November 29, 1919 



HORTICULTURE 



463 



WITH THE PENNSYLVANIA GROW- 

 ERS 

 Starting at 1 p. m. the first order 

 of the day was a trip to Strasburg, 

 stopping first at the houses of Amos 

 Rohrer who grows carnations as a 

 main crop but has snapdragons, 

 sweet peas and calendula as a side 

 issue. Every thing looked well es- 

 pecially the carnations, of which he 

 grows Mrs. C W. Ward, Matchless and 

 Supreme in quantity and one bench. of 

 White Wonder that still continues to 

 give good satisfaction. He also had 

 a bed of Albert Roper which he says 

 is a bit shy through the winter but 

 makes up for lost time in the spring 

 and holds its color remarkably well 

 In the hot months. Mr. Rohrer grows 

 quite an assortment of pot plants for 

 his local trade. 



Mr. Chas. B. Herr entertained us for 

 an hour at his place and in addition 

 to the Ward, Supreme, Belle Wash- 

 burn and his big house of Matchless 

 he has a bed of Crystal White that 

 looks very promising as a commercial 

 sort. To keep himself out of mischief 

 he has some fine fancy pigeoTs and 

 has trained his pet dog to a hundred 

 or more tricks. 



J. Wade Galey, half a mile out has 

 once again the banner houses of car- 

 nations for Lancaster County. The 

 other two places were fine but his 

 are surerfine. He grows Mrs. Ward, 

 Supreme. Matchless, Beacon and Alice. 

 His cut last season was Mrs. Ward 19, 

 Matchless 23, Beacon and Alice 25 to 

 the plant, not to one or two plants but 

 to every plant on the place, and this 

 season promises just as good or better. 

 On the way back to Lancaster a 

 stop was made at the place of Carl 

 Brackbill. Here we found the old 

 arch enemy of carnations stem rot 

 superinduced by the plants being 

 under water part of the time just be- 

 fore housing them. 



The last place visited was the H. D 

 Rohrer establishment where the car- 

 nations are below par owing to the 

 continued rains and a leaky roof, but 

 the better weather of the past week 

 has helped and most of them will 

 make a crop. Mr. H. K. & A. K. 

 Rohrer. who are now running the 

 place have developed into plant grow- 

 ers as well as cut flower men and 

 have their famous strain of Primula 

 by the 100,000 in various sizes. They 

 also have a house of Cyclamen that 

 measures up to the high standard set 

 for this flower. A fine batch of Paris 

 Daisies in pots completes the plant 

 end, but they have Calendula, Myoso- 



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On the trip we had with us Messrs. 

 Arthur Niessen, Dennis Connor and 

 T. J. Nolan. 



The evening meeting was an innova- 

 tion, the place being the Men's Parlors 

 of the Y. M. C. A. and was preceded 

 by a very fine supper served by the 

 ladies of the Y. M. C. A. under the 

 supervision of Mrs. A. M. Herr, their 

 president. 



Cut flowers were on exhibition, a 

 fine display of pompons from Presi- 

 dent Elmer Weaver, the larger flow- 

 ered mums from H. K. Rohrer and 

 Lemon Landis and the new white 

 sweet pea Mrs. Rudolph Nagle from 

 Mr. Rudolph Nagle. This pea Is mak- 

 ing friends with every one who sees 

 it and Mr. Nagle is to be congratulated 

 on having introduced it. 



The paper of the evening was by 

 Mr. Arthur Niesson of Philadelphia 

 on the prospects for the coming win- 

 ter and was listened to with much 

 attention. 



Unexpectedly we had with us Mr 

 W. F. Therkildson and Mr. Prentice 

 of the N. W. Aver advertising agency 

 and Mr. Therkildson outlined the 

 publicity work of the S. A. F. and for 



local clubs in his own inimitable style. 



Both Mr. Niessen and Mr. Therkild- 

 son answered many questions and the 

 meeting went on record as endorsing 

 the movement of the Philadelphia 

 Club of raising funds by the percent- 

 age plan, for publicity purposes. 



Mr. T. J. Nolan was presented with 

 a huge birthday cake on which was 

 erected a boiler house and stack and 

 Mrs. A. M. Herr in making the pre- 

 sentation speech said It was up to 

 him to build the greenhouse. He 

 thanked the me'mbers for their remem- 

 brance and after the meeting ad- 

 journed cut the cake and gave each 

 lady and gentleman a slice to either 

 eat or to take home and dream on. 



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