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HORTICULTURE 



January 28, 1911 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



PITTSBURGH FLORISTS' AND 

 GARDENERS' CUUB. 



,At the regular meeting of the Club 

 on the evening of Jan. 3rd, President 

 Burki being absent. Mr. \Vm. Fal- 

 coner was called to the chair. Nom- 

 inations tor officers for 1911 were 

 made as follows; President, Jno. W. 

 Jones and Wm. Allen; vice-president, 

 P. S. Randolph; treasurer, H. L. 

 Blind; secretary, H. P. .loslin; asst. 

 secretary, C. S. Crall; executive com- 

 mittee. E. C. Reineman. Jno. Bader, 

 Neil McCallum. Election will take 

 place at the February meeting. 



It was suggested to the chair that 

 it was none too early to take up the 

 matter of a committee to have in 

 ehsirge the arrangements for those 

 who exepeeted to attend the National 

 Flower Show in Boston in March, and 

 the chair stated he would name the 

 committee later. 



Jas. Wiseman, gardener tor D. M. 

 Clemson, showed pots of fine cycla- 

 men. Jno. W. Jones, Phipps conserv- 

 atories, showed Primula stellata. C. 

 H. Sample, of the Elliott Nursery, 

 Springdale, showed red-berried 

 tranches of Rosa multiflora which he 

 thought might be available tor Christ- 

 mas decorations. T. P. Langhans, of 

 the Pittsburgh Cut Flower Co., showed 

 branches of Ruscus aculeatus "Butch- 

 er's Broom," which he believed to 

 Slave a future before it for Christmas 

 decorations. This plant grows abund- 

 antly in Europe and the branches are 

 dyed red and green in Germany and 

 exported. Neil McCallum, West End 

 Park, showed medicinal herbs and read 

 from several ancient authors, and par- 

 ticularly from the Materia Medica of 

 Culpepper, showing the views of the 

 ancients on these herbs, and their be- 

 lief that they were good for what's 

 the matter with yo 



Subject for February meeting— Car- 

 nations. H. P. JOSLIN, Sec'y. 



GARDENERS' AND FLORISTS' CLUB 

 OF BOSTON. 



The next club meeting will be held 

 at Horticultural Hall on Tuesday even- 

 ing, February 14, instead of February 

 21, the hall being rented on the latter 

 date. Edwin Jenkins of Lenox, 

 Mass., will speak on "Science in Horti- 

 culture." There will be special ex- 

 hibits of carnations and roses, and in- 

 troducers of novelties should bring or 

 send a bunch of each variety along. 



The annual club banquet will be held 

 at Horticultural Hall February 28. 

 Tickets are ready and may be procured 

 from the officers of the club or mem- 

 bers of the executive committee. 



W. N. CRAIG, Sec'y. 



CINCINNATI FLORISTS' SOCIETY. 



A special meeting of the Cincinnati 

 Florists' Society was held Monday 

 evening, Jan. 23rd, with about twenty 

 members in attendance. The meeting 

 was called to hear reports from the 

 finance committee in regard to the 

 projected fiower show. The commit- 

 tee reported $13,050 subscribed to the 

 guarantee fund and hope to bring 

 same up to $20,000. It was decided to 

 hold a show at Horticultural Hall, No- 

 vember, 1911, from the i;;th to 18th 

 Inclusive. The committee is now at 

 work on the schedule of premiums 

 and will have same ready for discus- 

 sion at the next regular meeting. 



FLORISTS' AND GARDENERS' 

 CLUB OF RHODE ISLAND. 



The annual dinner of this Club took 

 place in Swartz Lodge Hall, Provi- 

 dence, on Monday evening, January 16, 

 nearly 100 members and friends being 

 present. Previous to the dinner a brief 

 business session was held, when offi- 

 cers were elected as follows; Presi- 

 dent, Robert Johnston; vice-president, 

 Eugene Appleton; secretary, Wm. E. 

 Chappell; treasurer, William Hill; li- 

 brarian, Harry Bout. The tables were 

 prettily adorned with araucarias in 

 baskets and carnations. Among the 

 guests were: Thos. J. Grey, of Bos- 

 ton; Chas. W. Smith, secretai-y of the 

 Rhode Island Horticultural Society; 

 Prof. H. J. Wheeler, of the Rhode Is- 

 land Agricultural College, and W. A. 

 Brown, secretary of the R. I. Poultry 

 Association. An eloquent address was 

 made by Thos. J. Grey in response to 

 the toast of Floriculture and Horti- 

 culture of the Sister City (Boston), in 

 which the speaker made affectionate 

 reference to the many accomplished 

 men in the craft who have passed 

 away leaving an undying fame for 

 themselves and the city in which they 

 labored. Prof. Wheeler made an in- 

 teresting address on ihe present day 

 problems of agriculture and horticul- 

 ture, especially mentioning the insect 

 pests that menace the work of the 

 arboriculturist. 



Other speakers included Charles W. 

