April 24, 1915 



HOETICULTUEE 



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gust presents the unusual opportunity 

 of drawing up to 100,000 people a rlay 

 to a show. No schedule will be re- 

 quired tor the second show, but a 

 series of medals may be offered by the 

 society for the most noteworthy ex- 

 hibits. The Royal Palace Casino, situ- 

 ated directly on the boardwalk and 

 surrounded by the ocean from three 

 sides, lias been secured and it will 

 prove not only a daylight hall but the 

 atmosphere for an August day will be 

 made delightful botli to the flowers 

 and the public. 



The American Gladiolus Society is 

 desirous of making this exhibit the 

 foremost national floral event of 1915. 

 and wants every grower (large or 

 small) to be represented with an ex- 

 hibit. Every possible assistance will 

 be given by the committee in charge to 

 those who live distances away, with in- 

 formation, .guidance, accommodations 

 for hotels, etc. 



Exhibitors will be allowed to book 

 all the business they can; in fact, the 

 sole purpose of the exhibit is to boost 

 the American Gladiolus for the Amer- 

 ican garden and thereby help the 

 American grower to fight foreign com- 

 petition, which has before this caused 

 much concern to the American grower. 



For further information address the 

 chairman of the Special Exhibition 

 Committee, Maurice Fuld, 1 Madison 

 avenue. New York City. 



DURING RECESS 



COMING EVENTS. 

 Shows. 



New York, N. T., May 8-9.— Exhibition 

 of Hort. Soc. of N. Y. in Bot. Gd., BroDZ. 

 (The March and April shows will b» 

 uiuitted.) 



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 show 

 and meeting of American Sweet Pea So- 

 ciety, in connection with Newport Garden 

 Assoc, and Newport Hort. Soc. 



Lenox, Maas., July 27-28. — Summer ex- 

 hibition of Lenox Horticultural Society. 



Orange, N. J., Oct. 4. — Tenth Annual 

 Dahlia, Fruit, Gladioli and Vegetable Show 

 of N. .1. Floricultural Society. Geo. W. 

 Strange, Sec, 84 Jackson St. 



New York, N. Y., Nov. 3, 4, 5. — Annual 

 Chrysauthemum Show of the American In- 

 stitute. Engineering Societies Building. 



New York, N. Y., Nov. 4-7. — Annual Au- 

 tumn e.'chlbitlon of Hort. Soc. of New York, 

 .Museum of Natural History. 



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

 and meeting of Chrysanthemum Society of 

 America. Chas. W. Johnson, Sec, 2226 

 Fairfax Ave., Morgan Park, 111. 



Meetings. 



DobbK Ferry, N. Y., .\pril M.— Dobbs 

 Ferry Horticultural Society, Odd Fellows 

 Hall. B. Harms, Sec, Dcibbs Ferry. 



Newark, N. J., April 25.— Weiu, Obst & 

 Gartenbau Verein, 15 Newark St. Peter 

 Caille, See, 111 Avon Ave., Newark. 



Baltimore, Md., April 20.— (Jardeiiers' and 

 Florists' Club of Baltimore, Florists' Ex- 

 change Hall, St. Paul and Franklin Sts. 

 Noah F. t'litton. Sec, Gwynn Falls Park, 

 Sta. F, Baltimore. 



Norwich, Conn.. .April 26. — -New London 

 County Horticultural Society, Buckingham 

 Memorial. Frank II. .\llen. Sec, 3L'l Main 

 St., Norwich, (.'oiin. 



Providence, K. I.. April 26. — Florists' and 

 Gardeners' CUili of Kliode Island. Swartz 

 Hall, lit; WesI minster St. Win. E. Chap- 

 pell, Sec, 333 Branch -Vve., Providence, R. I. 



Newport, K. I., .Vprll 2.— Newport Horti- 

 cultural Society, Music Hall. Wui. Gray, 

 Sec, Bellevue Ave.,. Newport. 



San Francisco, Cul., June 22-21. — Ameri- 

 can Seed Trade Association. 



Detroit. .Mich., June 2:1-25. — Annual con- 

 vention of Amer. Ass'n of Nurserymen. 



