March 11, 1916 



HORTICULTURE 



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CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS 

 AND ORNAMENTAL HOR- 

 TICULTURISTS. 



Department of Plant Registration. 



Public notice is hereby given tliat 

 the Bedford Flower Company, Bedford 

 Hills, N. Y., ofl'ers for registration the 

 Rose mentioned below. Any person 

 objecting to the use of the proposed 

 name or registration is requested to 

 communicate with the secretary at 

 once. Failing to r eceive objection to 

 tlie" registration, the same will be 

 made three weeks from this date. 



Description: A pink sport of 

 Double White Killarney. Has the 

 same habit of growth and is equal in 

 production. Same foliage. Color Is 

 light pink, becoming deeper to the 

 center as it opens. Flower is long and 

 opens in perfect form. 



Name: Bedford Belle. 



National Flower Show. 



The Final Schedule of Premiums 

 covering the classes for competitions 

 at the National Flower Show. Phila- 

 delphia, March 25th to April 2nd, have 

 been distributed, and all contemplat- 

 ing making entries are urged to place 

 them in the hands of the Secretary at 

 once. The closing date for entries is 

 March 20th, and entries after that 

 date must be accompanied with a fee 

 of $2.00, and will only be received sub- 

 ject to acceptance by the National 

 Flower Show Committee. 



Practically all of the space set 

 apart for trade exhibits has been re- 

 served, excepting a few blocks on the 

 main floor extension, which will, 

 doubtless, be taken up within a few 

 days. 



Exhibits, or exhibition material 

 should be forwarded wherever possible 

 by Pennsylvania R. R. connection to 

 North Philadelphia Station, which is 

 two blocks from Convention Hall, 

 where the show is to be held. Ar- 

 rangements have been made whereby 

 all shipments arriving at that station 

 will be hauled to Convention Hall at 

 the rate of 15c. per 100 lbs., and all 

 shipments arriving at other stations 

 will be hauled at the rate of 20c. per 

 100 lbs. Packages should be marked 

 "Oberholtzer Transfer." Shipments by 

 Adams Express should be marked 

 "North Philadelphia Station," which 

 is a depot of the Express Company. 



The show will open at 2 P. M. on 

 March 25th and the opening cere- 

 mony will take place at 3 P. M. 



Anyone requiring a copy of the 

 Final Schedule can obtain same on ap- 

 plication to the Secretary. 



Directors' Meeting. 

 By direction of President Daniel 

 MacRorie, a meeting of the Board of 

 Directors of this Society has been 

 called, to take place at tlie Hotel Wal- 

 ton, Philadelphia, on Tuesday, March 

 28th, at 2.00 P. M., to continue until 

 all business to come before the Board 

 is completed. 



Monday, March 13. 



Clevelaiul Florists' Club, HoUen- 

 den Hotel. Cleveland, Ohio. 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of 

 Ltaltimore. FlorLst Exchange Hall. 



New York Florists' Club, Grand 

 Opera House, New York City. 



Rochester Florists' Association, 95 

 Main St., East Rochester, N. Y. 



Tuesday, March 14. 



Florists* and Gardeners' Club of 



Holyoke and Northampton, Mass. 



Newport Horticultural Society, 

 Newport, R. I. 



Wednesday, March 15. 



Rhode Islanil Horticultural So- 

 ciety. Public I.ibrarv, Providence, 

 R. I. 



Horticultural Society of New York, 

 American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, New Yorl: City. 



Dutchess County Horticultural So- 

 ciety, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 



I 

 Thursday, March 16. 



Essex County Florists' Club, 

 Kreuger-Auditoriuni. Newark. N. J. 



New Orleans Hoiticultural Society, 

 Association of Commerce Kldg., New 

 Orleans, La. 



North Westchester County Horti- 

 cultural Society, Mt. Kisco, N. Y. 



Tacoma I^'lorists' Association, Mac- 

 cabee Hall, Tacoma, Wash. 



Friday, March 17. 



North Shore Horticultural So- 

 ciety, Manchester, Mass. 



Saturday, March 18. 



Dobbs Ferry Gardeners' Associa- 

 tion, Dobbs Ferry, N. Y. 



COMING EXHIBITIONS. 



March 17, 18, 19. Boston.— Spring 



Exhibition Massachusetts Horticul- 

 tural Society, Horticultural jiall. 



