January 8, 1916 



H K T I C U L T U R E 



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will have some real publicity. On page 

 3 of the Poor Richard Almanac you 

 will find a reference to the National 

 Flower Show and the way the publicity 

 is being handled. 



Sincerely yours, 



W. F. Theekiluso.\, 

 Chairman, Publicity Committee, Fourth 



National Flower Show. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



The ne.xt meeting of the Cincinnati 

 Florists' Society will be held on Mon- 

 day, January 10th, at Labold & New- 

 burgh's, 8 East Third street. 



The eleventh annual dinner ot the 

 Tarrytown Horticultural Society will 

 be held at the Florence Inn. Tarry- 

 town, N. Y., on Tuesday evening, 

 Jan. 11, at 7 o'clock. 



The Collingwood (N. J.) Horticul- 

 tural Society has elected the following 

 officers for 1916: President, H. R. Lip- 

 pincott: vice-president, Kathryn 

 Brown; secretary, Myrton A. Bryant; 

 treasurer, John L. Root. 



A regular meeting ot the New Jer- 

 sey Floricultural Society will be held 

 on Monday evening, January 17, 1916, 

 in O. U, A. M. Hall, Park and Main 

 streets, at 8 P. M. Meeting date has 

 been changed to third Monday in 

 month during 1916. 



At the 60th annual meeting of the 

 Illinois State Horticultural Society 

 held at Champaign, the following offi- 

 cers were elected: President, W. S. 

 Perrine, Centralia; vice-president, A. 

 W. Brayton, Mt. Morris; secretary, A. 

 M. Augustine, Normal; treasurer, J. W. 

 Stanton, Richview. 



At the annual meeting of the Jlass- 

 achusetts Nurserymen's Association 

 at the Hotel Bellevue, Boston, the elim- 

 ination of the parasite evil was the 

 principal subject discussed. H. T. Fer- 

 nald read a paper on "An Inspection 

 Problem. " G. Howard Frost was elect- 

 ed president to succeed Charles 

 Adams. 



Philadelphia.— George C. Watson is 

 just out again after a serious attack of 

 the grippe which confined him to his 

 bed for more than a week and has left 

 him a much used-up vittira witli the 

 evidences of the scrimmage very pal- 

 pable. 



L.U.Jest assortment in New 

 Efiplnd. Evergreens, deciduous 'fT' *' 

 both common and rarer llVC J 



vaneiies. 



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This New Englanc '' And 

 climate produces fine .oirdy 

 shrubs. Special trade prices. 

 By the thousaids, hardy 

 Native and Hybrid Rhodo' 

 dendrons — transplanted and 

 acclimated. Let us estimate. 



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PUBLICA'TION RECEIVED. 



The Cherries of New York. By 

 U. P. Hedrick, assisted by G. H. Howe, 

 O. M. Taylor, C. B. Tubergen and R. 

 Wellington. The Department ot Agri- 

 culture of the State of New York has 

 in this magnificent volume made a 

 most notable and praiseworthy addi- 

 tion to the pomological annuals ot the 

 state. The Cherries of New York is 

 a worthy follower to the previous simi- 

 lar publications on The Apples of New 

 York, the Grapes of New York 

 and The Plums of New York and 

 its contents are compiled with the 

 same assiduous industry and wide re- 

 search which gained for those volumes 

 an unique position and prestige among 

 American horticultural publications. 



The book is issued as the Twenty- 

 Second Annual Report of the Depart- 

 ment — Vol. 2, Part 11, and bears the 

 imprint of J. B. Lyon Company, State 

 Printers, Albany. There are ?,ll pages 

 of text, with 56 full-page color plates 

 of cherry species and varieties, lite 

 size, either flowers or fruit. In the 

 text several hundred varieties are 

 listed and fully described. The seed 

 parent is given for 61 varieties, but no 

 case is recorded of a variety known 

 to have come from self-fertilized seed, 

 neither is any cherry cultivated tor its 

 fruit reported to have come from a 

 sport or a bud-mutation. 147 are put 

 down as "chance seedlings." The 

 total number of cherries under discus- 

 sion is 1.145. of which 917 are de- 

 scribed as of unknown origin. The 

 multitude of cross references to litera- 

 ture ancient and modern, the scientific 

 facts which have been accumulated re- 

 garding the habitat and origin of the 

 many species of prunus, and the ex- 

 haustive cultural and historical infor- 

 mation which have been so industri- 

 ously gathered and are now given to 

 the iniblic in such an attractive and 

 useful form will make this publication 

 a highly prized possession for the fruit 

 grower, amateur or professional. 



We have taken occasion heretofore 

 to mention in sincere approbation the 

 faithful, conscientious work so evident 

 in these fruit volumes, and welcome 

 this opportunity to again commend 

 Professor Hedrick and his co-laborers 

 for this new achievement. 



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