Fort Worth, Tex., July 6-7.— Texas State 

 Florists' meeting. 



CAMPING ON BUSTIN ISLAND, CASCO BAY, ME. 



Seated— Wm. M. Miller, standing — A. G. Pembroke, Paul E. Kichwagen, H. W. Vose, 

 Geo. H. Noyes. Front — Ed. Rogean, Allen Sim, James Miller. 



The above picture, suitably framed 

 and mounted on a neat rustic stand is 

 to be presented to William M. Miller 

 in rememlirance of a very enjoyable 

 vacation spent last summer at his 

 camp. Mr. Miller is an old-time fiorist 

 of Lynn, Mass., and his host of friends 

 will be glad to see him so hale and 

 hearty. His camp at Casco Bay is a 

 unique place, crowded with curios and 

 souvenirs. The interior furnishings 

 are made entirely of birch bark. The 

 other members of the group in the pic- 

 ture are Boston friends in the trade, 

 who are presenting this picture to him. 



LANCASTER COUNTY FLORISTS' 

 CLUB. 



April 15th, 1915, will be entered in 

 the minutes of this club as a red let- 

 ter day if the secretary does his duty. 



In place of a regular meeting the 

 night was given over to a committee 

 consisting of Ira B. Landis, J. Rutter 

 Hess, Wade Galey and Chas. B. Herr. 

 with instructions to have Ladies' Night 

 and ladies' night it was in the full 

 sense of the term. 



Mine host McGonemy of The Stev- 

 ens House was the caterer, the com- 

 mittee and decorators and about an 

 even fifty of the florists and their 

 wives or sweethearts the guests. 



The menu was toothsome and the 

 decorations were the prettiest and 

 most elaborate of anything ever at- 

 tempted in this city. The music was 

 by Rothe's Orchestra, and Mr. Sav- 

 age sang several solos. Miss Kather- 

 ine Seifert of the B. F. Barr Co. sang 

 several solos and a duet with Mr. Sav- 

 age and -Miss Amanda Landis of The 

 Millersville Normal School gave a 

 series of recitations. 



D. J. Keohane. of the H. F. Michell 

 Co. was the only out-of-town represen- 

 tative of the trade with us and the way 

 in whicli he joined in with Alonzo 

 Peters and Rudolph Nagle in Singing 

 "Heighle Heighlo " showed him to be a 



good sport. Rodney Eshlemann lead 

 the singing between courses and at 

 the end of the banquet the writer pre- 

 sented the following resolutions: 



In view of the fact that the Chil- 

 dren's Gardens had so much pleasure 

 out of our donation of seeds for their 

 use last season, I move that the club 

 appropriate double the amount this 

 season and give one-half to the Chil- 

 dren's Gardens and one-half to the 

 Public School Gardens. This resolu- 

 tion was passed unanimously. 



About midnight the party dispersed 

 with the hope that another Ladies' 

 Night would be a thing of the near 

 future. 



PERSONAL. 



Fred Reynolds of New Bedford, 

 Mass. is spending a two weeks vaca- 

 tion in Vermont. 



Frank L. Gray of Post & Gray New- 

 Bedford, is spending a few days in 

 Winchester, Mass. 



Last Saturday night John C. Ruteu- 

 schwer of Cincinnati was the victim 

 (if a highwayman who in true fontier 

 lashion relieved him of $75 while on 

 his way home from market. 



.lohn Haas, a former well-to-do flor- 

 ist in the Third Ward, West Hoboken, 

 N. J., has been committed to the coum.v 

 jail by Recorder Kuttler for observa- 

 tion as to his mental condition upon 

 the recommendation of Town Phy- 

 sician Older. It is believed he is now 

 a mental wreck. 



Kobert Hunnick left San Francisco 

 on .\pril 20 for New York via Panama 

 Canal, on the Pacific Mail steamer 

 Peru, after a tour of six months in 

 California, staying four months in 

 Santa Barbara and then Los Angeles. 

 Pasadena, San Uiego and San Francis- 

 co. His health is much improved. 



