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HORTICULTURE 



April 26, 1919 



THE WESTCHESTER AND FAIR- 

 FIELD HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



The regular monthly meeting of the 

 above society was held in Hubbard's 

 Hall, Greenwich, Conn., Friday even- 

 ing, April 11. Three new members 

 were added to the roll. The judges 

 for the evening were Robert William- 

 son, Tom Atchison and John Forbes. 

 Awards were as follows: Ophelia 

 roses from Robert Grunert, first prize; 

 roses from W. J. Sealey, second; wall 

 flowers from Paul Dwenger, third. P. 

 W. Popp staged a very fine vase of 

 the new rose Evelyn for the A. N. 

 Pierson Co., Cromwell, Conn., and re- 

 ceived a certificate of merit. William 

 Whitton read a very good essay on 

 commercial fertilizers. Maurice Fuld 

 of New York gave a lecture on color 

 schemes for bedding out. 



Jack Conroy, 



Cor. Sec. 



NEW YORK FLORISTS' CLUB. 



The regular meeting was held April 

 14th at the Grand Opera House build- 

 ing. Attendance was light owing to 

 Easter. 



C. H. Totty staged a vase of John 

 Dunlop's new rose, Frank W. Dunlop, 

 which scored 90 points and was given 

 a preliminary certificate. Antirrhinum 

 shown by J. Raffcreezer, Teaneck, N. 

 J., received a vote of thanks. Orchid- 

 flowering sweet peas shown by John 

 Weston, Valley Stream, L. I., were 

 highly commended. 



Dr. Chas. T. Baylis spoke on the 

 coming Victory Loan, and subscrip- 

 tions amounting to ten thousand dol- 

 lars were taken. 



Chas. H. Totty reported that the 

 preliminary schedule for the 1920 In- 

 ternational Flower Show would be 

 available in a few days. 



F. R. Pierson reported for the com- 

 mittee which had charge of the pro- 

 test against Quarantine No. 37 and 

 read the reply of D. F. Houston, Secre- 

 tary of Agriculture, to the effect that 

 there would be no changes made In 

 the bill and it would go in effect at the 

 time named. 



Chas. H. Totty, chairman of the com- 

 mittee on publicity, spoke at length on 

 the Milwaukee plan of taxation. A dis- 

 cussion followed, the consensus of 

 opinion being that the work proceed 

 as originally planned. 



New members elected were: C. Nie- 

 man, 299 Broadway; Rocco Trebaldie, 

 426 Madison Ave.; A. M. Van der 

 Schoot, 299 Broadway; Frank Heid. 

 Tarrytown, N. Y. C. Peterson, 491 5th 

 Ave. and Frank Golsner, College 

 Point, were nominated for member- 

 ship at the next meeting. 



Pres. Kessler appointed A. L. Miller. 

 P. W. Popp and J. G. Esler a transpor- 

 tation committee for the S. A. F con- 

 vention at Detroit next August. 



A vote of thanks was extended to G. 

 E. M. Stumpp for the dinner decora- 

 tions at the club's dance last month 

 in the Biltmore Hotel. 



CHICAGO. 



Raymond C. Craig, son of the late 

 Joseph Craig, is back from France but 

 still in the east and was not able to 

 attend his father's funeral. 



Peter Reinberg's name is associated 

 with the decision of the South Park 

 board to rename 12th Street Roosevelt 

 Boul. and place a suitable statue of 

 Roosevelt at the eastern end of that 

 street on the lake front. Mr. Rein berg 

 has done much good work for Chicago 

 and this adds one more thing to his 

 credit. 



One of the large department stores, 

 which has always featured an Easter 

 lily sale of large proportions, came out 

 with the big headline, "Easter Lilies," 

 and below regrets that owing to war 

 measures prohibiting the importation 

 of lily bulbs it was impossible to se- 

 cure the usual stock of pot plants and 

 hopes that the sale would take place 

 next year. 



The eleven tracks of woodland and 

 river country, known as the Forest 

 Preserves, and purchased by Cook Co. 

 last summer, are being much enjoyed 

 by the Chicago people on these early 

 spring days. Most of them can be 

 reached by street car or trolley lines 

 now and it is a part of the plan to 

 have a driveway connecting them. 

 The boulevard drive connecting the 

 city parks is 55 miles long and when 

 this outer park drive is made Chicago 

 will have two driveways of which she 

 has a right to he proud. 



NEW GREEN BEAN FROM JAPAN 

 SUCCESSFULLY GROWN IN U. S. 

 An American missionary in Japan, 

 interested in the introduction of good 

 crops from the Land of the Rising 

 Sun into the domain of Uncle Sam. 



sent a sample of Hahto soy beans, 

 which he had purchased at an agricul- 

 tural fair, to the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture about three years 

 ago. This bean has since been grown 

 successfully at the Department's Ar- 

 lington (Va.), experimental farm, and 

 has been tested in other parts of the 

 country. Although the Hahto bean, 

 which produces excellent green vege- 

 tables similar to lima or butter beans, 

 is preferably adapted for culture in 

 the southern states, the variety also 

 produces profitable yields of green 

 beans during favorable seasons in the 

 corn belt. 



The Hahto soy bean is a bush va- 

 riety which grows high enough to pro- 

 duce abundant forage, yielding nearly 

 as large hay crops as the Mammoth 

 Yellow, and is believed to be superior 

 in seed production to that variety. 

 When the seeds are from three- 

 fourths to full grown they make an ex- 

 cellent green vegetable. A number of 

 residents of the District of Columbia 

 and Several states grew the bean in 

 their gardens last summer and canned 

 the product, which has been pro- 

 nounced by epicureans to be at least 

 the equal if not the superior of the 

 ordinary butter or lima bean. 



Dried Hahto beans cook up easier 

 than any other variety of "soys" and 

 have a more pleasant flavor than most 

 of the other sorts which have been 

 used in this way. A growing season of 

 approximately 130 days is required to 

 produce mature beans, while the green 

 beans are ready for harvest at least 

 two weeks earlier. During the cur- 

 rent season a Michigan canning com- 

 pany is to test out the Hahto bean 

 for commercial canning purposes. The 

 department will not be able to com- 

 ply with requests for seed, as ar- 

 rangements have been made for the 

 distribution of all the seed that is 

 available among boys' and girls' gar- 

 den clubs of the South, where the va- 

 riety is best adapted. 



A CORRECTION 



In our issue of April 12th, we inad- 

 vertently omitted to mention that the 

 article entitled. The Gardener and His 

 Wide Field of Endeavor, by Wm. Fal- 

 coner, was prepared by the National 

 Association of Gardeners to be read 

 and discussed at the April meeting of 

 the various gardeners' and florists' 

 societies throughout the country. 



