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HORTICULTUEE 



August 7, 1915 



iug to W. J. Sealey, Byram Shore, Port- 

 chester, N. Y. Entertainment will be 

 provided for the ladies and little folks. 

 A large crowd is anticipated. 



P. W. Popp. Cor. Sec'y. 



ST. LOUIS MEETINGS FOR AUGUST 



T'le various meetings of clubs and 

 associations for the balance of this 

 month are as follows: Florist Club at 

 Joe Hauser's Dahlia farm in Webster 

 Grove. Thursday, August 12. Annual 

 election of officers. 



The Ladies' Florists' Home Circle 

 will be entertained by Mrs. Otto G. 

 Koenig at her home, on Wednesday, 

 August 11. 



Retail Florists' Association, August 

 19, at the Mission Inn Garden, and 

 Mr. Ammann has promised to deliver 

 an address. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



The annual meeting and election of 

 officers of the American Gladiolus So- 

 ciety will be held at the Casino, New- 

 port, R. I., August 18 at 7.30 P. M., by 

 order of the president. 



H. YouELL, Sec'y. 



The next exhibition of the Massachu- 

 setts Horticultural Society will be held 

 at Horticultural Hall, Saturday and 

 Sunday, August 7 and 8. The principal 

 features of this show will be gladioli, 

 phloxes, China asters and seasonable 

 annual flowering plants. Summer 

 fruits and vegetables are now matur- 

 ing and apples, pears, peaches and 

 plums appear on the schedule for the 

 first time this season. The collec- 

 tion of vegetables will also attract in- 

 terested attention. 



The exhibition is free and will 

 open Saturday from 12 to 6 and on 

 Sunday from 2 to 6 o'clock. 



The monthly meeting of the Florists' 

 Club of Washington, D. C, was held 

 last Tuesday evening. In the absence 

 of President Cooke, William F. Gude 

 presided. The feature of the evening 

 was the talk of Charles S. Dulaney on 

 the subject of artificial cooling of flor- 

 ists' ice boxes and the manufacture of 

 Ice. Mr. Dulaney showed the florists 

 how tliey could more than cut their 

 ice bills in half. The outing commit- 

 tee rendered a preliminary report. The 

 outing, previously reported in these 

 columns, was declared to have been 

 the most successful in the history of 

 the club. A buffet supper followed the 

 meeting. 



Coming Events 



SHOWS. 



Boston, Aug. l-S. — Gladiolus aud Phlox 

 Exhibition, Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Soeety. 



Newport, R. I., Aug. 12, 13, 14— Mid-sum- 

 mer exhibition of Newport Garden Club 

 and Newport Horticultural Society. 



-Gladiolus So- 



Cleveiand, O., Aug. 13-11.- 



clety of Ohio exhibition. 



Newport, R. 1., Aug. 18-19.— Fifth annual 

 exhibition of the American Gladiolus So- 

 ciety. 



Atlantic Cit.v, N. J., Aug. 26-29.- Ameri- 

 can Gladiolus Society exhibition. 



Boston, Aug. 28-29.— Exhibition of the 

 Products of Children's Gardens, Massachu- 

 setts Horticultural Society. 



GENERAL COLLECTION OF GLADIOLI BYMETZNER FLORAL CO. 

 AT PANAMA PACIFIC 



m Lewiston City Hall of Lewiston aud 

 Auburn Gardeners' Union. Chas. S. Allen, 

 President, Auburn, Me. ; Mrs. Geo. A. Whit- 

 ney, Secretary, 151 Winter St., Auburn, Me. 

 Meetings first Friday in each month. 



Rochester, N. Y., Aug. 30 to Sept. 11. — 



Rochester Exposition aud Flower Show. 



Boston, Sept. U-12.— Dahlia and Fruit 

 Exhibition, Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society. 



Hartford, Conn., Sept. 22-23. — Annual 

 Dahlia exhibition of the Connecticut Hor- 

 ticultural Society, Uuity Hall. Pratt St 

 Alfred Dixon, Sec, Wethersfield. 



American Cemetery Superintendents, Min- 

 neapolis and St. Paul. Se<Tetary, Yellett 

 Lnwson, Jr.. Supt. of Elm Root Cemetery, 

 River Grove, 111. 



Boston, Oct. 2-3.— October Show Mass.n- 

 chnsetts Horticultural Society. 



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

 Dahlia, Fruit, Gladioli and Vegetable Show 

 of N. J. Floricultural Society. Geo W. 

 Strange, Sec, 84 Jackson St. 



Hartford, Conn., Aug 27. — Regular meet- 

 ing Conu. Horticultural Society, County 

 Bldg., Trumbull St. Alfred Dixon, Sec, 

 Wethersfield. 



