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HORTICULTUEE 



December 26, 1914 



WESTCHESTER AND FAIRFIELD 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The December meeting of this so- 

 ciety, held at Greenwich, Conn., Fri- 

 day evening, Dec. 11, was also the an- 

 nual meeting and the fourth anniver- 

 sary of the society. The personnel of 

 the officers elected at this meeting for 

 the ensuing year assures the society 

 of a continuation of the remarkable 

 successes of the past. The writer had 

 the pleasure of being present at the 

 first meeting of the society on the 14th 

 of December, 1910, in the office of the 

 Fremd Nursery at Rye, N. Y., starting 

 with a membership of fourteen names. 

 Today we have an enthusiastic mem- 

 bership of 280 active horticultural 

 workers, 8 life members and 20 honor- 

 ary members. The financial state- 

 ment of the treasurer shows the so 

 ciety to be in a very flourishing con- 

 dition. During recess the members 

 were entertained by several accounts 

 of the convention of the National As- 

 sociation of Gardeners at Philadelphia, 

 at which this society was well repre- 

 sented. There was a fine display on 

 the exhibition tables. The judges' 

 awards are as follows: Cultural cer- 

 tificate to Thos. Ryan for poinsettias, 

 Anton Peterson for Shawver roses. 

 Vote of thanks to Robt. Grunnert for 

 White Enchantress carnations. Jas. 

 Foster for poinsettias. grapes Gros. 

 Colmar, and potatoes Carman No. 3, 

 A. Wynne for carnations Sport of Har- 

 lowarden, Anton Peterson for carna- 

 tions Matchless. Thos. Ryan for as- 

 sorted carnations, and P. W. Popp for 

 Narcissus Grand Soliel D'Or. 



An illustrated lecture is scheduled 

 for the next meeting, to be held Jan 8 

 1915. The subject— The Conservation 

 of Our Wild Birds- should appeal to 

 all There will also be offered at this 

 meetmg special cash prizes for 18 car- 

 nations in three vars. six of each 



P. W. Poi-p. Cor. Secv. 



are up for vice-president; Mr. Hofing- 

 hoff for corresponding secretary; 

 B. Meyer for financial secretary; 

 J. Jacques for treasurer; John Mc- 

 Laren for trustee; D. Raymond and 

 Mr. Pos for ushers; Mr. Greaves for 

 librarian. The next meeting, follow- 

 ing the usual custom at elections, will 

 be a smoker, with Messrs. Thompson, 

 Raymond and MacRorie in charge of 

 arrangements. The only exhibit at 

 the last meeting was a specimen of 

 Begonia Lorraine, by the MacRorie- 

 McLaren Company, rated at 98 points 

 The award on exhibits for the year 

 was: MacRorie-McLaren Company, 

 541 points; Dr. Parker. 190 points'; 

 Mr. Shillig, 165 points. Cups were 

 awarded to these three, but it was de- 

 cided in future to award no cup to 

 any exhibitor making less than 400 

 points. 



LANCASTER COUNTY FLORISTS' 

 ASSOCIATION. 



CONNECTICUT HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



PACIFIC COAST HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



The Pacific Coast Horticultural So- 

 ciety had its field day on Sunday. 

 Dec. 6, at the nurseries of the Mac- 

 Rorie-McLaren Company in San Mateo 

 county. It was a decidedly wet day. 

 but the guests were given something 

 to warm them up, and altogether had 

 quite an enjoyable time. 



