January 1. 1916 



H O K T I L' U L T U K E 



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Outdoor Flower Gardening, J. Bourdett, 

 St. Louis. 



Hardy Trees, Shrubs and Herbaceous 

 Plants for the Missouri Home, W. W. Ohl- 

 weiler, Mo. Botanical Garden, St. Louis. 



Novelties in Fruits and Flowers, A. 

 Jaenicbe, St. Louis. 



The Pursuit of Beauty, John Noyes, Mo. 

 Botanical Garden, St. Louis. 



An OflJcial Flower for Missouri, Miss 

 Marie Goodman, Kansas City. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



The next regtilar meeting of the 

 Florists' Cluh of Washington. D. C, 

 will be held at 1214 F Street. North- 

 west, Tuesday evening, January 4. The 

 officers of the club are planning an ex- 

 tensive entertainment for that evening. 



At the last meeting of the New Jer- 

 sey Floricultural Society, officers for 

 1916 were elected as follows: Presi- 

 dent, Henry Halbig: vice-president, 

 Max Schneider; treasurer, Edward A. 

 Manda; secretary. Geo. W. Strange. 



The Florists and Gardeners' Club of 

 Rhode Island held a well attended 

 meeting, Monday evening. Dec. 27, in 

 Swarfs Lodge Hall, Providence. Plans 

 were made for the installation of ofli- 

 cers on Jan. 24 and at that time the 

 club will have its annual feast and en- 

 tertainment. A committee composed 

 of Robert Johnston, Eugene A. Apple- 

 ton and Al Macrae were appointed to 

 have charge of the arrangements. The 

 supper is to be followed by an enter- 

 tainment. After the business session 

 of the meeting, the members engaged 

 in a beneficial discussion of subjects 

 allied with the trade. S. A. G. 



The National Cooperative Commit- 

 tee of the National Association of Gar- 

 deners has issued a communication to 

 local horticultural societies to supply 

 a series of papers on horticultural sub- 

 jects for discussion at their monthly 

 meetings during the year 1910. The 

 committee announces that this offer 

 is also extended to any other horticul- 

 tural organization or educational insti- 

 tution and it will be glad to hear from 

 those that would be interested to re- 

 ceive the papers, which will be pro- 

 vided as outlined in its letter. If any 

 of the horticultural societies or clubs 

 have been overlooked and not received 

 a letter, but desire to obtain this serv- 

 ice, the committee asks them to com- 

 municate with the ' secretary, M. C. 

 Ebel, Madison, N. J. This service will 

 be tree of any expense to the local so- 

 cieties, the motive tor this offer being 

 solely to arouse a greater interest in 

 horticulture and to develop a gieater 

 cooperative spirit among those engaged 

 in the profession of gardening. 



"A REMARKABLE CAREER". 



An observing correspondent send.-? 

 the following — 



The velvet poinsettia is seen every- 

 where in all seasons. It has had a 

 remarkable career. It was dissemin- 

 ated by the florists' supjily houses 

 only recently, but has proven so pro- 

 lific that not only all florists but all 

 other stores can furnish it in (luantity. 

 Its keeping qualities are unsurpassed 

 — what is not sold this year, can be 

 kept till the next. Unlike most flow- 



ers, its holiday price is more 'reasou- 

 able" than at any other time. It coui- 

 hines well with other prepared uia- 

 ttrial and saves the retail florist a 

 trip to the wholesale market where 

 his money would be spent. The regu- 

 lar color is red, but white ones have 

 lately appeared which will help in 

 funeral work, and in due time we may 

 expect to see them come in blue and 

 orange. So popular has the velvet 

 poinsettia l)ecome that its originators 

 and disseiuinators are now turning 

 their attention to the introduction of 

 thistles and other attractive offerings, 

 and if eqtuilly successful will soon 

 eliminate the ice box nuisance from 

 the flower store! 



DINNER TO THEODORE WIRTH. 



A dinner was given by two hundred 

 citizens of Minneapolis at the Minne- 

 apolis Club to Park Superintendent 

 Theodore Wirth in honor of the tenth 

 anniversary of his assuming his posi- 

 tion. Following the toasts a handsome 



Theodore Wikih. 



silver service was presented to Mr. 

