850 



HORTICULTUEE 



December 25, 1916 



My Maryland with the same produc- 

 tive habit of growtii and freedom of 

 flowering. In color, a clear, dark pink, 

 a shade resembling Bridesmaid, and a 

 decided improvement on the parent. 



Red Radiance — A sport from Radi- 

 ; nee. Similar in habit and growth, 

 lilt a clear, even shade of red in color 

 rnd of equal merit to its parent as a 

 forcing and garden rose. 



Little Sunshine — Seedling from 

 Rosa multiflora nana x Soleil d'Or. 

 Color, creamy yellow varying to deep 

 golden yellow occasionally flecked or 

 splashed with crimson. Double flowers 

 one and one-half to two inches in diam- 

 eter, carried in large panicles through- 

 out the season. Habit, dwarf, spread- 

 ing and vigorous similar to Multiflora 

 nana. Very hardy and valuable for 

 garden planting, but of special value 

 for pot culture. 



These are submitted for registration 

 by A. N. Pierson, Inc., Cromwell, Conn. 

 Benjamin Hammond, Sec'y. 



Beacon, N. Y., December 20, 1915. 



LANCASTER COUNTY FLORISTS' 

 CLUB. 



December 16 is getting pretty close 

 to Christmas and most florists are 

 pretty busy around Christmas time. 

 liiit notwithstanding all this we had a 

 representative crowd on our visiting 

 trip to Lititz, a pretty little burgh of 

 Lancaster County noted from Minne- 

 sota to Texas and Maine to California 

 for its "pretzels" and incidentally to 

 see our compatriots Mr. Spinner who 

 has a very neat little place devoted 

 principally to vegetables and from 

 which he makes quite as much as the 

 average florist specialist would from 

 the same amount of glass, the houses 

 being used early for chrysanthemums, 

 and C. P. Loeffler who has the past 

 summer added two King houses and 

 now has a good sized plant complete 

 in every particular and a general as- 

 sortment of cut flower stock, delphin- 

 iums, calendulas, snapdragons, alyssuni, 

 sweet peas and carnations, with chrys- 

 anthemums all out of the way except- 

 ing a few Nonin which he says he will 

 not plant next season, it being a nuis- 

 ance on account of its lateness. His 

 new houses were unfortunately de- 

 layed in tlie finishing and the carna- 

 tions have suffered considerably, but 

 are now starting to produce. 



A stop was made to see Enos Kohr's 

 model place. Mr. Kohr has the busi- 

 ness insight to keep everything right 

 up to the top notch of productiveness, 

 utilizing all available space and recog- 

 nizing cleanliness as next to godliness. 

 /He has some 45,000 paper white nar- 

 nissi coming in and his carnations, of 

 which he has house after house, are 

 exceptionally uniform in quality; in 

 fact, most of Lancaster County carna- 

 tions are a little higher up in quality 

 than just "good" this season. Mr. 

 Kohr likes White Perfection better 

 than Matchless and has a very fine 

 bench of Alice of which he thinks con- 

 siderable and with good reason. 

 Bench after bench of Mrs. C. W. Ward 

 were a sight worth the whole trip. 



Some thirty-two were present in the 

 evening for the "Oyster Peed" among 

 whom as guests were D. T. Connor of 

 the Lord & Burnham Co.; T. J. Nolan 

 of the King Construction Co. and Ed- 

 who from a few remarks that he made 

 before leaving, will he a booster for 



ward J. McCallum from Pittsburgh 

 the club. A short meeting was held 

 before the "feed" and H. A. Schroyer 

 was nominated for president; B. J. 

 Weaver for vice-president: Harry K. 

 Rohrer for treasurer and Frank Kohr 

 for secretary. Lemon Landis our sec- 

 retary since organization insisting on 

 being relieved from his job. 



The committee on supper, Frank 

 Kohr, David Rose and John Shreiner, 

 certainly gave us full value for the 

 money expended but they forgot one 

 important thing at a florists' banquet 

 and that was the decorations which 

 might have been a little more elabo- 

 rate than what they gave us. 



After supper bowling teams were 

 organized under the leadership of 

 Messrs Connor and Nolan and some 

 heavy scores were made, Mr. Connor 

 winning the first prize, a very hand- 

 some umbrella, Willis B. Girvin the 

 second and Frank Kohr, the booby 



nurseryman in the country, actively 

 engaged in the business, but not yet 

 identified with the Association, will 

 take the necessary steps to become 

 one. 



