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NEW YORK FLORISTS' CUUB. 



The meeting of the New York 

 Florists' Club last Monday night was 

 probably the largest business meeting 

 on record for this club. There were 

 not far from one hundred and fifty 

 persons present. The cause of the 

 outpouring was the annual election of 

 officers, and if it had not been for the 

 downpour of rain the crowd would 

 undoubtedly have been considerably 

 larger. 



Resignations from membership were 

 received from .1. N. May, Chas. H. 

 Allen, and E. Steftens. All were ac- 

 cepted and. on motion of John Birnie, 

 Messrs. May and Allen were elected 

 honorary members. Announcemeut 

 was made of the death of Mrs. E. V. 

 Hallock and Messrs. Traendly, Wheeler 

 and Stewart were appointed a com- 

 mittee to present appropriate resolu- 

 tions at the next meeting. 



Balloting for officers for 1907 fol- 

 lowed. During the vote-counting an on- 

 slaught was made upon Mr. Nugent's 

 well-supplied commissary department 

 after which announcement was made 

 that Charles H. Totty of Madison, N. 

 J., had been elected president, A. .1. 

 Manda, vice-president; John Young, 

 secretary, and L. W. Wheeler, treas- 

 urer, the latter being elected over C. 

 B. Weathered who has filled the office 

 for nineteen years, by a plurality of 

 six. Messrs. John Scott, W. F. Sheri- 

 dan and Julius Roehrs, Jr., were 

 elected trustees. The defeated candi- 

 dates then severally made motions de- 

 claring the elections to be unanimous 

 and the successful ones, being called 

 upon, each made appreciative remarks. 

 Secretary Young on this occasion was 

 given a roof- raising ovation. 



There were some fine exhibits on 

 the tables, which the judges made 

 recommendations on as follows: 



Eighty-five points and a preliminary 

 certificate to crimson seedling carna- 

 tion shown by A. Domeusy; 89 points 

 and preliminary certificate to carna- 

 tion Welcome a rose pink sport from 

 Mrs. T. M'. Lawson, exhibited by 

 Dailledouze Brothers, 85 points and 

 preliminary certificate to carnation 

 Pink Imperial, and 82 points with 

 thanks to carnation Imperial, shown 

 by A. J. Guttman; 74 points and 

 thanks to scarlet carnation Mrs. 

 Robert Hartshorne shown by W. 

 Tierney; cultural certificate to Henry 

 Turner for specimen Gloire de Lor- 

 raine begonia and Mr. Mense for 

 violets; thanks to A. C. Zvolanck for 

 sweet peas. 



by Peter Murray a beautiful Phoenix 

 Robelini; carnations ' by A. Bauer; 

 stevias by A. Grieb; violets by Fred 

 Dettlinger. A committee consisting 

 of Messrs. Robertson, Grieb and Dett- 

 linger was appointed to confer with 

 the Board of Education of Oakhurst 

 in regard to beautifying the school 

 grounds. After remarks by Mr. Her- 

 bert Hall the meeting adjourned. 



ELBERON HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 

 At the regular meeting of this so- 

 ciety on December 3, great interest 

 was taken in a new seedling carnation 

 exhibited by Mr. Tierney of High- 

 lands of Navesink which was awarded 

 a certificate of merit, scoring 90 

 points. Mr. Tierney has named It 

 Mrs. Robert Hartshorn in honor of his 

 employer. There were also exhibited 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY. 



At a meeting of the Board of Trus- 

 tees of the Massachusetts Horticul- 

 tural Society held December 8 nine 

 new members were elected. Several 

 protests against recent awards made 

 by the committee on vegetables were 

 considered and referred to a special 

 committee for investigation. To pro- 

 vide for such cases in the future a 

 new rule was adopted as follows: 



"Whenever any exhibitor shall con- 

 sider himself personally aggrieved by 

 any award of a prize he may file a 

 written protest with Secretary imme- 

 diately after such award. The Secre- 

 tary shall forthwith transmit such 

 protest to the committee that made 

 the protested award and such commit- 

 tee shall thereupon reconsider such 

 award. No protest shall be consid- 

 ered unless made as provided in this 

 rule." 



It was voted also that the free use 

 of one of the halls of the society's 

 l)uilding be granted to the landscape 

 gardening class of the Gardeners' and 

 Florists' Club of Boston. 



Committees for the year 1907 were 

 appointed as follows: 



Finance: W. Hunnewell, chairman; 

 A. F. Estabrook, S. M. Weld. Library: 

 C. S. Sargent, chairman; T. O. Fuller, 

 C. W. Jenks, H. P. Walcott, S. Hen- 

 shaw. Lectures and Publications: W. 

