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AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. 



Additional classes for the Boston 

 Exhibition. 



No. 57. Mark Hoper offers $10.00 

 tor the best fifty blooms of carnation 

 Albert Roper. This class to be classed 

 with Section C. 



No. 58. The Gardeners' and Flor- 

 ists' Club of Boston offers $25.00 in 

 gold for the best collection of six 

 vases of carnations, in six varieties, 

 fifty blooms to lie shown in each vase. 



Entries may be made in these two 

 classes up to the time set for staging, 

 without the payment of fine. 



A. F. J. Baub, Secy. 



CHICAGO TO BOSTON. 



The Chicago Florists' Club has 

 chosen the New York Central (Lake 

 Shore) Railroad for conveying mem- 

 bers and friends to the convention of 

 the American Carnation Society at 

 Boston, Mass., January 30-.'il. leaving 

 La Salle street station. Chicago, Mon- 

 day, January 28 at 5.30 p. m., due in 

 Boston the evening preceding the con- 

 vention at 8.35, affording reasonable 

 margin for possible delays. Friends 

 from the north, west and southwest 

 are invited to join the party at Chi- 

 cago and others enroute. This train 

 is due at way stations as follows: 



Toledo, Monday 11.08 P.M. 



Cleveland, Tuesday 2,00 A.M. 



Rochester. Tuesd-iy ?.4" A.M. 



Syracuse, Tuesday 10.30 A. M. 



Albany, Tuesday 1.55 I'. M. 



The fare each way is $23.10, plus 

 $1.85 war tax. Pullman fares are: 

 Lower berth $5.50, war tax 55 cents; 

 upper berth $4.40, war tax 44 cents. It 



is urgently necessary, that on account 

 of congested traffic, reservations be 

 made at once by addressing W. C. Haz- 

 ard. City Passenger Agent, 100 South 

 Clark street, Chicago; telephone Ran- 

 dolph 5300. 



MiCH.MCL Barker, 

 Chicago Florists' Club 

 Transportation Committee. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 

 .\t the annual meeting of the Rhoile 

 Island Horticultural Society, held at 

 the Public Library, Providence, on 

 Wednesday, January 16, 1918, Wilfrid 

 Wheeler, secretary of the Massachu- 

 setts State Board of Agriculture, de- 

 livered a lecture on Small Fruits and 

 Berries. 



the subject of a lecture by W. H. Faulk- 

 ner of Washington, Conn.. January 24. 

 Danforth P. .Miller ol the Sumner 

 F'ruit Company will talk on "Fruit 

 Culture," January 31. James W. Er- 

 win of New York will speak February 

 7 on "The Industrial Side of Califor- 

 nia." February 14 will bring a lecture 

 on "Growing and Fxliibiting Flowers," 

 by Allan J. Jenkins of Shrewsbury. 

 Howard W. Selby of Springfield will 

 tell "How to Market Perishable Prod- 

 ucts." February 21. The spring exhibi- 

 tions are scheduled for Thursday and 

 Friday, March 7 and 8. 



The Maryland vegetable growers 

 organized Dec. 18 under the name of 

 The Maryland Vegetable Growers' As- 

 sociation, with the following officers; 

 President, James S. Smith, Brooklyn; 

 vice-president, Fred Hirst, Cambridge; 

 secretary-treasurer. E. F. Stoddard. 

 College Park. 



The following officers of the New- 

 port Horticultural Society have been 

 elected for 1918: President, Frederick 

 Carter; 1st vice-president, A. C. Pot- 

 ter, Jr.; 2nd vice-president, C. M. Bug- 

 holt; recording secretary, Fred P. 

 Webber; financial secretary, William 

 Gray; treasurer, Richard Gardner. 



The Worcester County (Mass.) Hor- 

 ticultural Society has announced a 

 course of lectures Thursday after- 

 noons. "Seeds Bewitching," will be 



Members of the Albany, N. Y., Flor- 

 ists' Club and guests to the number of 

 about 40 were present Thursday even- 

 ing, Jan. 3, at the annual meeting, at 

 which Earl S. Shaw was installed aa 

 president. Following the short busi- 

 ness session the members went to Kee- 

 ler's, where dinner was enjoyed. Ed- 

 ward P. Tracey, as toastmaster, called 

 ui;on the majority of those present, 

 and they responded with short re- 

 marks on trade and other subjects. 

 Among the speakers were: Ralph M. 

 Ward and Roman J. Irwin of New 

 York, Walter E. Cook of Cleveland, 

 Ohio, and Louis H. Schaefer of Albany, 

 who told of the outlook in the seed 

 business and strongly advised the 

 growers present to buy what seeds 

 they can get as soon as possible. Re- 

 tiring President J. J. Haggerty and 

 his predecessor, Fred Henkes, were 

 presented with gold-mounted briar 

 pipes. Mr. Haggerty receiving also a 

 silver mounted silk umbrella. 



