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HOETICULTURE 



February 3, 1917 



MISSOURI STATE FLORISTS' ASSO- 

 CIATION. 



The appointments of the vice-presi- 

 dents ot the Missouri State Florists' 

 Association were made last week, and 

 comprise the following: 



H. Archias, Sedalia, Mo., two years; 

 Frank A. Windier, St. Louis, Mo., two 

 years; William L. Rock, Kansas City, 

 Mo., one year; Earl Reed, Louisiana, 

 Mo. (Stark Bros.), one year. 



This includes a representative of the 

 wholesaler, retailer, grower and the 

 nurserymen of Missouri, and President 

 Knapp is to be congratulated on the 

 selection of such able and progressive 

 material to constitute part of the ex- 

 ecutive board of the Missouri State 

 Florists' Association. 



W. S. Wells, Secy. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY OF 

 AMERICA. 

 We have received from Secretary 

 Chas. W. Johnson, type-written copy 

 of the preliminary list of Special Prizes 

 to be awarded at the Annual Exhibi- 

 tion in Cleveland, Ohio, November 6-11, 

 1917. The list inchides lots of silver 

 cups and other trophies of very sub- 

 stantial value contributed by public- 

 spirited amateurs and by chrysanthe- 

 mum specialists in the trade, and 

 there should be some lively competi- 

 tion on that occasion among commer- 

 cial growers and also among the repre- 

 sentatives of private estates. 



LADIES' SOCIETY OF AMERICAN 

 FLORISTS. 



The address of the secretary of the 

 Ladies' S. A. F. has been changed 

 from Pittsburgh, Pa, and now reads 

 Mrs. Chas. H. Maynard, Point Chau- 

 tauqua, N. Y. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



The Tennessee State Florists' Asso- 

 ciation has been holding its third an- 

 nual convention in Nashville, this 

 week. G. M. Bentley of Knoxville is 

 secretary. 



At the March meeting of the Retail 

 Florists' Association of St. Louis, the 

 annual election of officers will take 

 place. There are three candidates for 

 president. 



There will be an exhibition of Lor- 

 raine Begonias. Orchids, Chinese 

 Primroses and Forced Vegetables at 

 Horticultural Hall, Boston, on Satur- 

 day, February 3. 



The Omaha and Council Bluffs 

 Florists' Club met on January 11 and 

 officers were installed as follows: 

 President, John Bath; vice-president, 

 Lee Harmon; secretary. J. S. Gardner; 

 treasurer, H. Clark. 



Nominations for officers will be in 

 order at the next meeting of the Flor- 

 ists' Club of Washington, D. C, to be 

 held on Tuesday evening, February 6, 

 at 1214 F. street, N. W. The election 

 takes place the first Tuesday in March. 



Monday, Feb. 5. 



Bernardsville Horticultural So- 

 ciety, Horticultural Hall, Bernards- 

 ville, N. J. 



Elbeion Horticultural Society, 

 Fire Hall, Elberon, N. J. 



Houston Florists' Club, Chamber 

 of Commerce Rooms, Houston, Tex, 



Montreal Gardeners' and Florists' 

 Club, Montreal, Canada. 



New Bedford Horticultural So- 

 ciety, New Bedford, Mass. 



Washington Florists' Club, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



Tuesday, Feb. 6. 



Florists' and Gardeners' Club of 

 Holyoke and Nortbampton, 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. BIdg.. Paterson, N. J. . 



Florists' Club of Philadelphia. Hor- 

 ticultural Hall. Philadelphia, Pa. 



Pittsburgh Florists' and Garden- 

 ers' Club, Fort Pitt Hotel, Pitts- 

 burgh, Pa. 



Wednesday, Feb. 7. 



Tuxedo Horticultural 

 Tuxedo Park, N. Y. 



Society, 



Thursday, Feb. 8. 



Menlo Park Horticultural Society, 

 Menlo Park. Calif. 



New London Horticultural Society, 

 Municipal Bldg., New London, Conn. 



Friday, Feb. 9. 



Connecticut Horticultural So- 

 ciety, County Building, Hartford, 

 Conn. 



Westchester and Fairfield Horti- 

 cultural Society, Doran's Hall 

 Greenwich, Conn. 



Saturday, Feb. 10. 



Dobbs Perry Gardeners' Associa- ilR 

 tlon, Dobbs Ferry, N. Y. 



ready more than 100 members, nearly 

 all of them experienced gardeners and 

 growers, and commercial men in the 

 flower business. There is no doubt, 

 now, of the success of the society in 

 the future and of its plans for two 

 flower shows per year for Stamford. 



