H O RT 1 C U LT V RE. 



December 9, 1905 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY. 



The Garrten Committee of the Mas- 

 sachusetts Horticultural Society an- 

 nounces its list of awards for the year 

 as follows: 



For the best house of chrysanthe- 

 mums grown for specimen blooms, 

 first iirize, Morton F. Plant, Groton, 

 Conn., Thomas W. Head, supt. 



For the best garden of pseonies, not 

 commercial, first prize, Dr. Charles S. 

 Minot, Milton; second, Dr. Robert T. 

 Jackson, Cambridge. 



For the best vegetable garden, first 

 prize. Col. Frederick Mason, Taunton, 

 E. L. I^wis, supt.; s^econd, Taunton 

 Insane Hospital, Ed. Parker, supt. 



The following special additional 

 awards are made: 



George F. Fabyan, Brookline, James 

 Stuart, gardener, cultural certificate 

 for splendid condition of his green- 

 house. 



Boston Park Department, J. A. Pet- 

 tigrew, supt, honorary mention for 

 spraying demonstration against the 

 brown-tail moth. 



Frederick S. Mosely, Newburyport, 

 honorary mention for his successful 

 efforts in landscape forestry. 



Robert Roulston, Roxbury, bronze 

 medal for his flower garden on Burrell 

 street. 



Thomas C. Thurlow & Co., West 

 Newbyry, honorary mention for their 

 system of shelter belts and wind- 

 breaks. 



Tho Mrs. J. L. Gardner Estate, 

 Brooldine, is reported upon favorably 

 for the Hunnewell prize for the second 

 of the three years' test required, and 

 the Morton F. Plant Estate at Groton, 

 Conn., receives its first year approval 

 for the same prize. 



There has been no entry this season 

 for the special prizes of $50 and $25 

 for the best kept small estate of from 

 one to three acres. It is the first year 

 of this prize, and as it becomes better 

 known it will doubtless attract more 

 attention. 



The members of the Garden Com- 

 mittee are- Oakes Ames, chairman: 

 George Barker, W. N. Craig. A. F. 

 Estabrook. A. H. Fewkes. C. W. 

 Parker, J. A. Pettigrew. W. P. Rich 

 and H. P. Walcott. 



WM. P. RICH. Secretary. 



A SMOKER AT PITTSBURG. 



Like all the social affairs of the 

 Pittsburg and Allegheny Florists' and 

 Gardeners' Club, their smoker on 

 Tuesday evening, Dec. 5, was a suc- 

 cess. This club has a whole-hearted 

 way of doing things. If it is a busi- 

 ness meeting and an exhibition of 

 flowers, the different flowers are taken 

 up, pa.ssed from one to another around 

 the room and commented on; the 

 grower is questioned as to his methods, 

 and every thing possible done to bring 

 out points of interest. There is no 

 smoking and all is attention and in- 

 terest. But when the club has a 

 Smoker it is always as it was Tuesday 

 evening; you can hear the music 

 through the smoke, and the monologue 

 man, and the funny songs, but you 

 can't catch the magician in his tricks, 

 01- see anything better than the amber 

 liquid that is going to make Cincin- 

 nati more famous than Milwaukee, and 



when you get home the fragrance ac- 

 companies you. 



A rousing good outing in the sum- 

 mer with the wives and c'hildren along; 

 a smoker in the winter, with cards, 

 music, refreshments and entertainers; 

 the other meetings of the year busi- 

 ness and professional; this is about the 

 proportion of pleasure to business un- 

 der which this club has increased to a 

 membership of 150, and become one of 

 tha strongest organizations of its kind 

 in the country. 



H. P. JOSLIN. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY OF 



AMERICA. 



The Work of the Committees. 



Chicago, November 18, 1905. 



No. 76, white, of Mrs. H. W. Buokbee, 

 exhibited by Guardian Angel Florist, 

 Chicago, 111., scored 84 points commer- 

 cial scale. 



Boston, Mass., November 25, 1905. 



No. 49, bright yellow, sport of Yel- 

 low Eaton. Jap. inc., exhibited by Jno. 

 A. Macrae, Providence, R. I., scored 90 

 points commercial scale. Differs from 

 Yellow Eaton in being a symmetri- 

 cally incurved Japanese, and of a 

 deeper yellow. 



Chicago, 111., Nov. 25th, 1905. 



No. 24 (0'3), light yellow, Omega, ex- 

 hibited by F. Dorner & Sons Co., La- 

 fayette. Ind., scored 91 points com- 

 mercial scale. 



