January 9, 1915 



HOKTICULTUEE 



41 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



David F. Roy has been re-elected 

 president of tlie New Bedford, Mass. 

 Horticultural Society. 



The next meeting of the New York 

 Florists' Club will be held on Monday 

 night. .January 11, when the new offi- 

 cers will be duly inaugurated. 



The sixteenth annual dinner of the 

 Tarrytown Horticultural Society will 

 be held at the Florence Inn, Tarry- 

 town, N. Y., on January 12, 7 P. M. 

 A big occasion as heretofore. 



The National Flower Show Com- 

 mittee held a session in New York 

 this week and the draft for the com- 

 plete schedule for the National Flow- 

 er Show for 1916 is now about finished. 



The St. Louis Florist Club will hold 

 its next meeting on Thursday, Jan. 14, 

 at 2 o'clock. The importance of this 

 meeting should bring out the members. 

 A final vote on the Spring Flower 

 Show will be taken. 



The Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 ciety awarded to E. B. Dane a silver 

 medal for a beautiful specimen, Cattle- 

 ya Trianae alba and to Donald Mac- 

 Kenzie, gardener for Mr. Dane a cul- 

 tural certificate for a plant of Chysis 

 aurea bearing eight flowers. 



The twenty-sixth annual meeting of 

 the South Dakota State Horticultural 

 Society will be held on Tuesday, 

 Wednesday and Thursday, January 19, 

 20, 21, 191.5, at the City Hall in Yank- 

 ton, South Dakota. A very interesting 

 program has been arranged. The 

 secretary is N. E. Hansen, Brookings. 



The regular meeting of the Horti- 

 cultural Club of Boston was held at 

 the Parker House on Wednesday 

 evening. January 6. Dr. George E. 

 Stone was the guest of honor. He 

 gave a vei-y valuable talk on plant 

 pathology. The table was beautifully 

 decorated with vases of carnation 

 Alice, the contribution of Peter Fisher. 



The inaugural meeting of the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society for the 

 year 1915 will be held at eleven o'clock, 

 a. m., on Saturday, January 9. 1915, at 

 Horticultural Hall, Boston. The busi- 

 ness of the meeting will be the hearing 

 of an inaugural address by the Presi- 

 dent, the report of the Board of Trus- 

 tees, the reports of officers, and the 

 reports of the chairmen of the various 

 committees. 



William P. Rich, Sec'y. 



The annual meeting of the Tarry- 

 town Horticultural Society was held 

 Thursday evening, December 31. The 

 following named officers were elected 

 for the coming year: W. Jamison, 

 pres.: J. Featherstone, vice pres.; E. 

 W. Neubrand, sec'y; 0. J. Weeks, 

 treas.; Thos. A. Lee, press sec'y. 



This being Carnation Night a fine 

 display of cut blooms were exhibited. 

 1st prize for three varieties, six of 

 each was awarded to A. Golding, supt. 

 for D. G. Reid, who also received cer- 

 tificate of merit for vase of Princess 

 Dagmar and cultural certificate tor 

 Mignonette. Honorable mention was 

 given to J. W. Smith, Scott Bros., A. 

 Weeks and W. F. Ross for other ex- 

 hibits of carnations. A very fine vase 

 of Euphorbia was staged by A. Weeks 

 and receiver! a cultural certificate. 



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With reference to the propagating 

 of Ilex opaca as expounded by Mr. Hu- 

 bert M. Canning in the Horticulture 

 of Nov. 21, I enclose a photograph of a 

 holly bed and some cuttings as grown 

 in Mt. Auburn Cemetery. We find it 

 much more practical to take cuttings 

 in August, put them in the sand bed. 

 syringe them four or five times on 

 bright days, and we have them rooted 

 in from four to six weeks. This pro- 

 cess naturally prevents the necessity 

 for discarding of so many non-fruit- 

 bearing plants as refered to by Mr. 

 Canning. The selection of fruit or non- 

 fruiting plants is entirely optional with 

 the one who selects the cuttings, inso- 

 far as he obtains the cuttings from a 

 fruiting plant, or from one that pro- 

 duces the pollen. It is important, how- 

 ever, that some plants of the pollen- 

 bearing variety be distributed through- 

 out the garden, in order that fruit-bear- 

 ing plants may be induced to set 

 their fruit. Consequently we must 



take some cuttings from non-fruiting 

 plants. 



