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HORTICULTURE 



May 27, 1911 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



AMERICAN NURSERYMEN'S ASSO- 

 CIATION. 



Officers and Committees for 1910-1911. 



President, Wm. P. STARK, Louisiana, 

 Mo. 



Vice-President, E. S. Welch, Shenandoah, 

 la. 



Secretary, John Hall, 204 Granite Bldg., 

 Rochester, N. Y. 



Treasurer, C. L. Yates, Rochester, N. Y. 



Executive Committee: J. H. Dayton. 

 Painesville, O. ; E. M. Sherman, Charles 

 City, la.; H. B. Chase, ITuntsville, Ala.; 

 Wm. P. Stark, ex-offlcio, Louisinua, Mo.; 

 John Hall, ex-offlcio, secret.arv, Rochester, 

 N. y. 



Chairmen of Committees. 



Transportation: D. S. Lake, Shenan- 

 doah, la.; Chas. M. Sizemore, Louisiana, 

 Mo. 



Tariff: Irving Rouse, Rochester, N. Y. 



Legislation East of Mississippi River: 

 Wm. Pitkin, Rochester, N. Y. 



Legislation West of Mississippi River: 

 Peter Youngers. Geneva, Neb. 



Co-Operation with Entomologists: J. W. 

 Hill, Des Moines, la. 



Program : J. H. Davtnn, Painesville, 

 Ohio. 



Publicity: Orlando Harrison, Berlin, Md. 



Exhibits: J. W. Scbuette, 5600 Gravols 

 Avenue. St. Louis, Mo. 



Arrangements: John Hall, Rochester, 

 N. Y. : J. H. Dayton, Painesville, O. ; F. 

 A. Weber, Nursery, Mo. 



Editing Report: John Hall, Rochester, 

 N. Y. : Prof. John Craig, Ithaca, N. Y. 



Entertainment: F. A. Weber, Nursery, 

 Mo. 



Forestry : A. J. Brown, Geneva, Neb. 



Co-Operation with Fruit Growers and 

 Associations: J. M. Irvine, St. Joseph, Mo. 



Trade Opportunities: Jefferson Thomas, 

 Harrisburg, Pa. 



Nurserymen's Share in Civic Improve- 

 ment: .T. Horace McFarland, Harrisburg, 

 Pa. 



Membership; John Watson, Newark, 

 N. Y. 



Program for Annual Convention, St, 

 Louis, Mo. 



Wednesday, June 14th, 9 A. M. 



Addresses of Welcome — Mayor of St. 

 Louis. Thomas L. Cannon, Secretary of 

 Convention Bureau City of St. Louis. 



Responses, .1, W. Hill. Des Moines. Iowa. 



President's Address — W. P. Stark, Louis- 

 iana, Mo. 



Reports. 



Secretary — John Hall, Rochester, N. Y. 



Treasurer — C. L. Yntes, Rochester, N. Y. 



Transportation Committee — D. S. Lake, 

 Shenandoah. Iowa ; Charles M. Sizemore, 

 Louisiana, Mo. 



Legislative Comittee — East of Miss. 

 Elver. Wm. Pitkin. Rochester, N. Y. ; west 

 of Miss. River, Peter Youngers, Geneva, 

 Neb. 



Tariff Committee — Irving Rouse, Roches- 

 ter, N. Y. 



Committee on Co-Operation with Entom- 

 ologists — .T. W. Hill, Des Moines, Iowa. 



Committe on Publicity — Orlando Harri- 

 son, Berlin, Md. 



Committee on Co-Operation with Fruit 

 Growers and Associations — J. M. Irvine, St. 

 Joseph, Mo. 



Committee on Trade Opportunities — Jef- 

 ferson Thomas, Harrisl>urg, Pa. 



Committee on Nurserymen's Share in 

 Civic Improvements — .1. Horace McFarland. 

 Harrisburg, Pa. 



Coiumittee on Memliership — John Wat- 

 son, Newark, N. Y. 