 Smith, on behalf of the Rhode Island 

 Horticultural Society, of which he has 

 been secretary for 21 years, and from 

 which he is retiring this week; Mi- 

 chael Sweeney, wlio was introduced as 

 the "Chauncey Depew" of the Club; 

 James B. Canning, who spoke on the 

 subject of "Progress in Design Work;" 

 Charles Macnair, on "Ways and Means 

 of Delivering Flowers;" H. Howard 

 Pepper, on "Outdoor Growing of Hy- 

 brid Roses;" John Burke, on "Rose 

 Culture;" James Burke, on "Carna- 

 tion Growing," and several others. 



The committee in charge consisted 

 of Alex. Macrae, chairman; James 

 Dillon, H. C. Neubrand and Robert 



Johnston. 



WESTCHESTER AND FAIRFIELD 

 HORTICULTURE SOCIETY. 

 On the call of a number of gardeners 

 and florists, who met at the Rye Nur- 

 series, Rye, N. Y., on December 28th, 

 1910, it was resolved to form a horti- 

 culture society, and so therefore 

 formed the Westchester and Fairfield 

 Horticulture Society. We held our 

 next meeting on January 11th, 1911, 

 and decided on a permanent meeting 

 place, Royal Arcanum Hall, in Stam- 

 ford, Conn., also setting the date foi- 

 holding our meetings, which is the 

 second Friday of every month. Our 

 next meeting will be therefore, on 

 Friday, February 10th, 1911. at S p. m. 

 The officers are as follows: James 

 Stuart, president; Alex Geddes, vice- 

 president; Martin M. Benedek, secre- 

 tary; Thos. Aitchison, treasurer; ex- 

 ecutive committee, William Morrow, 

 Stamford, Conn.; Chas. Adcock, New 

 Rochelle, N. Y.; H. L. Hand, Port 

 Chester, N. Y.; Robt. Williamson, 

 Greenwich, Conn.; J. T. Burns, New 

 Canaan, Conn. 



All interested in said Society will 

 kindly address all communications to 

 the Secretary, Martin M. Benedek, Box 

 No. 136, Mamaroneck, N. Y. 



FLORISTS' CLUB OF PHILADEL- 

 PHIA. 

 Ex-Mayor Smith invites the florists 

 to an organ recital, a lecture on the 

 flowers of Yellowstone Park, and a 

 dance at Scottish Rite Building, Mon- 

 day, January 30., 7.30 P. M. Here's a 

 quotation from his letter to secretary 

 Rust of the Florists' Club: 



"Out of compliment to the Florists' Cliili 

 and the leetu.er (J. Otto Thilow) I sliall 

 he very happy tu have you invite the mem- 

 heisliip of the Florists' Club and their 

 l;i<Hes tu be present — see our new hall — 

 and arcept our courtesies." 



The entertainment is "open without 

 card" to all members of the Florists" 

 Club and their ladies. The organ re- 

 cital will be by Professor F. J. O'Brien, 

 and will be worth in itself going a long 

 way to hear. J. Otto Thilow's lecture 

 on "The Flowers of Yellowstone Park" 

 will be lavishly illustrated by stereop- 

 ticon views, and those who know this 

 witty and eloquent speaker can easily 

 imagine the treat in store for them 

 when he accompanies each view with 

 a running narrative sparkling with 

 gems of thought, garnered from a wide 

 experience and passed through the 

 crucible of a wise head. The organ- 

 ist will render selections at intervals 

 during the lecture so as to add still 

 further to the alluring effect. The 

 dance will follow. 



ST. LOUIS FLORIST CLUB. 



The St. Louis Florist Club held an 

 interesting New Year's meeting on 

 Thursday afternoon, Jan. 12. 

 Our members from over the river came 

 out in full force. President Cannon 

 opened the meeting at 2 o'clock with 

 all his staff of officers present. The 

 bulletin committee reported through 

 Secretary Beneke that the bulletin is 

 now on a paying basis, and would be 

 continued to be published every sec- 

 ond Tuesday in the month. 



The free scholarship of the Missouri 

 Botanical Garden was voted upon and 

 the vote favored Mr. Fred G. Grassart 

 of Belleville. The other applicant was 

 Mr. F. K. Smith, of Charles City, 

 Iowa. 



There was a big discussion as to 

 how the club should celebrate its 

 twenty-fifth anniversary next June. It 

 was finally decided to instruct the 

 trustees to prepare plans and report 

 at the next meeting. 



It was also decided that the Febru- 

 ary meeting should be known as the 

 carnation meeting, the trustees to se- 

 lect good discussions for this meeting 

 and florists who have new varieties 

 should send blooms for inspection. 

 Fred Ammann invited the members to 

 the annual meeting of the Illinois 

 State Florists' Association on Feb. 8 

 to 9. The invitation was accepted with 



thanks. 



NORTH SHORE HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



The North Shore Horticultural So- 

 ciety held its twelfth annual banquet, 

 Wednesday, January 25th. About 200 

 sat down to a feast of the holiday 

 bird. Music was rendered by Long's 

 Orchestra and the hall was artisti- 

 cally decorated with hemlock trees 

 and branches, and the tables with 

 flowers. President Alfred E. Parsons 

 welcomed the guefts, and made a very 

 interesting and witty address. Among 

 the other speakers, humorous and 

 eloquent, was F. W. Byers, who spoke. 

 feelingly of the "Community Spirit,'" 

 which is so valuable an asset in town 

 pi-osperlty. 