Close observation of the cutting to 

 the left in the photograph reveals a 

 berry. These cutting were taken a 

 year ago last August, and are of a size 

 now which it would take from three to 

 four years to obtain from seed. After 

 potting them we keep them in a cool 

 house during the first winter. The 

 spring following they are planted in 

 the nursery where they remain until 

 large enough to use. Cuttings taken 

 in this climate are naturally much 

 more able to withstand the rigorous 

 New England winters than plants im- 

 ported from warmer locations. 



The suggestion of Mr. Frank Buffing- 

 ton, in the Hortrulture of Dec. 5, as 

 to removing the leaves of hollies be- 

 fore planting, is a very satisfactory 

 and practical way to prevent the loss 

 of many plants. 



L. G. VAN Leeuwe.n. 



Cambridge, Mass. 



Many valuable points were brought 

 out on the cultivation of carnations 

 through the discussion which followed 

 the judging. 



A prize will be awarded for the best 

 flowering plant at the next meeting. 

 The annual dinner of the society will 

 be held at the Florence Inn, Jan. 12, 

 at 7 P. M. 



Tiios. A. Lee, Press Sec'y. 



Cincinnati. O., Jan. 11. 8 P. M.— Cincin- 

 nati I<'lorists' Society, Jahes Elliott Flower 

 ^Lll■lil■l. 



rlj.v,-lnii<l. O., Jnn. 11, 7.30 P. M.— Clcve- 



lanii I'Uirists' Clvili. Progress Bloclc, 2C10 

 Dpti-oit .\ve. 



COMING EVENTS. 



Shows. 



New York Cit.v. Ilorlicultural Society of 

 New Yorl;, at Museum o£ Natural History, 

 .lanuary 20. 



Baltimore. M<1., .Ian. II. « P. M.— Garden- 

 ers' and I'lorists' Clul) of Baltimore. I'lor- 

 ists' E.\cliaiige Hall. 



Nciv York. Jan. 11, 7.30 P. M.— New York 



Florists' Cluli. Orand Opera House Bldg.. 

 81 li Ave. and 'i'Srd St. 



RwlHsler. N. Y., Jan. 11. 8 I*- M— Koch- 



fslor I'liirisls' Association, itn Main St.. 1!-. 

 .\nnu.il i-leclion of officers. 



Buffalo. >'. Y. .\nnual slinw and meeting 

 of American (.'arnation Society. .Tan. 27-2S. 

 A. F. .r. I'.aucr. Indianapolis, Ind.. Sec. 



New York. N. Y. International Flower 

 Show, Marcli 17-23, ISl.'i. Grand Central 

 Palace, under auspices Horticultural So- 

 eielv of New York and New York Florists' 

 CUiii. .Tolm Young, X', W. 28th St., New 

 York. See. 



SiirinKtlrlrt, O.. Jan. II.— Springneld (Ohio) 

 Florists' Club. 



Boston. .■Mass. Annual exhibition and 

 meeting of .\nierican Rose Society. March 

 25-28. Benjamin Hammond, Fishkili-on- 

 Hudson, N. \'.. Sec. 



Club Meetings. 

 New Orleans, La., Jan. 10, 2 P. M.— Gar- 

 deners' Mutual Protective Association, IH 

 Exchange Place. 



Toledo. O., Jan. IS.— Toledo Florists' Club. 



Tarrvtown, N. Y., January 12.— -Annual 

 dinner". -r Tarrytown Hortienltural Society 

 at Floreueo Inn, 7 P. M. 



Madison, N. J-.'ji^ IS, 8 P- »F-^l9"i^ 

 County Gardeners' and Florists Society. 

 Masonic Hall. 



Omal.a. Neb.. .Tan. 14. 8 P M.— Omaba 

 Florists' Club, County Cotirt House. 



St. I.ouls. Mo., .lan. 11, 2 P. M--St. Louis 

 Florists' Club, Odd Fellows Bldg. 



Da»eniiort, la., Jan. It, s 

 Florists' Cluli. 



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