HORTICULTURE 



June 16. 1917 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



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GARDENERS' AND FLORISTS' 

 CLUB OF BOSTON. 



The next regular meeting of the 

 club will be held at Horticultural Hall 

 on Tuesday evening, June 19, there will 

 be no regular lecture as a dance and 

 collation will follow the business 

 session. A charge of fifty cents per 

 head will be made for the entertain- 

 ment and ticliets may now be had from 

 all officers. 



The club has recently purchased a 

 $500 Liberty Loan Bond from its sur- 

 plus funds. Many members have also 

 subscribed. At the September meeting 

 of the club William H. Elliott will 

 spealv on California. At the October 

 meeting, there will be two lectures 

 on vegetables from the commercial and 

 private growers' standpoints. Com- 

 petitive exhibition will also be held and 

 it is planned to have them open to the 

 public for at least a part of one day. 



A chrysanthemum night and special 

 exhibition will be held early in Novem- 

 ber. Tliis also will be open for public 

 inspection. W. N. Chahj, Secy. 



CHICAGO FLORISTS' CLUB. 



The Chicago Florists' Club held its 

 regular meeting June 7th, with reports 

 of various committees as the chief fea- 

 ture. The picnic committee offered no 

 definite recommendation and the mat- 

 ter laid on the table. The transporta- 

 tion committee reported the New York 

 Central to be the official train to the S. 

 A. F. & O. H. convention in August, 

 with stopovers arranged for on return 

 trip. The coal question was brought 

 up, but met with little discussion, not 

 from lack of interest, but because of 

 seeming inability to better conditions. 

 The garden committee reported and 

 was discharged. A report was made 

 by the committee on advertising pos- 

 ters, used in the campaigns for St. 

 Valentine's Day and ilother's Day, 

 showing that when returns are all in 

 the amount of money will be well into 

 the thousands, a plan for a summer 

 advertising campaign in the daily 

 papers was submitted and $150 was 

 voted by the club as its share should 

 the proposition be carried out. John 

 Young of New York was a visitor. New 

 members admitted were Frank Felke, 

 Gross Point, 111., H. V. Swenson, 624 

 S. Michigan avenue, and H. E. Humis- 

 ton, 2100 Summerdale avenue. 



FLORISTS' HAIL ASSOCIATION OF 

 AMERICA. 



The directors of the Florists' Hall 

 Association of America held a meeting 

 at Trenton, N. J., on Friday, June 8, 

 1917, at which meeting initial action 

 was taken for the extension of their 

 corporate existence for another 30 

 years under the terms of the laws of 



Monday, June 18. 



Detroit FIcu-ista' Club, Beiuli Flo- 

 ral Hall, Di'troit, Slicb. 



Houston Florists' Club, Chamber 

 I of Commerce Kooms, Houston, Tex. 

 New Jersey Floricultural Society, ; 

 Orange, N. J. .; 



Tuesday, June 19. 



Gardeners' and Florist.s' Club of 

 Boston, Mass., Horticultural Hall. ' 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of 



Ontario, .St. George's Hall. Toronto, i; 



Can. . ijj 



Minnesota State Florists Associa- « 



|li tion. Minneapolis. Minn. |} 



f I'ennsvlvania Horticultural Socie- i 



k tv. Horticultural Hall, Pbiladelpbia, '■ 



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I Wednesday, June 20. i 



Rliode Island Horticultural Socie- ' 

 ty. Public Library. Providence, R. I. 

 ' Tarrytown Horticultural Society, 

 Tarrytowu. N. Y. 



Thursday, June 21. 



Essex County Florists' Club, 

 Kreuger Auditorium, Newark, N. J. 



New Orleans Horticultural So- 

 ciety, Association of Commerce Bldg., 

 New (Orleans. I^a. 



North Westchester County Horti- 

 cultural Society. Mt. Kisco. N. Y. 



Tacouia Florists' Association, Mac- 

 cabee Hall, Taconia. Wash. i 



Friday, June 22. 



Connecticut Horticultural Society, 

 County Bldg., Hartford. Conu. 



Monmouth County Horticultural j 

 Society. Red Bank, N. J. 



Pasadena Horticultural Society, | 

 Pasadena, Calif. 