Committee on Root Gall— E. A. Smith, 

 Lake City, Minn. 



Committee on Entertainment — F. A. 

 Weber. Nursery, Mo. 



Wednesday Evening. 



Meeting of State Vi^e- Presidents, sub- 

 ject to announcement. 



Meeting of American Nurserymen's Pro- 

 tective Association, in the Southern Hotel, 

 at 8 o'clock. Thomas B. Meehan. Secretary. 



Meeting of Retail Nurserymen's Associa- 

 tion. Guy A. Bryant, Secretary. 



Thursday Morning, June 15th, 

 9 O'clock. 



Report of Vice-Presidents on Officers 

 and Place of Next Meeting. 



"The Nurserymen and the Entomolo- 

 gist, Prof. S. J. Hunter. Lawrence, Kans. 



"Spring Versus Fall Planting of Fruit 



Trees," Dr. J. C. Whitten, Professor of 

 Horticulture, Columbia, Mo. 



"Ethics of Our Business," Harlan P. Kel- 

 sey, Salem, Mass. 



"Fraternity Among Nurserymen," Charles 

 T. Smith, Concord, Ga. 



"Standardization of Grades," W. J. Ma- 

 loney, Dansville, N. Y. ; E. P. Barnardin, 

 Parsons, Kansas. 



"Standardization of Prices at Wholesale," 

 T. J. Smith, Geneva, N. Y. 



"Standardization of Prices at Retail," 

 Abner Hoopes, West Chester, Pa. 



"Should Large Buyers not in the Trade, 

 Parks, Cemeteries, Public Institutions, etc., 

 be Given Trade Prices?" Thomas B. 

 Meehan. Dresher, Pa. ; Wm. Pitkin, Roches- 

 ter, N. Y. 

 Friday Morning, June 16th, 9 O'clock. 



"How to Extend Our Wholesale Mar- 

 kets," B. S. Welch, Slieuandoah, Iowa. 



"How to Extend Our Retail Markets," 

 J. M. Pitkin. Newark, N. Y. ; P. H. Stan- 

 nard. Ottawa, Kans. 



"Our Mailing List — Who are Entitled to 

 Trade Lists?" E. W. Kirkpatrick, McKln- 

 uey, Texas : .Tim Parker, Tecumseh, Okla. 



"Our Mailing Lists — Should They be 

 Classified?" C. J. Maloy. Rochester, N. Y. ; 

 A. J. Robinson. Bedford, Mass. 



"Our Slailing Lists— How Best Kept Up- 

 to-Date?" C. J. Brown, Rochester, N, Y. 



Entertainments. 



Wednesday, June 14th, 2 P. M. — Special 

 cars to Missouri Botanical Gardens. 



8 P. M. — Protective Association meetings, 

 etc. 



Thursday, June 15th, 2 P. M.— No definite 

 arrangements yet. 



7 P. M.— Ladies ride to Summer Gardens. 



8 P. M.— Shaw Banquet. 



Friday, June 16th, 1 P, M.— "Steamer 

 Alton" trip on the Mississippi River. Ar- 

 rive at Jefferson Barracks 4.15 p. m. ; mil- 

 itar.v music, dress parade, etc. 



AMERICAN POMOLOGICAL 

 SOCIETY. 



Fruit growers throughout the coun- 

 try, but more especially the citrus 

 growers and the producers of sub- 

 tropical fruits, will be interested in 

 knowing that the volume containing 

 the proceedings of the American Pom- 

 ological Society meeting held at Tam- 

 pa, Florida, last February has just 

 come from the press. Secretary John 

 Craig of Ithaca. New York, writes that 

 it forms an indexed book of over 300 

 pages. He further states that the in- 

 formation contained within its covers 

 is contributed by experts and special- 

 ists in their particular fields. 



