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HOKTI CULTURE 



December 10, 1910 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



FLORISTS' CLUB OF PHILADEL- 

 PHIA. 



Senator Heacock presided over the 

 regular monthly meeting of the above 

 club on the 6th inst., and conducted 

 Its proceedings with the dignity and 

 decorum befitting the exalted station 

 to which he has been called. He was 

 the recipient of the hearty congratu- 

 lations of his fellow members who all 

 felt proud of the fact that their presi- 

 dent had been chosen to represent the 

 people in the senate of the great 

 State of Pennsylvania. Edward A. 

 Stroud gave an interesting talk on the 

 subject of Flower Shows. E. G. Hill 

 Co., Richmond. Indiana, exhibited 

 roses; Mrs. Aaron Ward, Sunburst, 

 and Rose Queen; and carnation Bon- 

 fire. Myers & Samtman sent sample 

 of their new rose Hilda. Robert 

 Scott & Son exhibited Double Killar- 

 ny and Irish Melody. The commit- 

 tee reported as follows on these ex- 

 hibits: 



"The E. G. Hill Co., Richmoud, Ind., 

 exhibits several vases of their new roses. 



" riunburst,' safron yellow with orange 

 tint; French, seedling. Mr. Hill brought 

 this rose over three years ago. Noted for 

 its long stem and good flower. 



•' 'Mrs. Aaron Ward'— a yellow forcing 

 rose. Coppery orange color. Foliage fine 

 dark green. Flower has good substance. 



" 'Rose Queen.' — Very fine true pink, 

 fine glowing color with long pointed bud, 

 very full petals, handsome foliage. Looks 

 very promising. 



"Carnation 'Bonfire.' — About the color of 

 Victory; good, substantial flower; long, 

 stiff stem. 



"Myers & Samtman exhiliited a vase of 

 Iheir new rose 'Hilda,' sport from Mary- 

 land. Much darker color than Maryland, 

 and looks like a vigorous grower. 



"Robert Scott & Son exhibited vase of 

 rose 'Double Pink Killarney.' Has much 

 more substance than Killarney; probably 

 twice as many petals. Also yellow rose 

 'Irish Melody.' This is a Dickson seed- 

 ling. Looks like a good commercial va- 

 riety. Color, a good clear yellow; very 

 double. Good foliage. 



"(Signed) Leo Neissen. Chas. E. Meehan, 

 Robert Shock, committee." 



Edward A. Stroud, Chas. E. Meehan, 

 Xavier Schmitt, Fred Hahman and J. 

 Otto Thilow were appointed a commit- 

 tee to confer with the management of 

 the P. H. S. in regard to Flower Show 

 matters. 



E. G. Hill gave a splendid talk about 

 •new roses — at home and abroad — and 

 his remarks given from wide travels 

 and ripe experience, #vere listened to 

 with profound interest. Robert Craig 

 spoke of the wonderful work done by 

 Mr. Hill in many lines, and voiced 

 the sentiment of the horticultural 

 world when he stated that the man 

 who could give us a Richmond rose, a 

 Baldwin apple, or a Concord grape, 

 deserved better of his country and 

 mankind than a warrior who had won 

 a battle! 



As New Year's day comes on Sun- 

 day, the usual op(>n house of the club 

 will be on Tuesday, Jan. Srd — the reg- 

 ular meeting date — and the appropria- 

 tion for refreshments, etc., for that 

 day, was ordered accordingly. 



ceniber 20. This being the annual 

 meeting for the election of officers, 

 time will not permit of a regular lec- 

 ture, but during the counting of the 

 ballots Mr. William Downs of Chest- 

 nut Hill, ex-president of the club, will 

 speak on his recent trip to Great Brit- 

 ain, and some of the wonderful horti- 

 cultural sights seen. 



The following nominations for the 

 various elective offices were made at 

 the November meeting: President, 

 Peter M. Jliller; vice-president, Thom- 

 as Pegler: treasurer, Peter Fisher; 

 secretary, William N. Craig; executive 

 committee (four members to be elect- 

 ed), Arthur E, Thatcher. J. P. A. Guer- 

 ineau, William J. Kennedy, J. P. 

 Flood, Wm. E. Fisher, Robert Cam- 

 eron, J. M. Gleason, Eber Holmes, Wil- 

 liam Downs, Thomas Roland, and Al- 

 bert Batley. Voting will be by the 

 Australian ballot, and all members in 

 good standing are entitled to vote, in- 

 cluding any who are elected on De- 

 cember 20. 



As there is much arduous work 

 ahead for the club in 1911, it is im- 

 perative that officers are chosen wise- 

 ly and well; it is hoped, therefore, 

 that every member who can possibly 

 attend will do so. 



GARDENERS' AND FLORISTS' CLUB 

 OF BOSTON. 



The next regular meeting of this 

 club will be held at Horticultural 

 Hall, Boston, on Tuesday evening, De- 



CHICAGO FLORISTS' CLUB. 



