January 15, 1916 



HORTICULTUEE 



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by the club of Philadelphia's great 

 event by every means in its power. 



Awards on exhibits were made as 

 follows: John Lappe, cultural certifi- 

 cate for very fine freesia, staged by 

 Phil Kessler. Peter Beurlein, highly 

 commended for light pink and dark 

 pink sports of Enchantress carnation. 

 W. A. Manda, thanks for seedling car- 

 nation. James Duthie, certificate of 

 merit for a most elegant display 

 of Primula malacoides Townsendii. 

 Andrew Schlevogt, thanks for a vase 

 of very fine "pussy willows." Gutt- 

 man & Raynor, thanks for rose Mme. 

 P. Euler from the Florex Gardens, car- 

 nation Laura Weber from C. W. Weber 

 and Peace from Frank Dinda. 



J. Harrison Dick, W. C. Rickards 

 and W. A. Sperling were appointed a 

 committee to prepare resolutions on 

 the death of W. E. Marshall's brother. 

 President Weston made the following 

 appointments: Exhibition committee — 

 Robert Koehne, chairman; R. J. Irwin, 

 Chas. W. Knight, Peter Beurlein and 

 P. B. Rigby. House committee — George 

 Hildenbrand, chairman: Joseph Vocke 

 and A. N. Kinney. Legislative com- 

 mittee — W. P. Sheridan, chairman; 

 W. H. Siebrecht, Jr., James McHutch- 

 ison. Essay committee — J. H. Pepper, 

 A. F. Faulkner and R. J. Lewis. An- 

 nual dinner — C. B. Weathered, chair- 

 man; J. B. Nugent, Jos. A. Manda, W. 

 F. Sheridan, Emil Schloss, A. Kott- 

 miller and T. B. DeForest. Awards 

 committee — P. W. Popp, chairman; C. 

 H. Totty, Julius Roehrs, L. J. Renter, 

 M. Matlieron, W. H. Siebrecht, Sr., and 

 Chas. Weber. 



The commissary department, under 

 Phil Kessler's able direction, made a 

 new record of efficiency not only in the 

 viands provided and the manner of 

 their distribution, but in the addition 

 of musical entertainment, buck and 

 wing dancing, etc. It was an ideal 

 program just suiting the occasion. 

 Among the artists were Wm. Schil- 

 owsky of Woodside, the Coogan Quar- 

 tette, Wm. Robinson and Mr. Otto. 



Resolutions on Death of W. Atlee 

 Burpee. 



At a meeting of the committee ap- 

 pointed to take action on the death of 

 W. Atlee Burpee, the commitee, speak- 

 ing for the members of the New York 

 Florists' Club, desires to express in 

 their humble manner, its appreciation 

 of the life-long, untiring efforts of W. 

 Atlee Burpee in the interest of horti- 

 culture. Gardening activities every- 

 where had his attention and support. 

 His high standard of lionorable busi- 

 ness methods, all may well strive to 

 follow. 



Florists the world over have sus- 

 tained an inexpressible loss in the 

 death of W. Atlee Burpee. Those of 

 us who knew him personally knew him 

 as a cherished friend. Those who knew 

 him only through business dealings 

 felt the kindly influence of his nature 

 in his business methods. In his death 

 the members of the New York Florists' 

 Club deeply feel the loss of their es- 

 teemed fellow horticulturist. 



Resolved, That this resolution be 

 spread on the minutes of the New 

 York Florists' Club and a copy sent to 

 the family. 



E. C. Vick, chairman; Harry A. Bun- 

 yard, W. A. Sperling, W. C. Rickards, 

 J. B. Deamud. 



NEW YORK FEDERATION. 



Following is the proposed program 

 for the meeting of the New York 

 State Federation of Horticultural So- 

 cieties and Floral Clubs, to be lield at 

 Ithaca, N. Y., on Wednesday, Feb'y 9, 

 1916: 

 9 A. M. E. C. Volz. Problem In 

 Keeping Cut Flowers. 



10 A. M. Wm. Tricker. Water Lilies 

 for the Home and Market. 



11 A. M. Professor A. C. Beal. Gar- 

 den Roses. 



12 M. Luncheon, followed by a 

 business meeting of the Federation. 



2 P. M. Professor E. A. White. The 

 Relation of the Agricultural College 

 to the Flower-growing Interests of 

 the State. 



3 P. M. Professor Bristow Adams. 

 Problems in Advertising in the Dis- 

 posal of Flowers and Plants. 



John Youxg, Sec'y. 



HOUSTON CONVENTION GARDEN. 



