March 18, 1916 



HORTICULTURE 



371 



DREER'S FINE FERNS 



FOR DISHES 



Good Assortment of Popular Varieties 



3K-inch Pots' $3.00 per'lOO, $25.00 per 1000 



HENRY A. DREER 



714-716 Chestnut Street, - - Philadelphia, Pa. 



The above prices are intended for the trade only 



vanWAVEREN & SONS, Ltd. 



lOOIVI, MOI 



IMD 



MIL.I- 



Branch Office - - 17 State Street, New York 

 General Wholesale Catalogue is Just Out for 



Hyacinths, Narcissi, Crocuses, and Darwin, 

 IVIay-Fiowering and Early Tulips 



Copies of Catalogue on Application to Hew York Office 



According to returns in hands of 

 Secretary Young the coming Spring 

 Flower Show at the Grand Central 

 Palace will be a record breaker. Trade 

 tickets are selling rapidly, a great 

 deal more trade exhibition space has 

 been sold than ever before and the 

 "gate" receipts are expected to beat 

 all previous records. 



The storm prevented any large dis- 

 play on the exhibition tables but there 

 was an attractive array of Rose Mme. 

 Euler. Carnation Peace and other spe- 

 cialties by Guttman & Raynor, flats of 

 new narcissi by M. van Waveren & 

 Sons, of Hillegom, Holland, Narcissi 

 from P. W. Popp and a vase of Carna- 

 tion Aviator. 



BUFFALO FLORISTS' CLUB. 



At a meeting of tlie liiiffalo I'^lorists' 

 Club, held March 8 at the Hofbrau 

 and attended by more than li)0 of the 

 leading florists of the city and subur- 

 ban towns, a resolution endorsing the 

 proposed flower and fashion show to 

 be given by the Buffalo Ixjdge of Elks 

 at the Broadway Auditorium from 

 April 6 to 12 was unanimously adopt- 

 ed. William F. Kasting offered the 

 resolution and in submitting it to the 

 members, called upon them to give 

 their hearty support to the show and 

 to make plans whereby they would in- 

 dividually and collectively make the 



the following as members of the com- 

 mittee: Mark Palmer, Robert Scott, 

 Charles Sandiford. W. Adams, L. Neu- 

 beck, Edward Stroh, Charles Ginther, 

 W. Silvers and W. F. Kasting. 



Officers were elected for the coming 

 year as follows; President, E. C. 

 Brucker; vice-president, William Sla- 

 vers ; secretary, William Legg; finan- 

 cial secretary, Mark Palmer; treasur- 

 er. Edward Stroh; directors. Louis 

 Xeubeck, Edward J. Palmer and Wil- 

 liam F. Kasting. 



E. C. McLeish, professor at Hutch- 

 inson High School, six)ke on "Adver- 

 tising and Salesmanship." 



E. C. Brucker 



I'ri'sldciit Kloct Buffalo Floiist.s" Clul). 



most elaborate floral display ever 

 shown in this section of the country. 

 Charles Schoenhut was appointed 

 chairman of the committee to have 

 charge of the display and he named 



WOMEN'S NATIONAL AGRICUL- 

 TURAL AND HORTICULTURAL 

 ASSOCIATION. 



The third annual meeting and con- 

 ference of the Women's National Agri- 

 cultural and Horticultural Association 

 is to be lield in Horticultural HaJl, 

 Boston, on May 18-1!). This is to be 

 in co-operation with the Women's Edu- 

 cational and Industrial Union and 

 assisted by various colleges — Mass. 

 Agricultural, Simmons, Wellesley, Vas- 

 sar. Cornell, Reuther Garden School 

 and l.owthorpe — as well as other or- 

 ganizations interested in the agricul- 

 tural and horticultural work of women. 

 Able speakers are already promised, 

 among them, George T. Powell, of 

 New York Agricultural Experiment 



