April 7, 1917 



HOKTICULTURE 



453 





CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



LANCASTER COUNTY FLORISTS' 

 ASSOCIATION. 



Having a notification from the Read- 

 ing florists that they were coming over 

 to visit us, we had been hoping for 

 good weather and good roads, but 

 dame nature would not have it that 

 way and instead of the delightful auto- 

 mobile trips we had planned we were 

 reduced to trolley service. Messrs. J. 

 Stanley Giles, John Downing, J. C. 

 Bauder, Fulmer Lauck, Layton Butts, 

 Frederick Frank, Alfred Loundon, Lee 

 P. Arnold were the visitors. After 

 lunch they were taken to the M. J. 

 Brinton establishment in Christiana 

 with some eighteen Lancasterians aa 

 company. Mr. Brinton grows some 

 50,000 Spanish iris, about a quarter of 

 a million lily bulbs and other stock in 

 proportion. A batch of 3,000 gladioli 

 produced less than 100 spikes. They 

 were cold storage stock and the small 

 percentage of bloom is ascribed to this 

 fact. They did, however, make excel- 

 lent bulbs, but the production of bulbs 

 in a greenhouse is an expensive prop- 

 osition. Mr. Brinton in addition to his 

 bulb houses has a block of Lord & 

 Bumham houses devoted to carnations. 

 We had to jump from Christiana to 

 Chas. M. Weaver's at Ronks, where 

 sweet peas were to be seen in houses 

 that made you tired to walk from end 

 to end, the houses being planted at dif- 

 ferent times, coming along in succes- 

 sion. A house of mignonette is now 

 being torn out to make room tor early 

 asters. At Elmer Weaver's we found 

 a fine lot of seedling carnations. One 

 of their carnation houses is not a car- 

 nation house but is a sweet pea house 

 with carnations between; the carna- 

 tions did fairly well before the peas 

 reached their six-foot height, but are 

 now beginning to suffer from the 

 shade. 



Getting back to Lancaster a hurried 

 trip was made to the B. F. BaiT green- 

 houses. The new packing and ware- 

 house building came in for its share 

 of approval. 



After dinner we repaired to the 

 Chamber of Commerce rooms where 

 the regular meeting was held. Thomas 

 Fries gave a very Instructive talk on 

 bulbs and other stock for Easter. Al- 

 bert M. Herr gave a resume of the pro- 

 ceedings of the Philadelphia Club at 

 their express meeting. The question 

 of coal prices was brought up and 

 there is not anyone who has contract- 

 ed at a less price than twice what he 

 paid for this season's supp'y — many 

 paying even more than double. When 

 you tell the coal man, he says, "I'm 

 sorry, but this is the price for next 



Monday, April 9. 



Cleveland Fluiists' Club HoUen- 

 (lou Hutel, Clevelaud, Oliio. 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of 

 ISaltiniore, Florists' Exchange Hall, 

 Baltimore, Md. 



New York Florists Club' Grand 

 Opera House, New York City. 



Rochester Florists' Association, 

 95 Main St., East Rochester, N. Y. 



Tuesday, April 10. 



Newport Horticultural Society, 

 Newport, R. I. 



Wednesday, April 11. 



Cincinnati Florists' Society, Jabez 

 Elliott Flower Market, Cincinnati, O. 



Dutchess County Horticultural 

 Society, Fallkill Bldg., Poughkeepsie, 

 N. Y. 



Lenox Horticultural Society, Lenox, 

 Mass. 

 Ill Morris County Florists' and Gar- 

 deners' Society, Madison. N. J. 



Nassau County Horticultural So- 

 ciety, Pembroke Hall, Glen Cove, 



N. Y. 



Thursday, April 12. 



jNIenlo Park Horticultural Society, 

 nil Menlo Park, Calif. 



New London Horticultural Soci- 

 ety, Municipal Bldg., New London. 

 Conn. 



Friday, April 13. 



Connecticut Horticultural So- 

 ciety, County Building, Hartford, 

 Conn. 



Westchester and Fairfield Horti- 

 cultural Society, Doran's Hall, Green- 

 wich, Conn. 



Saturday, April 14. 