George E. Kessler of St. Louis, Mo., 

 is acting in an advisory capacity for 

 the S. A. F. convention garden, 1916. 

 in Houston, Texas. We are very for- 



George E. Kessler. 



tunate in having secured the services 

 of Mr. Kessler in this work. He has 

 supervised the construction of some of 

 the largest parking systems in the 

 country ; having acted as consulting 

 landscape artist for the park systems 

 of Indianapolis, Ind., St. Louis, Mo., Ft. 

 Wayne, Ind., Dallas, Texas, Cincinnati, 

 O.. Kansas City, Mo., Memphis, Tenn., 

 Houston, Texas. 



Kansas City is famous for its park 

 system. Mr. Kessler laid out and car- 

 ried to completion the parks and park- 

 ing system of Kansas City, so we feel 

 that our convention garden is already 

 an assured success; with the advice of 

 Mr. Kessler and the competent and 

 efhcient work of Mr. C. L. Brock, it 

 makes me feel we are making a record- 

 breaker. R. C. Kkrr, Vice-Pres. 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF 

 NEW YORK. 



There w^ill be an exhibition of plants 

 and flowers given by this society at the 

 American Museum of Natural History 

 on Wednesday, January 19th. Sched- 



ules are now ready and will be sent 

 on application to the secretary, George 

 V. Nash, New York Botanical Garden, 

 Bronx Park, New York City. Premiums 

 are offered for orchids, carnations, 

 sweet peas, schizanthus and snapdrag- 

 ons. One of the uses of these monthly 

 exhibitions is to furnish opportunity 

 to gardeners to exhibit whatever they 

 may have in fine condition at that 

 time, and for this reason the exhibition 

 committee is empowered to award spe- 

 cial prizes for things not provided for 

 in the schedule. Gardeners are there- 

 fore invited to bring in plants or flow- 

 ers of unusual interest or of unusual 

 excellence in cultivation. The medals 

 of the society may also he awarded to 

 the best vases of new varieties of car- 

 nations. 



A meeting of the society will be held 

 in the afternoon at 3.45, followed at 4 

 by a lecture by W. N. Craig, superin- 

 tendent at Faulkner Farm, Brookline. 

 Mass., on "The Home Flower Garden." 

 This announcement insures an inter- 

 esting and practical talk on a subject 

 of much interest at the present time. 

 George V. Nash, Sec'y. 



ROCHESTER FLORISTS' ASSOCIA- 

 TION. 



At the annual meeting of the Roch- 

 ester Florists' Association, held Jan. 

 10th at their club rooms, Charles H. 

 Vick was re-elected president, Harry 

 E. Bates vice-president, Ambrose H. 

 Seeker secretary, and George T. 

 Boucher treasurer. John Dunbar was 

 re-elected as one of the three trustees, 

 Jacob Thomann and Hugo Teute bemg 

 the other two members chosen. 



Ambrose Seeker read a very inter- 

 esting paper on newspaper advertis- 

 ing as entered into by florists of other 

 cities, both jointly and individually. 

 The florists of the Rochester Associa- 

 tion have tried joint advertising in an 

 experimental sort of way this past 

 year and whereas of course results are 

 very hard to trace directly in this 

 kind of advertising, it was the general 

 consensus of opinion that it paid. Mr. 

 Seeker's paper was received very en- 

 thusiastically, as it was of real merit. 



George T. Boucher, chairman of the 

 music committee provided an excel- 

 lent musical program, being ably as- 

 sisted bv Prof. Wagner. We cannot 

 say too much in favor and apprecia- 

 tion of the work Mr. Boucher has 

 done along the lines of musical pro- 

 grams. It not only adds greatly to 

 the entertainment of the members, but 

 is a welcome diversion from the regu- 

 lar routine business of club meetings. 



Chairman Nathan Graves with his 

 able assistants provided a splendid 

 buffet luncheon which was appreciated 

 by all. We say "appreciated," not 

 only from the fact that a lunch is al- 

 ways welcome after a protracted meet- 

 ing but genuine appreciation of the 

 work of Mr. Graves and his commit- 

 tee, as there is no little work entailed 

 in providing lunches for a good sized 

 meeting. 



The Association regretted very 

 much H. B. Stringer's refusal to ac- 

 cept renomination for the secretary- 

 ship. Mr. Stringer's long service In 

 this capacity with the Rochester Flor- 

 ists' Association has been a marked 

 tribute to his sterling qualities and 

 devotion to the Association. It is re- 

 gretted bv all that personal matters 

 are taking the time which he feels 



