60S 



^:s 



<-. 



II O in 1 CULT U R K 



May 25. \n& 



LILAC DISPLAY AT THE ARNOLD ARBORETUV. 











to offer a special prize at the Fall 

 show, for best unnamed tested seed- 

 ling Dahlia to be shown in one vase 

 on long stems, subject to the rules of 

 the society, and if deemed worthy, the 

 winner to be called Dahlia .1. Harrison 

 Dick, in honor of our late secretary. 



It was voted to submit to the annual 

 meeting an amendment to the by- 

 laws, whereby all members paying 

 current dues up to that time shall 

 have their memberships extended un- 

 til the first of January, 1919. and that 

 thereafter the annual dues shall run 

 from January 1st to December 31st of 

 the same year. 



Mr. Austin reported that he had 

 purchased an additional $.50 bond of 

 the Third Liberty lx)an. and his action 

 was duly upheld, and the purchase of 

 one more $.50 bond was authorized. 



John Lewis Childs. Plowerfield, X. 

 Y., offered $10 as special premium for 

 the Fall show. 



J. R. Lewis, Secretary. 



LANCASTER COUNTY FLORISTS' 

 ASSOCIATION. 

 Thursday. May Uitli. was Fuel 

 Night. Remarks indicated the con- 

 sensus of opinion to be that there is 

 nothing to be done excepting to com- 

 ply with the law and make the best 

 of the situation. Some advocated 

 planting chrysanthemums and then 

 either allowing the houses to lie idle 

 until spring or planting them to some 

 crop that would require little or no 

 heat. After considerable discussion 



tills was pronounced as a doubtful 

 p;oposition as the likelihood was that 

 so many would be doing this all over 

 the country that the market for chrys- 

 anthemums would simply be swamped. 

 One grower said thai he had at con- 

 siderable expense equipped his houses 

 to burn screenings and that he could 

 not run them except as a hundred per 

 cent, proposition witliout serious loss 

 to his plant, which represents a big 

 outlay of money. He did not think it 

 a just ruling when he had his coal in 

 the bins and on tlie road to be allowed 

 to burn only fifty per cent of it. An- 

 other large establishment replied to 

 this saying that he had found the past 

 winter that running his houses at a 

 lowered temperature, was not as se- 

 rious a proposition as most people 

 were inclined to think; that he had 

 better carnations with a temperature 

 of forty than lie had on many previous 

 years at fifty to fifty-five, the crop be- 

 ing a little short on production but 

 now making up for that end of it. He 

 intended following the law to the let- 

 ter and would plant part of his place 

 to crops that would at least live with 

 a temperature just high enough to 

 prevent actual damage to the struc- 

 tural work of the houses by frost. The 

 fuel saved here would be used for part 

 of the establishment that could not be 

 run excepting to full capacity and in 

 this manner he proposed to fully meet 

 the situation without loss to his plant 

 and hoped by careful management to 

 keep from any large loss in returns. 



Several of the smaller growers de- 

 cided not to attempt to run their 

 places until conditions change and It 

 was suggested that we send a commu- 

 nication to Washington asking for a 

 reconsideration, but after some dis- 

 cussion it was thought better to leave 

 this in the hands of the S. A. F. rep- 

 resentatives. 



("hiis. 13. Herr and J. Wade Galey of 

 Straslmrg. Ralph Hess of Gap, Walter 

 Denlinger of Vintage and Ira Landis 

 iif Paradise were appointed to make 

 arrangements for a picnic to take 

 the place of the July meeting at the 

 home Of n. Frank Barr. 



The programme for the next meet- 

 ing is Richard Vincent. Jr., of White 

 Marsh, Md., with an illustrated lecture 

 on Scotland. A few of the ladies 

 met previous to the meeting and 

 started an auxiliary to the club which 

 will be completed soon and when this 

 is done Lancaster will be more than 

 "on the map." Albert M. Hebb. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



\ meeting of the executive commit- 

 tee of the American Rose Society was 

 held in the office of the Pennsylvania 

 Horticultural Society, Philadelphia, 

 May 10, 1918. A request was received 

 from the Flower Show Association of 

 the Main Line, Philadelphia, for one 

 silver and two bronze medals from the 

 American Rose Society for their ama- 

 teur rose show. The Flower Show As- 

 sociation of the Main Line has not af- 

 filiated with the American Rose Socie- 



