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HORTICULTURE 



June 24, 1911 



also some double flowers of a beauti- 

 ful shade of pink. Among their ex- 

 hibit was also an English variety of 

 orange shade which no doubt will be a 

 very desirable addition to the sweet 

 pea family. 



Robert Craig was selected to make 

 the address of welcome at the opening 

 session of the Sweet Pea Society. 



DAVID RUST, Secretary. 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NUR- 

 SERYMEN 



GARDENERS' AND FLORISTS' CLUB 

 OF BOSTON. 



Ladies' Night, looked forward to 

 with ecstatic anticipation by the lads 

 and lassies of horticultural Greater 

 Boston, was celebrated on Tuesday 

 evening, June 20, in a style befitting 

 an organization which has reached its 

 quarter centennial and counts among 

 its family not only some of the most 

 proficient flower and plant men in the 

 world, but also as attractive and fas- 

 cinating a lot of youthful ladies, re- 

 gardless of age, as can be found any- 

 where. On Ladies' Night they all turn 

 out in best attire, all ready to applaud 

 and encore those who seek to enter- 

 tain them with music, recitation or 

 dance, do credit to the caterer's viands, 

 trip the "light fantastic," or listen 

 with heroic patience while the secre- 

 tary's minutes, the reminiscences of 

 the oldest inhabitant, or other routine 

 stuff is imposed upon them. 



There must have been four hundred 

 or more members, wives, sisters, 

 daughters and sweethearts present on 

 this occasion, and it was pronounced 

 by all to be "the best ever." President 

 Miller was beaming, and his trusty 

 staff of assistants were "right on the 

 job" from start to iinish. In the 

 routine club business Mr. Downs re- 

 ported that the annual picnic had been 

 arranged for July 26, at Caledonia 

 Grove, and asked for a big attendance 

 on that occasion. A communication 

 from Frank H. Traendly was read, in- 

 viting the Boston party to join with 

 the New Yorkers on the convention 

 trip to Baltimore. A vote of thanks 

 was accorded. W. J. Stewart, Thos. J. 

 Grey and Kenneth Finlayson were ap- 

 pointed a committee to prepare reso- 

 lutions on the death of F. R. Mathison. 

 Then came the entertainment, consist- 

 ing of piano solos by Raymond Pugh, 

 songs by Miss Batley, C. E. Taslier and 

 P. E. Littlefield, recitations by Miss 

 Hayes, and highland dancing by Misses 

 Nellie and Jeannie Irvine, all of which 

 were of a high order of merit, and en- 

 thusiastically encored. Interspersed 

 were talks by Wm. J. Stewart, first 

 president of the Club, C. W. Parker, 

 president of the Mass. Horticultural 

 Society, Secretary Parsons of the North 

 Shore Horticultural Society, and Ex- 

 president Thos. H. Westwood. Re- 

 freshments and dancing followed. 

 Hutchins' Orchestra furnished the 

 music. 



On account of roses being late the 

 Newport Horticultural Society has 

 postponed its exhibition from June 

 22nd and 23rd to 27th and 2Sth. 



Reports from France on various 

 nursery stocks indicate that there is a 

 great scarcity in cherry and plum seed- 

 lings, and in Manetti rose stocks, the 

 late frosts having done much injury. 



The 36th annual meeting of this 

 association was held at St. Louis, Mo., 

 on June 14, 15, 16. A large trade ex- 

 hibit was held on the ground floor 

 and the meeting on the second floor 

 of the Southern Hotel. Secretary 

 John Hall's book showed that four 

 hundred delegates were in attend- 

 ance. The trades exhibit was in 

 charge of J. W. Schuette, who had 

 everything in readiness when the con- 

 vention opened. The meeting was 

 opened by President Stark, who in- 

 troduced Mayor Kreismann, who made 

 a short speech of welcome. He was 

 followed by J. W. Hill of Des Moines, 

 Iowa, in response. This was followed 

 by President Stark's address. This 

 finished, the reports of Secretary Hill 

 and Treasurer Yates, both of Roches- 

 ter, N. Y., were heard. Then came 

 the reports of the following commit- 

 tees: Transportation, D. S. Lake, 

 Shenendoah, Iowa, and C. M. Size- 

 more, Louisiana, Mo.; legislation, east 

 of Mississippi River, Wm. Pitkin; 

 west of the Mississippi, Peter Young- 

 ers, Geneva, Neb.; tariff, Irving 

 Rouse. Rochester, N. Y. ; co-operation 

 with entomologists, J. W. Hill, Des 

 Moines, Iowa; publicity, Orlando 

 Harrison, Berlin. Md.; co-operation 

 with fruit growers and associations, 

 J. M. Irvine, St. Joseph, Mo.; trade 

 opportunities, Jefferson Thomas, Har- 

 risburg. Pa.; nurserymen's share on 

 civic improvements, J. Horace Mc- 

 Farland, Harrisburg, Pa.; member- 

 ship, John Watson, Newark, N. Y. ; 

 root gall, E. A. Smith, Lake City, 

 Minn.; entertainment, F. A. Weber, 

 St. Louis. 



