March 25, 1916 



HORTICULTURE 



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GARDENERS' AND FLORISTS' 

 CLUB OF BOSTON. 



The session of this club on Tuesday 

 evening, March 21, was well attended 

 by the members. The announcement 

 that W. H. Judd, of the Arnold Ar- 

 boretum, would talk on Flowering 

 Shrubs was evidently a drawing card. 

 Previous to the lecture, considerable 

 miscellaneous business was taken 

 care of. The secretary gave out some 

 information relative to the steamer 

 schedules, cost and other details of 

 the proposed visit to Bar Harbor at 

 the time of the Sweet Pea Exhibition 

 next July and it was voted to engage 

 fifty staterooms in advance. An invi- 

 tation was received and accepted from 

 the W. W. Edgar Company for a visit 

 to their greenhouses to see the Easter 

 plants, on Saturday, April 8. The 

 committee on annual dinner reported 

 a surplus of ?19.80 left over and it 

 was voted to transfer this amount to 

 the summer picnic fund. The $50 cup 

 appropriated by the club for an ex- 

 hibit of cyclamen at the recent spring 

 show of the Massachusetts Horticul- 

 tural Society having been won by 

 E. Wetterlow, Mr. Wetterlow asked 

 that a gold watch be substituted for 

 the cup, as he already had about forty 

 cups and this very sensible refjuest 

 was duly approved. Thirteen new 

 members were added to the member- 

 ship roll. 



Mr. Judd's address was replete with 

 good, practical notes on the newer 

 shrubs now in cultivation at the Ar- 

 nold Arboretum, most of which are 

 now sufficiently well introduced to be 

 obtainable at up-to-date nurseries. 

 Starting with the witch hazels in 

 January he showed that blooming 



shrubs are possible for every month 

 in the year. His descriptions of the 

 outstanding gems of the spring and 

 summer garden were very lucid and 

 showed the love for his vocation 

 which always marks the earnest and 

 successful horticulturist. The audi- 

 ence sat for over an hour deeply ab- 

 sorbed in this very instructive lecture. 

 It was his first attempt to ad- 

 dress a meeting, Mr. Judd said, and 

 he was the recipient of many con- 

 gratulations at the close. He showed 

 an interesting set of dried specimens 

 of the various shrubs described. 



The exhibits for the evening con- 

 sisted of three well-flowered standard 

 specimens of Streposolon Jameson! 

 from Mr. Thatcher; three new varie- 

 ties of tulip from Duncan Finlayson, 

 flower spikes of Celsia Golden Spray 

 from James Methven and a plant of 

 Primula malacoides rosea from F. H. 

 Lemon Co., which was held over from 

 the exhibition of last week. A report 

 of merit was given for the Celsia, 

 which Mr. Methven said was grown 

 from seed sown last August and was 

 a fine plant for conservatory decora- 

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