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HORTICULTURE 



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CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



■, : ,-. , •,. . > .LISTS' CLUB, 

 The moctiiiK of this orKiinlzatlou on 

 Monday evonlnK. Mux S, was well at- 

 tended, consldrrlni; the busy season 

 for the members from the suburbs es- 

 pecially. It WHS III a measure a felici- 

 tation meetliiK over the Bucoess of the 

 many activities of the dub during the 

 past few weeks. There were commit- 

 tee reports and commendatory 

 speeches ud intlnltuni. with notes of 

 thanks, etc.. In ronnectloii with the 

 .National Flower Show, the Interna- 

 tional Flower Show, New York day, 

 annual dinner. Brooklyn day and other 

 festivities, and some preliminary dis- 

 cussion was had on the Flower Show 

 for next year, in which Frank Traen- 

 dly. Patrick O'Mara, C. H. Totty. A. L. 

 Miller and other stalwarts took part, 

 pro and ion, some insisting on the 

 ability of the club to run the show in- 

 dependently and others ur^iiiK the ad- 

 vantages of co-oiieratlon with the Hor- 

 ticultural Society of New York. A 

 vote was filially passed instructing the 

 president to appoint a flower show 

 committee to confer with and act In 

 conjunction with the Horticultural So- 

 ciety. 



W. H. Siebrecht addressed the meet- 

 ing on the subject of bulb importation, 

 dwelling particularly on the risk now 

 assumed by the bulb forcers in Import- 

 ing and urging that the New York 

 Florists' Club appoint a committee 

 competent to pass upon the condition 

 of bulbs when received from abroad so 

 that lawsuits might be avoided. 



A. J. Gnttman then read his paper 

 on the economic phases of the flower 

 business, which was attentively lis- 

 tened to and elicited considerable dis- 

 cussion, in which Emil Schloss, Chas. 

 H. Totty and others participated, a 

 vote of thanks being tendered to Mr. 

 Guttman 



FLORISTS' CLUB OF WASHINGTON. 

 A resolution to the effect "That it is 

 the sense of the Florists' Club of 

 Washington. D. C, that some suitable 

 recognition should be made on behalf 

 of Miss Anna Jarvis on account of the 

 idea advanced and the amount of labor 

 and effort expended by her in the pro- 

 motion of .Mother's Day, which has al- 

 ready proven very beneficial to all of 

 the floHsts of the country, and the 

 subject is one which should receive 

 the attention of the S. A. P. and O. H., 

 to the end that this object may be accom- 

 plished. " was adopted by the club dur- 

 ing a discussion following the reading 

 of a letter from Robert Kift, of Phila- 

 delphia, appealing to the local club to 

 join in raising a fund to give Miss 

 .larvis $,^.000 a year for life. A pink 

 rambler rose seedling, produced by 

 Harry I^y, elicited the commendation 

 of the members. It has not as yet 

 been named. It was decided to hold 

 an outing at a place and time later to 

 be decided upon. 



Mcctinj^s Next Week 



Monday, May 15. 



Jiflmll I'li.rUlH Cliil.. Ili'iiili Kliinil 

 Mall. iM'IroK. Ml.h. 

 li<iiiNUiii KlorlHtH. i'ltili. Chain' 



of rulllliu-rt'i' UlMilllH. IlitUHtoII. I' 



.\*'w .li'THi-y KInrlriilltiral Siiri.*i \ , 

 iiraiii:i'. N. .1'. 



Tuesday, May 16. 



4iar<li'ih'rH' mill KlnrlHlM' Club uf 

 r.iiNloii. Iliirtli-illtllral Hall. ItuHtmi. 

 Mknn. 



i,arilt'ii«TH' anil KlorUlH' C'lul- 

 iiiilarlii. St. (Ji'orcf'M Hull, 'I'oruii' . 

 Can. 



.MIiiiii'Hiita .Slate KliirlHtH' AaHncIa 

 tloii. MluuiMipollH. Minn. 



I't'nnHvlvnnIa Iliirtlniltnral s 

 ■ li'ly. Horticultural Hull. riill:i<i' 

 plila. I'a. 



Wednesday, May 17. 



Khodi- Ixland Horllriiltural .'"' 

 rifty. I'ubllc I,ll»rnry. I'rovldiH' 

 U. I. 



Ilorlliultural Socloty of New Yuri, 

 .ViniTli'an Musi'Uin of Natural Ili^• 

 lory. Nt'w York City. 



Iiulrlic88 County lIortlcultiirMi 

 Socli'ty. rouglikofpslc, N. Y. 



Thursday, May 18. 



Kb8i'x County l''lori»t9' Cliili 

 Kreuger-Audltoriuni. Niwark. N, .1 



.N'i'W Orleans Horticultural Socl^ i 

 .VBsodatlon of Coiiiniercc Ulilg., N' • 

 Orlt^anH. La. 



.N'lirtli Westchester County Horti- 

 cultural Society, Mt. Klsco. N. Y. 



Tiicouia Florists' Association. Mao 

 calii'i' Hall. Taconia. Wash. 



