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HORTICULTURE 



December 6, 1913 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



LANCASTER COUNTY FLORISTS' 

 CLUB. 



November 20th, the second visiting 

 trip was made and to the florists of 

 the East End. The first stop was at 

 Secretary Lemon Landis' place, where 

 is grown everything for the retail 

 store. At H. D. Rohrers we saw the 

 largest lot of Bonnaffon chrysanthe- 

 mums grown in this section, and his 

 usual good quality of carnations with 

 his own seedling red holding up its 

 record of last year. At Goldbach's we 

 found a new man in charge and a de- 

 cided improvement over last season 

 Here is an illustration of the good 

 these trips do. It certainly acted as 

 an impetus on the new man to have us 

 note an improvement in the place over 

 last season. At Siebold's we found the 

 forty varieties of geraniums and the 

 snapdragons working hard making cut- 

 tings for their owner. From there to 

 Enos Kohr's was "some jump," but 

 automobiles and street cars helped us 

 to get there. Here through some un- 

 explainable reason the carnations were 

 not so good as last season. Mr. Kohr. 

 being conservative, estimates he will 

 get about one-third of a crop. 



At the evening meeting we had Ar- 

 thur Niessen of Phila. He advised us to 

 pay more attention to the growing of 

 flowers that keep and to be careful 

 In packing them for shipment. He 

 also brought many points from a busi- 

 ness point of view and quite a lively 

 discussion ensued. A canvass of those 

 present by the Co-operative Buying 

 Committee was made, and it was quite 

 a surprise to find that in this conser- 

 vative community orders have been 

 placed for some 7,50n Matchless carna- 

 tions, and almost that many Philadel- 

 phia. It is the intention next season 

 to bulk all our orders, and there are 

 prospects of our being able on our 

 membership card to get a considerable 

 reduction on all pipes and fittings 

 from a local concern if we unite on 

 our buying at that establishment. This 

 will be worked out along other lines 

 as we get experience. 



A committee was appointed to ar- 

 range for a banquet in January and 

 the meeting adjourned in peace and 

 harmony about 9.45 P. M., to meet 

 again December 18th. 



Lancaster. Pa. A. M. Herb. 



CONNECTICUT HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



At the meeting on Nov. 20th, Presi- 

 dent Huss gave a glowing account of 

 the Westchester & Fairfield Horticul- 

 tural Society's exhibition held at Stam- 

 ford. A suggestion he made, which is 

 well worth careful consideration by 

 horticultural societies, was to the ef- 

 fect that at such shows there should 

 be more than three judges, that is, 

 Instead of one group of three judges 

 to have, say, three groups, making nine 

 judges in all. This would greatly ex- 

 pedite the judging of all classes. It is 

 an arduous task to select two or three 

 prize exhibits out of eight entries 

 when each exhibit looks like a winner. 

 and it calls for extreme care in noting 

 the points that count in carrying off a 

 prize. Ar.FKF.i) Dixon, Sec'y. 



Wethersfield, Conn. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS 

 AND ORNAMENTAL HOR- 

 TICULTURISTS. 



Department of Plant Registration. 



Alfred M. Davenport of Watertown, 

 Mass., submits for registration, the 

 following Begonia described below: 

 any person objecting to the registra- 

 tion or to the use of the proposed 

 name, is requested to communicate 

 with the secretary, at once. Failure to 

 receive objections to the registration, 

 the same will be made three weeks 

 from this date. 



Name. "Florence Davenport." 



Description — A sport from the Lor- 

 raine; originated in our greenhouses 

 three years ago; much more robust 

 than Lorraine; foliage similar in size 

 to Lorraine, but thicker and more 

 leathery; very strong stems; color of 

 flowers, darker pink than either Cin- 

 cinnati or Lorraine; size of flowers 

 fully as large as the Cincinnati. 



John Youni;. Sec'y. 

 November 26, 1913. 



LADIES' SOCIETY OF AMERICAN 

 FLORISTS. 



Mrs. C. E. Critchell. president for 

 1914, has made the following appoint- 

 ments: 



Directors for two years — Mrs. W. W. 

 Coles, Indiana; Mrs. Philip Breit- 

 meyer. Michigan; Mrs. Aug. Poehl- 

 mann. Illinois. 



Introduction Committee, 1914 — Mrs. 

 W. W. Edgar. Massachusetts chair- 

 man; Mrs. E. M. Bullock. Indiana; 

 Mrs. Geo. W. Smith, Ohio; Mrs. Theo. 

 Wirth, Minnesota; Mrs. W. R. Nichol- 

 son, Massachusetts. 



Mrs. Chas. H. Maynabd. Sec'y. 



NEW JERSEY FLORICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



At the monthly meeting of the above 

 society held in Orange, the following 

 officers were elected: Edwin Thomas, 

 president; Henry Halbig, vice-presi- 

 dent; Fritz Bergelund. treasurer; Geo. 

