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HOETICULTURE 



September 26, 1914 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



LANCASTER COUNTY FLORISTS' 

 CLUB. 



Sept. 17th found a goodly number at 

 the usual meeting place, to hear Chas. 

 F. Edgar tell how to conduct the retail 

 business and A. M. Herr tell of his 

 trip to Boston as the sole representa- 

 tive of this club. In the discussion it 

 was pretty unanimously agreed that 

 we should support with more loyalty 

 the work of the S. A. P. although this 

 club has done I believe more than any 

 other one club, by donating as a club a 

 prize for the S. A. F. sporting events 

 and giving $16 toward the Smith Me- 

 morial. 



In discussing Mr. Edgar's paper the 

 question of price cutting seemed to 

 take precedence and it was pretty well 

 agreed that the selling of any article 

 too cheap to the consuming public was 

 neither advantageous to the buyer nor 

 the seller, and that the sales of flowers 

 were smaller in quantity where the 

 price was cut than where a fair price 

 was maintained. Getting from cut 

 flowers to plants it was the consen- 

 sus of opinion that the majority of 

 growers did not know that their plants 

 often cost more than they get for them 

 and that with others the price is too 

 close to the cost of production to make 

 any allowance for the unavoidable mis- 

 haps our stock is sometimes subject to. 



The Flower Show to be held in Lan- 

 caster Nov. 6th and 7th was freely dis- 

 cussed and as we are likely to get the 

 entire building of the Heiraenze Audi- 

 torium we anticipate plenty of room 

 for a few trade exhibits to educate our 

 public into the buying of some things 

 they now do without. We are prom- 

 ised the cooperation of a number of 

 the civic bodies and as Lancaster lias 

 not had a show for a number of years 

 it is becoming almost a public event 

 for the city. 



The Programme Committee reported 

 for next meeting a paper on Green- 

 house Construction by Elmer J. 

 Weaver, of Ronks, and a paper on 

 Chrysanthemums by Willis Girvin of 

 Leola. 



The visiting committee reported a 

 trip to see the new houses built by 

 Willis Girvin of Leola, for Thursday, 

 Oct. 15th, leaving the square at 3.30 

 P. M. and returning in time for the 

 meeting in the evening. 



Albekt M. Herr. 



AMERICAN DAHLIA SOCIETY. 



The seed meeting of the dahlia en- 

 thusiasts for the purpose of adopting 

 by-laws and regulations in connection 

 with the new American Dahlia Society 

 about to be formed, will take place at 

 the Dahlia Show in the New York Bo- 

 tanical Gardens on Sept. 26 at 4 P. M. 



I further wish to state that nearly 

 forty charter members have already 

 been enrolled and at the beginning of 

 the society, which will be Jan. 1, not 

 less than one hundred members are 

 expected. The election of officers will 

 take place in December, giving each 

 charter member the opportunity to 

 vote by mail, on a list submitted to 

 them by me. Maurice Fuij). 



TEXAS NURSERYMEN'S ASSOCIA- 

 TION. 



The fifteenth annual meeting of the 

 Texas Nurserymen's Association will 

 be held in the Chamber of Commerce 

 auditorium. Fort Worth, Oct. 14 and 

 15. Tentative program has been pre- 

 pared by the committee on program, 

 which consists of John S. Kerr, of 

 Sherman, president: Will B. Munson, 

 of Denison, vice-president, and J. M. 

 Ramsey, of Austin, secretary-treasurer. 



Following the address of welcome 

 by J. B. Baker, of Fort Worth, a re- 

 sponse by F. E. McGinnis, of Dallas, 

 the president's address and the ap- 

 pointment of committees, these ad- 

 dresses on subjects of interest to 

 Texas nurserymen are to be given: 



"The Probable Effect of European W:irs 

 on Southwestern Tree Pl.intlng," ,1. R. 

 M.a.Thew, Waxah.Tchie. 



"The Most Important Subjects Solved at 

 the National Convention of Nurserymen in 

 Cleveland Last June bv Those Who At- 

 tended," .T. B. Baker, C. C. Mayhew, W. B. 

 Munson, John S. Kerr. 



Special report of committee on State 

 Botanical Garden for Texas, J. S. Kerr, 

 chairman. 



"In What Way Can Our Association 

 Render a Better Service," Mr. Locke, Jr., 

 New Braunfels; G. A. Schattenberg of 

 Boerne. 



"The Benefits to Our Citrus and Orna- 

 mental Industries Afforded by the New 

 Frplglit Rate on Balled Evergreens," W. D. 

 i^rifflng. Port Arthur. 



"Tlie Leading Classes and Varieties of 

 Nursery Stock to Be Grown in the Lower 

 Rio Grande Valley," Eltweed Pomeroy, 

 Donna. 



"In Ca.se Burlap Becomes Prohibitive la 

 Price and Supply, What Substitutes or 

 Methods of Packing May Best Be U.sed?" 