One of the most harmonious meet- 

 ings in the history of the club took 

 place last Thursday evening at the 

 Union Restaurant and a nomination, 

 which Is practically an election, of of- 

 ficers took place. Harry Philpott of 

 Winnipeg, who has been a faithful at- 

 tendant to all the meetings of the past 

 year when he served as vice-presi- 

 dent, now heads the list as president, 

 with A. C. Kohlbrant, vice-president. 

 A. T. Pyfer, manager of the Chicago 

 Carnation Co., secretary and Ed. Win- 

 terson, treasurer. H. N. Bruns, A. 

 Henderson and J. Degnan are the new 

 trustees. 



At this stage of the meeting the 

 club was ordered to vacate the rooms 

 as the proprietors had other use for 

 the place. The members indignantly 

 adjourned to another room across the 

 hall where they met a genuine sur- 

 prise in the shape of banquet tables, 

 complete with decorations and all the 

 delicacies of the season. It was H. 

 Philpott's way of showing his love for 

 the Chicago Florists' Club and appre- 

 ciation of the honor shown him in 

 making him its president. Toasts fol- 

 lowed and the evening was greatly 

 enjoyed by all. The annual banquet 

 takes place the first Thursday in Jan- 

 uary. A Kohlbrant, chairman of com- 

 mittee on arrangements. 



CINCINNATI'S PROPOSED BIG EX- 

 HIBITION. 



The committee of five that were ap- 

 pointed at the last regular meeting of 

 the Cincinnati Florists' Society, have 

 formulated plans for holding a $10,000 

 show next fall and will submit their 

 report at the next regular meeting to 

 be held Monday, Dec. 12th. 



CONNECTICUT HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



On the 2nd instant, our Society was 

 favored by an illustrated lecture by 

 John T. Withers, of Jersey City, N. J., 

 and once a president of our organiza- 

 tion. This lecture followed his recent 

 tour of the world. 



Starting in Yellowstone Park, he 

 carries you along in an interesting and 

 entertaining manner, exhibiting the 

 salient features of each country, not 

 on'y in relation to horticulture, but in 

 religion, art and social customs. His 

 itinerary was through the Hawaiian 

 Islands, Japan, China, the Philippines, 

 Borneo, Java, Malay peninsula, Burma' 

 India, Ceylon, Egypt, Italy, Switzer-^ 

 land, Bavaria, Germany, Holland, 

 France and Great Britain. Hillyer 

 Hall, Hartford, was well filled with an 

 appreciative audience. 



The wonderful fir trees of California 

 were shown. One of them stands 325 

 feet high. One hedge in Honolulu, in 

 blooming time, bore fifty thousand 

 flowers of night blooming cereus. The 

 .lapanese gardens, with their pools of 

 water and their bridges and miniature 

 trees, v/ere charming sights. The 

 water buffalo is used for plowing In 

 several eastern countries. This ani- 

 mal requires a daily mud bath to keep 

 in health. A pitiable sight was seen 

 in the common method of hand plow- 

 ing in India; a barefooted man pick- 

 ing the ground with an implement 

 somewhat resembling our mattock. A 

 pair of Percheron horses or Hereford 

 cattle, hitched to a Syracuse steel plow 

 make an extraordinary contrast, and 

 give us something to be thankful for 

 in America. Cock fighting on Sunday 

 is still a cherished sport In the Phil- 

 ippines, and some of the natives live 

 in houses in the tops of cocoanut trees. 

 A half million people live in boats in 

 the harbor of Canton, rarely ever go- 

 ing ashore. Little material for horti- 

 culturists could be found among them. 

 A number of the eastern countries 

 maintain botanical gardens, where the 

 native flora may be seen in its grand- 

 eur. Tea fields, rubber plantations and 

 maidenhair, bamboo and cryptomeria 

 trees, were shown. At Milan, in Italy, 

 is a very beautiful cemetery. Nothing 

 finer in the world, in the way of land- 

 scape architecture, the speaker said, 

 could be found. The horticulture of 

 European countries had to be passed 

 over briefly, owing to the lateness of 

 the hour. Our society is greatly in- 

 debted to Mr. Withers for his "kind- 

 ness in giving us this very compre- 

 hensive and informing lecture. Most 

 of the lantern slides were reproduc- 

 tions of photographs taken bv himself 

 GEORGE W. SMI'TH, Sec. 



Melrose, Conn., Dec. 6. 1910. 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. 



Clyde Carnationary, Clyde, Ohio, reg- 

 isters seedling carnation," E. G. Gillett; 

 Iiarentage. Prosperity X Maceo; color, 

 .scarlet; size of flower, three and one- 

 half inches. Strong and vigorous 

 grower: never bursts the calyx; extra 

 long and stiff stem; free and continu- 

 ous bloomer. 



A. F. J. BAUR. Sec'y. 