 Wirth. 



In his response, Mr. Wirth showered 

 Iiraise on the founders of the park 

 system and on his fellow workers, and 

 detailed the history of the iiark 

 system. 



"Three main features of our parks 

 appealing to us." Mr. Wirth said, "are 

 the strong support of the citizens in 

 the upbuilding of the recreation 

 grounds, the harmonious spirit of our 

 executive boards, and the completeness 

 of the plan and its execution. Our 

 parks are not detached, but connected 

 in a chain of drives, lakes, gardens 

 and groves. That is largely because 

 few changes have been made in the 

 personnel of the board of commission- 

 ers and the officers, and because of the 

 absence of politics in the work. 



"We will need but little more land, 

 and our main work is to provide for 

 play spaces. We must be willing to 

 pay as we go, by assessments, for we 

 can get little more by bond issues." 



Mr. Winston was chairman and Mr. 

 Snyder, toastmaster. Kach program 

 carried a photograpli nf Mr. Wirth. 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE. 



Perpetual Flowering Carnation Society 



This flourishing Society held its win- 

 ter show in London on Dec. 8th. A 

 high standard was reached in the 

 quality of the blooms. An award of 

 merit was granted to Mrs. Mackay Ed- 

 gar, a very fine light pink bloom, de- 

 scribed as an improved May Day. This 

 was shown by Stuart Low & Co., Bush 

 Hill Park, Enfield, Middlesex. There 

 was only one exhibit in the class for 

 American novelties distributed since 

 Jan. 1st, 1912, for the challenge cup 

 offered by the American Carnation So- 

 ciety. This was secured by Wells & 

 Co., who showed excellent samples of 

 I^ura Webber, Champion, and Pink 

 Sensation. The best vase of British 

 raised seedlings, shown by Countess 

 Derby, was awarded Mrs. Norman's 

 challenge cuj). In the trade section the 

 following awards were made; Gold 

 medals, AUward Bros, and Stuart Low 

 & Co.: large silver medals, A. F. Dut- 

 ton and J. C. Jenner: silver gilt. J. 

 West: large silver medal, W. Cutbush 

 & Sons: silver medal. Misses Price and 

 Fyfe. 



New Chrysanthemums. 



The floral committee of the National 

 Chrysanthemum Society have granted 

 first-class certificates to the following 

 new varieties: Crimson Velvet, a deco- 

 rative single, crimson, with broad 

 golden zone, by Wells A: Co. De- 

 cember Bronze, a golden bronze market 

 variety, by Cragg. Harrison & Cragg. 

 .lames Fraser, deep sulphur yellow, ex- 

 hibition. Wells & Co. Yellow Perfec- 

 tion, yellow single, and December 

 Beauty, reddish bronze single, by Nor- 

 man Davis. 



Charging a "Gate" at Kew. 



Commencing on January 1 the public 

 are to be charged tor admission to the 

 Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. Hith- 

 erto this splendid collection of floral 

 treasures has been free to the public 

 any day in the week, and the privilege 

 of inspecting the gardens and con- 

 servatories has been largely taken ad- 

 vantage of by visitors from all parts of 

 the world. In 1914 the number of per- 

 sons who visited the gardens totalled 

 4,082,011. and there has been no notice- 

 able falling off this year. Kew Gardens 

 have been pre-eminent in the botanical 

 world since 1773. In the preceding 

 year George III was induced to send 

 one of the .gardeners to the Cape of 

 Good Hope, "providing his expenses do 

 not exceed £200 a year," and he. 

 brought back forty species of new 

 plants. This collection placed the gar- 

 dens at Kew above the Paris Jardin 

 des Plantes and the Upsala Botanic 

 Gardens, both of which previously 

 claimed to possess the finest variety 

 of plants In Europe. Afterwards col- 

 lectors were sent at the expense of the 

 government to India, China, Brazil. 

 Fiji, Australia and the Philippines. 

 The present proposal, which is made 

 on economical grounds, is being stout- 

 ly resisted by the residents in the dis- 

 trict. The local Borough Council has 

 appointed a deputation to make a pro- 

 test to the Board of Agriculture. 



