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HORTICULTURE 



July 31, 1915 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PARK 

 SUPERINTENDENTS. 



The eastern members who are to 

 join the tour to San Francisco will 

 start from New York, via the Penna. 

 R. R., at 11.04 A. M. on Saturday, Au- 

 gust 7. All eastern and southern dele- 

 gates will converge at Chicago, the 

 party leaving there via C. M. & St. P. 

 R. R. on Sunday at 6..30 P. M. Ar- 

 rival in San Francisco is scheduled for 

 Monday P. M., August 16. The pro- 

 gram of meetings and entertainments 

 is as follows: 



Inform.nl Reception and Dauoe, Tuesday 

 ovenlng, August 17, at St. Francis Hotel. 



Wednesday, August IS, Morning — Open- 

 hie: Ceremonies ; Address of Welcome by 

 jMayor Jas. Rolpb ; Response by President 

 Amrybn : Admission of New Menil>ers: Re- 

 ports of Officers: Appointment of Com- 

 mittees; Introduction of Resolutions, 

 Amendments to Constitution, etc. After- 

 noon — Reports of Committees: New Busi- 

 ness: Papers and Addresses : Question Box: 

 Election of Otticers. Evening — Stereopticiui 

 Lectures: Address and Papers; Untinisbed 

 Business; Closing Ceremonies. 



Thursday, August 19 — Steamer trip 

 around San Francisco Bay in forenoon; 

 luncheon at Oakland, followed by auto 

 tour of Oakland, Alameda and Berkely as 

 guests of Hoard of Park Directors of Oak- 

 land: return to San Francisco about rt 

 P. M. by steamer. Evening — Stag smoker 

 for the gentlemen at the Elks Club. 

 Theatre party for the ladies. 



Friday, August 2(1 — All day auto tour of 

 Inspection over the parks, playgrounds and 

 boulevards of San Francisco: also the 

 picturesque rural section known as "The 

 Peninsula," luncheon being served ennuiti'. 

 the ride terminating at the Panama-PaiiBc 

 Exposition. Evening — At the amusement 

 features on "The Zone." 



Saturday. August 21 — This date left o))i'n 

 for inspection of the Expositi<m exhibits, 

 etc. Party leaves for San Diego Exposition 

 .iiid points eastward at 7.45 A. M. Sunday, 

 August 22. 



I'apers and addresses are promised by 

 the following : 



Hon. Samuel Hill. President Pacific High- 

 way Association.— Mr. Hill is an Interna- 

 tional character in road buildini;. an exten- 

 sive traveler and his illustrated lecture on 

 "Good Roads" is a revelation in various 

 wavs. 



E. B. DeOroot. Director of Physical Edu- 

 cation. San Francisco. — Mr. De<;root is re- 

 garded as America's most eminent play- 

 ground anthoi'ity. having built up the 

 A\nnderful S«oU!i Park recreation centers in 

 <'lii(ag". His topic will be "The Drift of 

 <irii:iTiizcMl Iteircatiou." 



.t. II. I'rost. City Forester of Chicago.— 

 Mr. Prost will ju'esent a sti-rcniiticon lec- 

 ture showing the wonderful work accom- 

 plished with trees in Chicago. 



L. P. .Tcnson. of St. I.ouis, will present 

 a paper iin "Public Parks as Preservers of 

 Native Plants." 



Ernst Strehle n-ill present a paper on 

 the St. Louis Park Department Association, 

 a unique and successful organization. 



And others. 



VANGUARD OF THE S. A. F, AT SAN FRANCISCO. 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. 

 Attention A. C. S. Members. 



The Department of Floriculture of 

 the University of Illinois is conduct- 

 ing experiments for the purpose of de- 

 termining the cause of. and a remedy 

 for the disease known as yellows 

 among carnations. These experiments 

 were started last year and have ad- 

 vanced far enough to promise definite 

 results. There is perhaps no work in 

 which the members of the A. C. S. 

 could be more vitally interested, on 

 account of the prevalence of this dis- 

 ease and the damage it is doing the 

 carnation industry. 



In order to carry on these experi- 

 ments successfully and to arrive at 

 definite conclusions, they require ma- 

 terial from all sections of the country 

 and to that end we ask that all mem- 

 bers of the A. C. S. forward to them 

 a limited number of each variety show- 

 ing these light spots (in the red and 



Here we have the picture of a special 

 committee engaged in making pre- 

 liminary arrangements tor the visitors 

 to the 31st Annual Convention of the 

 S. A. F., taken at the famous Cliff 

 House facing the Pacific Ocean. The 

 occupants of the front seat are Secre- 

 tary John Young of New York and 



Vice-president Dan. MacRorie of San 

 Francisco. In the second seat are C. 

