January 26, 1918 



HORTICULTURE 



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and when the flowers reached the 

 loading platform they were there with 

 their trucks to take tliem. He made 

 the point that if the commission 

 houses would co-operate and have a 

 man to meet certain trains and see 

 that the stock is unloaded properly 

 much loss and delay would be avoided, 

 as their experience was that the ex- 

 press company was only too glad for 

 such experienced assistance. He also 

 stated that shipments made on local 

 trains would be sure' of getting into 

 Broad street, while those made on 

 through trains would sometimes ' be 

 run on a side track and probably not 

 unloaded for ten days. He said that 

 he had seen at least fifty such cars 

 on various sidlings in the city. With 

 embargos on express to both Philadel- 

 phia and Pittsburgh they had tried 

 parcel post since the holidays, insur- 

 ing their packages, but that they 

 found this almost as uncertain and 

 with a number of packages frozen and 

 that the insurance people had cut out 

 insurance on greenhouse products, 

 simply insuring their delivery. He 

 said that they had been making use 

 of a package stamp delivery that was 

 in effect between Parksburg and Phil- 

 adelphia the limit for weight being 

 titty pounds and the minimum charge 

 twenty cents. These stamps carried 

 the package in the baggage car, the 

 package, as I understand it, to be 

 called for. Fred Ritchy and the 

 writer gave some of their experiences 

 In the shipping of plants. 



A fuel conservation proposition re- 

 ceived from Wm. F. Gude was signed 

 by the owners of greenhouses present 

 with one or two exceptions. In the 

 discussion it was brought out that a 

 cord of hard wood is about equal to 

 a ton of coal, the ordinary run of wood 

 requiring two cords to equal a ton of 

 coal, and that where a night man was 

 employed the firing of wood was not 

 much harder than bituminous coal 

 firing. There is plenty of wood with- 

 in eighteen to twenty miles of the 

 city but on almost inaccessible hills 

 so that the expense of getting it out 

 would make it more expensive than 

 ordinary coal. 



T. J. Nolan and Dennis Connor were 

 besieged with questions for over an 

 hour after the meeting adjourned 

 as to conditions over the sections they 

 cover. 



The next meeting will be Feb. 21st 

 with the trip to Strasburg on the trol- 

 ley from Lancaster as the afternoon 

 visiting trip. 



Mr. Amos Rohrer. of Strasburg. ex- 

 hibited carnations Belle Washburn 

 and Albert Roper in extra fine form. 

 E. P. Hostetter, of Manheim, exhibited 

 a vase of Rose Queen sweet peas as 

 good as any shown at our National 

 Shows. Albert M. Hkrr. 



NEW YORK FLORISTS' CLUB. 



President Sclienck has appointed 

 the Essay and Lecture Committee for 

 1918 as follows: 



E. C. Vick, 205 Ellwood avenue. Ne- 

 wark, N. J.; J. Harrison Dick. 448 W. 

 37th street. New York; J. Austin 

 Shaw, 337 W. 30 street. New York: 

 W. J. Stewart, 147 Summer street, 

 Boston, Mass.; J. B. Deamud, 43 Bar- 

 clay street. New York. 



BUFFALO FLORIST CLUB. 



An illustrated lecture was delivered 

 by Professor E. A. White of Cornell 

 University before the Buffalo Flonst 

 Club at its meeting on January 9, his 

 subject being "Practice and Theory in 

 Horticulture." We have the address 

 in type and shall take opportunity to 

 give it space in our columns in the 

 near future. 



At the conclusion of Professor 

 White's lecture, President Elbers 

 made a few remarks in appreciation 

 of the splendid address to which the 

 large and enthusiastic audience haa 

 listened with close attention. By 

 a rising vote of thanks, the audience 

 showed its appreciation of the lec- 

 ture. 



President Elbers then instructed 

 the secretary to read several letters 

 from Representatives Chas. B. Smith 

 and Wm. Waldow, and from Mr. 

 Gude of Washington in answer to 

 letter sent to them concerning the 

 action taken by the Buffalo Florist 

 Club relative to the coal situation. 



An article from the trade press was 

 read by the president. It stated that 

 in the City of New York a bill had 

 been passed to classify all those em- 

 ployed as gardeners in the city as 

 laborers. This, Mr. Elbers declared, 

 was a great injustice to men who had 

 spent their lives working up in a voca- 

 tion. A motion was to the effect that 

 the Buffalo Florist Club go on record 

 as opposed to such an unfair measure. 

 The members wished a copy of their 

 resolution to be sent to the State 

 Civil Service Commission at Albany, 

 to the Municipal Civil Service Com- 

 mission of New York City, and to Mr. 

 Henry Mackue. Secretary of the Gar- 

 deners of the borough of Brooklyn, 

 N. Y. 



WESTCHESTER AND FAIRFIELD 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 



The monthly meeting of the West- 

 chester and Fairfield Horticultural 

 Society was held in Greenwich. Conn., 

 Friday evening, January 11. Mr. 

