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HORTICULTUEE 



August 8, 1914 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



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FLORISTS' CLUB OF PHILADEL- 

 PHIA. 



Routine business of only local inter- 

 est occupied the regular monthly 

 meeting of the above club held on the 

 4th inst. The various convention com- 

 mittees reported progress, and every- 

 thing looks favorable for a good 

 crowd from this city. Atiout fifty will 

 go on the regular club party via Read- 

 ing and Metropolitan steamers on 

 Monday; but there will be four times 

 that number and more by other routes, 

 and by auto; and on various dates, A 

 committee on co-operation was ap- 

 pointed on reouest of M. C. Ebel of the 

 N, A, G, A, E. Wohlert, Fred Hah- 

 man and Alfred Burton are the com- 

 mittee. After adjournment a pleas- 

 ant social time was enjoyed — the 

 creature comforts being supplied 

 by A. E, Wohlert, who is an ac- 

 tive member of the essay committee. 

 Very kind of him, and everybody ap- 

 appreciated the good time. It should 

 not be forgotten however, that the 

 club has a house and entertainment 

 committee, whose duty it is to attend 

 to these matters. The essay commit- 

 tee's functions- are, of course, purely 

 intellectual. The feature of next 

 month's meeting will be a review of 

 the convention by four leading club 

 members. 



SOUTHAMPTON (N. Y.) HORTICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY. 



The eighth annual exhibitirn of this 

 Society was the best ever staged in 

 Southampton. The postponement of 

 the exhibition from the previous week 

 proved to be a very wise move, for 

 there was a wealth of flowers now in 

 bloom that had not arrived at maturity 

 last week. 



The exhibits were divided inti five 

 divisions. Division A included table 

 decorations and decorative designs. 

 Division B included cut perennials, 

 annuals, etc. Division C include! 

 greenhouse and herbaceous plants in 

 pots or tubs. Division D included or- 

 namental stove and greenhouse plants. 

 Division E included fruits and vege- 

 tables. The principal attraction was 

 the exhibition of decorated luncheon 

 and dinner tables, open to the women 

 of the cottage colony only, the flowers 

 and foliage used in the decorations to 

 be grown by the exhibitor The judges 

 of the exhibits were G, W. Gilbert of 

 Shelter Island, George 'Wittinger of 

 Tarrytown and Frank Niquet of Patch- 

 ogue. One-half of the net proceeds 

 ■will be donated to the Southampton 

 Hospital, 



NEW YORK FLOR^ISTS' CLUB. 



President Duckhani having received 

 ten written requests, complying with 

 the constitution and by-laws of our 

 club, instructs me to call a special 

 meeting to be held in the Grand Opera 

 House building, Monday, August 10, at 

 8 P. M„ the purpose of the meeting 

 being what action, if any, our club 

 should take as a recommendation to 

 members attending the Convention of 

 the Society of American Florists and 

 Ornamental Horticulturists to be held 

 at Boston, as to the supporting of can- 

 didates, John ■youNo, Sec'y 



FLORISTS' CLUB OF WASHINGTON 



Announcement was definitely made 

 at the August meeting of the Florists' 

 Club of Washington, that a show 

 would be held in the Old Masonic Tem- 

 ple, during the week of November 2 

 to 8, inclusive. The show committee 

 consists of Fred H. Kramer, chairman; 

 R. L. Jenkins and William F. Gude. 

 Immediately following the announce- 

 ment as to the advisability of holding 

 a show this year more than one-half 

 of the guarantee fund was subscribed 

 and the preliminary work was begun. 



For the Boston convention transpor- 

 tation committee, R. L. Jenkins sub- 

 mitted a report as to who would go 

 via the steamship "Howard." This 

 party will consist of about twenty-five 

 while those who w'ill go later by train 

 will number up to fifty. Richard 'Vin- 

 cent, Jr., was present to inform the 

 members of the action taken by the 

 Baltimore Club with respect to the sea 

 trip. Captain William H. Ernest re- 

 ported that Boston and the florists who 

 attend the convention would have an 

 opportunity to see the Capital bowling 

 team in action for he will make the 

 trip accompanied by George H. Cooke, 

 George C. Shaffer, Robert MacLennan, 

 Samuel Simmons, George Dalglish and 

 Harry Lewis. The boat party will con- 

 sist of President and Mrs. Cooke, B. L. 

 Stidham and wife, O. C. MacCardell 

 and wife, J. A. Barry, Harry B. Lewis, 

 R. L Jenkins, Theodore Diedrich, Otto 

 Bauer, William H, Ernest, Mrs, Wil- 

 liam J, Hart, Jr., Mr and Mrs. George 

 C. Shaffer, D. O'Connor, Miss Delia B. 

 Barry, Mr. and Mrs. William F. Guo'e, 

 Ernest, Amelia, Louise and Granvill" 

 F. Gude, Adolph Gude, Adolph, Jr , Ed- 

 win, Edgar and Miss Esther Gude. 



W. F. Gude made a short report on 

 the progress being made by the Wil- 

 liam R. Smith Memorial committee, of 

 which he is the chairman, stating that 

 funds were being received in response 

 to the appeal sent out by the commit- 

 tee, A feature of the evening was the 

 exhibition of a vase of gladiolus "Snow 

 King," by John Lewis Childs, of Flow- 

 erfleld, N, Y, A certificate of merit was 

 awarded it. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS 

 AND ORNAMENTAL HOR- 

 TICULTURISTS, 

 Department of Plant Registration. 



Public notice is hereby given that 

 Vaughan's Seed Store, Chicago, 111,, of- 

 fers for registration the Christraan 

 Orchid-Flowered Sweet Pea, Selma 

 Swenson. Any person objecting to the 

 registration or to the use of the pro- 

 posed name, is requested to communi- 

 cate with the secretary at once. Fail- 

 ing to receive objection to the registra- 

 tion, the same will be made three 

 weeks from this date. 



Raiser's Description— Variety origi- 

 nated by G. Swenson, Elmhurst, 111 

 Color a light, soft, clear pink, for 

 greenhouse forcing. 



JoHx Young, Sec. 

 July 31, 1914. 



The Cincinnati Florists' Society 

 holds its next regular meeting at the 

 club rooms on August 10, at 8 P. M, 



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