James Methven 



President-Elect of the Gardeners' and 

 Florists' Club of Boston. 



prize called by courtesy the third. In 

 duck pins David Rose won first and 

 A. Rohrer the low prize. 



The singing and playing of Alponzo 

 Petrs was a feature of the evening 

 and billiards and pool and several hot- 

 ly contested card games kept every 

 one busy until 11.30 when we broke up 

 a jolly party feeling all the better 

 ready for work during the coming 

 year under a new president. 



AUBEET M. Hbkr. 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NUR- 

 SERYMEN. 

 The forty-first annual convention of 

 the American Association of Nursery- 

 men, will be held in Milwaukee, Wis., 

 June 28-30, next. Hotel Wisconsin has 

 been chosen as convention headquar- 

 ters. T. J. Ferguson, of Wauwatosa, 

 Wis., is the local representative of the 

 Association in the matter of arrange- 

 ments, entertainment, etc. Questions 

 regarding membership, etc., may be 

 sent to Secretary John Hall, 204 Gran- 

 ite Building, Rochester, N. Y., who will 

 promptly respond. It is the hope of 

 the executive committee that every 



PACIFIC COAST HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



The regular monthly meeting of the 

 Pacific Coast Horticultural Society on 

 the evening of Dec. 11, was followed 

 by a very enjoyable smoker. The nom- 

 ination of officers for the ensuing year 

 was one of the principal matters of 

 business and the results were as fol- 

 lows: Eric James for president, Thom- 

 as Fenton for vice-president, W. A. 

 Hofinghoff, incumbent, secretary; J. A. 

 Axtell for treasurer, D. Raymond and 

 P. Poss for ushers, and John McLaren 

 for trustee. A long list of names were 

 proposed for the exhibit committee. 

 The evening exhibits made a very 

 creditable showing. A vase of late 

 varieties of carnations by N. Patterson 

 of San Mateo took 92 points; a display 

 of Cibotium Schiedei by P. Pelicano 

 was rated at 95 points, and Nephrolep- 

 is Superior by H. Plath took 90 points. 

 The exhibit committee announced the 

 prize winners having the highest 

 scores on exhibits for the year as H. 

 Plath, first, 980 points; F. Pelicano, 

 second, 762 points; MacRorie-McLaren 

 Co., third, 444 points. Splendid enter- 

 tainment was provided by Jas. Keegan 

 and his committee for the latter part 

 of the evening. 



GARDENERS' AND FLORISTS' CLUB 

 OF BOSTON. 



The December meeting, held on 

 Tuesday evening, Dec. 21, was pretty 

 well attended, considering the near- 

 ness of the date to Christmas. Elec- 

 tion of officers was the principal busi- 

 ness. The result was as follows: 

 President, James Methven of Read- 

 ville; vice-president, W. J. Patterson 

 of Wollaston; secretary, W. N. Craig, 

 Brookline; treasurer, Peter Fisher, 

 Ellis; executive committee, Peter Mil- 

 ler, W. J. Kennedy, Herman Bartsch, 

 W. C. Rust and Andrew Rogers. 



Secretary Craig read a paper on the 

 prospects in this country for the young 

 gardener, and a very interesting and 

 vigorous discussion followed. 



The landscape class of the club 

 meets at Horticultural Hall every Mon- 

 day evening at 7 o'clock, and interest- 

 ed visitors are always welcome. 



WESTCHESTER AND FAIRFIELD 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The annual meeting of this society 

 was held on December 10 and officers 

 for 1916 were elected as follows: pres- 

 ident, W. J. Sealey; vice-president, 

 Owen A. Hunwick; treasurer, Robt. 

 Williamson; secretary, J. B. McArdle; 

 corresponding secretary, P. W. Popp. 

 The attendance was the smallest on 

 record owing no doubt to the severity 

 of the weather, and the gloom cast 

 over the members due to the death 

 of our beloved friend and associate 

 inember, Hon. John M. Brown, Mayor 

 of Stamford, Conn. He was one of 

 nature's noblemen whose charming 

 personality and cheerful presence will 

 be greatly missed at all of our gather- 

 ings. A committee was appointed to 

 draw up suitable resolution of sym- 

 pathy to be presented to the bereaved 

 family and a copy of same to be 