 Whitton installed the new officers and 

 received a vote of thanks for his 

 services. Mr. Popp, on taking the 

 chair, was well received. A letter was 

 read from J. B. McArdle regretting his 

 unavoidable absence. Mr. Williamson's 

 annual report shows that we are grow- 

 ing fast. It was voted that we pur- 

 chase another $500 Liberty Bond. The 

 judges made the following awards: 

 Euphorbia jacquiniseflora from James 

 Stuart, cultural certificate; Begonia 

 Cincinnati from Tom Aitcheson, cul- 

 tural certificate; roses from William 

 Graham, highly commended. After 

 some discussion it was agreed to hold 

 an informal smoker at our next meet- 

 ing in Hubbard's Hall, Friday even- 

 ing, February 8th, at 8 p. m. M. C. 

 Ebel and a few other noted speakers 

 will address the meeting. 



Jack Conrot, cor. Secy. 



food production and conservation, and 

 closed its session in Indianapolis with 

 a public auction of prize-winning flow- 

 ers turning over the proceeds to the 

 Red Cross Society. It was decided to 

 petition the Public Service Commission 

 of Indiana for relief in the matter of 

 express shipments. Flowers and other 

 greenhouse products are discriminated 

 against by the express companies, it 

 was said. Prizes were awarded to W. 

 Frank & Sons Company of Portland, 

 Ind., for roses and carnations and 

 Baur & Steinkamp of Indianapolis on 

 a new seedling carnation. Following 

 the afternoon meeting, Irwin Berter- 

 mann was re-elected president; Her- 

 man Younge, first vice-president; Fred 

 Heinl, of Lafayette, second vice-presi- 

 dent; Oliver Steinkamp, secretary, and 

 Charles Pahud, treasurer. 



STAMFORD (CONN.) HORTICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY. 



The monthly meeting of this Society 

 was held Jan. 4th, with light attend- 

 ance. Many are experiencing difficulty 

 in obtaining coal, some being com- 

 pelled to shut down entirely. Presi- 

 dent Henry Wild congratulated the 

 Society on the w-ork it had done the 

 previous year, and also of starting the 

 New Year with the election of ten 

 new members. This Society, only one 

 year old, already has a membership 

 of over one hundred. An instructive 

 paper presented by W. A. Besqekie on 

 asparagus culture was read by the 

 president. Exhibits included freesia 

 Purity, by A. AUius, vote of thanks; 

 naval oranges, by A. Allius, cultural 

 certificate: Snowball caulifiower. by 

 A. V. Carver, highly commended. 



W. J. Rice, Cor. Sec. 



NASSAU COUNTY HORTICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY. 



The regular monthly meeting of the 

 Nassau County Horticultural Society 

 was held in Glen Cove, N. Y., Wednes- 

 day, Jan. 9th. In the monthly compe- 

 tition R. a. Jones was awarded 1st for 

 roses, carnations and poinsettias; 

 honorable mention to Joe Mastroiani 

 for lettuce. An essay was read by 

 Harry Goodband entitled "Organiza- 

 tion and Co-operation." and written by 

 M. L. Davey. Jas. Holloway gave an 

 inte»esting account of his recent visit 

 out west. Jas. McCarthy, the retiring 

 president, was presented with a pair 

 of gold sleeve links for his able ad- 

 ministration. Competition for the 

 next meeting. 1 pot of cyclamen, 1 pot 

 Primula malacoides and 24 freesias. 

 H. GooDR.vN'i), Cor. Secy. 



STATE FLORISTS' ASSOCIATION 

 OF INDIANA. 

 The State Florists' Association, at 

 the close of its annual banquet at 

 the Claypool Hotel, pledged sup- 

 port to the State Committee on 



The Peninsula Horticultural Society, 

 at its annual session in Cambridge, 

 Md., on Jan. 10, elected the following 

 officers: President, Warren C. New- 

 ton, Bridgeville, Del.; vice-president, 

 Walter B. Harris, Worton, Md.; secre- 

 tary-treasurer, Wesley Webb, Dover, 

 Del. Executive committee, Warren C. 

 Newton. Bridgeville; Walter B. Har- 

 ris, Worton: Samuel L. Hyrn, Cam- 

 bridge; J. Leonard Soper, Magnolia; 

 F. J. Dul;es. Girdle Tree. Addresses 

 were delivered by W. M. Dickson, 

 Woodside. Del.; Profs. E. N. Cory and 

 C. E. Temple, Maryland State College; 

 Prof. C. A. McCue and T. F. Manna, 

 Delaware Experiment Station; V. C. 

 Carroll, Charles E. Tribbetts, Seaford, 

 Del., and Dr. Knapp, Washington. 



