For September, 1922 



267 



Albert C. Bi rrage 



Mr. Bun-age responded as follows : After such words of in- 

 troduction I hardly know what to say within the three minutes 

 allotted me by your Secretar\-. 



The Corporation Counsel of the City of Boston on behalf fo 

 the Mayor, has extended to you the welcome of the City of 

 Boston. Dr. Gilbert, the Commissioner of Agriculture of the 

 Commonwealth of Massachusetts has extended to you the wel- 

 come of the state. It is fitting that there should be a welcome 

 extended to you by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, which 

 lives vyithin the limits of the City of Boston. 



So it is my privilege to extend to you this welcome, and for 

 that Society and a thousand members I heartily bid you welcome 

 not only to this building prepared for you by "such meetings, not 

 only to all the rooms in the building, but also a welcome "to our 

 great library, which has been so commended, and truthfully, by 

 your President. We are proud of our institutions. We are proud 

 of our library, and on behalf of the Society I want to say that 

 while you are here the Secretary of the Society will throughout 

 the day. e\;ery day. be glad to show any of you and all of you 

 any part of the library and explain to you the treasures of which 

 we are so proud. 



. More than that, as my voice is a voice of welcome, I want to 

 give you the welcome of our allied institutions, the Arnold Arbo- 

 retum and the Harvard Botanical Society, which is quite well 

 known to your President. I want to do more than that, and 

 welcome you to certain things within the Commonwealth of Mas- 

 sachusetts which have not been referred to, but which, to my 

 mind, are most important in the survey of the horticultural work 

 of this country. 



(Mr. Burrage's complete address will appear in the next issue 

 of G.\rdener's Chronicle.) 



Mr. Craig, calling on the next speaker, said : Quite a common 

 phrase is that ladies w-ill always have the last word. We have our 

 program with that object in view today. The lady I am about 

 to introduce to you is one very highly esteemed horticulturally 

 in Massachusetts. She has done much of late years to improve 

 our exhibitions as an exhibitor, as one who supports lectures on 

 exhibitions, and as one who interests children in garden work, 

 and as one who at Hillcrest Gardens helps to train boys in the 

 cultivation of plants, flowers, fruits and vegetables. 



I have much pleasure in introducing to you as the last speaker 

 of the afternoon. Miss Marion Roby Case of Weston, ilassachu- 

 setts, one of the trustees of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society. 



Miss Marion Roby Case 



Miss ^Marian Roby Case responded : I am very glad Mr. Craig 

 introduced me as he did. because it gives me the opportunity to 

 say to you practical gardeners what I felt very strongly all day 

 Sunday. I have been over my own place with a thorough land- 

 scape gardener, because I realized that with the executive work 

 that I had to do as Vice President of the Farm Garden .Associa- 

 tion, as a member of the Garden Club of .\merica, which extends 

 its greeting to you today, and as a trustee of the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society that I was losing something which all of 

 you men are getting, the practical touch of the working of the 

 plants in the land. You are getting a familiarity with those 

 plants which I want but do not always have the time to get. and 

 so it is a great pleasure for me to be here today and tell you 

 that you practical gardeners are getting something which we want. 



The plan of the farm is. the boys come to Hillcrest the Monday 

 after Bunker Hill Day, so they practically begin with Bunker Hill 

 Day and end with Labor Day, when they read the papers connected 

 with the work on the farm. 



The lecturers for the season on \\'ednesday afternoon have been 

 Miss Weatherback, who told the lioys about the wild flowers of 

 New England : David Fairchild. who was to have come, but 

 on account of illness was unable to. Dr. Ferno took his place, 

 and on Labor Day we received a package of twenty-seven wild 

 flower seeds gathered in Nova Scotia from Dr. Ferno. War- 

 ren H. Mack impressed on the boys the beauties of the country 

 in which they were living, showing them large, freehand drawings 

 done by an Italian or Russian of the country in which they live. 

 Mr. Loomis talked to them on writing, and William Gray, 

 who was to have been here this afternoon, spoke to them on the 

 cultivation of out-of-door roses, giving such practical advice as 

 we have been trying to follow, because he showed the beautiful 

 long-stemmed roses which he had been unable to grow out-of- 

 doors. 



