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HOKTICULTURE 



November 24, 1917 



LANCASTER COUNTY FLORISTS' 

 CLUB 

 The last ouMuk o( this club begun 

 with a visit to lU'ury 1). Uoliror In the 

 oast end of the town. Mr. Kohrur 

 leaves the running of the place to two 

 faithful boys. Hurry K. and Abraham. 

 UonunfTon chrysanlheniuuiH are a spe- 

 cialty at this lime of the year and the 

 houses will bo lllled with primulas 

 soon as these are out. Dolly Dimple, 

 Chieftain, Seldewitz are also grown, 

 and a number of the newer ones are 

 on trial, us well us a colleclion of 

 Chas. Totiy's large anemone-flowered. 

 Carnations till a number of houses. 

 Forgeime-not and calendula for cut 

 flowers and Primula obconica, genista 

 and cyclamen as pot plants and frames 

 of punsies for next spring indicate 

 they do not believe in putting all their 

 eggs In one basket. 



At Lemon Lundis's there is a gen- 

 eral line of cut flowers. At Wissler's 

 callus predominate. Sweet peas and 

 carnations are also coming on. At J. 

 P. Seibold's we found an assorted 

 stock for local market purposes. Mr. 

 Selbold has reached the age that en- 

 titles one to a rest from the cares of 

 a place and would sell out if times 

 were more propitious for selling. 



Across the town at Rudolph Xagle's 

 we were impressed with the chrysan- 

 themums. Keystone snapdragons and 

 sweet peas. The follow-up system has 

 been worked out pretty good here. He 

 Js growing quite a lot of lettuce and 

 radishes as catch crops and has mig- 

 nonette and Ireesia that will hit the 

 holidays. 



At the B. F. Barr greenhouses car- 

 nations and roses are good. Hardy 

 stock is being dug and stored for early 

 spring sales. The storage warehouse 

 and packing sheds of this place are 

 models of efliciency. At the carnation 

 establishment of Enos Kohr we found 

 Alice and Mrs. Ward in good shape, 

 and a house of Matchless in rather bad 

 shape and for no accountable reason, 

 as up to Jan. 1st last season from 

 this house eight blooms per square 

 foot were cut and by the end of the 

 season It reached the grand total of 

 thirty-eight, and as I saw them sev- 

 eral times I can vouch that they were 

 high-class blooms. This stock was 

 propagated from these plants and to' 

 the best of Mr. Kohr's knowledge 

 given the same care and attention as 

 In previous years, but today they will 

 not average one bloom per square foot 

 by Jan. 1st. However, the young 

 growth is looking good. Mr. Kohr's 

 houses hold 15,000 plants each, and It 

 is quite a loss to have one of them go 

 bad. 



Back to town for lunch and the 

 meeting in the evening, where Harry 

 K. Rohrer displayed a vase of new 

 Totty chrysanthemums and a very 

 handsome specimen of Louise Pocket, 

 which was chanced off by number and 

 won by the writer. 



Mr. Rohrer gave a very instructive 

 paper on chrysanthemums, after 

 which we had a little talk from one 

 of our amateur growers. 



The next meeting will be the nomi- 

 nation of officers and along with it a 

 social session at the Brenneman build- 

 ing in place of our usual annual ban- 

 quet, with David Rose, Elmer Weaver 

 and A. M. Herr on the committee. 



"Stop, Ix>ok and Listen," and then 

 Ix)okout Some. Aijiebt M. Hebb. 



CHICAGO FLORISTS' CLUB. 



The .November nieellng of lh^^ Chi- 

 cago l-norists' Club was held Nov. 15, 

 one week later than usual to nllow Its 

 enterprising members un opportunity 

 to attend the flower shows without be- 

 ing absent from the meeting. I'uul 

 Klingsporn, vice-president, presided. 

 The report of the publicity cunipaign 

 committee was presented by Fred 

 Lautenschlager. It covered many pages, 

 but the footings totalled over $2,U0n, 

 all taken In from receipts of sales of 

 the little stamps; $1500 were paid for 

 a one page advertisement and the bal- 

 ance remains to go on with the work. 

 The results are considered very en- 

 couraging. The club voted 1100 to the 

 Y. M. C. A. fund. The following nomi- 

 nations were made for ollicers for next 

 year: President, l<>ed Lautenschlager 

 and Paul Klingsporn; vice-president, 

 Ed. Muerett and O. J. Friedman; sec- 

 retary, Allie Zech; treasurer. Otto 

 Amling. The club voted to sell flowers 

 at the Art Institute next week to aid 

 the Y. .M. C. A. and appointed O. J. 

 Friedman and Leonard Vaughan com- 

 mittee of arrangements. 



THE GARDENERS' CONVENTION. 



The eastern delegation that will at- 

 tend the convention of the National 

 Association of Gardeners, to be held 

 In Chicago, December 4-5-6, will leave 

 On a special car over the Delaware, 

 Lackawanna & Western Railroad, New 

 Y'ork (Hoboken), at two o'clock Sun- 

 day afternoon, December 2d, due to 

 arrive at Chicago at five o'clock Mon- 

 day afternoon. 



