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HORTICULTURE 



September 15, 1906 



NEW YORK FLORISTS' CLUB. 



The opening meeting for the season 

 toolv place at the club rooms on West 

 23(1 street, on Monday evening, Sep- 

 tember 10. Fifty members were 

 present, the very hot weather undoubt- 

 edly keeping many away. Not much 

 business of importance was done. A 

 considerable time was given up to a 

 discussion of the National Flower 

 Show which the S. A. F. has under 

 advisement at the present time, with 

 a view to obtaining a consensus of the 

 views of the members of the club In 

 general or the various phases of the 

 project. The net result was a vote 

 unanimously upholding August as the 

 most desirable date in which to hold 

 the annual conventions as heretofore. 

 Messrs. E. V. Hallock. Alfred Zeller 

 and John Birnie were appointed a 

 committee to prepare suitable resolu- 

 tions on the death of James Weir, 

 Jr., and Messrs. Alex. Wallace, W. F. 

 Sheridan and C. B. Weathered were 

 entrusted with a similar duty as to 

 the late Roger O'Mara. The trans- 

 portation committee reported, and was 

 discharged with thanks for its 

 efficiency on the Dayton trip. The 

 outing committee's report will be pre- 

 sented at the next meeting. H. H. 

 Barrows of Whitman, Mass., was 

 elected to membership, and three new 

 names were proposed. A nice exhibit 

 of herbaceous flowers was staged by 

 J. T. Lovett. A magnificent contribu- 

 tion of out-door bloom expected from 

 Eobbink & Atkins got side tracked 

 somewhere on the way. Messrs. Nu- 

 gent, Koehne and Schulz distributed 

 the usual rations with lavish lib- 

 erality. 



nomination, and the October meeting 

 was voted a special dahlia night. 



JOSEPH B. DAVIS. 



NEW JERSEY FLORICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



The regular monthly meeting of the 

 New Jersey Floricultural Society was 

 held on the seventh instant, with a 

 fair display of flowers, fruit and vege- 

 tables. Alexander Wallace was 

 present, and made remarks concerning 

 the recent national convention and 

 exhibition at Dayton. 0. He referred 

 particularly to the work horticultur- 

 ally, of the National Cash Register 

 Company and its influences on the 

 citizens of Dayton, calling attention 

 also to similar effort in the line of 

 civic improvement which he had seen 

 during the day. He mentioned the 

 proposed international flower show 

 to be held in Chicago in November, 

 1908, under the auspices of the So- 

 ciety of American Florists, and urged 

 other gardeners of the Oranges to 

 send exhibits. 



The late Henry Graves was a promi- 

 nent exhibitor of rare orchids at the 

 meetings of the society, and in many 

 cases his entries were of plants never 

 exhibited elsewhere. The following 

 resolution was presented by a com- 

 mittee consisting of Joseph B. Davis, 

 William Read and George Smith, and 

 unanimously adopted: 



"Resolved, That in the death of 

 Henry Graves this society has lost a 

 patron of horticulture, a sympathetic 

 friend, and that in acknowledging 

 this event publicly a just recognition 

 Is made to the value of his contribu- 

 tions of plants and flowers at our ex- 

 hibition to the inspiration of our 

 members and the education of the 

 public generally." 



Two new members were placed In 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY OF 

 AMERICA. 

 The E. G. Hill Co. offer a special 

 prize of $15.00 for the best twenty-five 

 blooms of chrysanthemum Mary Maun, 

 and $10.00 for the best fifteen blooms 

 of any introduction of 1906. 



DAVID FRASER. Sec'y. 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. 



Baur & Smith, Indianapolis, Ind., 

 register Pocahontas, a cross between 

 a light red seedling and Gov. Roose- 

 velt; strong, upright .grower, free 

 flowering, and produces flowers of very 

 large size, with good calyx and a long, 

 strong stem; color, a bright shade of 

 crimson. 



ALBERT M. HERR, Lancaster, Pa. 



SOUTH SHORE DOINGS. 



Thirteen years ago W. H. Wyman, 

 the proprietor of the Bay State Nur- 

 series at North Abington, Mass.. found 

 one acre of land sufficient to grow 

 all the stock he needed in his busi- 

 ness. To-day he has fourteen acres 

 in herbaceous stuff, forty acres of 

 shrubs, row after row of roses, large 

 plantings of evergreens, rhododen- 

 drons, fruit and ornamental deciduous 

 trees, small fruits, and an almost end- 

 less variety of miscellaneous plants, 

 making altogether over one hundred 

 acres of planted stock. A new frost- 

 proof storage warehouse has been 

 built the present season, making the 

 total storage capacity fifty carloads. 