Professor Thompson, Director of the -Agricultural Experiment 

 Station in Lexington. Massachusetts, spoke to thein of the chem- 

 istry of the air as related to plant life, and the impression that 

 talk made on the boys was evidenced by the observation papers 

 which afterwards came in. Elbert R. Jacks spoke of nut 

 growing in New England. Dr. Warehead, who has come into 

 prominence this Summer in research work which he has been 

 doing among the Indians, spoke to them about the .Amer- 

 ican Indian past and present. Professor McKaye, Director of 



the Blue Hill Observatory, spoke to the boys on rain makers. 



Miss Elizabeth C. White spoke on the cultivation of bluebells. 

 Robert Murphy, of the Department of Ornithology of the 

 Museum of Natural History, New York, spoke on birds and 

 their ways ; and then on Labor Day the boys read their papers. 



The program of the boys' work through the year is — on Mon- 

 days they read observation papers ; on Tuesdays they have a lesson 

 on the gro%vth of plants. Mr. Stanton has the boys in charge. 

 \\'ednesdays they have a series of lectures. On Thursdays tney 

 write reports of the lectures. On Fridays I have them in study 

 hour, and on Saturday, being a half day through July and some- 

 times in August, they have an automobile ride to some place of 

 interest. 



One Monday afternoon I asked the boys to write on what they 

 had learned at Hillcrest Gardens, and I brought one of those 

 papers in to read to you this afternoon, for I felt that this would 

 give practical evidence of what the boys have learned and of our 

 system. 



Several papers written by the boys at Hillcrest, each one show- 

 ing much interest and earnestness in the work they were engaged 

 in, were read by Miss Case. 



General Discussion 



Mr. Craig announced: You will find underlying the paragraph 

 of Miss Case's very interesting talk the word "discussion." 



We usually have a little discussion after the speakers of the 

 afternoon are flnished. We had in New Y'ork last year and I 

 would_ be glad now to hear from any one who has a few remarks 

 to make on .Miss Case's talk or anything else that you heard this 

 afternoon. Who will be the first? 



Mr. Mackintosh replied: It seems to me that there has been a 

 considerable amount of talk altogether on a false basis. Y'ou 

 tried to give the impression that there is no such thing as an 

 -American boy who is interested in gardens. Now we have a com- 

 plete denial of the facts in what the lady has said. 



Now you horticulturists of Boston and Massachusetts, don't 

 you think this would be a good opportunity for you to take these 

 boys after the work in this garden, into your large gardens and 

 finish the article? 



Miss Case, in reply to Mr. Mackintosh, said : It may be inter- 

 esting for you to know that Friday morning is the day that I 

 am with the boys in study hour. I had the twenty boys together 

 and I asked those boys how many of them expected to stay on 

 the land when they were men. and twelve of them told me that 

 they hoped to stay on the land. 



George F. Stewart remarked it may be interesting to tell 

 the members about the approximate ages of the boys. 



Miss Case : The prize for the best paper written for Labor 

 Day was given to an older boy, who wrote two of those papers 

 which I have just read to you. The other prize was given to a 

 boy, about one of the youngest on the place, a boy not more than 

 twelve years old who had written an excellent paper on currants. 

 They had considerable discussion about the papers. The prize for 

 the best observation papers written by the younger boys was also 

 given to one of the youngest. of the boys in that second class. 



This year w-e had to divide the boys into Class First and Class 

 Second rather than into older and younger boys, because in the 

 second class of boys who are on the farm for the first time this 

 Summer there were some older boys, a boy of sixteen being 

 among those boys. 



Committee to Examine Plants 



Mr. Craig appointed, as a committee to examine the plants. Mr. 

 Rust, Mr. Michie and Mr. Jas. Stuart. The meeting adjourned 

 until eight o'clock in the evening. 



Tuesday Evening Meeting 

 -At the meeting at Horticultural Hall on Tuesday evening an 

 intelligently delivered lecture, illustrated with beautifully colored 

 slides was given by Edward I. Farrington on the fine trees and 

 shrubs that are to be found in the Arnold -Arboretum, which 

 when propagated will be a great benefit to Horticulture. The 

 lecture was a most instructive one to the gardeners present, all 

 of whom enjoyed it immensely. 



Wednesday Morning Session 



The meeting was called to order at 9 :20 .A. M., Robert Cameron, 

 President, in the chair. 



Martin C. Ebel, the Secretary, then presented his report. 



SECRETARY'S REPORT 



THE most important accomplishment of the association during 

 the year has been the inauguration of the course for training 

 young men in the gardening profession, in co-operation with the 

 Massachusetts -Agricultural- College, whereby young men are to 



