June 17, 1911 



HORTICULTURE 



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tees were instructed to arrange for the 

 annual picnic to take place July 20. 

 Chairman D. E. Weber of the Bulletin 

 Committee called for more co-opera- 

 tion and made quite an interesting 

 talk. Frank H. Weber, chairman of 

 the Entertainment Committee for the 

 Nurserymen's convention, made an in- 

 teresting report. Henry Emmidt of 

 Belleville. 111., showed a sport of Can- 

 na King Humbert which was red on 

 one side and green on the other, pro- 

 ducing both yellow and red blooms on 

 the same plant. On July 13 the nomi- 

 nation of officers takes ])lace.. 



PARK SUPERINTENDENTS AT 

 NEW HAVEN. 



The Eastern Branch of the Asso- 

 ciation of Park Superintendents had 

 a meeting and outing as guests of 

 Superintendent Anirhyn at New 

 Haven, Conn., on Saturday, June 10. 

 Most of the day was devoted to sight 

 seeing and social enjoyment. Head- 

 quarters were at the Tontine Hotel, 

 but dinner was served at the Farm 

 at East Rock in picnic style and 

 greatly enjoyed. The visitors were 

 conveyed by autos all through the 

 various parks and the ascent of East 

 Rock was made on foot and in car- 

 riage. A stop was made at the 

 grounds of the Elm City Nursery Co. 

 Among the visitors was Christopher 

 Clark, 84 years old, the "grand old 

 man" of Northampton, Mass., who ex- 

 tended an invitation to the Branch to 

 hold its next meeting in Northamp- 

 ton in September. The invitation was 

 unanimously accejjted. 



New Haven has a grand park sys- 

 tem in which the two picturesque 

 rocky eminences, East Rock and West 

 Rock, 500 feet high, form a unique 

 feature, and Mr. Amrhyn has care- 

 fully preserved all the natural attrac- 

 tions. 



POSTAL EXPRESS FEDERATION. 



At the Parcels Post Conference, 

 New Willard Hotel, Washington, D. C, 

 April 2.5-26. the committee on perma- 

 nent organization presented the follow- 

 ing resolutions which were adopted: 



Kt*suh'oi.l. That ail or;4an1zatioii lie per- 

 fected to be known as the I'ostal Express 

 Federation, to lie composed of all persons, 

 corporations and associations interested in 

 the establishment of mean.s whereby the 

 Government of the United States shall, 

 through its postal service, carr.v parcels and 

 packages at reasonable rates. 



And be it resolved. That a temporary Ex- 

 ecutive Committee of five be elected at this 

 meeting, witli power to appoint snb-com- 

 mittees to repre.sent the several States and 

 Territories of the United States of America, 

 and to perfect a suitable organization for 

 the end desired. 



The following executive committee 

 was then appointed: William T. 

 Creasy, Catawissa, Pa.; F. F. Ingram, 

 Detroit, Mich.; George J. Kindel, Den- 

 ver, Colo.; F. W. Burkart, Buffalo, N. 

 Y.; George P. Hampton, New York, N. 

 Y., chairman. 



Bills have been introduced in Con- 

 gress embodying the recommendations 

 of the conference. All friends should 

 write their Congressmen at once, to 

 use their influence in favor of imme- 

 diate action along the lines recom- 

 mended by the Postal Express Federa- 

 tion, and as set forth in the Sulzer 

 bill, H. R. 9S44, and Howard bill, H. 

 R. S3S6. 



All associations, corporations, firms 

 and individuals favoring a modern 

 parcels post are urged to send in their 

 names at once to George P. Hampton, 

 53 Bliss building, Washington, D. C. 



NATIONAL SWEET PEA SOCIETY. 



Owing to the slow development of 

 the growth of sweet peas this season, 

 tlie society has decided to advance the 

 date for annual exhibition at Philadel- 

 phia to June 29-30. Schedules are 

 being mailed to members, and can be 

 had upon apiilication to David Rust, 

 Horticultural Hall, Philadelphia, or to 

 the secretary, Harry A. Bunyard, 342 

 West 14th street, New York City. 



H. A. Bunyard, George Kerr, M. C. 

 Ebel, George C. Watson and others 

 were the guests of W. Atlee Burpee 

 at dinner at Dooner's on the Sth inst. 

 The Sv,'eet Pea Society's affairs were 

 talked over and programs and policies 

 for the good of the society were given 

 a good forward boost. Mr. Burpee 

 has made an earnest effort to arrange 

 his international engagements so as 

 to be present in person. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY- NOTES. 



The Jlilwaukee Florists' Club met 

 at the Hotel Blain on the evening of 

 June 1. There were several talks, fol- 

 lowing which the members enjoyed a 

 dinner. About seventy-five attended. 



Arrangements have been made by 

 the Albany Florists' Club for a family 

 clambake to be held late in August. 

