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II RTI C U L T U R E 



M&rcb 20. 1915 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



GARDENERS' AND FLORISTS* CLUB 

 OF BOSTON. 



This club lind a nood iiiepting on 

 Tuesday evening. March 16. It waa 

 well attended and IntereatlnK and 

 breezy throuRhout. Committee reports 

 were all acceptable and plans outlined 

 for the future Included a proposed pic- 

 nic to be held in midsummer. Presi- 

 dent nartsch gave a glowinK account 

 of his recent visit to Chicago as a 

 member of the S. A. F. Executive 

 Board. L. J. Reuter. who had been 

 slated to talk on roses was unable to 

 attend and Kber Holmes graciously 

 stepped Into the breach and gave a 

 nice practical talk on the rose ques- 

 tion in Its various phases. He recom- 

 mended rose culture as promising an 

 excellent future for any earnest young 

 man who will take it up seriously as 

 a life work. The question of the effect 

 of sawdust and shavings mixed in ma- 

 nure brought out quite a number of 

 opinions for and against Its use, the 

 character of the soil and the kind of 

 wood In the shavings being generally 

 accepted as having an imiKirtant bear- 

 ing on this question. 



Mr. Holmes mentioned as good H. T. 

 roses for outdoor garden culture in 

 this latitude, the Killarnoys, Testout, 

 Mock, Russell, Radiance, Hadley, Rich- 

 mond, Teplitz, MacArthur, Robin 

 Hood, Sunburst, Margaret Dickson, 

 Druschka. Kaiserin and others. 



The judges awarded a cultural cer- 

 tificate to Chas. Cooper, gardener for 

 Miss Amy Lowell for a large specimen 

 of Clivia miniata with twelve enor- 

 mous trusses of bloom, a report of cul- 

 tural merit to James Wheeler for yel- 

 low daisies Etoile d'Or, and a vote of 

 thanks to W. W. Edgar Co., for French 

 hydrangeas Mme. Moulliere and Souv 

 de Chautard. 



CONNECTICUT HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



The March meeting of this soci- 

 ety was held in the County Building. 

 Hartford, on the evening of March 

 12th. It was voted to hold a show on 

 Thursday, June 10th, the proceeds 

 above expenses to go to the Red Cross 

 Society. As announced, this was "Car- 

 nation" night, and William A. Dawson, 

 of Willimantic. exhibited his new 

 seedling carnation "Red Wing." regis- 

 tered under No. 565 by the American 

 Carnation Society. Alfred Cebelius 

 exhibited excellent roses and carna- 

 tions. A. N. Pierson. Inc., displayed a 

 vase of Arawana, a very dark red car- 

 nation. President Mason had on ex- 

 hibition a vase of Spirea Philadelphia, 

 also carnations. 



First class certificates were awarded 

 to William A. Dawson and A. N. Pier- 

 son, Inc.; cultural certificate to Alfred 

 Cebelius; honorable mention to War- 

 ren S. Mason. 



At the next meeting there ■will be a 

 demonstration of the art of pruning 

 fruit trees by G. H. HoUister, C. H. 

 Sierman, and John F. Huss. W. W. 

 Hunt to furnish the stock. This -will 

 also be rose night, and we expect to 

 have our lady members with us. 



Alfred Dixon, Sec'y. 



Wethersfield. Conn. 



ST. LOUIS FLORIST CLUB. 

 The St. bonis Florist Club held Its 

 monthly meeting, .March 11, 50 mem- 

 bers present. Vice-President W. S. 

 Wells presided. A letter from the 

 County Flower Growers' Association 

 said that they at their last meeting 

 voted to assist the Florist Club in en- 

 tertaining the American Carnation So- 

 ciety when It meets here next Janu- 

 ary. The chair then appointed Messrs. 

 Windier. Guy and Grossart to act as 

 judges for the exhibition staged at the 

 Windier salesrooms. W. W. Ohle- 

 wlcler. superintendent of the .Missouri 

 Botaniial Garden, read an interesting 

 paper on "Propagation of Soil for 

 F'lorists' Use." A discussion was 

 started on the question "Can Carna- 

 tions Be Grown at a Profit at Two 

 Cents, for the Season?" Ended with a 

 decision that they could not. The ex- 

 hibits were as follows: 



W. .r. Pllolicr, roses Klllnrno.v. While 

 Kllliiriiey, KlUnriioy Brillluiit, Iludley, Mi- 

 lady mill Waid. mIso .Miizzura violets. W. 

 -\. Uowe, fancy Ji>ii(|ulls and oariiiitlons. Al. 

 Kropp, .T. A. Kropp. Anton Bros.. Chas. Meier 

 and A. II. Ahuer, carnations. Hugo Gross, 

 sweet peas. Pink and Lavender Freeslas 

 and a new blue butterfly sweet pea. Thos. 

 KIrkwood & Sons and O. C. May. sweet 

 peas. Henry Meier. California violets. A. 

 Kropp, snapdragons. .John Strldel, new 

 Sunbeam and other carnations. Joe 

 Hauser, new Kaiser violets. Phil Goebel, 

 sweet peas. Therman Nursery Co., new 

 rose Mlnnetonka. G. W. Thost, carnations. 