March 25-April 2, Fhiladelpbia. — 

 Fourth National Flower Show of the 

 Society of American Florists, Con- 

 vention Hall. Broad Street and Al- 

 legheny Avenue. 



April 5-12, New "Vork. — Interna- 

 tional Flower .Show of the Horti- 

 cultural Society of New York and 

 the New York Florists' Club, C!rand 

 Central Palace. Forty-sixth Street 

 and Lexington Avenue. New I'ork. 



May 10, 14, Boston. — May Show 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 

 Horticultural Hall. 



National Flower Show Tickets. 



Members of the Society in good 

 standing visiting the National Flower 

 ^.low in Philadelphia will be furn- 

 ished with a Season Ticket of admis- 

 sion, upon arrival at Convention Hall. 



It will facilitate the work of the 

 oecretary's Office, and prevent confus- 

 ion and delay upon your arrival at the 

 Exhibition Hall, if you will remit 

 your 1910 assessment at this time. The 

 1916 badge button will be sent you by 

 return mail. 



The Proceedings of the Society for 

 1915, a volume comprising 364 pages, 

 has been mailed to all members of the 

 Society. 



John Young. Sec'y. 



53 West 28th Street. 

 New York. N. Y. 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. 



The Carnation Exhibition at the 

 National Flower Show in Philadel- 

 phia, March 25 to April 2, will be 

 known as the Silver Jubilee Exhibi- 

 tion. A special silver medal has been 

 struck for the occasion and will be 

 awarded to each winner of one or 

 more first premiums in the competi- 

 tive classes. These medals will be 

 given in addition to the regular cash 

 prizes. Another feature at this exhi- 

 bition will be the class for the largest 

 twelve blooms. The Kroeschell gold 

 medal, valued at $50, will be offered 

 in this class and should bring out an 

 extraordinary display. 



The regular A. C. S. judges will of- 

 ficiate, except in the retailers' section, 

 which will he judged by W. J. Palmer, 

 of Buffalo, W. L. Rock, of Kansas 

 City, and P. C. W. Brown, of Cleve- 

 land. The regular judges are C. W. 

 Johnson, Morgan Park, III.; Wm. 

 Nicholson, Framingham, Mass.; R. 

 Witterstaetter, Cincinnati, 0.; E. Dail- 

 ledouze, Brooklyn, N. Y.; E. A. Stroud, 

 Strafford, Pa.; W. J. Palmer, Buffalo, 

 N. Y. 



All entries for the carnation exhibit 

 must be in the hands of the secretary 

 no. later than March 20. A $2 fine 

 will be assessed against each entry ar- 

 riving after that date. Prospective 

 exhibitors will confer a great favor on 

 the clerical force by sending in their 

 entries at the earliest possible mo- 

 ment. There is an immense amount 

 of detail work in connection with an 

 exhibition of this size and nothing 

 should be left that can be done early. 



All members of the A. C. S. who 

 liave paid their dues for 1916 will be 

 entitled to a season pass to the show. 

 Certificates are being mailed to those 

 whose dues are paid, which will be 

 exchanged at the show for these 

 passes. Please send in your dues at 

 once and a certificate will be mailed 

 to you. A. F. J. B.^rR. Sec'y. 



GARDENERS' ESSAY CONTEST. 



Chairman William H. Waite, of the 

 Committee on Essays and Horticul- 

 tural Instruction, of the National As- 

 sociation of Gardeners, has appointed 

 Edwin Jenkins. Lenox, Mass.; William 

 ijowns, Chestnut Hill, Mass.; Arthur 

 Smith, Reading, Pa.: William J. Stew- 

 art, Boston, Mass., and J. Harrison 

 Dick, New York, N. Y., judges of the 

 gardeners' essay contest. The report of 

 the judges will be made public at the 

 National Flower Show in Philadelphia 

 on March 28th. 



President W. N. Craig offers twenty- 

 five dollars as a first prize, fifteen dol- 

 lars as a second prize and ten dollars 

 as a third prize in a new contest, for 

 assistant gardeners, on any subject 

 pertaining to horticulture, limited to 

 twenty-five hundred words. The con- 

 tost will close on November 1st and 

 the winner will be announced at the 

 annual convention of the Association 

 in December. The essay committee 

 will issue the rules regulating this 

 contest shortly. 



