horticulture: 



September 2, 1905 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



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SOCIETIES TO CO-OPERATE. 



Roport or Joint Committee represent: 



Waslilngfon. D. C. Aug. 17. V.m. 



It having seemed desirable that the 

 three leading associations represent- 

 ing the seed, nursery and florists' in- 

 terests of the country cooperate in 

 various ways together, a Joint com- 

 mittee met on August 16 at the New 

 Willard Hotel. The following named 

 persons were present: Harlan P. Kel- 

 sey, of Boston, Mass., and T. B. Mee- 

 han, of Germantown, Penn., appointed 

 by the American Association of Nur- 

 serymen; F. W. Belgiano, of Washing- 

 ton, D. C, and Chas. M. Page, of Des 

 Moines, Iowa, appointed by the Amer- 

 ican Seed Trade Association; F. R. 

 Pierson, of Tarrytown, N. Y., and J. 

 A. Valentine, of Denver, Colo., ap- 

 pointed by the Society of American 

 Florists and Ornamental Horticultur- 

 ists. C. L. Watrous. of Des Moines, 

 Iowa, from the Nurserymen's Associa- 

 tion; Geo. S. Green, of Chicago, from 

 the Seed Trade Association, and Benj. 

 Hammond, of Fishkill on Hudson, N. 

 \.. from the Florists, duly accredited 

 members of the committee, were not 

 jiresent. The committee was organ- 

 ized by electing F. R. Pierson chair- 

 man and Charles N. Page secretary. 



After considerable discussion it was 

 decided to co-operate on the following 

 subjects and such other matters of mu- 

 tual interest as may be brought for 

 action or consideration from time to 



1 — Tnitc in striving to secure legis- 

 lation which shall be favorable to one 

 or more of the allied associations of 

 Seedsmen, Nurserymen and Florists. 



2 — Work for the defeat of legisla- 

 tion which would prove unfavorable to. 

 either association. 



?, — Try and secure favorable rulings 

 in the custom house regarding imports 

 of seeds, plants, bulbs, trees and horti- 

 cultural merchandise and supplies. 



4 — Should Congress revise present 

 tariff classification and import duties, 

 to strive to ascertain what changes, if 

 any, are desired by the trade at large 

 and work for their adoption. 



5 — Secure as favorable classification 

 and rates as are possible on all classes 

 of freight and express matter. 



6 — To strive to do away with the 

 Government Seed Distribution by Con- 

 gressmen. 



7 — To secure the postal rate of $8 

 per 100 lbs. on catalogues, pamphlets 

 and other printed matter weighing 2 

 ozs. each, or more, without aflSxing 



S — To secure a convenient parcels 

 post system, both domestic and foreign. 



9 — We deprecate the giving of com- 

 missions to gardeners or others who 

 have charge of making purchases for 

 public institutions or large private 

 buyers, and believe that some plan 

 should be devised to do awaj' with this 

 practice. 



A letter was read from W. H. Grin- 

 nell, President of the American Seed 

 Trade Association, and also letters 

 from Geo. S. Green and C. L. Watrous. 



Messrs. Kelsey, Hammond, and Page 

 were appointed to consider the subject 

 of graft or commissions paid to the 

 agents of buyers. 



A committee, consisting of Messrs. 

 Page, Pierson and Watrous was ap- 

 pointed on postal legislation. 



The following resolution was pre- 

 sented: 



Resolved, That it is the sense of 

 this meeting that each association 

 should, as far as possible, appoint 

 each year the chairmen of the three 

 committees which are most concerned 

 in subjects of mutual interest as 

 members of this joint committee. 



At an adjourned meeting on. August 

 17, a Transportation Committee was 

 appointed, consisting of Messrs. Green, 

 Pierson and Meehan. 



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MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTUR- 

 AL SOCIETY. 



The weekly exhibition on Saturday, 

 August 26, was replete with asters in 

 great variety of type and color. • Mrs. 

 L. M. Towle won first prize for fifty 

 vases of assorted, and H. B. Watts 

 was second. There were also large 

 general collections of these showy 

 flowers from Harvard Botanic Garden, 

 Mrs. John L. Gardner and Oscar B. 

 Kenrick. From the Botanic Garden 

 there also came a big display of hardy 

 border flowers and tuberous begonias. 

 Blue Hill Nurseries were represented 

 by a fine show of hardy perennials. 

 Dahlias made a good showing. W. G. 

 Winsor and A. F. Johnson contrib- 

 uting one hundred named blooms. The 

 Boston Park Department staged an in- 

 teresting collection of ornamental 

 fruiting shrubs. The Boston Mycolog- 

 ical Society was out in force with a 

 wonderful gathering of odd and fan- 

 tastic forms of fungous growth, which 

 made a centre of absorbing interest for 

 the cult. 



KENTUCKY SOCIETY OF FLOR- 

 ISTS. 



The next meeting of this society 

 will ije held at Riverview Park on 

 Tuesday afternoon, Sept. .5, at 2.:30 

 o'clock. After the transaction of busi- 

 ness supper will be served. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS 

 AND ORNAMENTAL HORTI- 

 CULTURISTS. 

 A limited space is available for ad- 

 vertisements in the report of pro- 

 ceedings for 1905. Page $25.00. Half 

 page $15.00. 



WM. J. STEWART, Secretary, 



11 Hamilton Place, Boston. 



