July 29, 1905 



H ORTI CULTU RE 



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A SAN FRANCISCO MOVEMENT 



At a joint meeting of the Parific Coast 

 Horticultural Association and the Horten- 

 sia Gardener's Society of Oakland, both 

 sodeties by a unanimous vole, declared 

 themselves in favor of a resolution restrict- 

 ing Japanese emigration to this country. 

 Among the speakers were: F. Ludeman of 

 the Pacific Nursery, George Young of 

 Dwight Way Nursery, H. Plath of Ingle- 

 side Nursery, Frank Pelicano of the San 

 Francisco Calla and Fern Farm, ami J. W. 

 Bagge of the Pacific Coast Association's 

 directory, and chief of the Crocker Estate 

 gardeners. Mr. Bagge's address was a fair 

 sample of addresses made by the other 

 speakers, and from it, as reported by the 

 stenographer at the meeting, the following 

 brief excerpts are taken; 



"'Self preservation is the first law of 

 nature;' and while I admire, and beheve 

 we all admire and respect the distinctive 

 patriotism and splendid fighting qualities 

 and energy of the Japanese, duty requires 

 that we be not unmindful of self interests 

 and the interests of our families. Pres- 

 ent conditions make it apparant that it is 

 simply a matter of self-preservation for the 

 white workingman to seek exclusion of the 

 Japanese. Why? Not only because they 

 are an aUen race and cannot legally become 

 citizens of the United States, and are here 

 single-handed simply to earn money and 

 take the money away, therefore, counting 

 as a detriment, rather than an accession, to 

 the welfare of the Commonwealth, but be- 

 cause they are able to subsist on very little 

 and can undersell the w-hite growers, who 

 have their own and their family wants to 

 supply, and who have to hire labor at fair 

 prices, while the Mikado subjects who pos- 

 sess some capital import labor from Japan 

 at less than the cost of Uving for a white 

 man, not counting his wages. Surely the 

 signs of the times plainly indicate that it is 

 only a question of time until the Japs will 

 have absorbed the flower trade, as they are 

 absorbing other trades, unless laws are de- 

 vised to stop their immigration."' 



AMERICAN POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



In deference to many requests and sugges- 

 tions, coupled with the ditliculty of securing 

 the speakers desired for an August meeting, 

 the convention has been postponed till 

 September 19-21, 1905. It will occur, 

 therefore, at the Coates Hotel, Kansas City, 

 the place first announced, and under the 

 same auspices. This change assures a 

 good attendance, a good fruit exhibit, a 

 cool, pleasant temperature, and an excellent 

 program. 



All arrangements, as first announced (con- 

 sult circular), will be carried out. Come 

 with your wives and daughters, prepared for 

 an instructive and entertaining meeting. 



John' Cr.\ig. Secretary. 



Ithac.\, N. v., J Illy iS, 1Q05. 



OBITUARY 



Edward Pesenecker, of Jersey City, N.J., 

 died on July 16, at the age of 45 years. 



Albert Miller, Cincinnati, O., died on July 

 17, aged 21 years. He was employed by 

 L. H. Kyrk. 



Henri Duval, junior member of the firm of 

 Duval & Sons, died at Versailles, France, on 

 June 29, aged 35 years. 



George L. Clark, a well-known landscape 

 gardener of Weston, Mass., died of heart 

 failure on July 24, aged 57 years. 



L. P. Kelley, of Chicago, died last Sunday 

 evening after a short illness. Mr. Kelley, 

 who was employed at E. C. Amling's, took 

 sick very suddenly on Saturday morning with 

 pleurisy and was confined l<> his bed but 

 two days. 



PERSONAL 



A. C. Oelschig, of Savannah, Ga., sailerl 

 for Europe on July 25. 



A. J. Loveless, of Lenox, sailed for F,uro|je 

 on Wednesday, July 26. 



Norris F. Comley and family, of Lexington, 

 Mass., sailed on a trans-Atlantic trip on July 



J. J. Slattery, of Thos. F. Galvin's, Boston, 

 was married to Miss Mary McCarthy, on 

 July 19. 



John Dingwall, of Albany, had a very nar- 

 row escape last Saturday, from death, b) 

 Paris green poisoning. 



Dr. N. L. Britton, of the New York Botan- 

 ical Garden, who started for Europe on May 

 27, returned on July 15, after participating 

 in the International Botanical Congress at 

 Vienna and visiting a number of European 

 gardens. 



Harry Cowles, for the past five years 

 assistant to A. Griffin, has secured the posi- 

 tion of gardener to Mr. Reginald Norman, 

 South Portsmouth. Mr. Cowles is one of 

 the most deser\ingly popular of the younger 

 members of the craft in Newport, and with 

 him to his new field, go the best wishes of all 

 who know him. 



