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orchids, roses, sweet peas, schizanUius, 

 antirrhinum, frooslns. and narcissus. 

 PrI/.os niiiy iilso In- awaidcd for ox- 

 hlblls not provided for In lln' Hclicdiilc, 

 and sui-h cxlilliits arc xollrUcd. Sclied- 

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There will bIko bo u nieetluK of the 

 soolet.v on the same day In the ICast 

 Assembly Hall at (he same place, al 

 3.4."i, followed by a lecture, illuslrated 

 with lantern slides, by Mr. \V. C. .Mc- 

 Collom. on "The Small Greenhouse: 

 Its I'se and Abuse." 



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FLORISTS' CLUB OF WASHINGTON. 



The Florists' Club of Washing-Ion. 

 D. C. held another of its now famous 

 entertainments on the occasion of its 

 February meeting, when its ollicers 

 furnished a program of motion pic- 

 ttires, business talks, and songs. The 

 affair was given in the form of a 

 smoker. The motion pictures gave the 

 latest news from the Euro|)ean war 

 zone and the comedies were well ap- 

 preciated. The speaker of the even- 

 ing was Prof. Robert G. Wall, of the 

 Sheldon School of Business Building, 

 of Chicago, who gave a most interest- 

 ing talk on scientific business. George 

 W. Si)ier. ex-president of the Retail 

 Jewelers' Association of the District 

 of Columbia, talked on the subject of 

 co-operation among members of a 

 given trade. 



The only business transacted was 

 that incident to the nomination ol 

 officers, March, being the time of the 

 annual meeting. The announcement 

 of this precipitated something of a 

 squabble as the present presiding 

 officer declared himself to have been 

 something of a failure as president 

 and declined renomination. However, 

 certain of the members of the club 

 thought otherwise and while the oppo- 

 sition was framing up a new ticket, 

 a vote to nominate the present officers 

 of the club in blanket form was taken 

 and passed, and George H. Cooke will 

 retain the presidency during 1915. The 

 other officers nominated were R. L. Jen- 

 kins, vice-president; William F. Gude. 

 treasurer; C. L. Linz, secretary; and 

 George Field, Adolphus Gude, Theo- 

 dore Diedrich, George H. Cooke, David 

 Bisset and William H. Ernest, mem- 

 bers of the executive committee. Dur- 

 ing the evening a Dutch luncheon was 

 served, otherwise, strict neutrality 

 was observed. So enthusiastic have 

 the members become on the subject of 

 motion pictures that those responsi- 

 ble for the exhibition on this occasion 

 have been invited to repeat the per- 

 formance next month, and this they 

 have promised. 



THE VINCENT GREENHOUSES. 



PHILADELPHIA'S ATTITUDE. 

 Mr. Editor: — In your issue of Feb- 

 ruary Gth your Philadelphia corre- 

 spondent asks what right has tne 

 Philadelphia Florists' Club to dictate 

 to the S. A. F. I think Mr. Watson 

 had the issue somewhat confused in 

 his article. The Philadelphia Club did 

 not have the presumption to do any- 

 thing dictatorial as far as I was aware. 

 It just favored the idea that the S. A. 

 F. uses its influence and some of its 

 money to disseminate knowledge of 

 our plants and flowers nation wide; in 

 other words, educate the public to the 

 uses of our products. The president of 



Mai.n Entu.vnck 

 Partial View of Greenbousr-H and PueklntC 6bcd. 



Among Hohtioii.ture's regular ad- 

 vertising houses none are more favor- 

 ably known for the quantity and 

 quality of their plant shipments to 

 the trade than R. Vincent, Jr. & Sons 

 Co. of Whitenjarsh, .Md. When you 

 say Vincent you think of geraniums, 

 or dahlias or pompon chrysanthe- 

 mums, and their product of these 



prime specialties goes all over this 

 country. We have had frequent occa^ 

 sion to mention them favorably and 

 are now pleased to present, as no 

 doubt our readers will be pleased to 

 see. two views of a section of their 

 range of greenhouses. Visitors at 

 this place are always sure of a hearty 

 welcome. 



^liMWiiij;.' Block A. I'ackiii'.-' Slicd and Boiler House. 



the Philadelphia rlorists' Club of Phil- 

 adelphia, Mr. Geo. Burton, a director 

 of the S. A. F., was given a chance 

 by this discussion to understand, to 

 sympathize and to work to the best 

 advantage for the common good. The 

 club by affiliating with the S. A. F. 

 takes advantage of this to express its 

 wishes and recommend these to the 

 Executive Board through its represen- 

 tative, and I think it ^'fas within its 

 rights in going on record as doing so. 

 Roslyn, Pa. A. Fake>\vau). 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



On January 21. the Retail Florists' 

 Association, of Reading, Pa., elected 

 the following officers: President, 

 Stanley Giles; vice-president, Harry C. 

 Huesman; secretary and treasurer, 

 Fulmer Lauch. 



The Cincinnati Florists' Society held 

 its regular meeting on Monday evening 

 at Hotel Gibson. It was ordered that 



a brief of the report of the committee 

 on valuation of greenhouse growing 

 stock for purposes of taxation be print- 

 ed and mailed to the club members. 



The first annual Floral and Land- 

 scape Gardening Exposition of the Mi- 

 ami Valley at Dayton, Ohio, will be 

 held March 1st to 6th, 1915, inclusive, 

 at (he Exposition Building, Old First 

 Baptist Church, N. S. of Main St., be- 

 tween 1st and 2nd Sts. W. -Mien Bar- 

 ber has been chosen as manager and 

 considerable floor space has already 

 been disposed of. Copies of the floor 

 plans will be forwarded to any one in- 

 terested. 



The annual meeting of the Allegheny 

 Coimly Gardeners' and Florists' Asso- 

 ciation was held February 1 at the 

 Fort Pitt Hotel. These officers were 

 elected: Neil McCallum. president; 

 E. C. Reineman, vice-president; T. P. 

 Langhans. treasurer; H. R. Joslin, sec- 

 retary. "The Begoni" was discussed 