 P. Rich, chairman; J. W. Manning, J. 

 A. Pettigrew, E. B. Wilder. Prizes 

 and Exhibitions: J. K. M. L. Far- 

 quhar, chairman; W. N. Craig, A. H. 

 ■'■■ewkes. W. Wheeler, Isaac Locke, W. 

 H. Spooner. Plants and Flowers: A. 

 H. Fewkes, chairman; R. Cameron, 

 W. N. Craig, T. D. Hatfield, W. Nichol- 

 son. Fruits: W. Wheeler, chairman; 

 C. F. Curtis, J. W. Hill. Vegetables: 

 Isaac Locke, chairman; Duncan Fin- 

 layson, J. B. Shurtleff, Jr. Gardens: 

 C. W. Parker, chairman; Oakes Ames, 

 Geo. Barker, W. N. Craig, W. H. El- 

 liott, A. H. Fewkes, J. A. Pettigrew, 

 W. W. Raw^son, W. P. Rich, H. P. 

 Walcott, S. M. Weld. Children's Gar- 

 dens: H. S. Adams, chairman; H. S. 

 Rand, W. E. C. Rich, W. P. Rich. 



WM. P. RICH, Secretary. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY OF 



AMERICA. 



Work of Committees. 



Chicago, Dec. 1st.— Mile. Jeanne 



Rosette, pink. Exhibited by the E. G. 



Hill Co. Scored 91 points commercial 



scale. DAVID ERASER, Sec'y. 



MARYLAND STATE HORTI- 

 CULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Specimens of the best that the state 

 grows in vineyard, orchard and gar- 

 den were shown at the ninth annual 

 meeting of the society on December 

 o and 6 in the armory of the Fifth 

 Regiment, Baltimore. The opening 

 exercises were held in the auditorium 

 at 2 o'clock, Wednesday. Mayor Tim- 

 anus was escorted to the platform and 

 introduced by Prof. T. B. Symons, 

 state entomologist and superintendent 

 of this year's exhibit. He welcomed 

 the members to the city in a happy 

 vein, and said : "We can learn much 

 trom the horticulturists of Maryland. 

 The city government is particularly 

 interested in beautifying the parks 

 and no doubt you can give us many 

 points which if followed will make 

 our parks unsurpassed in beauty 

 throughout the world." Mr. Orlando 

 Harrison of Berlin in responding for 

 the society, praised the people of Bal- 

 timore for the pluck shown in rebuild- 

 ing their city; also made a plea on the 

 part of the society for a building to 

 be known as "Horticultural Hall." 

 President E. P. Cohill referred briefly 

 to the labor question which is now 

 confronting many of the fruit and 

 truck growers and made a suggestion 

 lor meeting it; also asked the grow- 

 ers to co-operate in removing all dan- 

 gers, as far as possible, which sur- 

 round truck growing, and with the 

 state officials in combating the pear 

 blight, peach yellows and San Jose 

 scale which are doing great damage. 



A resolution was introduced by 

 Prof. Symons protesting against the 

 future million-dollar appropriation by 

 Congress for distribution of seeds, as 

 the belief is that the farmers derive 

 no benefit from them and it is a use- 

 less waste of money. A copy of these 

 resolutions will be sent to all of their 

 Maryland representatives in Congress. 



At the evening session addresses 

 were made by W. Duckham, president 

 of the Chrysanthemum Society of 

 America; Prof. T. B. Symons, and 

 F. W. Besley, state forester. 



Among the interesting addresses on 

 Thursday was that of Prof. A. S. 

 peech, of the Iowa Experiment Sta- 

 tion, on "The apple and the manner in 

 which it should be grown". Officers 

 were elected as follows: President, 

 Orlando Harrison; vice-pres., C. J. 

 Seybold; sec. and treas.. Prof. T. B. 

 Symons; executive committee, E. P. 

 Cohill, .L W. Kerr. 



The banquet, which was the first at- 

 tempted by the society, was given on 

 Thursday evening at the Eutaw House. 

 Governor Warfield and Mayor Timanus 

 were the guests of honor. The Gov- 

 ernor in his remarks favored a state 

 building for the society. Other speak- 

 ers were Prof. E. P. Cohill and Presi- 

 dent Sylvester of the Agricultural 

 College. 



The exhibition was especially nota- 

 ble, particularly in the apple depart- 

 ment where 150 distinct varieties were 