The Shanahan Floral Co. of San Francisco 

 are exceptionally fortunate in securing the 

 services of Henry J. A'Horst, formerly as- 

 sociated with J. W. Howard, of Somerville, 

 Mass., whose original and practical instruc- 

 tion was gleaned while in the employ, for 

 eleven years, of L. van Leeuwen & Son, 

 bulb growers of Sassenheim, Holland. 



Vacationists going; — Mr. and 

 F. Feast and Mrs. J. E. Feast, of 

 will spend a week at Norfolk, Va 

 R. Hill goes for two weeks to New 

 and New England. 



Vacationists returning; — Mr. 

 Wm. Feast, of Baltimore, Md., 

 returned from a ten-days' stay at 

 N.J., and Wra. P. Nolan comes 

 the seashore. 



O. W. Freese, of Pohlmann 

 Charles Zoppe, of J. A. Budlong' 

 have also returned. 



Mrs. Chas. 



Baltimore, 



Mrs. F. 



port News 



and Mrs. 

 have just 

 AUenhurst, 

 back from 



NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL 

 COUNCIL 



The Conmiittee appointed November last 

 at the World's Fair in St. Louis, consisting 

 of the following persons; Professors Samuel 

 H. Green, L. H. Bailey, L. R. Taft, Messrs. 

 j. H. Hale, J. C. Vaughan, J. H. McFarland, 

 and H. C. Irish, for the organization of a 

 Horticultural Council, met pursuant to call, 

 July 2, 1905, in Chicago. There were pres- 

 ent, of the Committee above-named, Profes- 

 sors Bailey and Talf, and Messrs. J. C. 

 Vaughan and H. C. Irish; also by invitation, 

 C. E. Bassett, of the Michigan Horticultural 

 Society, O. C. Simonds and M. Barker, of 

 Cliicago. 



Following a full discussion the aim, scope, 

 and composition of the organization was 

 adopted as follows; 



Name; National Council of Horticulture. 



Object; To fraternize and concrete the 

 Horticultural interests of North America; to 

 consider the questions of pubUc policy and 

 administration which are common to these 

 organizations; to act as a bureau of publicity 

 in the interests of reliable information per- 

 taining to horticulture in its broadest sense. 



Composition ; The membership shall consist 

 of two delegates elected or appointed by 

 each National Horticultural Society, with 

 nine delegates at large. The Council shall 



elect an E.xecutive Committee of : 



; persons. 



at least five of whom shall be delegates at 

 large. 



As a basis for the first permanent organi- 

 zation of the Council the preUminary organ- 

 ization was retained and the following added 

 to the Committee, making the nine delegates 

 at large as follows; 



Prof. L. H. Bailey, Prof. L. R. Taft, 

 Prof. Samuel B. Green, W. W. Tracy, 

 Washington, D.C., J. H. Hale, J. Horace 

 McFarland, H. C. Irish, Prof. E. J. Wickson, 

 University of California, Berkley. Prof. W. 

 T. Macoun, Ottawa, Canada. 



Three of these are to serve one year, three 

 for two years, and three for three years, or 

 until their successors are elected by the 

 Council. 



J. C. Vaughan was retained as Chairman, 

 pending the final organization, and H. C. 

 Irish as Secretary. 



The first work outlined for the organiza- 

 tion was to enhst the active cooperation of 

 the leading national societies on the lines 

 named in the objects of the society; and the 

 Secretary was instructed to prepare circular 

 letters placing the matter before such so- 

 lieties at their ne.xt annual meeting, or 

 through the officers or executive committees. 



Messrs. Taft, Irish, and Bassett were ap- 

 pcjinted a Committee to attend the meeting of 

 the American Pomological Society, at Kansas 

 City. 



The meeting then adjourned, subject to the 

 1 all of the Chairman, in October ne.xt, when 

 il is hoped to meet with the .American Civic 

 As.sociation at Cleveland, Ohio. 



The Late Louis Sikbrecht 



NEWPORT HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY 



A regular meeting of this society was held 

 on July 19, Mrs. Webster, who was ex- 

 pected to make an address, was unable to 

 be present. Richard Gardner exhibited two 

 new pink seedUng rambler roses, one of 

 which, named Newport Fairy, was awarded 

 the society's silver medal. The other re- 

 ceived a certificate of merit. Andrew S. 

 Meikle had on exhibition a dozen blooms of 

 Farquhar's new Lilium PhilHppense, to 

 which the society's silver medal was awarded. 

 This lily was illustrated in the frontispiece 

 of HoETictn-TURE's issue of April 8th. M. 

 B. Faxon exhibited a good collection of 

 sweet peas, for which he was awarded a 

 certificate of merit. In the early Ufe of the 

 society exhibits at meetings, such as these 

 were pleasant and profitable features. 