This volume is valuable on a three- 

 fold account. It contains the fullest 

 presentation of methods of handling, 

 transporting and marketing citrus 

 fruits to be found anywhere; it con- 

 tains an important symposium on the 

 status of pecan culture in the Gulf re- 

 gions; orchard heating is one of the 

 topics which is a live issue today, and 

 this is discussed in the light of the 

 most recent advances. In addition to 

 these subjects, orchard management 

 forms another important chapter. The 

 history, classification and propagation 

 of the mango by Professor Rolfs of 

 the Florida Experiment Station is the 

 most important contribution on mango 

 culture thus far published. The Jap- 

 anese persimmon, its propagation, cul- 

 ture and a method of processing the 

 fruit so that the astringency is re- 

 moved, forms an interesting chapter 

 by Prof. H. Harold Hume of Glen Saint 

 Mary, Florida. Persons interested in 

 these topics and desiring the publica- 

 tion should write to the secretary of 

 this national society. 



The Pacific Coast Association of 

 Nurserymen will meet at San Jose, 

 Calif., on June 21. 



GARDENERS' AND FLORISTS' CLUB 

 OF BALTIMORE. 



All the committees of the Garden- 

 ers' and Florists' Club of Baltimore 

 are making progress in their S. A. P. 

 & O. H. work of preparation. The 

 ladies' committee have proved their 

 efficiency, and their chairman, Mrs. 

 Isaac H. Moss, is proving to be not 

 only a hustler, but a lady of excel- 

 lent executive ability. The ladies 

 started out to land 13 prizes for bowl- 

 ing, etc., for lady contestants, and 

 they secured 18 splendid valuable 

 prizes, from magnificent silver cups 

 to cut glass and other things that 

 inspire the feminine admiration and 

 taste. There will be no lack of an 

 enjoyable time for the fair sex. 



The program proposed for the en- 

 tertainment of the coming conven- 

 tioners will not only prove there is 

 a "fellow feeling" with Baltimoreans, 

 but that Maryland hospitality is a 

 chronic habit with its citizens. The 

 Governor, and the Mayor of Baltimore 

 will be on hand at the opening of the 

 convention to extend a genuine wel- 

 come and turn over the keys of the 

 city to the convention guests. 



Mack Richmond, who has charge of 

 the floor exhibit space, says more 

 space is already disposed of than was 

 ever sold at any previous convention. 

 The exhibitors will be from a dozen 

 or more States and the 60,000 square 

 feet of unobstructed floor in the per- 

 fectly lighted armory will afford ample 

 opportunity for artistic effective ar- 

 rangement of exhibits. The unprece- 

 dented hot spell does not put the 

 least embargo on the earnest workers, 

 and last night at the regular monthly 

 meeting, with roasting weather, the 

 Club had the best attended meeting 

 ever held in any summer in its his- 

 tory. It was the convention work that 

 made the members "forget it" — the 

 weather. Interested occupation is bet- 

 ter to help counteract unduly hot 

 weather — so cover up the ther- 

 mometer and simply surmise, or 

 "guess," it is "quite warm." 



At a previous meeting of the Club 

 Edward Kress, of Baltimore, brought 

 in for inspection a new rose of his 

 own creation which he has been 

 quietly testing for three years. It was 

 of such excellence that the President 

 of the Club, on request of the mem- 

 bers, appointed a committee to visit 

 Mr. Kress and inspect the plants. 

 Last night the committee reported the 

 rose was not only an ideal garden 

 one, but that it possessed unusual 

 merit, being a profuse bloomer 

 (monthly), the blooms fully 6 inches 

 in diameter, firm and full, and the 

 foliage of a splendid attractive char- 

 acter. The color is deep crimson red, 

 of a very velvety appearance. The 

 rose is perfectly hardy. Some of the 

 members conclude this rose is des- 

 tined to become prominent — indeed 

 famous. 



Last night the Garrage bowling 

 place was secured for the S. A. F. & 

 O. H. contests. These are the finest 

 alleys in the city and will enable the 

 lady contestants to bowl at the same 

 time the men do. It is located near 

 the Belvidere Hotel. 



