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HORTICULTURE 



February 24. 1917 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



N. Y. FEDERATION OF HORTICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETIES AND 

 FLORAL CLUBS. 



A most enthusiastic meeting of the 

 Federation was held at Ithaca, New- 

 York, February 15, 1917, in connection 

 with Farmers' Week. Of the ten fed- 

 erated societies and clubs, nine sent 

 delegates. Because of the scheduled 

 meeting coming on St. Valentine's Day, 

 it was considered better to postpone 

 the luncheon and official meeting of 

 the Federation from Wednesday, the 

 14th, until Thursday. During the 

 morning and afternoon the delegates 

 attended lectures and viewed the ex- 

 hibit prepared by students in the De- 

 partment of Floriculture of the Univer- 

 sity. At noon a luncheon was given 

 by the Department for the various 

 delegates in attendance; thirty were 

 seated at the luncheon. At four o'clock 

 the business meeting of the Federation 

 was held. At this meeting it was 

 voted to amend the constitution so 

 that four meetings will be held during 

 the coming year: the annual meeting 

 at Syracuse in connection with the 

 State Fair; a winter meeting at Itha- 

 ca, during Farmers' Week; a third 

 meeting at New York City during the 

 annual flower show, and a fourth 

 meeting to be held with some affiliated 

 society, upon the call of the President. 

 An invitation was accepted from Dr. 

 Bates of the Syracuse Rose Society to 

 hold a meeting in Syracuse at the time 

 of the next annual exhibition of the 

 society. 



A discussion then took place regard- 

 ing the progress of a bill for the erec- 

 tion of a Horticultural Building on the 

 New York State Fair Grounds. After 

 discussion it was decided to appoint a 

 committee, with a joint committee of 

 the New York State Vegetable Grow- 

 ers' Association and with members 

 from horticultural organizations to 

 confer with various officials at Albany, 

 influential in appropriations. It was 

 voted to Instruct this committee to 

 make every effort possible to impress 

 these officials with the need of an im- 

 mediate appropriation for starting the 

 development of the plans for a Horti- 

 cultural Building. It was the feeling 

 of the Federation that such a building 

 was absolutely essential for the best 

 development of the horticultural in- 

 terests of the State of New Y'ork. 



It was also moved that the question 

 of the introduction of a bill to the 

 Legislature, asking for a range of glass 

 houses for investigational use in flower 

 growing and vegetable culture at Cor- 

 nell University be referred to the same 

 committee, with power. It was voted 

 that the President appoint a commit- 

 tee of three to work with the Commis- 

 sioner of Agriculture and the Super- 

 intendent of the New York State Fair 

 in revising the premium list. 



Meetings Next Week 



Monday, Feb. 26. 



Florists' and tJardeners' Cluh nf 

 Rhode Island, Swartz Uall, Provi- 

 dence, K. I. 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of 

 lialtimore. Florist Exchange Hall, 

 lialtimore, Md. 



Tuesday, Feb. 27. 



Newport Horti<-nltural Society, 

 Newport, R. I. 



Tarrytown Hortiiultural Society, 

 Tarrytown, N. Y. 



Wednesday, Feb. 28. 



Oyster Bay Horticultural S(M-iety, 

 Oyster Bay, N. Y. 



Thursday, March 1. 



Albany Florists' Club. .VIbauy. 

 .\. Y. 



Reading (Pa.) Ki^irists' Associa- 

 tion, Reading. Pa. 



Southampton Horticultural So- 

 ciety. Odd Fellows Hall, Southamp- 

 ton, N. Y. 



Friday, March 2. 



North Shore Horticultural Society, 

 Manchester, Mass. 



North Shore Horticultural Society, 

 Lake Forest, HI. 



Pasadena Horticultural Society, 

 Pasadena, Calif. 



Y^onkers Horticultural Society, 

 Youkers. N. Y. 



People's Park Cottage Gardeners' 

 Association, Paterson, N. J. 



Saturday, March 3, 



Pacific Coast Horticultural Society, 

 .San Francisco, Calif. 



W. F. Bultman, of Syracuse, present- 

 ed an application from the Syracuse 

 Florists' Association for membership 

 in the Federation. This Association 

 was voted into membership. 



The report of the Treasurer showed 

 a balance on hand of $206.40. 



The following is a list of those in 

 attendance; 



C. S. 'S\'ilson and F. A. Danker, Albany : 

 Krl A. Bates. ^Yerner F. Bultman, George 

 E. Thorpe and Edmund M. Mills. Syracuse: 

 Anton Scliultheis. College Point: H. B. 

