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CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



WESTCHESTER AND FAIRFIELD 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



A well atlendi'd iiieeliiif; of this 

 society was licld on Friday evening. 

 March lOth, at Greenwich. Conn. 

 Arthur llcrrlngton was a visitor and 

 addressed the members regarding the 

 Spring Flower Show to be held in 

 New Yorlc. April 512. In the competi- 

 tion for the Rickards prizes for best 

 essay on 'How Can Our Society Best 

 Increase its Usefulness from the As- 

 sistant Gardener's Viewpoint" first 

 prize went to Alex Clarltson and 2n(l 

 to J. Freud. 



Robt Grunnert was awarded a cul- 

 tural certificate for mignonette and 

 highly commended for sweet peas. 

 Robt. Allen honorable mention for 

 Cineraria stellata. The following 

 were highly commended: Primula 

 obconica from \V. J. Sealey, sweet pea 

 Yarrawa from Wra. Whitton, Celsia 

 cretica from J. B. Andrew, English 

 primroses from P. W. Popp. Thanlts 

 were accorded for myosotis from J. B. 

 Andrew, Primula obconica from Jas. 

 Linane. mushrooms from Wm. Whit- 

 ton, Buddleia asiatica from Robt. Wil- 

 liamson. 



The Fall Show will be held in Green- 

 wich, Conn., and the annual Summer 

 Exhibition at Mamaroneck, X. Y. in 

 June, the dates to be announced later; 

 a number of valuable prizes are 

 already in hand. The next meeting 

 will be held April 14th. A display of 

 spring flowering bulbous flowers 

 would make an attractive exhibition. 

 Come and bring an exhibit. 



P. W. POPP. 



ST. LOUIS FLORIST CLUB. 



The St. Louis Florist Club held a 

 well-attended miscellaneous Flower 

 Show Thursday afternoon, March 9tli 

 at H. G. Beming's. The meeting of 

 the Club was held there during the 

 afternoon with 75 members in attend- 

 ance. The Chair appointed a commit- 

 tee of five with vice-president Wells 

 as chairman to organize a State Flor- 

 ists' Association and they were al- 

 lowed $50 for expenses. F. J. Fill- 

 more was made chairman of a com- 

 mittee to draft resolutions on the 

 deaths of C. Bergesterman and Fred 

 W. Bruenig. One hundred dollars was 

 allowed to pay the expenses of one 

 member to attend the National Flower 

 Slow at Philadelphia this month. The 

 Spring Flower Show Committee 

 through Chairman Ohhveiler made a 

 full report naming all the chairmen of 

 the different committees and named 

 President Bourdet as manager of the 

 show. After the meeting the members 

 were entertained by Mr. Berning with 

 refreshments. The following growers 

 made exhibits: 



W. A. Rowp. Klrkwood, bulb Btock; M. 

 F Wldiner. IliKhland. III.. August Hart- 

 man. P. Schneider and N. S. Cerny. Klrk- 

 wood, carnations; .Jop Hausor. Webster 

 Grove, violets and swcit peas; Gust Gros- 

 sart, Belleville, omnce blossoms; Tbomas 

 Klrkwood of Klrkwood, sweet peas; P.our- 

 det Floral Co.. lilacs; St. I.ouis Seed Co., 

 sprine bnlbs; W. P. Pllcher. Klrkwood, 

 KlUafne.v roses; F. H. Lemon Co., Rich- 

 mond, liid.. Primula Rosa; Connon Floral 

 Co., Webster, snapdragon; Hugo Gross, 

 sweet peas; Home Nursery Co.. Lafayette, 



Meetings Next 

 Week 



Monday. April 3. 



Ill riianl.s\llli' llorllciilturul Su 

 chty, ll.Tnardsvlllf, N. J. 



KlInTon Ilortkultural Society, 

 Fire Hall, Klberou, N. J. 



Houston Florist Club, Uouston, 

 Texas. 



Montreal Gardeners' and Florists' 

 Club, Montreal, Canada. 



New ISedfnrd Horticultural So- 

 ciety. New liedford, Mass. 



Florists' Club of Washington, 

 Washington, 1>. C. 



Tuesday, April 4, 



Lake Geneva Gardeners' and Fore- 

 men's Association, Lake Geneva. Wis. 



Los Angeles County Horticultural 

 Society, Los Angeles, Calif. 



Paterson Florlcultural Society, 

 Paterson, N. J. 



Florists' Club of Philadelphia, 

 Pliiladelplila, Pa. 



Pittsburgh Florists' and Gar- 

 deners' Club. Pittsburgh, Pa. 



State Florists' Association of In- 

 diana, Anthony Hotel. Fort Wayne, 

 Ind. 



Wednesday, April 5. 



Tuxedo Horticultural Society. Tux- 

 edo Park, N. J. 



Thursday, April 6. 



Southampton Horticultural Society, 

 Southampton, N. Y. 



Friday, April 7. 



North Shore Horticultural Society, 

 Manchester, Mass. 