 W. Ward of Eureka, Cal. and R. C. 

 Kerr of Houston, Texas. In the rear 

 seat are C. P. Mueller of Wichita, 

 Kans., and C. C. Grayson of Eureka, 

 Cal. Standing, Ed. Sceery, Paterson, 

 N. J. 



crimson sorts the spots are dark 

 purplish) in the leaves. 



The experimental benches will be 

 planted during the first two weeks of 

 August and these specimens should 

 be forwarded during that tiiue. Label 

 each variety plainly. 



The names of those sending in ma- 

 terial will not be made public, so that 

 no apprehension need be felt along 

 that score. 



Address all packages to Department 

 of Floriculture, University of Illinois, 

 Urbana, 111. 



A. F. J. Baur, Secy. 



The society is backed by good and ex- 

 perienced men who understand their 

 business and will make an earnest ef- 

 fort to win the good opinion of their 

 fellow craftsmen as well as the rest 

 of the American public, especially the 

 lovers of the beatiful dahlias. 



RicH.iRD Vi.NCENT, Jii., Pres. 



AMERICAN DAHLIA SOCIETY 



SHOW. 



Museum of Natural History, New York 



City, Sept. 24. 25, 26, 1915, 



When the doors of this grand build- 

 ing are opened to the public on Sept. 

 24, we expect to have the greatest va- 

 riety and best collection of dahlias 

 ever gotten together anywhere in all 

 their different types and classes. New 

 seedlings and some of the newer va- 

 rieties that have been either grown 

 here or imported and not hitherto ex- 

 hibited, will be shown for the first 

 time at this meeting. There will Ije 

 some seven hundred or eight hundred 

 varieties grown by Prof. F. H. Hall, of 

 the New York Experiment Station at 

 Geneva, with other trial and experi- 

 ment lots from other sections. We 

 shall aim to have some one present 

 who will explain the planting, growing 

 and handling of dahlias for the gar- 

 den. The Executive Committee have 

 requested the retail fiorists to put up 

 an exhibit of their decorative art and 

 skill in showing the possibilities of 

 this beautiful, many colored and ex- 

 quisitely shaped flower. Each and 

 every one will be given space free of 

 charge to put up whatever they wish 

 in table decorations, bouquets, baskets 

 and vases of any design that will show 

 the possibilities of the dahlia for or- 

 namental and design work in its 

 season. 



The American Dahlia Society is the 

 youngest society claiming notice, but 

 is vigorous for its age and growing. 



SOUTHAMPTON, N. Y., EXHIBI- 

 TION. 



It can safely be promised that the 

 ninth annual exhibition of the South- 

 ampton Horticultural Society, to be 

 held on Wednesday and Thursday, 

 August 4 and 5, will be a real record- 

 breaker. 



Trade exhibits are promised from 

 Bobbink & Atkins. Rutherford. N. J., 

 roses and hardy perennials; Henry A. 

 Dreer, Philadelphia, aquatics; W. A. 

 Manda, So. Orange, N. J., roses and 

 dahlias; Oak Park Nurseries, Patch- 

 ogue, evergreens; Swan River Nurser- 

 ies, Patchogue, evergreens; also ex- 

 hibits of varied assortments from Guil- 

 foyle, Frankenbach, Stumpff. Thomas 

 Smith, Wm. F. Halsey and other local 

 houses. 



The prize list figures .^735 outside 

 the village competition, which is $105 

 more or $840 in all. 



NEW YORK STATE FAIR. 



The seventy-fifth annual New York 

 State Fair will be held September IS- 

 IS, 1915, at Syracuse. An advance 

 prize list for the flower department 

 has been received. The commissioner 

 in charge of this department is 

 Charles S. Wilson. Albany, and David 

 Lumsdeu. of Ithaca is superintendent. 



The premiums are comprehensive 

 and liberal. For roses in the profes- 

 sional classes alone they amount to 

 over $400, of which $100 is offered for 

 the best collection and display of roses 

 consisting of 500 blooms and at least 

 12 distinct varieties. A second prize, 

 $50, and a third, $25, are also offered 

 in this class. Large sums are also of- 

 fered for groups of stove and green- 

 house plants, etc. Floral designs, gladi- 

 oli, asters, carnations, dahlias, etc., are 

 all liberally provided for. 



