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II o i;'i' 1 (• I' I.I I i; !•: 



Mil Till M, ijii: 



the April iiiootlog on Urchnrds and 

 KerllllzerK. Thp society has moved its 

 quarters fnun Main siri'ci to tin- new 

 Municipal MulldinK. 



The Horticultural Club of Doston 

 had as Kuests at lis Mari-li meel- 

 hiK Chief Justice Aiken of the Su- 

 perior Court. K. Doubleduy. publisher 

 of <'ouiitry Life in Anierira; Pres. 

 Herman II. Ilartscli of the Gardeners 

 and Florists Club of Boston. Prof. 

 I.^uis C. KIson of the New KiiRlund 

 Conservatory of Music. VN'illiani It. 

 Nicholson of Kraniinghani and l.,eoiiard 

 Barron, editor of Suburban l..ife. Gar- 

 den City. N. Y. The table was decor- 

 ated with Spencer sweet peas from 

 William Sim. 



Tile greenhouse men have organized 

 the Baldwinvllle (Mass.) Cucumber 

 Growers' Association, for the purpose 

 of cooperatiuK in the urowing. market- 

 in;; and improving the conditions of 

 the industry in the vicinity. The offi- 

 cers of the association are: Presi- 

 dent, Alanson R. Paine: vice-president, 

 Charles Steward of Royalston : secre- 

 tary and treasurer, lir. Walter F. 

 Robie: executive committee, C. H. 

 Smith of Alhol, W. W. i,oid of Winch- 

 endon, Chas. Stewart of Royalston. 

 Sumner Morley and John i?ass of Bald- 

 winville. Meetings will be held month- 

 ly except July and August. 



The Lenox, Mass., Horticultural So- 

 ciety has declared war against the tent 

 caterpillar chrysalis, and at a meeting 

 lield on March 10, the sum of %50 was 

 appropriated for the campaign. Boys 

 residing in Lenox are asked to collect 

 the egg-clusters, and will receive 50 

 cents per thousand clusters. The sec- 

 retary announced that donations had 

 been offered for the coming fall exhibi- 

 tion by Carter's Tested Seeds, Inc.; 

 Ijord & Burn ham Co. and Frank How- 

 ard. Mr. Hay, representing H. A. 

 Dreer, who was present, said the soci- 

 ety could also depend on a donation 

 from that establishment. A discussion 

 on Spraying followed. 



J. Cahm.vn. .Ass't Sec'y. 



COMING EVENTS. 

 Shows. 



Nt>»v Yorlj. X. Y., Miir. i;-i3. liitcTIin- 

 lioiial I'lowiT Show iiiiikT nuspices Hort. 

 Soe. of Xi-w York .nnd Xi>w York I'lorlsts' 

 Club, Omiid Central I'.nlnoe. Jolin Young, 

 OS W. 28th St. 



BiHtton, .MaxH., Mar. 18-21. — Anuunl sliow 

 and Mic-t-tiiiB of Anjerican Kose .Society. 

 Horli.iiltural Hall, in connection with 

 Spring' show of Mass. Ilort. Soc. 



I'liiladelpliia, Pa., Mar, 23-25. — Spring 

 show of Penn. Ilort. Soc. at Ilortleulturiil 

 Hall. David Rust, Sec. 



Scninton, Pa., Mar. 23-26. — Flower sbow 

 by florists of Scranton and Lackawanna 

 Co., in Town Hall. 



Now Y'ork, N. Y,, >Ia,v «-9. — K.Khibltion 



of Ilort. Soc. of N. Y. in Bot. Gd.. Bronx. 



(The March and April sliows will be 

 omitted.) 



San Francisco, Cal., June 4. — American 

 Sweet Pea Society's special show In con- 

 nection with the Exposition. 



Newport, R. I,, July 8-9. — Annual sliow 

 and niectinf: of American Sweet Pea So- 

 ciet.v. in cnime^-tion with Newport Garden 

 Assoc, and New-port Hort. Soc. 



l^enox, MaAR., July 27-28. — Summer ex- 

 hibition of Lenox Horticultural Society. 



New Y'orl<, N. W, Nov. 4-7. — .-Vnnnal Au- 

 tumn e^cliibition of Hort. Sue. of New Y'ork, 

 Museum of Natural History. 



