HORTICULTUBE 



October 30, 1915 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY. 



Annual Meeting. 



The Annual Meeting of the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society will be 

 held at Horticultural Hall, Boston, at 

 12 o'clock, noon, on Saturday, Novem- 

 ber 13, 1915. The business of the 

 meeting will consist in the election of 

 a President, a Vice-President, four 

 members of the Board of Trustees, 

 and a Nominating Committee of five 

 members. The voting will be by Aus- 

 tralian Ballot and the polls will be 

 open continuously between the houi^ 

 of twelve, noon, and three in the 

 afternoon. 



The following proposed amendments 

 to the By-Laws will be presented for 

 the approval of the Society: 



1. That the second paragraph of 

 Section II of the By-Laws be amended 

 so as to provide that the Trustees may 

 appropriate a sum or sums amounting 

 to more than $5000 for the purpose of 

 prizes and gratuities, provided that 

 there shall not be appropriated for the 

 purpose of being expended in any one 

 year, in addition to the income of 

 special prize funds of the Society, a 

 sum or sums exceeding the amount of 

 the general income of the Society for 

 the preceding year applicable for such 

 purpose as shown by the report of the 

 Treasurer. 



2. That Clause 4 of Section IX of 

 the By-Laws of the Society be and the 

 same hereby is amended so as to pro- 

 vide that appropriations for prizes 

 and gratuities may be made by the 

 Trustees not more than three years in 

 advance. 



3. That Clause 7 of Section IX of 

 the By-Laws of the Society be and the 

 same hereby is amended so as to pro- 

 vide that exhibitions of flowers, plants, 

 fruits and vegetables may be arranged 

 for by the Trustees not more than 

 three years in advance, and shall be 

 announced at the annual meeting of 

 the Society. 



William P. Rich, Secretary. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY OF 

 N AMERICA. 



Work of the Committees. 



The examining committees have 

 submitted reports in new varieties as 

 follows: — 



Exhibited at Philadelphia, Oct. 16, 

 by G. A. Lotze, Glen Burnie, Md., 

 No. 1, 1913, yellow, Jap., inc.. Com. 

 scale 90 points. Ex. scale 89 points. 



Exhibited at New York, Oct. 16, by 

 Chas H. Totty, Madison, N. J., Alice 

 Day, white, Jap., inc. Com. scale 84 

 points. 



Exhibited at Cincinnati, Oct. 16, by 

 Elmer D. Smith, Adrian, Mich., Early 

 Rose, rose pink, Jap., inc.. Com. scale 

 87 points. 



Exhibited at Philadelphia, Oct. 23, 

 by Chas. H. Totty, Madison, N. J., 

 Alice Day, white, Jap. inc., Com. scale 

 89 points. 



Exhibited at Cincinnati, Oct. 23, by 

 The E. G. Hill Co., Richmond, Ind., No. 

 45, yellow, Jap. inc.. Com. scale 86 

 points. By Elmer D. Smith & Co., 

 Adrian, Mich., October Queen, white 

 Jap. reflexed. Com. scale 87 points; No. 



Meetings Next 

 Week 



Monday, Nov. 1. 



Bernardsville Horticultural So- 

 ciety, BemardsvlUe, N. J. 



Elberon Horticultural Society, 

 Elberon, N. J. 



Houston Florist Club, Houston, 

 Texas. 



Montreal Gardeners' and Florists' 

 Club, Montreal, Canada. 



New Bedford Horticultural Society, 

 New Bedford, Mass. 



New Jersey Floricultural Society, 

 Orange, N. J. 



Washington Florist Club, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



Tuesday, Nov. 2. ji 



Lake Geneva Gardeners' and Fore- I 

 men's Association, Lalje Geneva, Wis. J 



Los Angeles County HorticHltural i] 

 Society, Los Angeles, Calif. | 



Paterson Floricultural Society, J 

 Paterson, N. J. * 



Philadelphia Florists' Club, Phlla- , 

 delphia, Pa. | 



Pittsburgh Florists' and Gar- 

 deners' Club, Pittsburgh, Pa. 



Wednesday, Nov. 3. 



Tuxedo Horticultural Society, 

 Tuxedo Park, N. Y. 



Thursday, Nov. 4. 



Southampton Horticultural Society, 

 Southampton, N. Y. 



Friday, Nov. 5. 



North Shore Horticultural Society, 

 Manchester, Mass. 



North Shore Horticultural Society, 

 Lake Forest. 111. 



