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HOETICULTURE 



April 28, 1917 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



LANCASTER COUNTY FLORISTS' 

 CLUB. 



A small delegation of this organiza- 

 tion visited Lititz on April 19. Yellow 

 daisies and snapdragons were found in 

 heavy quantity at C. S. Loeffler's. 

 Keystone and the Giant varieties of 

 snapdragon have been cutting unin- 

 terruptedly since October and are still 

 good. Silver Pink is just coming into 

 crop and will be discarded for next 

 season. A trial on forcing Spanish 

 iris has turned out fairly well but he 

 finds that about forty per cent do not 

 bloom the first year. A new early 

 lavender sweet pea here was one of the 

 sensations of the trip. It produces 

 very long stemmed flowers with, in the 

 majority of cases, four flowers to a 

 stem. 



Enos Kohr's place was visited. Over 

 100,000 carnations are under cultiva- 

 tion here. Alice has proved so satis- 

 factory that one whole house will be 

 devoted to it next season. His house 

 of young stock from which they have 

 just commenced planting into the field 

 is given to carnations only. They are 

 planted into soil on benches direct 

 from the sand bed and topped pretty 

 low. Here as everywhere the coal 

 and labor proposition is a serious one 

 for next winter. 



At 7.30 the club meeting was called 

 to order with only a fair attendance. 

 The matter of not getting our empty 

 cut-flower boxes returned was brought 

 up and it will be given to our attorney 

 along with other claims against the 

 express company. A general discus- 

 sion on the inferior quality of the box 

 sent out the past year was indulged in 

 and Mr. Elmer Weaver of Ronks, Pa., 

 was appointed a committee of one to 

 get prices and samples from the dif- 

 ferent makers to make up a club order 

 of a carload or more. 



J. Wade Galey gave us a very inter- 

 esting paper on carnations, one strong 

 point he brought out being that he at- 

 tributed his success to the fact that he 

 tops often instead of trying to make 

 a cleanup at one time, and believes in 

 allowing the young plants to have 

 some foliage' for the production of 

 roots. 



It was decided to hold our picnic in 

 June with time and place fixed at the 

 May meeting. The President appoint- 

 ed Harry K. Rohrer, Lemon Landis 

 and J. De Barry Heinitsh a committee 

 to arrange said picnic. 



The Programme Committee reported 

 having secured Richard Vincent, Jr. to 

 give us an illustrated lecture on 

 Dahlias for the May meeting, with an 

 invitation to the ladies to attend. 



Visiting trips are discontinued until 

 next fall. 



Albeet M. Hebe. 



Tuesday, May 1. 



Florists' aud Gardeners' Club of ) 

 Holyoke and Northampton, Mass. 



Lake Geneva Gardeners' and Fore- 

 men's Association, Horticultural 

 Hall. Lake Geneva, Wis. 



Los 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 Florists' and Garden- 

 ers' Club. Fort Pitt Hotel, Pitts- 

 burgh, Pa. 



Wednesday, May 2. 



Tuxedo Horticultural Society, 

 Tuxedo Park, N. Y. 



Thursday, May 3. 



Albany Florists' Club, Albany, 

 N. Y. 



Reading (Pa.) Florists' Associa- 

 tion, Reading, Pa. 



.Southampton Horticultural So- 

 ciety. Odd Fellows Hall, Southamp- 

 ton. X. Y. 



Friday, May 4. 



North Shore Horticultural Society, 

 Manchester, Mass. 



North Shore Horticultural Society, 

 Lake Forest, 111. 



Pasadena Horticultural Society, 

 Yonkers, N. Y. 



Peoples' Park Cottage Gardeners' 

 Association, Paterson, N. J. 



Yonkers Horticultural .Society, 

 Yonkers. N. Y. 



Saturday, May 5. 

 Pacific Coast Horticultural Society, 



NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GAR- 

 DENERS. 



The winners in the assistant garden- 

 ers' essay contest, for which Ex-Presi- 

 dent William N. Craig offered three 

 prizes in gold — $25, ?15 and $10 — have 

 been awarded by the judges as fol- 

 lows: 



1st — "Rock Gardening," by Marcel 

 M. Twinney, second assistant green- 

 house gardener to J. Ogden Armour, 

 Lake Forest, 111. 2nd — "Hardy Fruits," 

 by Frederick W. Bateman, assistant in 

 charge of greenhouses, Mrs. P. Boett- 

 ger estate, Riverdale-on-Hudson, N. Y. 

 3rd — "Garden Chemistry in Soil Culti- 

 vation," by William S. Gillies, assist- 

 ant gardener to R. H. Boggs, Sewick- 

 ley. Pa. 



The directors of the association have 

 decided on the first week in December 

 as the 1917 convention date. Chicago 

 was voted the convention city at the 

 annual meeting held in Washington 

 last December. 



President Thomas W. Head reports 

 that much interest is being manifested 

 in the first annual convention to be 

 held in a westei-n city among the mem- 

 bers of the gardening profession lo- 

 cated in the west, while a good-sized 

 delegation from the eastern states is 

 looked for. Many eastern members 

 have already signified their intention 

 of going to Chicago to the annual con- 

 vention. President Head will shortly 

 announce his convention committees. 



LENOX HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 



The monthly meeting of this Society 

 was held April 11. J. Johnstone, of 

 Blythewood Farms, Pittsfield, read a 

 paper entitled "The Young Gardener." 

 Mr. Johnstone was accorded a rising 

 vote of thanks. The delegates to the 

 Davey Tree Expert Co., Kent, Ohio, 

 made their report and a copy of which 

 follows: 



In making a report of my visit to 

 Kent, 0., to attend the convention of 

 the Davey Tree Expert Co., as a dele- 

 gate from this Society, I wish to 

 frankly state at the outset that at no 

 time was anything said or done at that 

 convention which might compromise 

 this society or its members individu- 

 ally. No soliciting for business was 

 even hinted at, so that at the start 

 we stand even. 



Our outward trip in two Pullman 

 cars was thoroughly enjoyed, going 

 by way of Harrisburg and Pittsburgh, 

 but as we traveled this distance dur- 

 ing the night, any mention of the 

 country we passed through is impos- 

 sible, except that during the early 

 evening the well-kept farms, and out- 

 buildings all nicely painted and in 

 good repair were conspicuous by their 

 frequency while traveling between 

 New York and Philadelphia. On Tues- 

 day morning after breakfast we had 

 a long wait at Hudson for a connec- 

 tion, but finally got away and soon 

 reached Akron, our headquarters be- 

 ing at the Howes Hotel. We were 

 met by a delegation of the Davey Tree 

 Expert Co., who took care of us from 

 the moment we arrived until our de- 

 parture. After registering and having 

 our rooms assigned, we left by special 

 car for Kent, 0., where we were taken 

 to the Mason's Club, which we seemed 

 to own during our stay. The first part 

 of the arranged programme had to be 

 somewhat modified on account of our 

 late arrival, but a banquet to start 

 with seemed to meet general approval, 

 after which we were conducted to the 

 Opera House, to witness a stereopti- 

 con lecture on Wild Flowers by Prof. 

 House, of Albany, which proved most 

 interesting and made a plea for the 

 preservation of our wild flowers. This 

 lecture brought home the fact of how 

 few there are of these beautiful in- 

 habitants of our woods and meadows 

 with which we are on speaking terms, 

 and only when they are projected on 

 the screen do we realize how many 

 beautiful things our feet trample to 

 death, unknown and unappreciated. 

 Wild flowers are most interesting, and 

 I can but recommend their study to 