North Shore Horticultural Society, 

 Lake Forest, 111. 



Pasadena Horticultural Society, 

 Pasadena, Calif. 



Yonkers Horticultural Society, 

 Yonkers, N. Y^. 



People's Park Cottage Gardeners' 

 Association, Paterson, N. J. 



Saturday, April 8. 



Pacific Coast Ilortioultural Society. 

 COMING EXHIBITIONS. 



.\pril 5-12, New York.— Interna- 

 tional Flower Sliow of the Horti- 

 cultural Societv «,f Niw York and 

 mil the New York Florists' Club, Grand 

 Central Palace, Forty-sixth Street 

 and Lexington Avenue, New Y'ork. 



May 10, 14, Boston. — May Show 

 Massaeluisetts Horticultural Society, 

 Horticultural Hall. 



III., sweet peas; Aug. Jnrgens. Ridgeland, 

 Miss., out-door bulb stock: J. A. Kropp, 

 Olivette, Mo., snapdragons; G. M. Thost, 

 DeSoto, Mo., pink seedling snapdragon and 

 carnations. 



Those who attended said it was the 

 best exhibition of its kind ever given 

 by the club and a vote of thanks was 

 extended to the exhibitors, also to 

 Mr. Berning for the use of his store 

 and the entertainment he furnished. 



The March meeting of the New Lon- 

 don. Conn., Horticultural Society, was 

 held on March 9. the subject being 

 "Pruning and Spraying" by Mr. Ste- 

 vens who came in place of Professor 

 Gully of Storrs College who is indis- 

 posed. There was a good attendance 

 all interested in the talk that Mr. 

 Stevens gave. The president ex- 

 |)ressed the society's regret at the loss 

 of Mr. A. Flowers who is leaving to 

 take charge of a larger place near 

 Newark, N. J. H. L. 



LANCASTER COUNTY FLORISTS' 

 ASSOCIATION. 



March lOlh, was one of the rec'ord 

 'Old days for the season but we turned 

 out twenty strong for the visiting trip 

 to Maurice J. lirlnton's of Christiana. 



.Mr. Brinton is one of the large lily 

 forcers of the country. Ho also forces 

 narcissus by the hundred thousand and 

 as side issue has four nice carnation 

 houses. Among the other good things 

 in carnations was a bed of Victory as 

 fine if not liner than it ever was in Its 

 first ten years, demonstrating that 

 there is no occasion for a carnation 

 to run out if it is properly propagated 

 and intelligently handled. At the es- 

 tablishment of J. Rutter Hess & Son 

 of Gap, we saw an extraordinarily fine 

 house of White Enchantress, and at 

 the next stop which was Ira Landis', of 

 Paradise, Princess Dagmar, Yellow 

 Prince, Matchless, Benora, Mrs. Ake- 

 hurst and some of the older varieties 

 are all working hard and giving re- 

 sults. Mr. Landis grows as side lines, 

 freesia, myosotis, calendula and Span- 

 ish iris. After taking a good look over 

 the crowd Mr. Landis concluded we 

 were cold and hungry and acted ac- 

 cordingly. I remember some years 

 back when a vase of carnations took 

 first prize at one of our carnation so- 

 ciety shows and after the prize was 

 awarded we found that the flowers had 

 been out just about seven weeks be- 

 fore the show and kept in a wine cel- 

 lar, and then carried some five hun- 

 dred miles to the show. It occurred 

 to me that the fact that Mr. I^andis 

 stores his gladiolus bulbs in close prox- 

 imity to this wine may be the secret of 

 his fine gladioli, and as one thought 

 follows another, if this wave of prohi- 

 bition that is sweeping over the coun- 

 try reaches us we shall have a good 

 excuse to continue our wine cellars 

 for the preservation and perfection of 

 our flowers. 



The next and last stop was at the 

 Weaver establishments at Ronks. 

 Two brothers, Charles and Elmer, are 

 running two separate bank and ex- 

 pense accounts, but with greenhouses 

 so intermingled that one never knows 

 on whose ground he is treading. Chas. 

 M. Weaver is the sweet pea grower 

 and has them in three hundred-foot 

 houses, about fifty feet wide, and ap- 

 parently miles high. In addition to the 

 standard sorts he has some of his own 

 production and unless Zvolanek, 

 Burpee and the other California grow- 

 ers have some surprises in store for 

 us they have nothing on Charles 

 Weaver, for he is growing by the thou- 

 sand a beautiful blue and two pinks 

 that are head and shoulders over all 

 others of the same color. Elmer Weav- 

 er is the carnation end of the place 

 and has added ten-week stocks with 

 wonderful success. He is going into 

 the perennial plant business in an ex- 

 perimental way. Asters are a feature 

 here and there are now somewhere 

 close to a million plants started in 

 paper pots, and when these are In 

 their prime a summer trip will be ar- 

 ranged to look them over. Mrs. A. M. 

 Herr kindly acted as hostess to our 

 distinguished visitor, Richard Vincent, 