People's Park Cottage Gardeners 

 Association, Paterson, N. J. 



Saturday, June 23. 



Dobbs' Ferry Gardeners' Associa- 

 tion, Dobbs' Ferry, N. Y. 



New Jersey, as passed by the New Jer- 

 sey legislature last winter. 



They also approved of and will rec- 

 ommend a new set of by-laws drawn 

 by J. A. Valentine of Denver, Colo., 

 which improves upon and puts in legal 

 form the by-laws used for the past 30 

 years. 



The proposition of cyclone insurance, 

 submitted by Anders Rasmussen of 

 New Albany, Ind., was not taken up 

 for the reason that the law under 

 which the Florists' Hail Insurance 

 re-organized only recognizes hail as 

 the form of destruction to be insured 

 against. 



The annual meeting of the Associa- 

 tion will be held at Newark, N. J., 

 at 2 P. M. on .August 20, 1917. 



John G. Esler, Secy. 



NEW YORK FEDERATION. 



The New York Federation of Horti- 

 cultural Societies and Floral Clubs 

 will hold a meeting in Syracuse on 

 Thursday, June 28, in connection with 

 the annual exhibition of the Syracuse 

 Rose Society. It is hoped that there 

 may be a large attendance of delegates 

 from the federated societies. 



B. A. White, Secy. 



The New York Florists' Club meet- 

 ing on Monday evening, June 11, will 

 go down into history as a memorable 

 event in the club's career. There were 

 present about 125 members, including 

 a large percentage of men influential, 

 not only in the affairs of the local or- 

 ganization, but of the National So- 

 ciety, and prominent leaders in the 

 trade. 



As is generally known, a large ap- 

 propriation for entertainment and oth- 

 er local matters connected with the 

 approaching S. A. F. Convention had 

 been planned and a number of special 

 committees had been constituted to 

 perfect arrangements accordingly. It 

 was understood that these committees 

 would make report at this meeting but 

 that in view of the war situation the 

 advisability of carrying out the origi- 

 nal plans would be brought into ques- 

 tion. E. C. Vick. as secretary of the 

 ways and means committee, having 

 read the reports and amounts needed 

 by the various sub-committees, the dis- 

 cussion on the general entertainment 

 proposition was opened by Patrick 

 O'Mara in opposition, who ably dis- 

 played his powers as a forceful de- 

 bater, urging careful and earnest con- 

 sideration of the appropriateness of 

 any action at this time bordering on 

 unnecessary extravagance, declaring 

 that the New York florists' moral 

 courage was now challenged and that 

 the time was opportune to make a 

 stand for the uplift and repute of fu- 

 ture conventions. Other speakers on 

 the subject included James Scott, 

 Charles Schenck, W. Siebrecht, Jr., F. 

 H. Traendly, L. W. C. Tuthill. W. A. 

 Manda and others, expressing variant 

 views on the problem. W. A. Manda 

 made one of his best efforts in an im- 

 passioned and eloquent address on 

 what he regarded as an inhospitable 

 backing-down by New York and far 

 from creditable to the club after hav- 

 ing assumed the responsibility of host 

 to the expected visitors. The outcome 

 of the discussion was a complete vic- 

 tory for O'.Mara and the advocates of 

 patriotic economy, who carried practi- 

 cally every trench, turning down all 

 appropriations excepting that for en- 

 tertaining the ladies and a few minor 

 matters, discharging the committees 

 with thanks for their services and 

 agreeing to stand responsible for any 

 contracts or other obligations that had 

 been assumed. It was the sense of the 

 Club tliat the President's Reception be 

 hckl, not in the most sumptuous hotel 

 in New York as proposed, but in the 

 meeting room in the Grand Central 

 Palace. It was then voted that $5,000 

 of the Club money be invested in Lib- 

 erty Bonds, in accordance with the 

 recommendation of the trustees and 

 that $1,000 in cash be appropriated 

 for the Red Cross. 



Following the usual recess, Leonard 

 Barron gave his promised lecture on 

 Hawaii, holding his audience for an 

 hour, although the hour was late. The 

 views thrown upon the screen, beauti- 

 fully colored, were superb and Mr. 

 Barron's splendid effort in description 