CONVENTIONS TO BE HELD IN 

 AUGUST IN SAN FRANCISCO. 



-Vugust 12-14. — Thirteenth .\nuual Con- 

 vr-ntion: The Pacific Coast Association of 

 Nurserymen, President, John Vallance, kl 

 tJIen avenue. Oakland; secretary-treasurer, 

 C. A. Tonneson, Tacoma, Washington. 



O.vster Ba.v, L,. I.. N. Y., Oct. 5-6.— Dahlia 

 Show of the Oyster Bay Hort. Society. 

 Chr.Tsanthemum Show, Nov. 2. Andrew R. 

 Kennedy, Westbury, L. I., secretary. 



Glen Cove, L. I., Oct. 7.— Dahlia Show of 

 Nassau Co. Hort. Soc. Fall Show of Nas- 

 sau Co. Hort. Soc, Oct. 28 and 29 



.■\ugust 12-14,.— Fifth Annual Meeting: 

 The California .\ssociation of Nurserymen. 

 President. Fred H. Howard, Ninth" and 

 Olive streets. Los Angeles; secretary-treas- 

 urer, Henry W. Kruckeberg, 237 Franklin 

 street, Los Angeles. 



-August 16. — Nurserymen's Day at the 

 Panama-Pacific International Exposition. 



Pougbkeepsie, N. Y., Oct. 28-29.— Annual 

 flower show of Ducbes? County Horticul- 

 tural Society. N. Harold Cottam, Sec, 

 Wappingers Falls. 



Boston, Nov. 4, 5, 6, 7.— Grand Autumn 

 Exhibition, Massachusetts Horticultural 

 societ.v. 



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

 Chrysanthemum Show of the American In- 

 stitute, Engineering Societies Building. 



Tarr.vtonn, N. Y., Nov. 3-4-5.— Chrysan- 

 themum Show in the Music Hall. 



.\ugu$t 17-19. — Annual Meeting : The 

 .\merican Rose Society. President. S. S. 

 Pennock, Philadelphia, Pa. ; secretary, Ben- 

 J.-imin Hammond. Beacon, N. Y. ; treasurer, 

 Harry O. May, Summit, N. J. 



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

 tumn exhibition of Hort. Soc. of New York, 

 Museum of Natural History. 



Chicago. lU., Nov. 9-14.— Fall Flower 



Show of the Chicago Florists' Club and 



Horticultural Society of Chicago, to be 

 held in the Coliseum. 



.August 17-20.— Thirty-first Annual Meet- 

 ing; Society American Florists and Orna- 

 mental Horticulturists. President. Patrick 

 Welch, Boston ; vice-president, Daniel Mac- 

 Knrie, San Francisco ; secretary. John 

 Voung. 5.3 W. Twenty-Eighth street. New 

 York City.; treasurer, W. F. Kasting, Buf- 

 f.lln. N. Y. 



The National Association of Gardeners, 

 President. John W. Everitt, Glen Cove, N. 

 Y. ; secretary. M. C. Ebel. Madison, N. J. 



The Florists' Telegraph Delivery. Presi- 

 dent. Irwin Bertermann, Indianapolis, Ind ; 

 secretary. Albert Pochelon. Detroit. Mich. 



The Florists' Hail Association of Amer- 

 ica. President. E. G. Hill, Richmond, Ind. ; 

 secretary, John G. Esier, Saddle River 

 N. J. 



Lewiston, Me., Aug. 27-28.— Fall exhibition 



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

 and meeting of Chr.vsauthemum Society of 

 America. In coujunction with the Cleve- 

 land Flower Show. Chas. W. Johnson 

 Sec, 2226 Fairflax Ave., Morgan Park, 111. ' 



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

 Flower Show. The only show of national 

 scope in the United States this fall F A 

 Friedley, Sec, 356 Leader Building. 



MEETINGS. 

 Twin Cities, St. Paul, Minn., .Iiug. 24-28 



Annual convention of the Association of 



.August 18-20.— Annual Meeting; The 

 American Association of Park Superin- 

 tendents. President. G. X. .4inrhym. New 

 Haven, Conn.; secretary-treasurer, Roland 

 W. Cotterill, Seattle. Wash. 



August 23-25 — Thirty - fourth Biennial 

 Session : The American Pomological So- 

 ■ iety. Berkeley. Cal. President L. A. 

 Goodman. Kansas City, Mo.; California 

 vice president, Henry W. Kruckeberg. 237 

 Franklin street. Los Angeles; executive 

 committee, George C. Roeding. Fresno; 

 secretary. E. R. Lake, 2033 Park Road, 

 N. W., Washington, D. C. 