 Frederick Goldring has invited the 

 club to meet at his place. Font Grove, 

 Slingerlands, on the evening of July 6. 



The annual picnic of the Garden- 

 ers' and Florists' Club of Boston, has 

 been arranged for July 26th, and is to 

 be held at Caledonian Grove. West 

 Roxbury. Ladies' Night will be ob- 

 served with due ceremonials next 

 Tuesday evening. 



The St. Louis Ladies' Home Circle 

 held a day's outing at O'Fallon Park 

 on June 12. Miss Matilda Meinhardt, 

 secretary and treasurer of the Circle, 

 is traveling in Europe this summer 

 and Mrs. Steidel, president, has taken 

 up her duties. They will have several 

 of these out-door meetings this sum- 

 mer. 



The regular monthly meeting of the 

 Cincinnati Florists' Society was held 

 in Jabez Elliott Flower Market, Mon- 

 day, June 12. The following members 

 were nominated for office to be bal- 

 loted upon at the annual meeting to 

 be held July 10: For president, C. E. 

 Critchell and Gus Adrian; vice-presi- 

 dent. Wm. Murphy and Ray Murphy; 

 treasurer, E. A. Foster; secretary, A. 

 Ostendarii; directors, Herbert Green- 

 smith and Al. Heckman, Jr. 



SUMMER SCHOOL AT CORNELL. 



Announcement is made of the first 

 opening of the Summer School in Ag- 

 riculture of the New York State Col- 

 lege of Agriculture, Cornell ITnivers- 

 ity, July 6— August 16, 1911. A copy 

 of the calendar, with rules for admis- 

 sion, fees, courses of instruction, lec- 

 tures, excursions, etc., may be had on 

 application to Albert Russell Mann, 

 Secretary to the College of Agricul- 

 ture. 



J. F. Rosenfield, who has a ten-acre 

 field at West Point, Neb., has an- 

 nounced that this will be his last year 

 in peony culture in Cuming County. 

 He has bought a forty-acre tract of 

 land near Omaha, upon which he and 

 his son, Reno, have planted 55,000 

 peonies. 



Obituary 



Mrs. J. M. Charlton. 

 Mrs. J. M. Charlton, wife of J. M. 

 Charlton, of John Charlton & Sons, 

 nurserymen, Rochester, N. Y., died 

 May 27. 



John Jorden. 

 John Jorden died at his home, Gene- 

 va, N. Y., on May 28, aged 73 years. 

 Mr. Jorden was for many years a 

 nurseryman and had resided in Gene- 

 va since he was three- years of age. 

 About 15 years ago he retired. He 

 leaves one sister and one brother. 



John Flanagan. 



John Flanagan, landscape gardener, 

 died at the home of his daughter in 

 Berkeley. Calif., on June 1, aged 85 

 years. He retired from business about 

 five years ago. He spent over forty 

 years in Cambridge, Mass., before go- 

 ing to California. 



Otto Kaiser. 



Otto Kaiser, a local florist at Jar- 

 rett Town, a suburb of Philadel- 

 phia, died on the 9th, aged 78. Mr. 

 Kaiser grew a general collection of 

 plants and did a local business only 

 and in a limited way. consequently he 

 was almost unknown except to a few 

 of the trade of the present generation. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Woodstock, Conn. — F. H. Miller has 

 installed a thousand gallon compressed 

 air tank to supply water for his green- 

 house. 



Grand Rapids, Mich. — Plants cov- 

 ering a space of 2 acres and totaling 

 32,000, represent the tomato business 

 of the Grand Rapids Greenhouse Com- 

 pany. Forty bushels are being 

 picked and shipped daily, and are com- 

 peting favorably with the Texas and 

 other southern tomatoes at present 

 on the market. 



Waltham, Mass. — A deer was graz- 

 ing peacefully in the outskirts of 

 Waltham (Allan Peirce's bailliwick) 

 yesterday afternoon when another dear 

 came along. She was not only in the 

 outskirts of Waltham, but also in a 

 hobble skirt. 



It was too much for the deer. . He 

 apparently went violently insane and 

 dashed through Main street with an 

 ever increasing crowd giving chase. 

 Doubtless believing the dear in the 

 hobble skirt was close upon him, the 

 deer stopped when opposite the green- 

 house of James Silman and, with a 

 groan of despair, leaped through the 

 glass roof. 



When the deer was extricated, he 

 was badly cut, and his right foreleg 

 broken. 



He was taken to the city stables, 

 where City Veterinary W. E. Peterson 

 tried to save his life, but without suc- 

 cess. The deer caused a damage of 

 $200 in the greenhouse. 



There was an unconfirmed rumor 

 last night that the S. P. C. A. officials 

 were undecided whether to attempt to 

 have hobble skirts abolished or put 

 blinders on the unprotected and un- 

 sophisticated wild animals. — Buxtun 

 ./(iiiniul. 



