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HORTICULTURE 



January 27, 1917 



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HENDERSON'S 



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LANCASTER COUNTY FLORISTS' 

 ASSOCIATION. 



A Trip to Strasburg, Pa. 



Jan. ISth was one of the few ideal 

 days we have had out of the last sixty 

 or seventy and it found fifteen ideal 

 member.s of this club ready for the 2 

 o'clock car on a trip to Strasburg. The 

 first stop was at Amos Rohrer's, whose 

 carnations, mostly standard varieties, 

 were uniformly good. He is trying 

 out Theo, and while the plants look 

 good and healthy, it is not fully satis- 

 factory as a commercial variety, some 

 of them coming off color. Alice Coombs 

 does not measure up to the standard 

 Mr. Rohrer has set for a good carna- 

 tion. It gives exhibition flowers but 

 not enough of them. 



Chas. B. Herr's was next on the list. 

 It is a carnation plant pure and simple. 

 Of course not every variety meets Mr. 

 Herr's requirements, and Dagmar, 

 Alice and Alice Coombs are not being 

 propagated for next year's stock. Pink 

 Delight is being bought to take the 

 place of Alice, and Dagmar and Alice 

 Coombs are looking for a successor 

 as yet uhfound. Beacon is beginning 

 to split a bit but will be seen as good 

 as the best in spite of this, for It is 

 either at home in this soil or is bet- 

 ter understood than with most grow- 

 ers. Matchless and Supreme are fa- 

 vorites here as they are throughout 

 almost the entire county. 



The regular meeting was called at 

 7.30 P. M. and the following officers 

 elected for 1917: President, Harry A. 

 Schroyer; vice-president, Willis B. 

 Girvin; secretary, Frank L. Kohr; 

 treasurer, Harry K. Rohrer. 



The following committees were ap- 

 pointed for the year: Programme — 

 Rudolph Nagel, Chas. B. Herr, Albert 

 M. Herr; visiting — W. B. Girvin, Le- 

 mon Landis, Ira Landis; automobile — 

 Chas. M. Weaver, A. K. Rohrer, C. S. 

 Loeffler; exhibition — B. F. Barr, M. J. 

 Brinton. J. DeBarry Heinitsh; sports — 

 David Rose, A. F. Strickler, Charles 

 Tucker. 



The paper of the evening was by 

 Elmer Weaver on the Newer Carna- 

 tions, and he did not hesitate to say 

 what he thought of the new carnations 

 and their introducers from the buyer's 

 point of view. It was not all deroga- 

 tory, neither was it flattering to most 

 of the introductions of the past few 

 years. He mentioned one grower who 

 had White Perfection better by fifty 

 per cent, than any white of recent In- 

 troduction and who obtains this result 

 by the careful selection of the cuttings. 

 He also maintained that if this were 

 followed up with other varieties the 

 novelty introducer would have to pro- 

 duce something of real merit before 

 he could get a hearing. Mr. Weaver 

 also scored the man who would send 

 out a carnation that the commission 

 dealers all condemn the second season 

 as unworthy of growing on account of 

 its keeping qualities. He claims this 

 could be overcome by having the 

 American Carnation Society test nov- 

 elties out as to their possibilities along 

 shipping lines and. if found unworthy, 

 to withhold a certificate. In speaking 

 of the newer sorts he mentioned one 

 place where Aviator was far ahead of 

 all other reds in point of production, 

 and considered it one of the few good 

 ones introduced last season. He also 