 A. Wlber. of Hillsboro. III., daisies. Shil- 

 ler, of Toledo, Ohio, ferns. Ben Albers, 

 primroses, etc. J. K. Ammann Co., Windier 

 IMoral Co., Alton I'loral Co. and J. D. 

 Thompson Carnation Co.. carnations. 

 Wentzel & Hecht, sweet peas and carna- 

 tions. Windier Co., florists' supplies. 



The crowd numbered nearly 75 and 

 they were all well entertained by the 

 members of the Windier Co., to whom 

 a vociferous vote of thanks was ex- 

 tended. 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF 

 NEW YORK. 



Attention is again called to the fall 

 exhibition of this Society, which will 

 be held at the American Museum of 

 Natural History, November 4th to 7th. 

 Schedules are now being prepared, and 

 will soon be ready for distribution. 

 That preparation may be made for the 

 exhibition of bush plants, the pre- 

 miums offered for these are given in 

 the list below: 



CHUYSANTHEMUMS— PLANTS. 



Open to All. 



SPECIMEN BlISHE.t 



In not less than fourteen iocb pots. 



Class No. 1st 2nd 



A-1— Yellow %lC.nO J.-Jij.OO 



A.2— White .10 00 .Ti.on 



A-3— Pink .1000 .^-i.no 



A-4— Any other color 50.00 ICj.OO 



A-5 — .\nemone or Single, any 



color .'W.OO IS.OO 



Sweepstakes, for finest and best 



Bush Plant , Silver Cup 



This Is the Society's Cap valued at SIOO.OO 

 In not more than fourteen Inch pols. 



A-ft— Yellow ?2.5.no $15.00 



A-7— White 2.5.00 15.00 



A-8— Pink 23.00 15.00 



A-O — Any other color 23.00 15.00 



SPECIMEN STANDARDS. 

 Not less than four feet In diameter, In 

 not less than fourteen Inch pols. 



A-IO— Any color .?20.00 $15.00 



SPECIMEN. ODD SHAPE. 



All— Any color $20.00 $15.00 



Georgk V. N.\sii, Sec y. 



LANCASTER COUNTY FLORISTS- 

 CLUB. 



When we gel over one-fourib of the 

 members of a Fiorists' Club to get out 

 at five o'clock in the morning, take a 

 visiting trip covering over 250 miles 

 and get home by 11.30 at night, we 

 feel that we have a very live Club, 

 and if it were not for the fact that a 

 goodly number of our members do 

 their own firing the number on this 

 occasion would have been over one- 

 half. 



The first slop was at E. A. Slrouil's. 

 Strafford, Pa., and, being met by au- 

 tomobiles we were rushed to the 

 greenhouses and shown through by W. 

 E. Johnson who did the honors nobly. 

 Carnations are always the first attrac- 

 tion and we were well pleased with 

 the houses of Matchless. Glorlosa, 

 Philadelphia and Mrs. C. W. Ward. 

 The retail end of this establishment 

 has grown to a two-truck delivery size 

 and of course requires some room to 

 grow the stock. Among the unusual 

 things for variety, a batch of wall- 

 flowers and some very choice camel- 

 lias were especially noticeable. Multl- 

 florum and giganteum lilies were in 

 extra fine form and the number ran 

 into many thousands. 



The Florex Gardens was our next 

 point and our first inspection was 

 their large house, where one does not 

 think In ordinary florists' figures but 

 gets into those of high finance. When 

 one is in their King house 17'J feet 

 wide, 700 feet long and 30 feet high. It 

 does not take much of an imagination 

 to complete the rest — seven miles of 

 paths, sixty thousand panes of glass, 

 fifty-six thousand feet of heating pipes 

 79,000 roses, 50,000 plumosus; bigness 

 is characteristic of the whole place. 

 H. B. Girvin a former Lancasterian 

 has charge of the carnations and they 

 are simply suberb. White Enchantress 

 and Enchantress proper are here 

 on solid beds as good as they 

 have ever been grown and It would 

 do Peter Fisher's heart good to 

 see these Enchantress, immense flow- 

 ers, perfect in form, color and sub- 

 stance and scarcely a burstod calyx to 

 be seen. They also have a pink variety 

 of their own called Ruth and it is a 

 wonder that some novelty introducer 

 has not captured it as it certainly has 

 all the ear marks of a profitable var- 

 iety. They also have a flesh-colored 

 pink that looked good but does not 

 ship very well and will be discarded. 

 Having carnations on benches and in 

 solid beds they have decided after a 

 number of years' trial that the solid 

 beds are the most profitable. A small 

 house of snapdragons upheld the rep- 

 utation of the place by producing ten- 

 foot stems. 



After a dinner at North Wales we 

 started on our way again bound for 

 Hatboro. We were shown around the 

 Weiss establishment by Hairy Weiss 

 who proved an enchanting host in 

 spite of the fact that we came upon 

 him unexpectedly. We were not dis- 

 appointed at the quality of blooms 

 grown here, and the extreme neatness 

 of the place. This firm believes in 

 trying a new one properly or not at 



