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HORTICULTURE 



September 10, 1910 



WM. ELLIOTT & SONS, 



WM. ELLIOTT & SONS 



Will hold their first sale at 



TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13th, AT NOON 



Offering a choice consigoment of Foliage Plants for indoor 

 decorative purposes. 



W. J. ELLIOTT, Aactioneer. 



42 VESEY STREET, NEW YORK 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF 

 NURSERYMEN. 



At the 35th annual meeting of this 

 Association, held in Denver, Colo., 

 June 8, 9 and 10, 1910, Mr. J. H. Day- 

 ton, Painesville, Ohio, reported for a 

 committee appointed at the 1909 meet- 

 ing to consider suggestions contained 

 in a paper read by Mr. Dayton. This 

 committee, composed of Messrs. Day- 

 ton, Irving Rouse and Wm. Pitkin, 

 recommended as follows: 



"That our lowest prices or trade lists 

 should be mailed only to nurserymen or 

 dealers with established headquarters, who 

 are known to be actively engaged in the 

 trade. 



"That some effort should be made to have 

 our price lists and quotations to orchardlsts 

 and retail buyers nearer a uniform basis 

 for same grades and varieties of stock. 



"That as the practice of cutting prices 

 as the season advances is one of the 

 greatest demoralizers of both the whole- 

 sale and retail trade, established rates 

 should be adhered to throughout the 

 season. 



"That parks, cemeteries, and other pub- 

 lic InBtitutions are not In the trade and 

 are not entitled to trade rates. 



"That stock shipped on orders of land- 

 scape architects and invoiced direct to 

 their customers should be billed at same 

 retail rates as if the order came direct 

 from the planter." 



)rhe report was unanimously adopted. 



Chairman Hill said: These recom- 

 mendations are not simply so much hot 

 air. I regard every one of them as 

 very important, and the observance of 

 them will mean money in your pocket 

 in the end. Post them on your desk 

 as a reminder that you voted for their 

 adoption. 



JOHN HALL, Secretary. 



NEWPORT HORTICULTURAL SO- 

 CIETY. 



The annual autumn exhibition of 

 this society will be held in Masonic 

 Hall, Newport, R. I., on Saturday, 

 Sunday and Monday, Sept. 17, 18 and 

 19, opening to the public at 3 p. m. on 

 Saturday. As previously noted in 

 HORTICULTURE, the prize list is a 

 vei-y liberal one and will undoubtedly 

 bring out a fine display of the cultural 

 skill of Newport's e.^ipert gardeners. 

 There are many special prizes con- 

 tributed by local patrons of the society 

 and by seed and plant houses of prom- 

 inence. Copies of the schedule may 

 be procured from the secretary, D. J. 

 Coughlin, Bellevue avenue. 



FLORISTS' CLUB OF PHILADEL- 

 PHIA. 



Nomination of officers for the ensu- 

 ing year and an experience meeting in 

 regard to the recent S. A. F. conven- 

 tion at Rochester were the principal 

 events of interest at the monthly meet- 

 ing of the above club held on the 6th 

 inst. 



The old board of officers, namely: 

 Joseph Heacock, president; Alfred 

 Burton, vice-president; George Craig, 

 treasurer; David Rust, secretary, were 

 unanimously nominated to serve for 

 another year. In view of the fact that 

 a nomination without opposition is 

 equivalent to election, John Westcott 

 suggested that the officers at next 

 meeting, first Tuesday of October 

 should set 'em up at their own expense 

 for the members — to which the officers 

 smilingly assented; with the proviso 

 by some of them that they should not 

 be bound to go beyond lemonade. 

 Make a note of the date and do them 

 the honor of drinking to the com- 

 bined health, wealth and happiness of 

 these fine gentlemen and their fine old 

 club. 



J. Otto Thilow, Leo Niessen, John 

 Westcott, Theodore Shober, Joseph 

 Heacock, and Dennis Connor were the 

 principal speakers in regard to the 

 convention. All expressed themselves 

 as highly pleased and greatly benefited 

 by their trip and thought the S. A. P. 

 was the greatest thing for the general 

 welfare and getting more and more so 

 every year. Everybody in the trade 

 ought to belong to it. 



Edwin Lonsdale, who is now located 

 permanently in California, and ,W. H. 

 Taplin, who is now at Platbush, were 

 paid the high compliment of being 

 elected to honorary membership in 

 recognition of their active and valued 

 services to the club for many years. 



The twelfth annual convention of 

 the Southern Nurserymen's Associa- 

 tion met at the University of Tennes- 

 see, Knoxville, Tenn., August 25th. 

 Officers were elected as follows: Presi- 

 dent, W. A. Easterly, Cleveland, Tenn.; 

 vice-president, Aubrey Frinck, Win- 

 chester, Tenn.; secretary and treasur- 

 er, A. I. Smith, Knoxville, Tenn., re- 

 elected. The next convention will be 

 held at Greensboro, N. C, the fourth 

 Wednesday in August of next year. 



GARDENERS' AND FLORISTS' CLUB 

 OF BOSTON. 



Club meetings will be resumed on 

 Tuesday evening, September 20, at 8 

 o'clock in Horticultural Hall. In lieu 

 of a regular lecture there will be vaca- 

 tion experiences of a number of mem- 

 bers some of whom have visited Eu- 

 rope. These should prove very inter- 

 esting. Judging from the demand for 

 membership blanks the Club will re- 

 ceive many new members at the com- 

 ing meeting. In view of the near 

 approach of the National S. A. P. 

 Plower Show, which means much work 

 for the Club, it is hoped there will be 

 a good attendance at the first fall 

 meeting on Sept. 20. 



W. N. CRAIG, Sec. 



NEW YORK FLORISTS' CLUB. 



The next regular meeting of the New 

 York Florists' Club will be held at the 

 Grand Opera House Building on the 

 evening of Monday, Sept. 12, at 7.30 

 o'clock. 



Walter P. Sheridan, chairman of the 

 Essay Committee, announces that at 

 this meeting many of our "shining 

 lights" that were present at the recent 

 convention of the S. A. P. & O. H. in 

 Rochester will give discourses upon 

 the same. 



The Exhibition Committee desires 

 exhibits of seasonable plants or flow- 

 ers and reminds that the competition 

 for the Hilchings Cup is still on. 



A new list of members will be issued 

 shortly, and the secretary asks that he 

 be advised at once of any change in 

 members' addresses. 



J. B. Nugent, chairman of the House 

 Committee, has some new and original 

 ideas on this subject and will demon- 

 strate same at this meeting. 



JOHN YOUNG, Sec'y. 



The flower show and field meeting 

 of the New London Horticultural So- 

 ciety held at the estate of George S. 

 Palmer, Pequot, Conn., on August 23, 

 was a very fine affair, the gardeners 

 on the large summer estates in that 

 section and the local florists, as well 

 as amateur growers, contributing lib- 

 erally of their best. The show was 

 one of the leading events of the Pe- 

 quot season. 