Dobbs Ferry Gardeners' Associa- 

 tion, Dobbs Ferry, N. Y. 



season." You are also sorry, but you 

 sign your contract all the same. Why 

 not say to your customer, "I'm sorry, 

 but I must have these extra few cents 

 for my plants this season in order to 

 meet my own expenses." If they real- 

 ly want the plant or flowers they will 

 readily pay the slight increase the 

 same as they are doing all along the 

 line, and if they do not, you are better 

 off not to sell at a price that repre- 

 sents actual loss. 



George P. Leonard of the Kentucky 

 Tobacco Product Co. gave a very in- 

 teresting talk on nicotine products. 

 For the next meeting J. Wade Galey 

 will give us a paper on carnations. 



Albebt M. Herr. 



The regular monthly meeting of the 

 Mount Kisco, (N. Y.) Horticultural 

 Society was held in Firemen's Hall, 

 on March 13th. Business was gone 

 over quickly owing to our having a 

 lecture on Poultry Raising by Mr. 

 Sewell, of Dellwood Farm. Mr. Com- 

 nolly had some fine exhibits of carna- 

 tions, sweet peas, lily of the valley 

 and mushrooms. Doors were opened 

 at 8 P. M. for the public and there 

 was a fine attendance. Mr. Sewell 

 gave an able and instructive address. 

 At our next meeting on April 9th 

 James Scott, Elmsford Nurseries, will 

 give a talk on Out Door Roses. 



A. G. Ross, Secy. 



NEW YORK FEDERATION OF HOR- 

 TICULTURAL SOCIETIES AND 

 FLORAL CLUBS. 



A meeting of the New York Feder- 

 ation of Horticultural Societies and 

 Floral Clubs was held at 101 Park 

 Avenue, New York City, Monday, 

 March 19th, at four o'clock. President 

 P. R. Pierson presided at the meeting. 

 The following organizations were rep- 

 resented by delegates: New York 

 Florists' Club, New York Horticultural 

 Society, New York and New Jersey 

 Plant Growers' Association, Albany 

 Horticultural Society, Rochester Flor- 

 ists' Club, Buffalo Florists' Club, Tar- 

 rytown Horticultural Society, Syracuse 

 Florists' Association. 



President F. R. Pierson reported re- 

 garding a joint meeting of delegates 

 from the Federation and from the New 

 York Vegetable Growers' Association, 

 which was held in Albany on Febru- 

 ary 22nd. This joint committee had a 

 conference with the Lieutenant-Gover- 

 nor, the Chairman of the Finance Com- 

 mittee and the Chairman of the Ways 

 and Means Committee regarding an ap- 

 propriation for a Horticultural Build- 

 ing at the New York State Fair 

 Grounds. President Pierson reported 

 that the Governor was keenly interest- 

 ed in the building and that the com- 

 mittee was anxious to do everything 

 possible to obtain it, but changing the 

 race track and the necessity for new 

 buildings for horses and swine, to- 

 gether with the financial situation in 

 the state this year, seemed to make it 

 impossible that an appropriation be 

 made for the whole amount. It was 

 hoped that a sufficient appropriation 

 at least might be mad© to have the 

 plans drawn and the construction on 

 part of the buildings begun. The com- 

 mittee discussed plans with the state 

 architect and these plans provided for 

 a building large enough to Accommo- 

 date the exhibits of fruits, vegetables, 

 flowers and farm crops. 



President Pierson also reported that 

 his committee had decided that be- 

 cause of the financial situation in the 

 state this year, the money for the in- 

 vestigational range of greenhouses at 

 Cornell University should not be asked 

 for. 



Charles H. Vick of Rochester, Anton 

 Schultheis of College Point and Fred 

 Danker of Albany, were appointed on 

 a committee to confer with tlie Coru- 

 misioner of Agriculture and the super- 

 intendent of the flower exhibit at the 

 New York State Fair regarding the ad- 

 justment of a more satisfactory pre- 

 mium list for flowers and plants. 



E. A. White, Secy. 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF 

 NEW YORK. 



The fall exhibition of this society 

 will be held from November 8th to 

 11th, inclusive, at the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History. A schedule 

 of classes and premiums for this ex- 

 hibition is now being prepared and 

 will be ready for distribution shortly. 

 The following classes and premiums, 