Pasadena Horticultural Society, 

 Pasadena, Calif. 



Yonkers Horticultural Society, 

 Yonkers. N. Y. 



People's Park Cottage Gardeners* 

 Association, Paterson, N. J. 



Saturday, Nov. 6. 



Pacific Coast Horticultural Society, 

 San Francisco, Calif. 



111-1-13, yellow, Jap. inc., Com. scale 

 89 points. 



Exhibited at Chicago, Oct. 23, by El- 

 mer D. Smith & Co., Adrian, Mich., No. 

 111-1-13, yellow, Jap. inc.. Com. scale 

 92 points; October Queen, white, Jap. 

 reflexed, Com. scale 93 points. 



C. W. Johnson, Sec'y. 



NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY 



ASSOCIATION OF PLANT 



GROWERS. 



The annual fall inspection tours ot 

 the New York and New Jersey Asso- 

 ciation of Plant Growers have again 

 been arranged for. The tour over 

 Long Island takes place on Friday, 

 October 29th. The party starts from 

 the office of William H. Siebrecht, 

 Jr., Queens Plaza Court Building, 

 Long Island City, at 9 A. M. travel; 

 ling in touring cars, furnished by 

 the members, to visit the establish- 

 ments in Long Island City, Woodside, 

 Elmhurst, Middle Village, Flushing, 

 Whitestone, Jamaica and Flatbush. 



The trip through New Jersey will 

 take place on Friday, November 5. 



Messrs. Zeller and Wagner are the 

 committee which has the Long Island 

 trip in charge and Messrs. Feisser and 

 Schoeizel have charge of Jersey tri|). 



LANCASTER COUNTY FLORISTS' 

 CLUB. 



At one o'clock on Thursday after- 

 noon, Oct. 21st, a number of the fra- 

 ternity were dotted at various points 

 of Center Square anxiously looking 

 for a leader. Mr. Nagle who accord- 

 ing to his official title should have 

 led the party was busy at his new 

 houses getting things into shape for 

 a cold snap, and the President who 

 was to have taken his place was lined 

 up with a salesman from somewhere 

 in the U. S. and so intent on buying 

 a bill of goods that he could not get 

 away. The consequence was the hold- 

 ing of an indignation meeting on the 

 Square and arranging the visiting 

 trip to suit ourselves. 



"The writer appointed himself a 

 committee of one to meet the train 

 which brought our guest of honor. 

 Robert Pyle, of West Grove, Pa. 

 Charles M. Weaver kindly voluntered 

 the use of his car and we soon caught 

 up to the main party, stopping nrst at 

 The Wheatland Greenhouses where 

 carnations are looking good and the 

 best Chrysolora chrysanthemums were 

 being cut that are shipped from this 

 section. The next stop was at our 

 own Thomas Frie's place where 

 there is a continual interchange of 

 stock and a use of space that is al- 

 ways a revelation to a stranger, we 

 having gotten accustomed to seeing 

 three times the quantity of stock 

 turned out from this place that is 

 usually produced from the same 

 amount of glass. 



President Barr met us at his green- 

 houses and did the honors for the rest 

 of the afternoon. His place shows 

 the usual variety grown by a retail 

 man for his store trade, the most of 

 it very good and carnations excep- 

 tionally good. Mr. Barr takes much 

 pride in his nursery stock and de- 

 servedly so as he certainly has some 

 very fine specimens. 



At the writer's place the strangers 

 were a bit surprised at the number of 

 geraniums under way and more sur- 

 prised at the beauty of Buddleia var- 

 iabilis flocking round it like a bunch 

 of butterflies, but there the simile ends 

 for the florist is more like the busy 

 bee, working hard to produce the 

 money that the other fellow takes 

 away from him in exchange for new 

 houses, etc., as was witnessed at 

 Rudolph Nagle's where two very fine 

 houses are in the course of erection. 

 He had some very good stock of 

 Pelargonium Winter Cheer, a house 

 of pompons just coming into good 

 shape, several houses of early chrys- 

 anthemums that are cut and a few 

 inidseason ones coming on. 



The next point was the establish- 

 ment of H. D. Rohrer. Under the 

 guidance of his two sons Harry K. 

 and Abram we found the usual stock 

 of carnations coming into shape and 

 several houses of Bonnaffon chrysan- 

 themums, a big house of Chrysalora, 

 also lots ot primulas, myosotis and 

 sweet peas. 



At Goldbach's we found the place 

 planted up for a continuous store sup- 