The afternoon was taken up by a 

 visit to the Missouri Botanical Gar- 

 den. The evening session was de- 

 voted to a meeting of state vice-presi- 

 dents, also of the Nurserymen's Pro- 

 tective Committee and the American 

 Retail Nurserymen's Protective Asso- 

 ciation. 



At Thursday's session John H. Day- 

 ton of Painsville, Ohio, was elected 

 president; W. H. Wyman, of North 

 Abington, Mass., vice-president; John 

 Hall, of Rochester, re-elected secre- 

 tary, and C. L. Yates re-elected treas- 

 urer. Members elected to the execu- 

 tive committee were E. M. Sherman, 

 H. B. Chase and J. M. Pitkin. A num- 

 ber of interesting papers were read. 

 The afternoon was spent by the dele- 

 gates and their ladies visiting points 

 of interest throughout the city. 



Friday's session was well attended. 

 "How to Extend Our Wholesale Mar- 

 kets," by E. S. Welsh, Shenandoah, 

 Iowa; "How to Extend Our Retail 

 Markets," J. M. Pitkin, Newark, N. 

 Y., and P. H. Stannard, Ottawa, 

 Kans.; "Our Mailing Lists — Who are 

 Entitled to Them?" by E. W. Kirk- 

 patrick, McKinney, Texas, and J. 

 Parker, Tecumseh, Okla. ; "Our Mail- 

 ing Lists — Should Thev be Classi- 

 fied?" C. J. Maloy, Rochester, N. Y., 

 and N. J. Robinson, Bedford, Mass.; 

 "Our Mailing Lists — How Best Kept 

 Up to Date," by C. J. Brown, Roches- 

 ter, were among the papers present- 



ed. The afternoon was spent on 

 board the steamer Alton for a trip 

 down the Mississippi River to Jeffer- 

 son Barracks, where the visitors were 

 lavishly entertained. 



Resolutions were adopted which 

 will be sent to both houses of Con- 

 gress, protesting against the passage 

 of the Howard bill, which proposes to 

 put a quarantine on all seedlings and 

 nurserymen's imports from France 

 and other foreign countries. Resolu- 

 tions were also adopted favoring a 

 federal inspection law. State inspec- 

 tion, now in effect, was approved. 

 The legislative department was auth- 

 orized in the different states to make 

 test cases of state inspection laws. 

 Protests were entered against state 

 inspectors in Colorado and Montana 

 condemning and destroying large 

 numbers of trees, in enforcement of 

 the state inspection law. The par- 

 cels post and 1-cent postage were fa- 

 vored. The tariff schedule for seed- 

 lings was approved by the delegates. 

 Seedlings under four years are ad- 

 mitted under the free list and on 

 those over, 25 per cent, ad valorem 

 duty is charged. 



Boston was chosen as the place for 

 the convention of 1912. 



THE SHAW BANQUET. 



The twenty-second annual banquet 

 of the Missouri Botanical Garden, pro- 

 vided for in the will of Henry Shaw, 

 was held on the evening of June 15, 

 in honor of the visiting nurserymen in 

 the Southern Hotel, St. Louis. Nearly 

 all of the 400 delegates were present. 



William Trelease, director of Shaw's 

 Garden, presided as toastmaster. He 

 introduced the first speaker, J. H. 

 Dayton of Painesville, Ohio, president- 

 elect of the association, who spoke on 

 "Our Guests." Mr. Dayton accounted 

 for his election on the ground that the 

 association has adopted the custom of 

 electing its officers on the basis of 

 personal beauty rather than oratorical 

 power. 



"Ourselves" was the second toast, 

 and was responded to by Adolph 

 Jaenicke. J. J. Beneke, secretary of 

 the St. Louis Florists' Club, responded 

 to the toast "Our Quarter-Centenary." 

 "Our Parks" was responded to by 

 Dwight F. Davis, park commissioner 

 of St. Louis; "Our Opportunities," by 

 J. W. Hill of Des Moines, la,; and 

 "Our Plans" by John H. Gundlach, 

 president of the City Council. Mr. 

 Gundlach outlined for the visiting del- 

 egates some of the plans on foot for 

 beautifying St. Louis. Dr. J. C. Whit- 

 ten, professor of horticulture in Uni- 

 versity of Missouri, spoke last. 



The "Technical Educator" devotes a 

 large portion of its issue for May to 

 views in Rochester, N. Y., and notes 

 thereon, naming it the "Highland 

 Park Edition." Many beautiful aven- 

 ues, private grounds and views in 

 parks are included in the illustrations, 

 such as the residence of W. C. Barry, 

 office of Ellwanger & Barry, etc. A 

 fine portrait of Mr. Barry is given in 

 connection with a paper by that gen- 

 tleman on The Lamberton Memorial 

 Conservatory. 