 W. Strange, secretary; Chas. W. Ash- 

 mead, Geo. Wraight and John L. Col- 

 lins, auditing committee. Awards were 

 made as follows: 



Roses — Wm. Eeid, 90 points : A. P. Wezel. 

 S5 points. Carnations — Wm. Reld, 85: Max 

 Schneider, 82. Violets— Max Schneider, 7.5. 

 Chiysanthe uums — Max Schneider, 80. Zyso- 

 petalum Mackayli — Emll Pnnuska, 75. Be- 

 ognla T>iirraine — (Lord & Burnbam prize) 

 Wm. Reld, 85. 



Non Competitive. 



Tomatoes — A. P. Wezel. certificate of 

 merit. Roses — A. P. Wezel, vote of thanks. 

 Cyprlpedlum Inslgue — Frank Drews, vote 

 of thanks. 



The list of prize winners for points in 

 the niontlily competition for the year lOi:!, 

 is as follows : 



Clnss 1. Orchids— ]st, Emll Pannsk.i. 

 782 iioints. 2. Roses— 1st, Wm. Reld, ~M : 

 2iid. A V. Wezel. 7(«. .■?. Carnations— 1st. 

 Max Schneider, 728; 2nd, Wm. Reld, 68H. 

 5. Cut flowers— 1st, Max Schneider, 720. 

 4. li'oliaRe or Flowering Plant.s — 1st, Eniil 

 Panuska, AST; 2nd. Frank Drews, 100. 6. 

 Sweet peas or violet.s — 1st, Max Schneider. 

 .T.S5: 2nd. Frank Drews, 105. Wni. Reld 

 (Lord & Burnham prize). GOS. 



Judges — Chas. W. Ashmead, John 

 Hoffman. .Tames McManus. 



Geo W. Straxoe, Sec'y. 

 So. Orange, N. J. 



GARDENERS' AND FLORISTS' 

 CLUB OF BOSTON. 



At the regular meeting of the club 

 on November 18, the following list of 

 pominees for the several offices in the 

 club for the ensuing year was made. 

 President. W. J. Kennedy, Thomas Ro- 

 land; vice-president. H. H. Bartsch; 

 secretary, W. N. Craig; treasurer, 

 Peter Fisher; executive committee, 

 James Methuen, Geo. M. Anderson, 

 Peter M. Miller. James Wheeler, W. J. 

 Collins. W. J. Patterson. W. C. Rust, 

 Eber Holmes, B. Hammond Tracy, 

 p. J. Rea. W. J. Stewart. The meet- 

 ing for the election of officers will 

 take place on December 16. The 

 landscape gardening classes meet at 

 Horticultural Hall each Monday even- 

 ing at 7 o'clock. No more students 

 can now be taken for the present sea- 

 son's course. 



W. N. Cr.vig, Secretary. 



W. J. Kennedy. President. 



FLORISTS' CLUB OF PHILADEL- 

 PHIA. 



The regular monthly meeting of the 

 Club was held on the 2nd inst. Inter- 

 esting exhibits of new roses and car- 

 nations with discussion on same was 

 a feature. Louis J. Reuter of Wester- 

 ly, R. I., exhibited two new roses, one 

 a light pink sport from Maryland — a 

 very fragrant, large flower; the other 

 the lovely wine colored, new Prince E. 

 C. de Arenberg. Matchless Carnation 

 was shown in superb form by the 

 Cottage Gardens Co., Queens, N. Y. 



The subject for the January meet- 

 ing is in doubt. It will either be Ger- 

 aniums, by R. Vincent, Jr., or Affilia- 

 tion, by Adolph Farenwald. The essay 

 committee have the matter under con- 

 sideration and will decide. Interesting 

 addresses were made by Louis J. 

 Reuter on new roses and by R. Vin- 

 cent, Jr., on things in general. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY OF 

 AMERICA. 

 Work of Committees. 

 Submitted by Elmer D. Smith & Co., 

 Adrian, Mich., at Cincinnati, Nov. 

 22nd; variety. Queen, color white; sin- 

 gle, com. scale 91 points. Variety, 

 Azelda, color pink, anemone pompon, , 

 com. scale 82 points. 



Submitted by Ed. H. Preis, Fort 

 Thomas, Ky., at Cincinnati, Nov. 22nd, 

 variety, Martha, color white. Inc. Jap., 

 com. scale 88 points. 



Chas. w. Johnson. Sec'y. 



THE "INTERNATIONAL." 

 The Flower Show Committee for the 

 "International " at New York next 

 spring held a well attended meeting 

 last Monday at the Grand Central Pal- 

 ace. The prospects certainly appear 

 rosy in the extreme. It looks as if 

 the retailers would support this exhi- 

 bition, many having already engaged 

 space. The plan to do away with 

 prizes in this department seems to 

 meet with their approval. They will 

 take space and make displays to suit 

 themselves, changing same as often 

 as they see fit. 



