March 3, 1917 



HOETICULTUEE 



271 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



CHICAGO FLORISTS' CLUB. 

 Novelty Show and Jubilee. 



The Good of the Club Committee, 

 Geo. Asmus. chairman, has completed 

 arrangements to hold a Novelty Show 

 and Jubilee at the New Morrison Ho- 

 tel, Thursday afternoon and evening, 

 March 8th. Special arrangements 

 have been made to entertain a large 

 attendance of the trade, and every 

 florist is invited. 



Growers of novelties and members 

 of the club are especially invited to 

 send exhibits of cut flowers and plants, 

 which will be displayed in the .\"ew 

 Morrison Hotel parlors, B-5 and B-6. 

 Send all exhibits express prepaid to 

 A. Zech, Flower Show, Care of New 

 Morrison Hotel, Chicago. Please ar- 

 range to have your exhibits reach 

 destination Thursday morning, March 

 8th. Guy French has been appointed 

 manager of this show, and will see 

 that all exhibits sent will be displayed 

 to the best advantage. The exhibition 

 will 'be open for inspection from 3 

 P. M. to 10.30 P. M., and arrangements 

 are now being made to invite the pub- 

 lic. 



The Jubilee will be in the form of a 

 fine chicken dinner, which Is an- 

 nounced to take place promptly at 6.30 

 P. M. on same floor as the floral e.x- 

 hibition. Every one in the trade 

 should attend and bring a guest. Please 

 notify F. Lautenschlager, 440 W. Erie 

 St., Chicago, immediately how many 

 reservations you wish. The dinner 

 will be served at $1.50 per person (re- 

 freshments and cigars with compli- 

 ments of the Chicago Florists' Club). 



The Jubilee is in honor of the Illi- 

 nois University students, who will at- 

 tend our meeting and exhibition. 

 Every one in the trade should meet 

 these young men; they have promised 

 to bring a very interesting exhibit 

 from the university greenhouses. 



COME— COME— let's make this the 

 banner meeting of the year. 



CHICAGO FLORISTS' CLUB 



PUBLICITY COMMITTER, 

 P. LiAUTENSCHL.^GER, Chairman. 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF 

 WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA. 

 The meeting on February 20th was 

 well attended and very lively. A let- 

 ter from the chairman of the Flower 

 Show Committee was read accepting 

 the gift of a prize for the show in 

 June. Sabin Bolton was selected as 

 the delegate to the Davey Convention 

 at Kent, Ohio. 



This was carnation night. Among the 

 exhibits were some from Mr. C. D. Arm- 

 strong, gard. Thomas E. Tyler, which 

 received a cultural certificate, Benora 

 being by far the best grown in the 

 city of Pittsburgh for a long time. Jlr. 

 Tyler was also given a cultural certi- 



Meetings Next Week 



Monday, March 5. 



lierii;iriis\ille Uoi'tioultural So- 

 ciety, il"iticultmal Hall, Bernards- 

 ville. N. J. 



Elberiiu Horticultural Society, 

 Fire Hall, Ellieron, N. J. 



Hou.sti'ii Florists' Club, Chamber 

 of Comnieri-e Koonis, Houston, Tex. 



Monlroal (Jardeuers' and P'lorists' 

 Club, Mfjntreal. Canada. 



New Hedfurd Hoi-ticultural So- 

 ciety, Ne\^' Bedford, Mass. 



Washington Florists' Club, Wash- 

 histon, D. C. 



Tuesday, March 6. 



Florists' and Gardeners' Club of 

 Holyoke and Xorthampton. Mass. 



Lake Geneva Gardeners' and Fore- 

 men's Association, Horticultural 

 Hall, Lake Geneva, Wis. 



Ljos Angeles County Horticultural 

 Society, Los Angeles, Cal. 



Paterson Floricultural Society, Y. 

 M. C. A. Bldg,, Paterson, N. J. 



Florists' Club of^ Philadelphia, 

 Horticultural Hall, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Pittsburgh I'"orists' alid Garden- 

 ers' Cub, Fort Pitt Hotel, Pitts- 

 burgh, Pa. 



Wednesday, March 7. 



Tu.\cd.> ll.iiticiilliir.il Sc.ii.ty. 

 Tuxedo Park. X. Y. 



Thursday, March 8. 



!Mculo Park Htuticuitural Society, 

 Menlo Park, Calif. 



New London Horticultural Soci- 

 ety, Municipal I'ldg.. New London, 

 Conn. 



Friday, March 9. 



Connecticut Horticultural So- 

 ciety, County Building, Hartford, 

 Conn. 



