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HORTICULTURE 



November 8, 1919 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY OF 

 AMERICA. 



The secretary of the Chrysanthe- 

 mum Society ol' America has prepared 

 a very interesting report of his work 

 for the past year. It is as follows: 



The Society having decided at its 

 last annual meeting to hold the eigh- 

 teenth annual meeting and exhibition 

 in conjunction with the American In- 

 stitute of the City of New York, the 

 first work of the secretary for the year 

 was the solicitation of the special pre- 

 miums and the arranging of the spe- 

 cial premium schedule which, through 

 the courtesy of Mr. Wm. A. Eagleson, 

 Secretary of the Board of Managers 

 of the American Institute, was mailed 

 to all members of the society. 



During the season of 1918 there were 

 submitted to the Examining Commit- 

 tees for examination forty varieties of 

 which thirty-four were seedlings and 

 six were sports of existing varieties. 



Pour varieties were offered for reg- 

 istration as follows: 



Nov. 11, 1918 — Variety Victory seed- 

 ling — White Japanese incurved by El- 

 mer D. Smith & Co., Adrian, Mich. 



Nov. 22, 1918 — Marie Louise — Bronze 

 sport of variety Patty by The Davis 

 Floral Co., Davenport, Iowa. 



Peb. 7, 1919— January Gold— Golden 

 Yellow sport of variety Mistletoe by 

 The L. M. Smith Quality Flower Com- 

 pany, Laurel, Del. 



Feb. 7, 1919— Dt. Hitch— White and 

 lavender pink shading to yellow sport 

 of variety January Gold, by The L. M. 

 Smith Quality Flower Company, Lau- 

 rel, Del. 



The season of 1919, has been a good 

 growing season for Chrysantemums 

 planted for commercial and exhibition 

 purposes and many more have been 

 planted than heretofore. The ravages 

 of the insect pests is a difficult prob- 

 lem for the growers to overcome and 

 is a subject that should receive con- 

 sideration by the members of the So- 

 ciety, and the Chrysanthemum Society 

 should have the support of all growers 

 of Chrysanthemums to help find out the 

 best methods of combating the many 

 insects that now attack the plants. If 

 the numerous Chrysanthemum grow- 



ers of the country who have these diffi- 

 culties to overcome will only co-op- 

 erate with the Society, their co-opera- 

 tion will be of mutual benefit to them- 

 selves as well as to the members of 

 the Chrysanthemum Society. 



The routine work of the Secretary's 

 office consisting of sending out state- 

 ments to the members, recording the 

 varieties disseminated, getting out the 

 report of the Seventeenth Annual 

 Meeting and the solicitation of special 

 premiums was attended to in due 

 season. 



Your Secretary wishes to acknowl- 

 edge the kindness of Mi-. Elmer D. 

 Smith in furnishing him with a com- 

 plete list of varieties disseminated in 

 1918, which was a great help in get- 

 ting up the annual report. 



To the Examining Committees is 

 due the appreciation of the Society for 

 their very efficient work in the judg- 

 ing of the new varieties submitted to 

 them. 



The trade papers, as heretofore, 

 very generously published all notices 

 sent to them from time to time during 

 the year for which we owe to them a 

 vote of thanks. 



Since our last meeting we have 

 suffered a great loss through the death 

 of Prank A,. Friedley of Cleveland. 

 Ohio. Mi. Friedley was a leader in all 

 the trade activities of Cleveland and 

 was in charge of a great deal of the 

 work at the shows held at the time of 

 our meetings there. He was also 



formerly Vice-President of the Chry- 

 santhemum Society of America. 



A detailed report of all money re- 

 ceived and paid over to the Treasurer 

 accompanies this. 



Charles W. Johnson, Secy. 



Crataegus in the Arboretum 

 A few of the Old World Hawthorns 

 produce fruit as large and handsome 

 as any of the American species. The 

 largest and handsomest is that of the 

 Manchurian and Chinese Crataegus 

 pinnatifida which is cultivated In or- 

 chards by the Chinese for its dark red 

 fruits. Very beautiful this year is a 

 variety of the European C. oxyacantha 

 tvar. Gireoudii) with thick, slightly 

 lobed. dark green leaves and bright 

 red, lustrous, short-oblong fruits half 

 an inch in length. The branches of 

 the small tree in the new collection o; 

 exotic Thorns on Peter's Hill are cov- 

 ered from end to end with fruit clus- 

 ters which make it one of the most 

 brilliant plants in the Arboretum this 

 week. Crataegus hiemalis. a European 

 tree of doubtful origin and by some 

 authors considered a hybrid, is covered 

 this year with is lustrous, dark wine- 

 colored, ellipsoidal fruit half an inch 

 long, drooping on long slender stems. 

 More beautiful is a tree growing near 

 C. hiemalis in the old Crataegus col- 

 lection near the shrub collection with 

 small deeply divided leaves and de- 

 pressed-globose, shining, dark red- 

 brown fruit three-quarters of an inch 

 in diameter. 



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