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HORTICULTURE 



March 1, 1919 



after six a party went to one of our 

 oyster houses and enjoyed an oyster 

 supper. At 7.30 found us in the Cham- 

 ber of Commerce rooms, and the first 

 order of business was the staging of 

 a wonderful lot of sweet peas that 

 Messrs. H. K. Rohrer, Chas. M. Weav- 

 er and Elmer J. Weaver brought with 

 them from the W. Atlee Burpee trial 

 houses. They were all good with the 

 following as specials: Zephyr, a true 

 lavender; Daybreak, a salmon pink; 

 Snowstorm and Sankey, whites, and 

 Gypsy Maid, a fine pink. Other va- 

 rieties shown were Glorious, Lavender 

 King, Luster, Illuminator, Enchan- 

 tress, Mauve Beauty, Blue Bird. Alba- 

 tross, Fordhook Rose, Rosy Morn, 

 True Blue, Fairy, Fantasy, Pink Beau- 

 ty, Empress, Dazzler, Orange Beauty, 

 Cherry Ripe, Loveliness and Splen- 

 dor. The only other exhibit was the 

 vase of Belle Washburn carnations 

 from Amos Rohrer of Strasburg. 



Harry K. Rohrer made a few re- 

 marks on his trip to Burpee and 

 said that the sweet peas were the re- 

 sult of crosses between summer 

 blooming varieties and Yarrawa, a 

 winter variety from Australia. The 

 ones from which these blooms were 

 cut were sown Oct. 8th, and in early 

 January started to bloom; if planted 

 in the fall, out doors, as many of our 

 Lancaster growers do, they would 

 bloom the latter part of April, at least 

 four weeks earlier than the ordinary- 

 varieties. 



The paper of the evening was writ- 

 ten and delivered by Mr. Harry B. 

 Haverstick who had charge of the 

 laying out of the parks and grounds 

 at Hershey, now with the B. F. Barr 

 Co. as landscape man. The title of 

 the paper was Beautifying Home 

 Grounds, and was well received and 

 Mr. Haverstick was under a fire of 

 questions for some time afterward. 



Mr. Dyer made a few remarks on 

 the butchering of city trees by wire 

 men, and also stated that this coun- 

 try would wake up some day and find 

 itself a forestless nation. He thought 

 that for every tree cut down there 

 should be one planted, and being one 

 of the largest lumber men of the east 

 he knew whereof he was talking. 



Communications were read from 

 Sec. John Young, one on publicity, and 

 this club is going to make a pretty 

 good showing along this line; the 

 other, an appeal from Pres. Totty to 

 help on the cost problem, and on this 

 committee the president appointed 

 Messrs. Harry K. Rohrer, John Shoen- 

 berger and Albert M. Herr. 



In order that a real picnic could be 

 held some time this summer, the presi- 

 dent appointed a committee to ar- 

 range for a picnic to which the lead- 

 ing .florists will be invited, and the 

 committee was instructed that they 

 had plenty of time to prepare and 

 should get busy at once. Messrs. Al- 

 bert M. Herr, Harry K. Rohrer and 

 B. F. Barr are the committee. 



Dennis Connor was the only visitor, 

 and always a welcome one. 



Arrangements were made for a 

 party to take in the Philadelphia meet- 

 ing in March with a visit to Strafford 

 in the afternoon. 



Our own meeting in March will be 

 as the guests of the Ladies' Auxiliary 

 at the home of B. F. Barr. 



Albert M. Herr. 



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GARDENERS' CONFERENCE AT 

 MINNEAPOLIS. 



The members of the National Asso- 

 ciation of Gardeners of Minneapolis 

 and vicinity held a very interesting 

 conference at the residence of Theo- 

 dore Wirth, which was well attended. 



Mr. Wirth was elected chairman and 

 George H. Instone of Lake Minne- 

 tonka, secretary. The program for 

 the day was outlined by the chairman, 

 who briefly referred to the several 

 subjects to come up for discussion. 



The first matter discussed was the 

 impending embargo on importation of 

 trees, shrubs, bulbs, etc., from foreign 

 countries. The opinion prevailed that 

 this action was unwarranted, especial- 

 ly at this time, and that the Federal 

 Horticultural Board was exceeding its 

 power conferred by Congress. All 

 present pledged themselves to send a 

 personal letter of protest to their re- 

 spective Senators and Representatives 

 in Washington. D. C. Mr. Wirth read 

 a letter of protest which he sent to 

 the Minnesota members of Congress 

 in the name of the Board of Park 

 Commissioners. The secretary was 

 Instructed to write a letter to the sec- 

 retary of the National Association, 

 suggesting that he write a letter to 

 every member of the association to 

 interest himself in a similar way in 

 this matter. The chairman was in- 

 structed to present this question be- 

 fore the Minnesota Horticultural So- 

 ciety at their annual meeting to be 

 held in Minneapolis. 



The work of the war garden as con- 

 ducted in this part of the country was 

 brought to the attention of the con- 

 ference. The Minneapolis Garden 

 Club it was found had a most success- 

 ful year. 



After luncheon at Mr. Wirth's resi- 

 dence, the conference took up the 

 question of forming a gardeners' club 

 of Lake Minnetonka. It was the 

 opinion of all present that there were 

 enough gardeners in the locality to 

 warrant the forming of such an or- 

 ganization and that the interests of 

 the gardeners and their employees 

 would be served through such a club. 

 Mr. Klapotz was appointed chairman 

 to take the matter in hand, with the 

 privilege to select his own fellow 

 members. He agreed to get busy and 

 Intimated that he would make ar- 



rangements for the organization of 

 such a club in the near future. 



The fact that many estate owners 

 do not give y ear-around employment 

 to their gardeners in our section of 

 the country, and that they do not 

 know what the real qualifications of 

 a good gardener are, was made the 

 subject of a long discussion. It was 

 the opinion of all present that the gar- 

 dener, himself, is greatly to blame for 

 such conditions and underestimation 

 and lack of recognition of his profes- 

 sion and its value. One of the first 

 topics to be taken up by the club to 

 be formed will be the question of 

 how to educate the estate owners 

 along those lines and how to establish 

 better and closer relationship between 

 the employers and employees in this 

 field of work. 



The matter of exhibitions and field 

 meetings was also given considera- 

 tion, and it was predicted that such 

 shows and gatherings would be of 

 help toward the solution of this and 

 many other questions of general prog- 

 ress and mutual benefits. 



George H. Instone, Secy. 



FLORIST CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA. 



The March meeting of the Florists' 

 Club on Tuesday next will be carna- 

 tion night, and will be one of the 

 most attractive meetings of the sea- 

 son and should bring out the largest 

 attendance. 



It is to be held in the roof garden 

 of the Adelphia Hotel, opening with 

 a dinner at 6 p. m. at a cost of $2.00 

 per plate. The January banquet was 

 most enjoyable and this should prove 

 even more so. 



There will be an exhibition of near- 

 ly all the varieties of carnations that 

 were prize takers at the recent Cleve- 

 land carnation show. The Burpee col- 

 lection of new varieties of orchid 

 sweet peas will also be a feature, 

 which should be especially interesting 

 to commercial growers. 



M. J. Brinton, Christiana, Pa., will 

 read a paper on "Carnation Ideals and 

 Success." Mr. Brinton is a very prac- 

 tical and successful grower, whose 

 treatise will contain much valuable in- 

 formation. Charles H. Grakelow will 

 also address the club on the "A B C 

 of the Florists' Telegraph Delivery As- 

 sociation," showing its benefits to all 

 retail florists Irrespective of their vol- 

 ume of trade. 