Cleveland, O.. Nov. 10-14. — Annual show 

 »nd meeting of Chrysanthemum Society of 



Auif-rlcn. CIuih. W. JuhnaoD, See., 2220 

 I'alrfnx Ave, .MorKiiii l*iirk. III. 



OransF, N. J., I><<l, 4, Tonlli Aiiiiuiil 

 I'MhIlo. Krull, (iliidloll iind VcKclabli- Sho» 

 or .V. .1. Khirli-nllnrjil Soi-lcly. tico. \V. 

 SIr.'iiiRc, Sec. St Jackson SI. 



Meeting*. 



Ilultliiiiirr, Mtl., Mar. 2S. <:urdcni'rK' and 

 riorKlN' Cliili ..r Itiililmorc, I'lorNlK' i:i 

 <'liiiiit:c Hull. St. Paul and I'riinkllii sis 

 .Voali I'", riltlnii. Sec, i;«yiin I-'alU I'ark. 

 Sta. I'., llalllnHiri'. 



Norwlrh, I'onn., .Mar. 22. — New London 

 County llorliculliiral Soi-lely, liucklnKhain 

 Memorial. Kmuk II. Allen, Se<^'., 3'.>1 .Main 

 St.. Norwlrh, Coiui. 



Provlilrnie, R. I.. Mar. 22. I'lorlsts' and 

 "Jardi'MiTs' I'hib of Klioile Ixhnid. Swan?, 

 Hall, '.Hi \V|.slmlnsli.r St. Win. K. Chap- 

 liell. Sec, Xa Branch Ave,, Provldenie. It. I. 



Ncnporl. R. I., Mar. 23.- Newport Horll- 

 cultural Snclcly. Miish- Hall. Win. <!ray. 

 Sec., lii'llevne Ave., .Newport. 



Hart turd. Conn., ^lar. 2(1. (''onlHM'tliMlt 

 llortlrnltnral Soclelv, Couiitv Itldi;. Alfred 

 Iilxon. Se<-., -jr, Wilcox St., WetherslleUI. 

 Conn. 



llol>l>H Ferry, X. \., Mar. 27.— DobbR 

 Terry llorlliultural Soilety. Odd Fellows 

 Hall. It. Harm>.. Sim., I lobbs Ferry. 



X'ework, N, J,. Mar. 2K.— Weln. Obsl A: 

 liartt'iibaii \'er(.ln, io Newark St. Peter 

 t'nille, Sc<'., Ill .Vvon Ave., Newark. 



.Vlbany, N. Y., April I.— Albanv Florists' 

 Clnb. on Broadway. Uobert Pnvldsoii, 

 See., ].•!■( Second St.. Albany. 



Chlrngro, III., April 1.— Chicago Florists' 

 Club. Hotel Bisinarek, IT.'i West Randolph 

 St. (iuy W. French, Sec, Morton Grove, 111. 



Tacnnia, Wasli., .April I. — Taeoina Florists' 

 Assoc, .Maeeabee Il.ill., llih and C Sts. 

 I'. H. -Meliisoii. Si-e.. South Flflielh nnci 

 Fast F St., 'J'aeoina. 



Lake Forest, III., April 2.— .Vorlh Shore 

 llortlenltural Soeiely, City Hall. F. Hol- 

 lin;.'ei-. .See.. Lake Forest. 



Lenox, .MaN8., .\pril 3. I/4'nox Hortb'ul- 

 liir.'il Sorlety, Ttt^'ii Hall. Geo, H. liistone. 

 Sec. Lenox. 



San Framisco, Cal., .\pril ».- I'aeiile 

 Coast llorlienltiir.'il Soeietv. Saehelli Hall, 

 nedniens Bblir.. 240 Golden Gate Ave. W. 

 A. HoBliKllolT. S...- . i:!L' Phelaii Hl.K' , S:iti 

 I'rjiiicis<*o. 



TRAINING HORTICULTURISTS. 



