11 (J H 1' 1 C U L T U li E 



January 1:6, 1918 



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CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



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SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS 

 AND ORNAMENTAL HOR- 

 TICULTURISTS. 



At till' iiu'otinK of tin- I'xecutlvf 

 hoard, in seasion at St. I.ouls this 

 week, thp followiiiK rcaolution was 

 udoptod by an uniiniinous vote and 

 telegraplied to Hon. II. A. Garflcld. 

 Fuel Administrator, Washington, D. 

 C: "The Exooutlvo Uourd of the So- 

 ciety of American Florists and Orna- 

 mental Horticulturists in session here 

 unanimously vote to cooperate In con- 

 servation by reducing fuel consump- 

 tion one-third, pursuant to your recom- 

 menilation. Signed, C'has. H. Totty, 

 president: John Young, secretary; 

 VVm. F. Gude, Washington representa- 

 tive." It was further resolved that 

 the president and secretary of the S. 

 A. F. and O. H., are hereby authorized 

 to execute any papers that may be re- 

 quired by the .National Fuel Adminis- 

 trator In complying with the fuel con- 

 servation by our members and allied 

 organizations. 



MASSACHUSETTS NURSERYMEN'S 

 ASSOCIATION. 



At the eighth annual meeting of the 

 Massachusetts Nurserymen's Associa- 

 tion held in Boston, January 8th, some 

 matters of vital importance to the 

 trade were discussed, the most timely 

 being, perhaps, the question of ship- 

 ments. Curtis Nye Smith, the well 

 known attorney, in an optimistic talk 

 did not apprehend any serious difficul- 

 ties. Publicity started off with qiiite 

 a boom, some three thousand dollars 

 being pledged annually for a five year 

 period, the association chipping in one 

 hundred dollars. The subject of "Our 

 Labor Problem" which was on the 

 program, went by default as too prob- 

 lematic. 



The most discussed matter was 

 "Standardization" with Mr. Harlan P. 

 Kelsey. conducting. As far as one not 

 very well acquainted with the subject 

 could gather, everything connected 

 with the nursery business is to be 

 standardized — which is fine. But the 

 scheme also Includes florists, forest- 

 ers, botanists and apothecaries. A 

 man's job. 



Officers for 1918 are: President, 

 John Kirkegaard, of New England 

 Nursery Company; vice-president. G. 

 Thurlow, of Cherry Hill Nursery Com- 

 pany; secretary, W. H. Thurlow (re- 

 elected); executive committee, Julius 

 Heurlin, chairman. Blue Hill Nurser- 

 ies; E. W. Breed, W. Adams, R. Wy- 

 man; legislative committee. .Julius 

 Heurlin. chairman; W. H. Wyman. A. 

 E. Robinson. E. W. Breed. V. H. 



SOUTHWESTERN NURSERYMEN 

 ORGANIZE. 



Persuant to a call sent out by the 

 committee, appointed at the Septem- 

 ber meeting of the Texas Nursery- 

 men's Association at Waco for that 

 purpose, several nurserymen of the 

 Southwest met at Denison, Texas, on 

 January 9th, for the purpose of organ- 



Meetings Next Week 



Monday, Jan. 28. 



Kli*rlt4(H' niid Giinlt-iiiTfi' Club of 

 KliotIp Inlund, Swiiriz Ilnll, I'rovl 



cl.Il.T, It. I. 



ifiirdoru-rn' mid FlorlHtH' Clut> of 

 KallliiKiri-, KlorlHlH' Kxcliunge Ilnll. 

 IliilliiiKirf, Md. 



Friday, Feb. 1. 



.North Shore Ilnrtlcultural Socli'lj. 

 Maiichi'.Htor. Miikh. 



Niirlh Shore Ilnrtlcultural Sochi > 

 Lake FnriBl, III. 



PnHndena Horticultural Sochi > 

 PaHadeiia, Cat. 



I'eople'B Park Cottage Gnrdcm r^ 

 Axsoelatkn, I'nterBon, N. J. 



Yonkerfl Horticultural Socht\ 

 Yoiikera. N. Y. 



Saturday, Feb. 2. 



I'aclflc Coa.st Horticultural Society, 

 S.Tii Fniiiclsco, <'ul. 



Izalion of the southwestern nursery- 

 men into one association. 



The meeting was called to order at 

 1.45 p. m. by J. R. Mayhew, chairman 

 of the coramitiee, who in stating the 

 object of the meeting, pointed out a 

 number of advantages that could be 

 had by such au organization. 