 Stringer and A. S. A. Seeker, Rochester; 

 George Arnold. Enseuore ; Bert Hill, Wilkes- 

 Barre. Pa.; C. B. Ogston. Rochester; W. A. 

 Adams. Henry H. Elbers. Albert Reichert. 

 Earle Stevens, E. C. Brucker. Mark Palmei' 

 and Peter Hoffman. Buffalo ; Kenneth K. 

 Boynton, New York City; Joseph E. Tan- 

 sey. Tuxedo Park; C. L. Thayer, A. C. Beal. 

 D. Lumsden and E. A. White, Ithaca ; F. K. 

 Pierson, Tarrytown; J. H. Duulop and 

 Frank Dunlop. Richmond Hill. Ont. 



E. A. White, Secy. 



ASSOCIATION OF KEW GARDEN- 

 ERS IN AMERICA. 



The Association of Kew Gardeners 

 in America is planning to hold its 

 second annual banquet and reunion 

 in New York on March 16, (Second 

 day of the Spring Flower Show in 

 New York). The price per plate is $2.00 

 All Kew men are urged to attend 'and 

 bring their wives or lady friends. For 

 more particulars regarding place and 

 time of meeting apply to S. R. Candler. 

 P. 0. Box 278, Southampton, N. Y. 

 S. R. Caxdi.f.r, Secy. 



LANCASTER COUNTY FLORISTS' 

 CLUB. 



To Manheim in a driving snow 

 storm, eleven of us all told, but a mer- 

 ry party and a pleasant visit. At Mun- 

 roe Hostetter's we found a general as- 

 sortment of stock for cutting; at 

 Phares Hostetter's, twenty thousand 

 callas in bloom and more than that 

 coming on for next season, with sweet 

 peas filling every inch of remaining 

 space; at E. P. Hostetter's, Sprengeri 

 and Plumosus, mignonette and baby 

 primroses by the ten thousand, all 

 used for cutting, sweet peas by the 

 tens of thousands; in carnations, prin- 

 cipally Enchantress Supreme and 

 Matchless, with a few very fine Vic- 

 tory. All this and more we saw at 

 Manheim. 



In the evening the attendance was 

 not quite up to the mark and the ex- 

 hibition small but excellent. Sweet 

 peas were staged by Frank L. Kohr, 

 Phares Hostetter, B. F. Barr and E. P. 

 Hostetter. 



Having been disappointed in getting 

 the essayist expected, the writer read 

 an article on "Sweet Peas under Glass" 

 from the Year Book and also gave a 

 resume of the Indianapolis carnation 

 meeting and show. 



In the question box was one on the 

 coal situation for next season, but the 

 minute co-operative buying as men- 

 tioned there is a sudden freeze-up over 

 what had previously been a very cor- 

 dial assembly, and it will take a hard- 

 er situation even than the present one 

 to get real intelligent co-operation 

 started. It is to be hoped that our 

 sons or at least our grandsons will 

 have wiser heads on their shoulders. 

 We are, however, getting together on 

 a few things and invite the attention 

 of the florists in general and the S. A. 

 F. in particular to some things that 

 are going to emanate from Ijancaster 

 shortly. 



At the next meeting, March 15, the 

 topic will be Easter Plants by Thomas 

 Fries. Alrert M. Herr. 



NASSAU COUNTY (N. Y.) HORTI- 

 TURAL SOCIETY. 



The monthly meeting of this society 

 was held on Feb. 14th. A letter was 

 read from the Davey Tree Expert Co., 

 Kent, Ohio, inviting a delegate repre- 

 senting this society to attend their an- 

 nual convention to be held on March 

 5-10 inclusive. Awards were made as 

 follows; John F. Johnson for cycla- 

 men; Harry Goodband for tomatoes; 

 Frank Watson for roses; hon. mention 

 to Robt. Jones for sweet peas. Rose 

 Queen. A very instructive essay was 

 ably read by Robt. Jones, entitled 

 "What Science Has Done and Will Do 

 for Floriculture." by Prof. E. A. White 

 of Ithaca. P. W. Popp offered a spe- 

 cial prize of $5.00 for the most meri- 

 torious exhibit at our next meeting. 

 Robt. .Tones offered a prize of $10.00 

 to be competed tor at our annual tulip 

 show to be held in May. 



Exhibits for the next meeting. March 

 14. are 12 white. 12 pink and 12 mixed 

 carnations. 



H.\RRY Goodband. Secy. 



