landis. our secre- 

 tary, gave us some pointers on the 

 growing of greens for cutting. 



The Committee on Ladies' Night 

 have arranged for that event, Thurs- 

 day, November 6th. The Committee 

 on Co-operative Buying are getting to- 

 gether on one or two things as a trial 

 and it is hoped that this will work out 

 all right. S. S. Pennock, of Philadel- 

 phia, was a visitor and made some 

 very good suggestions along the lines 

 of co-operative buying and the good fo 

 be had out of a club of this sort. 



A. M. Herb. 



for Test Rose Gardens at Washington, 

 D. C, Ithaca, N. Y., Minneapolis and 

 New Brunswick, N. J., took up the 

 correspondence and plans pertain- 

 ing to this work. Theodore Wirth. 

 president-elect of the S. A. P., sent on 

 a carefully drawn layout or plan, 

 John Cook of Baltimore, Dr. C. A. Beal 

 of Cornell University and M. A. Blake, 

 horticulturist, Agricultural Station of 

 New Jersey, submitted suggestions as 

 to what they could do toward starting 

 and caring for the Test Rose Garden. 

 These matters were carefully gone 

 over. President W. R. Pierson sub- 

 mitted a set of rules for the practical 

 working of the Test Garden and these 

 were considered section by section and 

 submitted for suggestion or amend- 

 ment. 



The proposed extension of member- 

 ship and affiliation with local societies 

 was reported to be receiving commen- 

 dation. The effort to obtain an accu- 

 rate list of all roses originated in 



ROSE TEST GARDENS. 



The executive committee of the 

 American Rose Society held its meet- 

 ing for October, and following out the 

 instructions of the regular meeting of 

 the society held at Minneapolis rela- 

 tive to the adoption of plans and rules 



Mbs. C. E. Cmtohell, 



Presidonl Ladies' Socirjty of American 



Florists. 



America is being taken up with in- 

 terest — reports have come from Cali- 

 fornia, Canada and widely separated 

 sections. Premium list for the Spring 

 Exhibition, which is to be held in New 

 York City the last of .March, 1914, will 

 be taken up and issued without delay. 



The National Rose Society of Eng- 

 land in its Annual Report gives recog- 

 nition to the members of the Ameri- 

 can Rose Society who were present at 

 its exhibition. Ex-President Adolph 

 Farenwald and E. G. Hill are finely 

 photographed therein. More members 

 have paid in the membership fee for 

 1913 than has been received in any 

 one year before — this is what we need. 

 "Come with us and we will do thee 

 good." 



The Annual Bulletin for 1913 will 

 be an Interesting volume. 



Ben.tamin Hammond, 



Beacon, N. Y. Secretary. 



CONNECTICUT HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



The second October meeting of the 

 society was well attended on the even- 

 ing of October 24th. The evening was 

 given up to the consideration of vege- 

 tables and fruits. President Huss in 

 his opening remarks stated that it was 

 the first time that the society had ever 

 given an exhibition entirely of vege- 

 tables since its inauguration. It took 

 the three large centre tables and two 

 extra end tables, the full length of the 

 hall, to hold the magnificent display 

 and number of varieties and the size 

 of the specimens could not be sur- 

 passed at any exhibition in the coun- 

 try. President Huss appointed C. H. 

 Sierman, G. H. Hollister, and Warren 

 S. Mason as judges, and they awarded 

 prizes as follows: 



.Tolin F. Huss, exUitjIt of vegetiihles, a 

 flrst-class certificate. 



Alfred Celieliiis. cultural certificate. 



I.ouis Chauvy. cultural certificate; also 

 » flrst-cla.ss certificate for exliibit of grapes. 



C. D. Wisner, Soutli Manchester, display 

 of apples, cultural certificate 



Francis Roulier, chrysanthemums and 

 orchids, first-class certificate. 



G. H. Hollister read a paper on 

 raising vegetables in hot beds, which 

 covered minutely the preparation of 

 the bed and the methods of cultivation 

 to maturity of lettuce, radish, aspara- 

 gus, etc. President Huss mentioned 

 the fact that he had just received a 

 paper from Geneva, announcing some 

 new varieties of vegetables, also 

 stating that Europeans are more fond 

 of vegetables than are Americans. 



Secretary Alfred Dixon states that 

 the next meeting will be held on 

 Thursday night, November 6th, one 

 week and one day earlier than usual. 



GARDENERS' CONVENTION. 



All arrangements have boon com- 

 pleted for the annual convontion of 

 the National Association of Gardeners, 

 which, as the guest of the Horticul- 

 tural Society of New York, will hold 

 its business session and election of 

 officers for the ensuing year, at the 

 American Museum of National His- 

 tory, New York City, on Monday after- 

 noon, November 3d, at 2 o'clock. The 

 annual banquet at the Hotel Endicott 

 will follow immediately after the busi- 

 ness meeting. 



Entries for meritorious exhibits or 

 novelties for the association's award — 

 certificates of merit — to be exhibited 

 at the flower show of the Horticultural 

 Society of New York which occurs at 

 the Museum during the convention, 

 must be filed with the secretary of the 

 N. A. G. not later than November 1st. 



Many out of town members have al- 

 ready signified their intention of at- 

 tending both the convention and the 

 banquet. M. C. Ebel. Secretary. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY OF 



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