Criticism lias been made in <crtain 

 ijiiarters that the .Massachusetts Agri- 

 cultural College is not educating farm- 

 ers, but giving students a general 

 training which they apply to other oc- 

 cupations. Yet the institution requires 

 that each man in the two upper classes, 

 which now total 210 students, shall 

 choose work in some major department 

 and specialize in it*, for tw'o years. Of 

 thai nuniljor sixty-nine have chosen 

 agriculture, ninety horticulture, forty- 

 nine sciences relating to agriculture, 

 and eight rural social science of which 

 agriculture is a feature. Thus, three- 

 fourths of the classes have voluntarily 

 placed the emphasis of their education 

 upon the practical departments of agri- 

 culture and horticulture, while the 

 others have given their attention to 

 allied interests. There was proliably 

 never a time in its history when the 

 college was mailing farming so attrac- 

 tive to its students as it is now, or giv- 

 ing them that thoroughness of train- 

 ing which will enable them to engage 

 in that pursuit with profit to them- 

 selves and benefit to the State. 



— Boston TrnnS' rii>t. 



Obituary 



EdMin T. Dentiam. 

 ImIwIii T. Iii'iiliam, ii well kuown 

 llcuist of Cloversvllle, N. Y., passed 

 away at his home, IG Third avenue on 

 .March Ctli, aged 64 years. Ills wife 

 and a daughter survive him. 



Charles Hildebrandt. 

 Charles I lildcliraiidl, for the lust 

 thirty years of the linn of ('has. Hilde- 

 brandt & Son. lliirlsts, Brooklyn, N. Y., 

 died last Wednesday morning aged 7M 

 years. He is survived by his widow, a 

 son and a daughter. 



Edward F. Quinn. 

 Kdward F. Qiiiuii. of Norwich. N. Y., 

 died Feb. -6th. aged .')fi years. He bad 

 been engaged in the greenhouse busi- 

 ness for over thirty-two years. His 

 widow, two daughters and two broth- 

 ers survive him, 



T. Lee Adams. 

 T. Lee Adams, aged 66 years, died 

 at his residence, 14 B. 35th street, 

 Kansas ("ity, Mo., on Wednesday. 

 March 3d, after a year's illness. He 

 was the president of the T. Ivee Adams 

 Seed & Poultry Supply Co. since Its 

 inception in 1881. 



Thomas Brown. 

 Thomas Brown, one of Gei niantown'a 

 oldest jobbing gardeners and well- 

 known throughout that suburb, died on 

 March 11th at his home. No. G125 Mor- 

 ton street, Philadeliihia, after a linger- 

 ing illness. He was 73 years old. It 

 is said ttiat he was perhaps the last 

 resident of Gerinantown to see Charlie 

 Jtoss, of Ea.st Washington lane, who 

 was kidnapped July 1. 1874, and was 

 never found. He is survived by five 

 daughters and four sons. 



DURING RECESS. 



New 'Vork Florists' Bowling Club. 

 Thursday, March 11, 1915. 



I>. Jacoi.son 1<;1 I'.t IM) 



C W SeoH 17C 170 Ifid 



H. C. Kiedel 174 VV) 177 



A. J. GntlniMi Is7 17'.; LSI 



w. P. Ford v.r, r.n 177 



A UNIQUE PRIZE CONTEST FOR 

 BOYS. 



Prize contests are nothing new. But 

 there is something decidedly new in 

 the prize contest announced by the 

 Smith & Hemenway Co., Inc., of 181 

 (Uiambers St., New York, for the larg- 

 est number of articles and designs 

 made with their "Red Devil" Glass 

 Cutters. 



When the words "manual training" 

 are mentioned, there rises before the 

 mind's eye the images of things made 

 of wood or metal. Smith and Hemen- 

 way, after conferring with a number 

 of manual training educators, felt that 

 not enough attention was being paid 

 to the possibilities of glass working. 

 Hence this prize offer intended to de- 

 velop inventiveness and originality of 

 mind as well as manual skill on the 

 part of the boys. 



And the boys themselves. Won't 

 they feel proud of their handiwork. 

 Proud of what they have accomplished. 

 Proud of the many useful and beauti- 

 ful things they can make with glass 

 for mother, father, sister, playmates 

 and — last but not least— themselves. 



The contest closes on May 31 so that 

 enrollments should be sent in prompt- 

 ly. 