Friday, May 19. 



North Shore Horticultural Sc 

 ilety. Manchester. Mass. 



Saturday, May 20. 



I>olil>s Ferry -Gardeners' .-Xssoeia- 

 tlon. Ii.iIiIps Ferry, N. Y, 



COMING EXHIBITIONS. 



.lune 1-4. IVlluini Iliij', New York. 



Siiiiiiner .Show, International (Inr- 

 .len Club. 



.Iiine 9-in, Shh FriinelHCO. — Anierl- 

 e:in Sweet I'ea .Society. I'alace Uotcl. 



.Iiine m-iV. Newport, R. I. — Ncw- 

 port (larden ,\ssoci.ntlon and New- 

 Iiiirl Ilorlleulliirnl Society, on the 

 t;rounfls of the Garden Association. 



.\uKUHt 11-13-13, Itnston.— American 

 liladbdns Soeietv. Horticultural 

 Hall. 



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NEW HAVEN COUNTY HORTICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY. 



This society has been quite active 

 during the past few months and meet- 

 ings have been well attended. Secre- 

 tary \V. E. Mcintosh expects to issue 

 the schedule for the September exhibi- 

 tion on l.'?th and 14th of September 

 about .lune 1st. During the past week 

 the Board of Education has sent out a 

 bulletin notice to every school in the 

 city regarding the i)rizes to be given 

 by the New Haven Horticultural So- 

 ciety for plant exhibits by children. 



For the best vase of twelve blooms 

 of asters with long stems. 1st and 2nd 

 prizes of $10 and %r>. and five 3rd prizes 

 of $1 each are offered. For aster 

 plants showing no less than six 

 blooms, 1st $5 and $3, three 3rd prize.-; 

 $1 each. For the best essay on "How 

 I Grow My Flowers," 1st prize $5, 2nd 

 $2. 



W. C. McIntosh. 



W. .\, Kowe eiitcrlained the olllccr.s 

 of the Florist Club of St, I.ouIh mi ,Mii> 

 Ti at Ills home In Klrkwood. 



The HI heilulo of the San Francisco 

 Sweet i'ea Kxhililtlon to be held under 

 I lie auHpiees of the American Sweet 

 I'eu Society in San FriiMcisco, Cal., on 

 Friday and Saturday, June ;• and 10, 

 < an Ik> had on application to Frank U, 

 Cuthbertson, secretary, 74H Frotit St., 

 Siin F'ranclsco. 



The preliminary schedule lor the 

 seventh annual exhibition of the 

 American tiladioiiis Society to be held 

 IN Boston. Aug. Ilth, 12th and 13th, 

 has been distributed among the mem- 

 bers. Copies may be hud free by 

 addressing H. Youell, secretary, 538 

 I'edar St., Syracuse, N. Y. 



The County Growers' Association of 

 St. Louis has elected the following 

 iilficers: Win. Winter, president: 

 Tom Klrkwood, vice-president; Hugo 

 Gross, treasurer; .loe Deutchman, sec- 

 retary. The rest of the evening was 

 taken up with a discussion of the 

 Ivaster business and the closing of the 

 wholesale houses on Kaster Sunday. 

 Installation of officers will take place 

 .lune 7. 



The .\merican Peony Society, in co- 

 operation with The Horticultural So- 

 ciety of New York, will hold an exhi- 

 bition at the .\merican Museum of 

 .Natural History on .June 9 to II in- 

 clusive. Schedules may be had on ap- 

 plication to the secretary of the Amer- 

 ican Peony Society, A. P. Saunders. 

 Clinton, N. Y,. or to the secretary of 

 The Horticultural Society of New- 

 York, George V. Nash, Mansion, New 

 York Botanital Garden. Bronx Park, 

 New York City. 



The American Institute of the City 

 of New York and the American Dahlia 

 Society will hold an exhibition of 

 dahlias in the Engineering Society 

 Building, 25-33 West 39th street. New 

 York City, on September 26th to 28th, 

 1916. The Annual Chrysanthemum 

 fi^xhibition of the American Institute 

 will be held at the same place on No- 

 vember 8th-10th. 1916. For schedule 

 of prizes address Wm. A. E^gleson, 

 Secretary, Board of Managers, 324 

 West 23d street. New York, N. Y. 



The monthly meeting of the Holyoke 

 and Northampton Gardeners' and Flor- 

 ists' Club was held May 2 in Holyoke. 

 Lucius E. Wilson, of Springfield, was 

 a visitor and spoke entertainingly of 

 the purposes of the Eastern States Ag- 

 ricultural Exposition, which is to open 

 in West Springfield next October. Per- 

 manent buildings are now in course of 

 erection, and the speaker suggested 

 the possibility of arranging for a big 

 flower show there at some future date. 

 -An exceptionally fine plant of Hy- 

 drangea Otaksa, by George Strugnell, 

 was awarded a certificate of merit. 



H. E. D. 



An exhibition will be held In the 

 Museum Building of the New York Bo- 



