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H U T I C U L T U R E 



Kobniury 9, 1918 



GARDENERS' AND FLORISTS' 

 CLUB OF BOSTON. 



Tlie 'loxi roKulur monthly nieetlDK 

 of the club will be held at Horticul- 

 tural Hall, on Tueeilay evening. Feb. 

 19, at 7.30 o'clock. The subject of the 

 evening will bo Cnrnntions. ajid C. S. 

 Strout, prcsident-t'U'Ct of the Ameri- 

 can Carnation Society, will deliver an 

 address. Other specialists will be 

 present and Join in the di.-x'vission and 

 there will be as usual a splendid 

 array of exhibits, Includinir several 

 novelties as well as the stnudard var- 

 ieties. Carnation niphts always bring 

 out a large attendance and the com- 

 ing one will prove especially Interest- 

 ing. A cordial invitation is extended 

 to any who are not club members to 

 attend this meeting. The hour of 

 meeting has been changed to 7.30 from 

 8, and the meeting must terminate 

 promptly at 10 o'clock, per order of 

 the Fuel Administrator. 



W. N. Cbaio, Sec. 



A POPULAR EASTER PLANT 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY OF 

 AMERICA. 



A copy of the full report of the ex- 

 amining committee for 1917 has been 

 received and varieties receiving 85 

 points or more are as follows: 



Idolpli, Adironda, Edina. Laneta, 

 Liberty Bond, Miniico, Aduana, Mid- 

 night Sun, Betsy Ross and I'urpie 

 King, all of which were exhibited by 

 Klnur D. Smith & Co.. Adrian, Mich. 



Mrs. C. W. Johnson, No. 31-16, No. 

 24-16, No. 20-16. No. 21-16, exhibited 

 by Mt. Greenwood Cemetery Associa- 

 tion, Morgan Park, Chicago. 



Sunshine, exhibited by J. B. Goetz 

 Sons, Saginaw, Mich. 



Christmas Gold and No. 6, exhibited 

 by the Friedley Co., Cleveland, Ohio. 



Bronze Unaka and Bronze Bucking- 

 ham, exhibited by E. W. Fengar, 

 Irvlngton, N. J. 



Delaware, exhibited by George 

 Fountain, Wilmington, Del. 



Nashawtue and Abenaque, exhibited 

 by S. R. Cowey, Walpole, N. H. 



IOWA FLORISTS' CONFERENCE. 



On Tuesday. January 2'.», a florists' 

 conference was held at the Iowa State 

 College in connection with the annual 

 short course. Due to the severe 

 weather and other circumstauces there 

 was a number of florists who were un- 

 able to attend. 



George Asmus, Leonard Vaughan, 

 J. S. Wilson and A. N. Smith intro- 

 duced various subjects which brought 

 out considerable discussion. It was a 

 wartime conference and the present 

 day problems in which every florist Is 

 vitally interested occupied the entire 

 attention of those present. 



The fuel question in particular re- 

 ceived much attention and the infor- 

 mation which Mr. Asmus gave out on 

 this suliject was greatly appreciated. 

 It was decided that there .should be a 

 fuel committee to represent the inter- 

 ests of the florists of Iowa and the 

 following committee has been named: 

 J. S. Wilson. Des Moines, chairman; 

 I. O. Kemble, Marshalltown;' Blaine 

 Wilcox, Council Bluffs. 



/•/„■/.. t^A. L. Milltr 



UfiilMlna (CytlauK rocciuosus) In Q In. potn. <'iittlitgH pruiiiiKuli'd now will mnkc nice 



pIrintH for ICiiHtir, IBHI. 



OBITUARY. 

 Albert M. Davenport. 

 All)ert iM. Davenport, falher of Al- 

 fred M. Davenport the well-known 

 florists' plant grower, died on Febru- 

 ary 4, at his home in Waterlown. 

 Mass., aged 77 years. 



William CapstIck 

 William Capslick. an old-time gar- 

 dener and florist, died on January 20 

 at his home in Auburndale, Mass. Mr. 

 Capstick has conducted a flower and 

 plant growing business in Auburndale 

 for about twenty years, previous to 

 which he was gardener on the estate 

 of Jonas French, Brockton. Mass. He 

 was born in Westmoreland, England, 

 and came to this country when twenty 

 years old. His age at time of death 

 was sixty years. 



Charles E. Faxon. 



