November 27, 1915 



HOETICULTURE 



697 



GARDENERS' AND FLORISTS' CLUB 

 OF BOSTON. 



The November meeting of this Club 

 on Tuesday evening, was very well at- 

 tended. The main business was an ad- 

 dress by George B. Gallup, president 

 of the Pilgrim Publicity Association 

 of Boston, on "Advertising — the Light 

 that Serves and Saves." The speaker 

 presented his subject in such an at- 

 tractive manner that it deeply im- 

 pressed all who heard it. He empha- 

 sized the duty of the horticulturist to 

 do their part to improve the esthetic 

 environment of the places where peo- 

 ple live and contribute by such sup- 

 port to the advancement of civiliza- 

 tion and culture which is so dis- 

 tinctively characteristic of the pres- 

 ent epoch of unprecedented scientific 

 revelation. He told of the plans under 

 way for the pro|)osed Model City of 

 the World which is to commemorate 

 the landing of the Pilgrims at Plym- 

 outh, on the anniversary of that event 

 five years hence and made a strong 

 presentation of the part that the flor- 

 ist and landscape gardener is exnected 

 to take in th'T great project for which 

 the initial expenditure will exceed 

 twenty million dollars. The florists' 

 great mission is to help bring about 

 a fuller popular appreciation of the 

 beauties of nature and to inculcate 

 by effort and example the ambition 

 for more beautiful cities and happier 

 homes and to help increase the joy 

 and honor of living, through the mes- 

 sage of the goods in which they deal. 

 The eloquent presentation of this 

 timely subject was received with a 

 spirited demonstration of approval. 



W. J. Kennedy as chairman of the 

 legislative committee read a list of 

 the various bills to be presented be- 

 fore the legislature during the coming 

 session, having a direct interest for 

 the trade. One of these is in the in- 

 terest of the birds and bees as affect- 

 ed by the poison-spraying of the trees. 

 One provides for the utilization of 

 forest land for cultivation. One pro- 

 vides the sum of $."iO00, towards the 

 instruction of boys and srhl;, in gar- 

 dening. Another contemplates the tak- 

 ing of a State census of everybody 

 connected with any tjranch of agricul- 

 ture or liorticulture. Still another 

 proposes that the Mass. Agricultural 

 College be equipi)ed to test seeds for 

 all who wish, and one other provides 

 for a special experiment station to in 

 vestigate diseases of vegetables. 



Communications were read from .lohii 

 Young, secretary of the S. A. F.. ask- 

 ing for count and voucher to show 

 the Club's eligil)ility to have a repre 

 sentative on the S. A. F. executivi- 

 board, and from R. Vincent. .Jr., con 

 cerning the newly organized American 

 Dahlia Society. 



Nomination of officers followed ami 

 the following were named without any 

 competing candidates: .lames Mo 

 thuen for president; W. .1. Patterson 

 for vice-president; Peter Fisher for 

 treasurer, and VV. N. Craig for secre- 

 tary. Nine names were nominated for 

 the executive committee. A re-election 



Meetings Next 

 Week 



Wednesday, Dec. 1. 



Tu.xlhIo Horticultural Society, Tux- 

 odo Park, N. Y. 



Thursday, Dec. 2. 



Soiitliamptuii Hurticiiltural Society, 

 S«iutli:iiiu)tou, N. Y. 



Friday, Dec. 3. 



North Shore Horticultural Society, 

 Manchester, Mass. 



North Shore Horticultural Society, 

 Lake Forest. 111. 



Pasadena Horticultural Society, 

 Pasadena, Calif. 



Y'onkers Horticultural Society, 

 Yonkers, N. Y. 



People's Park Cottage Gardeners' 

 Association, Paterson, N. J. 



Saturday, Dec. 4. 



Pacific Coast Horticultural Society, 



as president was offered to Herman 

 Bartsch but he declined the honor. Six 

 new members were admitted. 



M. C. Ebel, secretary of the National 

 Association of Gardeners made an in- 

 teresting address on the history and 

 purposes of the Association and the 

 approaching convention in Boston. W. 

 N. Craig. Duncan Finlayson and \V. ,T. 

 Kennedy were appointed to act with 

 a similar number from the executive 

 committee of the Horticultural Inter- 

 ests of Boston to provide a suitable 

 welcome and entertainment for the 

 visitors on the occasion of the con- 

 vention, Dec. 9, 10 and 11. 



On the exhibition table were groups 

 of Christmas plants from \V. W. Ed- 

 gar Co.. Carnation Miss Theo from 

 Littlefield & Wyman, vase of Bouvar- 

 dia Humboldti corymbiflora and spe- 

 cimen plants of Solanum capsicas- 



trum. Montreal variety, from Faulk- 

 ner Farm. Splendid blooms of chrys- 

 anthemums Wm. Turner, Col. Apple- 

 ton, Wells' Late Pink, Wm. Duckham 

 and Mrs. Kelley from Alex McKay, a 

 lovely pale pink seedling rose of de- 

 licious fragrance from C. E. Holbrow 

 and a showy plant of Begonia Ensign, 

 from the same exhibitor, this being 

 the first time it has been shown in 

 this country. 



LANCASTER COUNTY FLORISTS' 

 CLUB. 



The visitors to Manheim on NovetQ- 

 ber 18 numbered an even half dozen — 

 a small but select party. At Phares 

 Hostetter's we saw callas by the ten 

 thousand and sweet peas, all in excel- 

 lent shape. At Monroe Hostetter's 

 sweet peas, mignonette, carnations, 

 etc., uniformly good. At E. P. Hostet- 

 ter's, the giant place of the county. As- 

 paragus Sprengerii and plumosus are 

 a big money making proposition and 

 one house of plumosus is laden with 

 seed. A house of yellow dasies three 

 years old was in full bloom and an evi- 

 dence of what can be done by careful 

 culture. Carnations, of which there 

 are tons of thousands, were in fine 

 form and especially those that had 

 been planted in all summer. A house 

 of Matchless, 400 feet long, planted 

 from two-inch pots in .June, were equal 

 to those shown by the originators in 

 the .\'ew York show the year previous 

 to its introduction. 



7.30 P. M., President Barr rapped the 

 meeting to order. The Dahlia Show 

 committee reported. The Visiting 

 committee reported arrangements for 

 a trip to Lititz next month. A short 

 talk on Chrysanthemums and on the 

 psychologv of plant growing was made 

 by B. F. Barr. Harry K. Rohrer gave- 

 a list of varieties for early, midseason 

 and late that they had found valuable. 

 Rudolph Nagle gave his experience 



Pii.MfONs A.Nn Si>oij:s 

 .\t the Cleveland Klower Show. 



