HORTICULTURE 



December 30, 1905 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



NEWPORT HORTICULTURAL SO- 

 CIETY. 



A largely attended meeting of the 

 Newport Horticultural Society was 

 held Wednesday evening, Dec. 20. 

 When the new officers had been in- 

 stalled and some other routine busi- 

 ness transacted, Col. A. K. McMahon, 

 in a well-prepared address, traced the 

 progress of the Society from its insti- 

 tution in 1890, to the present day. 

 From very small beginnings this So- 

 ciety had developed into an organiza- 

 tion of much importance, not only lo- 

 cally, but nationally. There had been 

 times when discouraging prospects 

 threatened to engulf it, but on such 

 occasions it arose stronger than before 

 for the work ahead. On one occasion, 

 when the affairs of the Society seemed 

 enveloped in gloom, the meeting of the 

 Society of American Florists in Provi- 

 dence, and incidentally their visit and 

 reception in Newport, gave to the 

 members new hope and fresh stimulus 

 for renewed activity — a fact that 

 should not be lost sight of by the 

 S. A. F., if an opportunity such as was 

 here offered, again presents itself when 

 the location of meeting is under dis- 

 cussion. The membership has in- 

 creased from fifty in the first year to 

 upwards of two hundred at present. 



The address was well received, and 

 a vote of thanks accorded Col. Mc- 

 Mahon. At the close of the address 

 refreshments were served in social ses- 

 sion. A very enjoyable evening was 

 spent. 



TOLEDO FLORISTS' CLUB. 



At the last meeting of this club, held 

 on Wednesday, Dec. 20, it was decided 

 to rent the same club rooms for an- 

 other year, with the privilege of get- 

 ting the large dining room once every 

 three months. This once is to be a 

 special meeting, connected with an ex- 

 hibition on a small scale open to the 

 public. Much good is expected from it. 

 Messrs. Krueger and E. Kuhnke are on 

 the exhibition committee. The first 

 exhibition meeting is to be the third 

 Wednesday in March. 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. 

 Carnations Registered. 



By The F. R. Pierson Co., Tarry- 

 town-on-Hudson, N. Y.: Helen M. Gould 

 —A variegated sport from Enchant- 

 ress, equal in size, and having a dark 

 variegation — deep pink with darker 

 markings. While on close observation, 

 this variety is a variegated variety, 

 the general effect is one beautiful tone 

 of dark pink. 



White Enchantress— Previously reg- 

 istered. 



Winsor— Light silvery pink, interme- 

 diate in color between Lawson and 

 Enchantress, grand habit, splendid 

 stem, calyx that never bursts, and a 

 color that will make it in great de- 

 mand. It is a trifle larger than Law- 

 son, with just as stiff a stem, but less 

 brittle, and is a magnificent grower. 

 ALBERT M. HERR. 



Lancaster, Pa. 



First Prize Plant Gimur 



.\t Lenox, Mass., Exhibition 



FAREWELL BANQUET TO THEO- 

 DORE WIRTH. 



Friday evening, December 22, will 

 long be remembered as a notable date 

 by the thirty-five gentlemen who 

 gathered at the Hotel Heublein, Hart- 

 ford, Conn., to say good bye and 

 wish God-speed to their friend. 

 Superintendent Wirth of Hartford 

 parks, who goes to assume charge 

 of the park department of Minneapolis, 

 Minn., on January 1. It was a very 

 happy yet rather sad occasion, for 

 each individual felt that he was losing 

 the companionship and association of 

 a much-esteemed friend and that 

 Hartford and, indeed, all New Eng- 

 land were sustaining a severe loss in 

 the going away of this man who in the 

 ten years he has been with us has so 

 strongly impressed his enterprising 

 and progressive personality on all with 

 whom he has been officially connected 



and left in the splendid system of 

 parks which he has done so much to 

 build, a monument of enduring lustre. 

 These thoughts were the burden of the 

 addresses made at the banquet given 

 in his honor and his efliciency, loyalty, 

 honesty and inspiring industry fur- 

 nished the theme for many kindly ap- 

 preciative words — words that, as the 

 toast-master aptly said, are so much 

 better uttered while the man is alive 

 than kept till after he is dead as is too 

 often the ease. President J. F. 

 Huss, of the Hartford Florists' Club 

 presided over the banquet and after 

 seeing that every guest had been well- 

 filled turned over the oratorical sec- 

 tion of the program to President A. C. 

 Sternberg of the Connecticut Horti- 

 cultural Society who is a veteran in 

 the duties of toast-master and in his 

 introductory remarks made an eloquent 

 pre.sentation of the objects of the 