After adopting the constitution and 

 by-laws, the following officers were 

 selected on recommendation of the 

 committee on nominations: 



W. C. Griffing, Port Arthur, Texas, 

 president: W. A.Wagner, Uurant, Okla., 

 vice-president; L. J. Tackett, Fort 

 Worth, secretary-treasurer. These offi- 

 cers, together with J. R. Mayhew, 

 Waxahachie, Texas, and Geo. Parker, 

 Fayetteville, Ark., compose the execu- 

 tive committee. 



A membership committee was ap- 

 pointed composed of W. C. Griffing, 

 Port Arthur, Texas; John S. Kerr, 

 Sherman, Texas; Geo. F. Verhalen, 

 Scottsville, Texas; Mr. Garee. Noble, 

 Okla.; Geo. Parker, Fayetteville, Ark.; 

 C. K. Clingman, Keithville, La., W. H. 

 Hatcher, Douglas, Arizona. 



The fourth Tuesday in September of 

 each year was selected as the regular 

 meeting date and Denison, Texas, as 

 the next meeting place. 



CONNECTICUT HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



As usual, the members were treated 

 to an unusually fine exhibition of cy- 

 camen. Primula malacoides and ericas 

 at the first meeting of the New Year. 

 The exhibitor was John F. Huss, su- 

 perintendent of the James J. Goodwin 

 estate. A very fine srecimen of Erica 

 hyemalis attracted much attention. 



The essay provided by the National 

 Association of Gardeners, entitled: 

 "Organization and Co-operation," by 

 .M. L. Davey, Kent, Ohio, was read by 

 the secretary, and helped to make the 

 meeting interesting and entertaining. 

 The next meeting will be held Feb. 11, 

 and during the year 1918 meetings 

 will be held once a month. 



Alfred Di.xon, Sec'y. 



Hartford, Conn, 



THE LANCASTER COUNTY FLOR- 

 ISTS ASSOCIATION. 



The mceiing in January in the 

 Chamber of Cninmercc rooms was al- 

 most a hundred [cr cent, ntlendance, 

 with our friends T. J. Nolan and 

 Dennis Connor as vlsitorg. 



The following named officers were 

 elected for 1918: President, Elmer 

 Weaver, Konks, Pa.; vice-president, 

 l.cnion S. Landls, Lancaster; secre- 

 lary, Albert M. Herr. Lancaster; 

 ' reasurer, Harry K. Rohrer, Lancaster, 

 I'a. President Schroyer in a few appro- 

 priate remarks called the President- 

 elect to the chair and he, after thank- 

 ing the members for his election, 

 asked that the attendance at the pres- 

 ent meeting be typical of every meet- 

 ing for the year. He said that misery 

 loves company and that we could at 

 least come together once a month and 

 commiserate with each other. 



The following committees were then 

 appointed: Programme — Harry K. 

 Rohrer, Chas. B. Herr and Rudolph 

 Nagle. Visiting— Chas. M. Weaver, 

 Ira Landis and Rutter B. Hess. Ex- 

 hibition—Willis B. Girvin, B. F. Barr 

 and A. F. Strickler. Automobile — 

 .\brahani Kohrer, C. S. Loeffler and 

 John Shriener. 



We hoped to have either S. S. Pen- 

 nock or -Arthur Neissen of Philadel- 

 phia with us for a talk but both 

 pleaded prior engagements and the 

 talk devolved tipon Willis B. Girvin 

 and Elmer Weaver who related their 

 experiences in handling flowers over 

 the holidays, they having been dele- 

 gated to accompany the growers' ship- 

 ments to their destination to see that 

 they were properly delivered. Mr. 

 Girvin stated that he joined the ex- 

 press car at WMtmer and in conjunc- 

 tion with the messenger handle! the 

 cut flower shipments for Philadelphia, 

 which were so heavy that they were 

 well down the road before they had 

 them straightened out. He said that 

 the messenger simply would not have 

 been able to handle the business him- 

 self. Ii> unloading he saw that they 

 were kept on separate trucks and that 

 these trucks were delivered to the 

 loading platform in good shape and 

 record tim^e where the several commis- 

 sion men picked them up and by 10.30 

 everything was cleared, an impossible 

 feat without this personal supervision. 

 He said that holiday returns were 

 fairly satisfactory with the exception 

 of paper white narcissi which were 

 sold for less than the price of the 

 bulbs, and that the situation seems to 

 be getting worse every day. 



Elmer W'eaver said that his experi- 

 ences about tallied with that of Mr. 

 Girvin excepting that the shipments 

 for his day were ,even heavier than 

 the previous day and that they were 

 one and one-half hours in making the 

 run from W. Philadelphia to Broad 

 street station. As soon as he got in 

 he called up the commission houses 



