September 13, 1919 



HOHTICI'LTDRE 



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SEEDSMEN'S WEEK AT GRASS 

 LAKE. 



Grass Lake Seed Farms were the 

 mecca fur the seedsmen of the l'. S. 

 and Canada Sept. 2nd to 5th. Here 

 are the trial grounds and seed raising 

 farms of the Jerome B. Rice Company, 

 occupying one of the finest districts 

 for this purpose in the state of Mich- 

 igan. They went at the invitation and 

 as the guests of the Company (as an- 

 nounced in our issue of August 30th) 

 and spent a most pleasant and profit- 

 able time, making notes and listening 

 and discussing the points of the thou- 

 sand and one things to be seen there 

 growing and at their best stages of 

 development. The visitors were taken 

 oven the grounds in automobiles, stop- 

 ping whenever there appeared some- 

 thing special to see, and that was 

 very frequently. Cucumbers, melons, 

 onions, squashes, tomatoes, turnips, 

 carrots, beets, beans, radishes and 

 many other subjects are produced 

 here in perfection, and there were no 

 dull minutes either in the fields or 

 trial grounds; and the discussions did 

 not stop there, but were carried into 

 the small hours of the morning when 

 the visitors foregathered over their 

 pipe and their glass at the offices of 

 the company. Among those present 

 were: 



F. S. Ingersoll, Rocky River, Ohio; 

 Wesley D. Simon, Philadelphia, Pa.; 

 David and Lee Don, New York, N. Y. ; 

 Chas. W. Bolgiano, Washington, D. C; 

 Hugh Milloy (Geo. Keith & Sons), 

 Toronto; Allen C. Drake (Chas. Mc- 

 Cullough Seed Co.), Cincinnati, Ohio; 

 A. J. Crockett and G. F. Bradley (Tem- 

 plin, Crockett & Bradley Co.), Cleve- 

 land, Ohio; W. A. Hall (Hall Seed 

 Co.), Louisville, Ky.; C. H. Sears and 

 Capt. J. Ward Nelson (Sears & Nich- 

 ols Co.), Chillicothe, Ohio; S. F. Leon- 

 ard, Chicago, 111.; S. A. Wilson (Olds 

 Seed Co.), Madison, Wis.; Merton L. 

 Bamer and H. L. Shoemaker (Page 

 Phillips Seed Co.), Toledo; C. Herbert 

 Anderson (Frank S. Piatt Seed Co.), 

 New Haven, Conn.; S. F. Willard 

 ( Corns tock Ferre & Co., Wethers-field, 

 Conn.; Wm. Rennie & Co., Toronto, 

 Ont. ; Harry Livingston (Livingston 

 Seed Co.), Columbus, Ohio; Harry L. 

 Holmes, Jr. (Holmes Leatherman 

 Co.), Canton, Ohio. 



The Company was represented on 

 this occasion by George E. Starr, the 

 superintendent of the farms, ably as- 

 sisted by Howard M. Earl. Charles 

 "P. Guelf, Albert Kenerson. Harry H. 

 Hedges and G. L. Schiedler. The 

 event was altogether a most enjoyable 

 one, and everybody departed with the 



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ardent thought in their minds that the 

 Jerome B. Rice folks were great peo- 

 ple and deserved well of their coun- 

 try and the seedsmen of the world, 

 and wishing them every success in 

 their enterprise, and thanking them 

 for the courtesy which dominated 

 the firm in issuing the invitation. 



NEW PRESIDENT OF THE 

 GLADIOLUS SOCIETY. 



Many people not personally ac- 

 quainted with H. E. Meader, of Dover, 

 N. H, the newly elected president of 

 the American Gladiolus Society, will 

 be interested to know just how he 

 looks. The accompanying picture is a 

 very good one, and reveals the fact 

 that he is a very good looking man. 

 The picture, however, fails to properly 

 indicate the energy and enterprise 

 which have helped to win for Mr. 

 Meader the success which he has 

 achieved. 



Mr. Meader is thirty-nine years of 



age, and has been a grower of gladioli 

 exclusively for over ten years. He was 

 a charter member of the American 

 Gladiolus Society, and is also a mem- 

 ber of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society. He has served as judge at 

 various flower shows in New York 

 State and elsewhere, and is considered 

 an authority on the gladiolus, as he 

 may well be. 



He has come before the public re- 

 cently because of his purchase from 

 Mr. Kunderd of the gladiolus Lily 

 White, thus acquiring the most val- 

 uable stock of any one variety ever 

 sold in America. This is a variety 

 which is likely to become very popu- 

 lar as a florist's flower. 



Mr. Meader was in attendance at the 

 Detroit Convention, where the honor 

 of being made president of the society 

 was conferred upon him. 



Mr. H. E. Meader 



COMING MEETINGS AND EXHIBI- 

 TIONS. 



Detroit, Mich. — Vegetable Growers' 

 Ass'n of America, annual convention, 

 Detroit, Mich., Sept. 9 to 13. Sec'y, 

 Sam. W. Severance, Louisville, Ky. 



New Haven, Conn. — New Haven 

 County Hort. Society, annual fall show, 

 Sept. 30 and Oct. 1. 



New York City. — The American In- 

 stitute and the American Dahlia So- 

 ciety, exhibition of dahlias In the En- 

 gineering Bldg., 25-33 West 39th St., 

 Sept. 23 to 25. Sec'y. William A. 

 Eagleson, 322-24 West 23rd St. 



New York City. — The American In- 

 stitute and the Chrysanthemum So- 

 ciety of America, exhibition of chrys- 

 anthemums in the Engineering Bldg., 

 25-33 West 39th St., Nov. 5 to 7. Sec'y, 

 William A. Eagleson, 322-24 West 23rd 

 St. 



Providence, R. I. — Rhode Island 

 Hort. Society, flower show, Sept. 18 

 and 19; chrysanthemum show, Not. 

 13 and 14. Sec'y, Ernest K. Thomas, 

 Kingston, R. I. 