The train is due at Buffalo at 1.50 

 a. m., Monday, where the party will 

 be joined by some of the up-state mem- 

 bers. -Vt Cleveland, where the train is 

 due at 5.45 a. m., Monday, the party 

 will be added to by members from 

 that territory. 



Those intending to travel with the 

 special party from New York should 

 communicate with the secretary, M. C. 

 Ebel, Madison, N. J., without delay In 

 order to secure accommodations in 

 the special car. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



The following described rose has 

 been presented for registration by 

 A. N. Plerson Co., Inc., Cromwell, 

 Conn.: 



Name — Evelyn. Class— Hybrid Tea. 

 Parentage — Ophelia Sport. Descrip- 

 tion: Habit of plant — vigorous; fola- 

 age — dark green, abundant; freedom 

 of growth and hardiness — like parent; 

 flower — large; color— soft pink, toning 

 to yellow at petal base; form — some- 

 what globular; fragrance and bud — 

 like parent; 45 to 50 petals; free as 

 parent, better keeping quality. 



The rose is similar to Ophelia but 

 is different in color and foliage and 

 superior. Additional petalage making 

 It a fine cut flower during summer. 



Unless objections are received with- 

 in two weeks from the publication of 

 this notice the variety will be officially 

 registered in the Society. 



E. A. White, Secy. 



WESTCHESTER AND FAIRFIELD 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The regular monthly meeting was 

 held In Greenwich, Conn., on Nov. 2nd. 

 Cultural certiflcutc for llcgonia lOmlle 

 Clibron was given to Wm. Grnham; 

 high commendutlon to W. J. Sealejr 

 for Ophelia roses, to James Lanaine 

 for Norlnes, to Thomas Uyan for 

 chrysanthemums, to W. J. Sealey for 

 pompon chrysanthemum, to James 

 Stuart for salvia, to Paul Dwenger 

 for lettuce and to Wm. Smith for car- 

 nation Enchantress Supreme, honorable 

 mention. The monthly prize went to 

 Wm. Graham, 2nd to Tlios. Ryan, 3rd 

 to W. J. Sealey. It was decided to 

 donate $100 toward restoring the fruit 

 orchards of France. Wm. Vert, presi- 

 dent of the Chrysanthemum Society 

 of America, was present and spoke a 

 few words. 



The annual fall show of this Society 

 was held in the Armory, Greenwich, 

 on Tuesday and Wednesday, Nov. 6th 

 and 6th, under the auspices of the 

 Greenwich Chapter of the Red Cross. 

 It was one of the best shows ever 

 staged by the Society. 



The principal prize winners in the 

 bush chrysanthemums were Mr. Bar- 

 ron, gard. James Lanaine and W. J. 

 Sealey. James Lanaine's bush plant 

 contained 700 blooms and was quite a 

 sight in itself. In the cut bloom 

 classes Alfred Beszekie, gard. for W. 

 Zielger, Thomas Artchison, gard. for 

 Nathan Strauss and Wm. Whltton, 

 gard. for Mrs. I. H. Flagler were the 

 principal winners. In the small grow- 

 ers' classes Alex Smith, Stephen 

 Deitrich, Thos. Ryan and Alex Clark- 

 son were the leading winners. In 

 the chrysanthemum groups. Wm. 

 Graham, gard. for E. C. Converse was 

 1st and Wm. Whitton 2nd. A feature 

 of the show was the very fine groups 

 of flower and foliage plants for which 

 Robt. Williamson, gard. for Mrs. A. A. 

 Anderson was 1st, Robt. Allen, gard. 

 for E. C. Benedict 2nd and Wm. Whit- 

 ton 3rd. in the palm classes James 

 Stuart, gard. for Mrs. F. A. Constable 

 and R. Williamson annexed most of 

 the blue ribbons. Joseph Tiernan, 

 gard. for Adrain Iselin captured the 

 cup for 20 varieties of singles and in 

 the 20 varieties of pompons J. B. 

 Sealey secured first place. 



There was strong competition in the 

 rose classes and the prominent win- 

 ners were Owen Hunwick, gard. for E. 

 Holbrook, Wm. Graham, Robt. Grun- 

 ert, gard. for Mr. Rice, Stephen 

 Deitrich and Wm. Whitton. Wm. 

 Graham and Thos. Aitchison carried 

 off most of the prizes in the carnation 

 classes. James Stuart, Robt. Allen and 

 Robt. Williamson took the most of the 

 orchid ribbons. 



James Stuart secured 1st on vege- 

 tables and Mrs. Ernest Iselin, gard. 

 Duncan Maclntyre in the smaller 

 class. 



In the ladies' table decoration Mrs. 

 Armstrong was 1st, Mrs. J. H. Flagler 

 2nd and Mrs. E. C. Converse 3rd, and 

 in the men's, Wm. Whitton was 1st, 

 Thos. Aitchison 2nd and Walter Hewitt 

 3rd. There was a fine display of or- 

 chids from the George Baldwin Co. 



The judges were Wm. Vert, Green- 

 wich, Thos. Stobo, Garrison-on-the- 

 Hudson, and Oscar Carlson, Fairfield. 

 AxEx. Clabkson. 