 A special system of yearly transplant- 

 ing and root pruning of evergreens 

 produces a desirable growth of fibrous 

 roots. Rhododendrons are grown un- 

 der unusually favorable conditions, a 

 growth of pines, beneath which they 

 are planted, giving them the surround- 

 ings of their native haunts. The In- 

 crease of Interest in herbaceous plants 

 has been recognized in the new pro- 

 pagating houses and the large acre- 

 age devoted exclusively to these 

 plants. As we look over an enter- 

 prise such as this we are forcibly re- 

 minded that the field of horticulture 

 is boundless, and what it has to reveal 

 to those who would traverse its ex- 

 panses or the treasures it yet has to 

 pour into the lap of mankind are 

 known only to a limited extent. Signs 

 are not wanting, however, to show 

 that the nurseryman, the fiorist and 

 landscape gardener of the future will 

 carry on their vocation on far differ- 

 ent lines from those at this time main- 

 tained. As a commercial pursuit in 

 its present stage of development, it is 

 safe to say that in spite of increasing 

 interest and demand, there is but little 

 room for the man of shiftless methods 

 or the one who would lay back on 

 past achievements. The fakir, al- 

 though continually making an appear- 

 ance, stays but a short time and then 

 passes down and out. 



E. C. Rogers, of Roslindale, has the 

 foundation for a new house, 130x18. 

 The land upon which it will stand is 

 planted to violets and Mr. Rogers will 

 build his house over them without 

 movin,g any, with the exception of one 

 row where the middle posts are to be 

 placed. The heating pipes will be 

 fastened to the nosts from the outside 

 before the root is laid. 



G. H. HIGGINS. 



MESSRS. GUDE SEE THE FAR 

 WEST. 



We are in receipt of a pleasant let- 

 ter from W. F. and A. Gude, recount- 

 ing their exiieriences on a recent trip 

 to Red Mountain. Colorado. At Den- 

 ver they visited the grounds of W. W. 

 Wilmore, a former resident of Laurel, 

 Md., where they found dahlia cultiva- 

 tion carried on to a high degree of 

 perfection. Mr. Gude continues: 



"It might be well to state that these 

 beautiful fertile acres were a barren 

 waste before Mr. Wilmore took hold 

 of them, but by the introduction and 

 perfect control of the irrigation sys- 

 tem, Mr. Wilmore has converted it 

 into a model commercial, floral and 

 fruit farm. In all, the home of Wil- 

 more with his sturdy family, his wel- 

 come, whole-soul greeting, his kind 

 hospitality and his heartfelt 'come 

 again,' makes one feel proud to be a 

 florist, and that such men are in the 

 business to grow flowers to such per- 

 fection as we saw here." 



Mr. Gude also writes in praise of 

 the Park Floral Company's place, the 

 park system of the city of Denver, and 

 concludes as follows: 



"Having always been in favor of our 

 national convention reaching out, I 

 feel now more than ever that one of 

 the best moves the national society 

 could make would be to hold a con- 

 vention in Denver, Colo., in the near 

 future. 



"In the midst of the Rocky Moun- 

 tains we were again impressed by the 

 clear color and wonderful beauty of 

 the columbine, which grows wild in 

 great profusion on the mountain tops, 

 also the forget-me-nots, growing in the 

 highest altitude far above the timber 

 line. At Colorado Springs and Mani- 

 toux, we also noticed that the Western 

 people put forth more effort in pro- 

 ducing beautiful lawns and gardens 

 than do our Eastern people." 



CLEVELAND NOTES. 



The Euclid Avenue Gardener's Club 

 held a Gladioli Show at Euclid Beach 

 Park. It was successful in every way, 

 and Mr. A. Babcock, president of the 

 club, and one of its promoters, feels 

 quite encouraged. 



S. M. Pentecost is building two new 

 bouses 20x100 ft. Poinsettias and 

 Boston ferns are among his best 

 specialties. 



Wurmbeck and Femeugle have 

 opened up a pretty store at 4909 

 Central avenue. 



Fred Moritz, 62 Edmunds St., is 

 putting up a complete new range of 

 houses. The old houses were the 

 property of D. Livingston. 



This fall promises to show an in- 

 crease in the bulb trade; early orders 

 are all in and stock arriving shows 

 good size. 



Col. W. W. Castle of Boston was a 

 visitor at his old home in Cleveland 

 after the Dayton convention. 



Harry Bayersdorfer was one of the 

 few PhiJadelphians who stayed at 

 home convention week. He did double 

 duty looking after arriving shipments 

 and getting off orders. He reports 

 business unusually good which is no 

 doubt attributable to the fine line of 

 novelties and staple supplies he 

 brought with him from the other side 

 as well as to the energetic policy of 

 the house in "keeping everlastingly at 

 it." 