The advisory council of the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society has de- 

 cided to hold a garden contest each 

 year from 1919 to 1922. In 1919 the 

 contest will be for the best iris garden, 

 in 1920 for the best rose garden, in 



1921 for the best lilac garden and in 



1922 for the best fruit garden. Com- 

 mercial growers are excluded from this 

 contest. The prizes are; for first, 

 gold medal and $100; for second, silver 

 medal and $50; and for third, silver 

 medal and $25. 



The Stamford (Conn.) Horticultural 

 Society, formed a month ago, has al- 



A meeting ot the employes of the 

 Pierson greenhouses, Cromwell, Conn., 

 was held Thursday evening, January 

 25, and a society known as the Crom- 

 well Gardens Horticultural Society 

 was organized. W. R. Pierson and A. 

 N. Pierson were elected honorary 

 presidents and the following list ot 

 active officers was elected; President, 

 J. M. McEwen; vice-president, Arvid 

 Anderson; secretary and treasurer, M. 

 C. Searles; publicity manager, George 

 Anderson. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Parks. Theib De.sign, Equipment 

 AXD Use, by George Bumap, B. S. M. A. 

 Landscape Architect of Public Build- 

 ings and Grounds, Washington, D. C, 

 With an introduction by Richard B. 

 Watrous. Secretary American Civic 

 Association. Frontispiece in color. 

 Large 8 vo, decorated cloth, net, $6.00. 

 J. B. Lippincott Company, Publishers, 

 Philadelphia. 



This is one of the really great books 

 of the season. It cannot be justly 

 reviewed in a casual glance over its 

 pages. One does not have to read 

 very far to realize that its author has 

 spent a busy lifetime on the myriad 

 problems of his many-sided subject 

 and is thoroughly in touch with the 

 public — its needs and its whims. There 

 are four books intended for the series, 

 of which this is the first one issued, 

 the subjects and their order as origi- 

 nally planned being Landscape De- 

 sign, Planting Design, Park Design 

 and Garden Design. The manuscript 

 of the first, we are told, is interned 

 with the author's trunk somewhere 

 on the border between Germany and 

 France. 



In the book under consideration 

 there are 163 pictorial illustrations, of 

 which 92 are taken from foreign parks. 

 These pictures are mostly views of re- 

 stricted areas, small squares, etc., 

 which at first glance were thus some- 

 what a disappointment until we found 

 that they were presented not particu- 

 larly as examples of the author's 

 ideals but in a great many instances 

 as exhibits of what should not be done, 

 the foreign ones figuring largely In the 

 category of defective arrangement. 

 The volume contains fifteen chapters 

 under topics as follows: Park Design 

 in City Planning; Bringing Up a 

 Park the Way It Should Go; 

 Principles of Park Design; "Pass- 

 ing-Through" Parks; Neighborhood 

 Parks; Recreation Parks; Play- 

 grounds in Parks; Effigies and Monu- 

 ments in Parks; Architecture in 

 Parks; Decorative Use of Water; 

 Planting Design of Parks; Park Ad- 

 ministration in Relation to Planting 

 Design; Seats in Public Parks; Dis- 

 position of Flowers in Parks; Park 

 Utilities. From the foregoing it will 

 be seen that the book follows very 

 practical lines. It is addressed pri- 

 marily to executives having the de- 

 velopment of parks in charge, whose 

 knowledge of the underlying princi- 

 ples ot the subject ^s often vague, of 

 necessity. It is plainly set forth in 

 the preface that the book is intended 

 to establish the tact that there is a 

 definite law and order to be recognized 

 in the shaping of parks quite as in 

 other forms ot art-laws wliich may not 

 be prudently violated or ignored. 



Chapter 1 should be read very care- 

 fully. Chapter 2 will elicit a cordial 

 "Amen" for the greater part of its 

 contents. The playgrounds chapter is 

 one of the best and presents principles 

 ot intrinsic worth as regards this dif- 

 ficult department of park work. In- 

 variably outspoken, the author leaves 

 no doubt as to his position on disputed 

 questions. His remarks on the use of 

 statues and decorative sculpture will 

 please most readers, as will the un- 

 stinted condemnation of tree and 

 shrub mutilation by the use ot the clip- 

 ping shears, but not all will agree that 



