December 22, 1917 



HORTICULTURE 



657 



meeting and a trip to Strasburg to 

 visit Chas. B. Herr, J. Wade Galev 

 and Amos Rohrer will be the program. 

 Expressions of sympathy with Al- 

 bert M. Herr for his mishap with the 

 boiler in his propagating houses over 

 this blizzard were heard on all sides 

 and I want to say that about a hundred 

 dollars worth of oil stoves kept away a 

 total loss of the stock, but. oh! my! 

 there are some dollars going out on 

 account of it. 



Albert M. Herb. 



NASSAU COUNTY HORTICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY. 



The annual meeting of this society 

 was held in Pembroke Hall, Glen 

 Cove, N. Y., on Wednesday, Dec. 12. 

 Treasurer Brown's annual report 

 showed this society had passed a very 

 successful season, both in point of 

 membership and financially. He also 

 reported a substantial check, the pro- 

 ceeds of our two fall shows, to be 

 sent to the Red Cross. Our old friend, 

 Jas. Duthie, conducted the election of 

 officers as follows in his usual good 

 style: Robt. Jones, president; Thos. 

 Twigg, vice-president; Ernest J. Brown, 

 re-elected treasurer; Ernest Westlake, 

 re-elected secretary; Harry Good- 

 brand, re-elected cor. secretary; Jas. 

 McCarthy, trustee for three years. 

 Executive committee: Jos. Adler, Wm. 

 Noonan, Thos. Henderson, Frank Wat- 

 son, Chas. Bigers, John W. Everitt and 

 Sam. J. Trepess. President-elect Robt. 

 Jones thanked the society for the 

 honor conferred on him, and with the 

 members' co-operation trusted we 

 would have, as in the past, a success- 

 ful administration. Jas. Kessen and 

 Arthur Harris, two members who have 

 just joined up with the Canadians to 

 "do their bit," were present. Every 

 member wishes them good luck and 

 God speed. Their dues will be carried 

 on by the society. Prizes were award- 

 ed to Jos. Mastroainl for lettuce and 

 Thomas Twigg for Roman hyacinths. 

 For the next meeting, Jan. 9, three 

 poinsettias, twelve roses and twelve 

 carnations will be the prize exhibits. 

 H.\RRY GOQDBAND, Cor. SecT. 



A USEFUL WHEELBARROW. 



STAMFORD HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



The regular monthly meeting of the 

 Stamford (Conn.) Horticultural So- 

 ciety was held Friday evening. Decem- 

 ber 14. There was an especially large 

 attendance and a social hour was 

 spent for which refreshments were 

 donated by G. B. Cannon, who received 

 a vote of thanks. The officers were 

 re-elected for the coming year. Ex- 

 hibits were staged, a vase of carna- 

 tions and bunch of violets receiving a 

 vote of thanks. Two vases of roses — 

 Radiance and Hadley — cultural cer- 

 tificate; seedling carnations, highly 

 commended: exhibited by M. J. Quirk. 

 Seedling chrysanthemums, highly com- 

 mended, and tomatoes. Caster's Sun- 

 rise, cultural certificate; James Fos- 

 ter. Seedling single chrysanthemums, 

 certificate of merit, Alex Geddes. 

 Carnations, highly commended, A. 

 Fattel. 



W. J. Rick. 



The type of wheelbarrow shown in 

 the accompanying picture is one that 

 is in constant use in the establish- 

 ment of R. Vincent. Jr., & Sons Co., 

 at Whitemarsh, Md., in carrying plants 

 to and from the greenhouse and the 

 packing and potting house. The or- 

 dinary barrow has a raised platform 

 set forward on a spring and carries 

 three flats without jolting, each flat 



3-in., or twenty 4-in. The hands are 

 protected by a piece of strap iron 

 nailed on the handles which keeps 

 the hands of the wheeler from striking 

 table legs, etc. This is Messrs. Vin- 

 cent's own get-up and so far they say 

 they have failed to find anyone with 

 a better rig to move plants without 

 jolting or more quickly than can be 

 done with this barrow. 