 John F. Sneed, Tyler; C. C. Mayhew, Sher- 

 man. 



"The Value of a Publicity Organization 

 in the Education of the People in the 

 Worli of the Nurserymen," .T. M. Ramsey, 

 Austin ; R. E. Hall. Sherman. 



"Co-operation of the L'lorists and Nur- 

 serymen of Texas," R. C. Kerr of Houston, 

 C. E. Papworth of Fort Worth. 



NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF 

 GARDENERS. 



At the summer meeting of the Na- 

 tional Association of Gardeners, held 

 in Boston, August 19th, 1914, a com- 

 mittee was appointed to draft a reso- 

 lution conveying the sympathies of 

 the members of the organization to 

 the European horticulturists on the 

 terrible calamity which has befallen 

 them. 



The committee reports its resolu- 

 tion as follows: 



WHEREAS, Our fellowmen engaged in 

 the pursuit of horticulture in Its various 

 phases in the European countries are now 

 surrounded by the horrors of a terrible 

 war, many of whom may be suffering from 

 sorrowing anguish for loss of kin on the 

 battlefields: be it 



RESOLVED, That the members of the 

 National Association of Gardeners convcv 

 to their brother horticulturists in Europe 

 afflicted by the war, their heartfelt syra- 

 pnthles on the catastrophe which has so 

 suddenly overtaken them; and that our 

 prayer be that the Almighty God in His 

 Infinite wisdom will guide the instigators 

 of the appalling conflict now raging, to a 

 speedy termination of it, and to everlast- 

 ing peace: be it further 



RESOLVED, That copies of these resolu- 

 fii>ns be forwarded to the various national 

 horticultural bodies in the several coun- 

 tries now at war, and spread on the 

 records of the N. A. G. 



WILLIAM N. CRAIG, 

 DUNCAN FINLAYSON, 

 MARTIN C. EBEL. 



RHODE ISLAND HORTICULTURE 

 SOCIETY. 



The annual September show of the 

 Rhode Island Horticulture Society, 

 held in the parlors of the Mathewson 

 Street M. E. Church, Sept. 15-16, Prov- 

 idence, R. I., was the most successful 

 that the society has ever held. The at- 

 tendance was the largest that ever at- 

 tended a September show and the 

 quality was superior to all previous 

 exhibits. Features of the exhibition 

 were the American Beauties from the 

 Newport estate of R. Livingston Beeek- 

 man, and the display of foliage plants 

 from the William Appleton green- 

 houses. Both of these exhibits were 

 not offered in competition, but the so- 

 ciety awarded prizes on the same mer- 

 its as in open competition. There 

 were 48 exhibitors all told. H. 

 V. Mayo exhibited a hybrid cactus dah- 

 lia of orange pink named Ethel Mayo. 

 A seedling dahlia named Mrs. Sellew, 

 yellow base, shading to scarlet, was 

 entered by Arthur Sellew. 



Most of the awards in the commer- 

 cial growers' professional gardeners' 

 class went to Sisson & Thurston, W. 

 D. Hathaway, Lewis A. Jillson. G. H. 

 Walker and A. E. Johnson. 



On Wednesday, the closing evening, 

 a lecture was given by Prof. C. F. 

 Adams of the R. L State College. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



At the Newark (N. J.) Industrial Ex- 

 position Hahne & Co., had a handsome 

 flower booth and orchids were a spe- 

 cial attraction. The Newark Shade 

 Tree Commission also had an attrac- 

 tive exhibit. 



The Indiana State Florists' Asso- 

 ciation are making elaborate prepara- 

 tions for the reception of the Chrysan- 

 themum Society of America on Novem- 

 ber G, 7 and 8, at which time a superb 

 exhibition will be staged free to the 

 public at the German House, Indian- 

 apolis. 



The fall show given by the Paterson 

 (N. J.) Floricultural Society at the 

 Second National Bank la.st week 

 was a pronounced success, it being es- 

 timated that nearly 5,000 people vis- 

 ited the show. P. S. Van Melle of the 

 landscape department of Bobbink & 

 .\tkins and R. B. Stoutenborough acted 

 as judges. 



An interesting exhibition of dahlias 

 will be made at the Museum Building 

 Botanical Garden, New York, in co- 

 operation with the Horticultural So- 

 ciety of New York, on Saturday and 

 Sunday. Sept. 26 and 27. There will 

 be a discussion on "Dahlias" in the lec- 

 ture hall at 2.30 P. M., and at i o'clock 

 Dr. N. L. Britton will give a stereopti- 

 con lecture on Wild Flowers of Au- 

 tumn. 



The Fortieth Annual Exhibition of 

 the Houghton Horticultural Society, at 

 Odd Fellows' Hall, Lynn, Mass., last 

 week was by far the best in the So- 

 ciety's history. The exhibits were 

 in the main by amateurs, but Gibbs 

 Bros., the florist, contributed a fine 