Westchester and Fairfield Horti- 

 cultural Society, Doran's Hall, 

 Greenwich, Conn. 



Saturday, March 10. 



Dobbs r^erry Gardeners' Associa- 

 tion, Dolibs Ferry, N. Y. 



ficate for Odontoglossum. -Mr. Mc- 

 Namara received a similar award for 

 a fine collection of winter vegetables. 

 Other exhibits \Vere Ophelia roses by 

 Walter James and sweet peas by 

 A. A. Leach. Visitors of the evening 

 were F. E. Conine. Stratford, Conn., 

 and Mr. Smart from Knight & Struck 

 Co. 



NEW YORK FLORISTS' CLUB. 



The next meeting of the New York 

 Florists' Club, Monday, March 12th, 

 will be Rose Night. The exhibition 

 committee will be pleased to receive 

 exhibits of roses, new and standard 

 varieties, from any rose grower in the 

 United States for exhibition on this 

 occasion. We expect to have a large 

 display of roses this night and are 

 now in touch with all the leading rose 

 growers in the country. 



All shipments by express must be 

 received in New York not later than 

 6 P. M., Monday, March 12th, addressed 

 to John Young, No. 53 West 28th 

 street. New York City, marked "For 

 Exhibition." 



CONNECTICUT HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



At the fortnightly meeting of this 

 society, February 23, Wallace R. Pier- 

 son opened a discussion as to the ef- 

 fect of the proposed bill prohibiting 

 the importation of fruit trees, shrubs, 

 bulbs, etc. Mr. Pierson is heartily in 

 favor of the bill, but before its final 

 passage he thinks it will not include 

 seeds and bulbs, as diseases and in- 

 sect life are not likely to be introduced 

 into this country through that source. 

 He also believes that we can grow 

 better stock, especially for rose graft- 

 ing, than has been supplied by Belgium, 

 and the same applies to bulbs and 

 azaleas. With the three-year leeway 

 allowed by the bill. Mr. Pierson is of 

 the opinion that no hardships will be 

 placed upon the growers in this coun- 

 try through the curtailment of impor- 

 tations. 



C. H. Sierman. one of Hartford's 

 leading landscape gardeners, was in- 

 clined to the belief that such stock as 

 landscape gardeners use .can be grown 

 in this country. He feels that it will 

 be a hardship at first, but the nursery- 

 men will take the bull by the horns 

 and eventually it will work to their 

 advantage. 



John F. Huss stated that it would be 

 a detriment to him, as private places 

 demand novelties, and the greater part 

 of that class of stock was imported. 



Warren S. :\Iason strongly favored 

 the bill. The society extended to Mr. 

 Pierson a hearty vote of thanks. 



H. R. Hurd, gardener of the Beach 

 estate. West Hartford, exhibited some 

 very fine cinerarias and received a 

 cultural certificate. 



The June Flower Show cotnmittee 

 will get together on Tuesday evening 

 and make plans. A. Dixox, Secy. 



Hnrtford. Conn. 



CONNECTICUT NURSERYMEN'S 

 ASSOCIATION. 



The eleventh annual meeting of the 

 Connecticut Nurserymen's Association 

 was held at Hotel Garde, Hartford, 

 Conn.. Wednesday, Feb. 21st. We had 

 a very interesting session. The ques- 

 tion of Foreign Importation, diseases 

 of plants, etc., was discussed and much 

 information relative to the latter was 

 obtained through our being favored 

 with addresses from such able speak- 

 ers as Dr. W. E. Britton, State Ento- 

 mologist; Dr. Geo. B. Clinton, State 

 Botanist; Mr. W. 0. Filley, .State For- 

 ester; F. B. Kelley and others. 



LIncler election of officers, F. S. Bak- 

 er, of Cheshire, Conn., was elected 

 president: C. F. Brainard, of Thomp- 

 sonville, vice-president; F. L. Thomas, 

 Meriden, Conn., re-elected secretary, 

 and W. W. Hunt, of Hartford, re-elected 

 treasurer. F. L. Thom-\.s, Secy. 



The Retail Florists' Association of 

 St. Louis have elected officers as fol- 

 lows: President, F. H. Weber; vice- 

 president. Theodore Miller; secretary, 

 Marion Ahlschmidt: treasurer, F. C. 

 Weber. Jr. 



The North Shore Horticultural So- 

 ciety, Manchester, Mass., has selected 

 Wm. Till and A. E. Parsons, with Eric 

 Wetterlow and Axel Magnusen alter- 

 nates as delegates to the Davey Tree 

 Expert Convention at Kent, Ohio. 