FRED LAUTENSCHLAGER. 



We devote our title page this week 

 to a portrait of the Chicago Florist 

 Club's new president and feel that the 

 gentleman whose "counterfeit present- 

 ment" there appears is fully worthy 

 of the honor. That our readers will 

 agree with us is beyond a doubt. Most 

 of them know Fred Lantenschlager 

 so well already that there is really 

 nothing we can profitably tell them 

 about him which they do not know 

 already and his friends in horticul- 

 ture are found everywhere from the 

 Atlantic to the Pacific. The Chicago 

 Florists' Club has for some time back 

 held a foremost position among the 

 aggressive and usefully initiative 

 floral organizations in the country 

 and this largely because of the effi- 

 cient and willing work done by Fred 

 Lantenschlager and his co-laborers. 

 In placing him as their chief officer 

 they have shown both gratitude and 

 wisdom. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY OF 

 AMERICA, 



Reports of Committees. 

 Exhibited at Chicago, Dec. 14, by the 

 Friedley Co., Cleveland, O., variety, 

 Christmas Gold, yellow pompon, ex- 

 hibition points 90. 



Ch.\s. W. Johnson, Secy. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



Officers for the ensuing year were 

 elected at a meeting of the Reading, 

 Pa., Florists' Association at the home 

 of Alfred Landen, Sheerlund, Comru 

 township. The new officers are: Pres- 

 ident, Paul Blachman; vice-president. 

 Frederick Frank; secretary and treas- 

 urer, Fulmer H. Lauck. 



S. A. F. PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN. 



Chairman George Asmus of the 

 Finance Committee reports the fol- 

 lowing additional subscriptions: 



fhas. II. .\tkins. Inc.. RiitluTf.ird. N. .7. 

 .f 10.011: ICihv.Tiil Sick. Canaudaigua, N. Y.. 

 Jl.l.OO; (iiMiil Hri>.s.. Wheat Kiiljri', <'i>l(i.. 

 jn.dO: .1. .MticTt Itr.Hirih. Ilartfunl. Tonu.. 

 $T;.no ; A N, Kirisiiiaii, Inc.. .\iistin. Mixii . 

 .$10.00; llallKrcii liros.. Wilson, Cnnn., ?».00 

 annuall.v for fiiur years. 



Hv tt'o Florists" T"Ietrraph DeHvory As- 

 sociation - W. .1. Smyth, ChlcaRO. III.. 

 .^i'J.OO; .Inlius Baer. Cincinnati, Ohio, $10.00; 

 .1. M. Kox i^ Soh.i. Inc.. Mihvauliee. Wis.. 

 if.'iOdO: Franklin rarl< Floral Co., Coliim- 

 t)ns Ohio .«•"■. CM). 



Total, .fUD.OO. I'rcvioHsly reported from 

 all sourc(>8,^5,i)0:!.00. Grand total, $26,073.00. 



John Yotng. Sec. 

 Dec. 17. 1917. 



At the forty-third annual convention 

 and exhibit of the New Jersey State 

 Horticultural Society three varieties of 

 apples grown and exhibited by John H. 

 Barclay, of Cranberry, captured the 

 grand sweepstakes prize. Apple grow- 

 ers from New York, Connecticut and 

 Rhode Island competed. Mr. Barclay's 

 apples are Grimes Golden. Delicious 

 and Stayman Wine Sap varieties. Mr. 

 Barclay also captured the Newark 

 Board of Trade cup and the State 

 Chamber of Commerce cup for the 

 best display of fruit and commercial 

 exhibit. John W. De Baum & Son, of 

 Pine Brook, won first prize in the 

 vegetable class, with Henniger & 

 Render, of Richfield, second. Honor- 

 able mention was made of the exhibits 

 of fruit and vegetables of the Sussex 

 County Fruit Growers' Association 

 and Hergen County, Cumberland 

 County and AcquacUanonk Grange 