The membership of the Horticul- 

 tural Society is growing right along 

 Three new members admitted at the 

 P.!!f meeting were Prof. Gregg and 

 Prof. Stevens, of the landscape en- 

 gineering department of the Univer- 

 sity of California, and Mr. Frasher of 

 the Luther Burbank Company Of- 

 ficers for the ensuing year will be 

 elected at the next meeting, nomina- 

 tions having been made at the last 

 meeting. Practically all the more 

 prominent members were nominated 

 for the exhibition committee, ten of 

 whom will be chosen. H. Plath had 

 the unanimous nomination for presi- 

 dent; Tom Taylor and Joe Thompson 



This society held its annual meeting 

 on Friday, December 11, in the County 

 Building, Hartford. Before proceed- 

 ing to the election of officers. Presi- 

 dent Huss requested that a new presi- 

 dent be elected in his stead, inasmuch 

 as he felt that a change was desirable 

 and that he had held the office tor six 

 years and should therefore be re- 

 leased. The result of the election was 

 as follows: President, Warren S. Ma- 

 son, Farmington; first vice-president 

 George H. Hollister, Hartford; second 

 vice-president, Carl Peterson, West 

 Hartford; third vice-president, Oscar 

 F. Gritzmacher, New Britain; secre- 

 tary. Alfred Dixon, Wethersfield- 

 treasurer. W. W. Hunt; librarian, Wil- 

 liam T. Hall; botanist, C. H. Sierman 

 pomologist, G. H. Hollister. County 

 vice-presidents: Middlesex, Alex Gum- 

 ming; Fairfield, Charles H. Plump- 

 New Haven, John H. Slocombe- Wind'- 

 ham, Frank M. Smith; Tolland. Theo- 

 dore Staudt; Litchfield, Walter .\ngus 

 The president will announce the ex- 

 ecutive committee at the next meeting 

 Mr. Mason is the grandson of C S 

 Mason, who held, in New Britain, in 

 1882, the first flower show ever given 

 in Connecticut. He was born in Meri 

 den, in 1879. For the past fourteen 

 years he has had charge of the con- 

 servatories and grounds of the late A 

 A. Pope of Farmington, which are 

 conceded to be among the best in this 

 section of New England. 



The next meeting will' be held Jan- 

 uary 8, 1915. when a program for th" 

 hrst half of the year will be presented. 

 Alfred Dixo.v, Sec'y. 

 Wethersfield, Conn. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS 



AND ORNAMENTAL HORTI- 



CULTURISTS. 



Department of Plant Registration. 



As no objections have been filed, 

 public notice is hereby given that the 

 registration of the seedling geranium 

 by Charles Borrman, 338 High St 

 Buffalo, N. Y., becomes complete. 



Joii.x You.xG. Sec'y. 



Dec. 19, 1914 



On Dec. 17 an unusual thing hap- 

 pened in Lancaster— a meeting of the 

 Association and only half of their 

 members in attendance. This was ex- 

 plained by the fact that it was the 

 coldest night of the season and many 

 of our members do their own firing 

 and a few others when interviewed 

 pleaded the mad rush for dollars just 

 preceding Christmas. 



After the usual routine of business 

 M. J. Brinton of Christiana read a 

 paper on Lilies and other bulbs for 

 winter blooming. 1. Rosnosky of the 

 H. F. Michell Co., Philadelphia, pretty 

 nearly fell off his chair when Mr 

 Brinton began to quote figures as to 

 the quantity of bulbs he planted- 

 over a million lilies, and other bulbs 

 by the half million and hundred thou- 

 sand. Mr. Brinton is a man of affairs 

 in his town, a keen business man. and 

 gave us a practical business paper of 

 much value. In the discussion that 

 followed Mr. Rosnosky gave some very 

 interesting and instructive ideas on 

 the lily question. 



This was followed by a paper by 

 Chas. B Herr of Strasburg on car 

 nations from the field to the present 

 nine, in the discussion of Mr Kerr's 

 paper the growers present all seemed 

 very favorably impressed with Gorge- 

 ous on account of its remarkable keep- 

 ing qualities. A number are on the 

 fence between Matchless and White 

 Wonder, the latter having made good 



u Wr, /," """^""^ '" 'h's section that 

 It will take considerable time for any 

 other to replace it. Beacon had but 

 wo strong advocates-the writer and 

 the reader of the paper. One of the 

 growers present could not say enough 

 U ^J °^ Champion as a scarlet or 

 red. We expected some of the novel- 

 ties on exhibition, but they were side- 

 tracked somewhere and did not arrive 

 There seemed to be a general inclina^ 

 tion to try out Alice and Mrs. Ake- 

 hurst pretty extensively. 



B F^ Barr *as nominated for presi- 

 dent: Lemon Landis for secretary and 

 ,11^ K- Rohrer for treasurer. One 

 of the visitors made the remark that 

 Penrose had nothing on this club 

 When It came to nominations" We 

 argue on the principle that when you 

 nave a good secretary and treasurer it 

 does not pay to make a change and 

 that the_ president does not have time 

 enough in one year to work out his 

 theories and ideas, so we eive him two 

 years, but look out for the steam roll- 

 er If he tried for a three-year term 

 Dennis Connor was on hand to see 

 that no building got past the Lord & 

 Durnnam people. 



The next meeting will be an inform- 

 a social (stag) at a cost not to exceed 

 $1.50 per. There will be plentv to eat, 

 plenty of water to drink, duck pin con- 

 tests and other sports from 6.30 P M 

 to ?.??. Previous to this at 1 P M 

 we will take the Strasburg car for a 

 triD to see Chas. B. Herr and Amos 

 Rohrer. This will be a s'ood time for 

 visitors to get acquainted with us and 

 we will not embarrass them by in- 

 sisting on paying their expenses,' hav- 