The varieties recently exhibited be- 

 fore the committees by Nathan Smith 

 & Son, Adrian, Mich., under number 

 have been named as follows: 



No. 34-13-03 shown at Cincinnati has 

 been named Adrea. and No. 36-1-03 

 shown at Cincinnati has been named 

 Vennetta. 



FRED H. LEMON. Secy. 



GARDENERS' AND FLORISTS' CLUB 

 OF BOSTON. 



A field (lay will be held at the green- 

 houses of William Nicholson, Fram- 

 ingham, on Saturday, December 16. 

 Members and friends are asked to take 

 either the 12.45 or 1.15 electric cars 

 on the Boston and Worcester street 

 railway at Park Square. 



Active preparations are being made 

 for ladies' night at the next club 

 meeting on December 19. No one can 

 afford to miss the special attractions 

 cm this occasion, and all records for 

 attendances will once more be easily 

 broken. W. N. CRAIG, Secretary. 



ELBERON HORTICULTURAL SO- 

 CIETY. 



The regular meeting of this society 

 was held on Monday, Dec. 4. Seven 

 new members were adiflitted. A paper 

 was read by H. Hall on "Fruit Culture 

 Under Glass." .Among the exhibits of 

 the evening was a vase of Robert Craig 

 carnations, sent by the Cottage Gar- 

 dens Co., which was awarded a certi- 

 ficate of merit. 



LENOX 



HORTICULTURAL 

 CIETY. 



SO- 



.•\t the annual meeting of this so- 

 ciety held on December 2, the follow- 

 ing officers were elected for the com- 

 ing year: President. S. Carlquist; 

 vice-president, F. Heeremans; treas- 

 uier. A. McConnachie; secretary, 

 George Foulsham. 



THE NEW JERSEY FLORICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY. 



The regular monthly meeting and 

 annual election of officers took place 

 on December 1. The fioral display of 

 the evening consisted of Cypripedium 

 insigne, plants having twenty blooms 

 each, from the collection of William 

 Barr of Llewellyn Park, grown by 

 Arthur Bod well; Cattleya Trianae and 

 C. Trianae alba from Thomas Jones 

 of Short Hills, entered not for com- 

 petition; carnations from William 

 Runkle, grown by D. Kindsgrab, and 

 Sydney and Austin Colgate, grown by 

 William Read; roses from John Ci'osby 

 Brown, grown by Peter Duff. Giorge 

 von Qualen, Arthur T. Caparn and 

 Charles Ashmead were the judges. A 

 balance of $03.35 was reported from 

 the fall exhibition. The election re- 

 sulted as follows: D. Kindsgrab, presi- 

 dent; Arthur T. Caparn, vice-presi- 

 dent (re-elected unanimously;) Joseph 

 B. Davis, secretary: William Reed, 

 treasurer. Malcolm MacRorie, the re- 

 tiring treasurer, positively declining 

 re-nomination, an engrossed vote of 

 thanks for nearly ten years of valuable 

 service was accorded him as also the 

 retiring secretary, William Bennett. 

 An arbitration committee of Peter 

 Duff, William Phillips and Joseph A. 

 Manda was elected and George von 

 Qualen and John Hayes appointed. 



JOSEPH B. DAVIS. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS 

 AND ORNAMENTAL HORTI- 

 CULTURISTS. 



To members of the S. A. F. & O. H.: 



At the suggestion of Mr. E. G. Hill, 

 upon whose motion the project of a 

 National Flower Show next March 

 was undertaken, I have, after consul- 

 tation with members of the executive 

 committee and President-ehct Kast- 

 ing. decided that it is not expedient to 

 attempt to hold a National Flower 

 Show in March, 1906. 



It is Mr. Hill's contention, and to 

 this our executive committee agrees, 

 that the time is too short between now 

 and March to prepare suitable ex- 

 hibits, no schedule of premiums hav- 

 ing as yet been issued. 



It is expected that the committee ap- 

 pointed to secure the $10,000 guaran- 

 tee fund will continue its work and 

 that this basis for carrying out such 

 a show for 1907 will be secured. 



J. C. VAUGHAN, President. 



Chicago, Dec. 6, 1905. 



TARRYTOWN HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



The regular monthly meeting of the 

 above society was held on Tuesday, 

 November 28. The large number of 

 nominations showed increasing interest 

 very encouraging to the society. No 

 doubt the recent very successful flower 

 show was a helpful medium in prompt- 

 ing quite a few of the ten whose names 

 were proposed to become members of 

 the society. 



The principal business of the evening 

 was the nomination of officers. The 

 election takes place at the December 

 meeting. A committee was appointed 

 to make arrangements for the annual 

 dinner with instructions to report at 

 next meeting. Alfred Kneisel, Dobbs 

 Ferry, N. Y.. was awarded a first-class 