Charles E. F'axon, assistant director 

 of the Arnold Arboretum and a distin- 

 guished botanist and illustrator, died 

 on Wednesday, February 6, at his 

 home in Jamaica Plain, In his 73d 

 year. He was a graduate of the Law- 

 rence Scientific School and an instruc- 

 tor of botany at Harvard from 1879 to 

 lSSs4. In 1907 he was made an hon- 

 orary master of arts by Harvard. The 

 funeral was held on Friday at the For- 

 est Hills cemetery chapel. 



Los Angeles, Cal. — Rev. C. S. Harri- 

 son, the veteran nurseryman, is spend- 

 ing the winter here at the Hotel Con- 

 tinental. 



Nelson Parker. 



Nelson Parker, for many years a 

 florist and respected resident of Stone- 

 ham, Mass., passed away Wednesday 

 morning January 23. in the 88th year 

 of his age. He had been In failing 

 health for the past four months from 

 the effects of a shock. The deceased 

 was a native of Reading. He is sur- 

 vived by two daughters, and two 

 grandchildren. 



Mr. Parker was in i)usiness tintll 

 about 'en years ago when he retired. 

 He was a gentleman of affable and 

 <lelightful personality and help in high- 

 est esteem as a florist and as a citi- 

 zen in the communitv in which he 

 lived. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Worcester, Mass. — William Quarry, 

 retail florist, has given up the busi- 

 ness. 



Newport, R. I. — James McLeish has 

 been elected chairman of the Park 

 Commission. 



PERHAPS. 



SANCTITY. 



Tbe healtlilcsl, nioHt proUflc iiuO lieal 

 si'lling variety tliiit Ii.ih ever been pnt on 

 ilie market. SANX'Ti'l'V In n reclHtered 

 variety. Sliould l>e in every colli'etion, a» 

 it is a real livi- ninmy celter. 



We hold n sloel; of :i,0(KI HtoolB. and tlierc- 

 fore can now .-isNure cuHtniners of luiniedi- 

 ati* delivery. \\v liave already sent out a 

 Koodly nunilier to .VMKHICA. tliifl in itHelf 

 Hliould t)e suUieient to remove any nnil)i- 

 KUity tliat may liave Ijeeome tlie tenant of 

 any particular man regarding its (^eniiine- 

 iiess. Therefore, Ket your stock at once 

 from the distril>utor. 



We arc now prei)ared to book up orders 

 for rooted plants of this sensational variety, 

 early April delivery, at the low price or 

 l.'O/ per 100, £8 I. GOO. 



Cuttinns same price. 



It's my lilltTIIUAY tills weelc, and to 



mark tlie event, I will j^ive an additional 



'Jo per cent, more cutlint;s or plants on ail 



orders reaching me liefore tlie next issue 



for nett C. W. O. 



•i 100 and y, 1,000 same rates. 



It may be that Billy Sunday has 

 gone and copied some of the up-to-date 

 methods of the horticultural world, or 

 again it may just have happened that 

 there are two Billys in this mundane 

 sphere. Some are born with sanctity, 

 some achieve sanctity and some have 

 sanctity thrust upon them, but this Is 

 the first time on record where sanc- 

 tity has been offered to us by the thou- 

 sand C. W. O., and note also that it 

 is going some to have seven birthdays 

 in one year. The unfortunate bom on 

 the 29th of February who has only 

 one every tour years must be made 

 doubly, trebly or sextupuly sorrowful 

 in hearing this wonderful tale from 

 Burton-on-Trent, England. But they 

 brew Bass there, so maybe that's it. 



G. C. W. 



THE UNRECOGNIZED EMBLEM. 



Very far from the war was the dis- 

 cussion which arose tsefore the Com- 

 mittee on Agriculture the other day 

 at the State House. It was about that 

 old question — which has become a sort 

 of "annual blister" — of the state flow- 

 er. The committee is again consider- 

 ing the proposition to endow some 

 plant or flower with the quality and 

 status of an official Massachusetts em- 

 blem. Should it be the water lily? 

 Emphatically no, said one witness, 

 who had presumably been called In as 

 an expert on emblems. The water lily 

 will never do because it Is lacking in 

 energy and uprightness. Its habit Is 

 to lie down softly and luxuriously on 

 the surface of the water. We want a 

 more sturdy and self-supporting State 

 flower than that. Should it be the 



