June 14, 1919 



HORTICULTURE 



565 



MORE ATTENTION TO FRUIT 

 NEEDED. 



Walthani, Mass. 

 Editor Hnitin ii.tire: 



I was very Interested in reading 

 your article in a recent issue of 

 Hohtic i liiue, relative to the critical 

 period that the Massachusetts Horti- 

 cultural Society is going through. 



I have felt, since I have been down 

 in Eastern Massachusetts, that the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society 

 was not measuring up to its opportuni- 

 ties. It was very much weaker in the 

 work it was doing, than when I knew 

 it intimately several years ago. I 

 have felt that it was rapidly getting 

 to be a gentleman farmers' club 

 rather than a true horticultural so- 

 ciety, working for the betterment of 

 horticulture in all its phases. 



It is one of the oldest horticultural 

 societies and has done some of the 

 best work done in this country. It is 

 located in the midst of the greatest 

 horticultural fields, when one con- 

 siders varieties and activities along 

 horticultural lines that we have in and 

 around Boston. 



I certainly trust that the movement 

 which you started will result in a re- 

 organization of the policy and lines 

 of work attempted by the society. 

 My special interest, as you know, is 

 fruit, and they have been pulling away 

 from this phase, giving it less and less 

 money annually every year, and I have 

 felt it was a serious mistake. 



Albert R. Jenks. 



ST. LOUIS. 



Flowers are plentiful and prices on 

 the decline. Roses arrive consider- 

 ably open and carnations are getting 

 smaller. Outdoor sweet peas are 

 coming in, the indoor ones being about 

 over. 



The Growers' Association met Wed- 

 nesday evening, June 4 at Eleven Mile 

 House. The installation of officers 

 was postponed until the next meeting. 



Mr. Stauch. formerly with J. F. Wil- 

 cox & Sons, Council Bluffs, la., has 

 been, visiting St. Louis looking for a 

 good location to build a range of 

 greenhouses. 



Visitors — Walter A. Amling, May- 

 wood, 111.; A. N. Neilson, Pana, 111.: 

 Philip McKee, Chicago, 111.; Mr. 

 Stauch. Council Bluffs, la. 



ROCHESTER. 

 The market is full of flowers. A 

 high temperature accompanied by 

 burning sun has hurried on stock with- 

 out making it particularly good. Car- 

 nations are sleepy. The peony crop 

 is not so heavy as last year in red and 

 deep rose shades. Roses of all kinds 

 are in abundance and June weddings 

 and graduations have helped to clean 

 up stock. Sweet peas are in over sup- 

 ply but of good quality. Calendula, 

 marguerites, snapdragon, Iris, del- 

 phinium, snowballs and candytuft glut 

 the market. Some very fine America 

 gladioli are arriving and sell well. 



Miss Kate Harvey of Albert's the 

 Florist, has severed her connections 

 with that firm and left for Cleveland, 

 O. 



J. B. Keller Sons are displaying 

 some gorgeous vases of Oriental pop- 

 pies. 



MEETING OF NEWPORT GAR- 

 DENERS. 



The Newport branch of the National 

 Association of Gardeners, recently 

 organized, held its regular monthly 

 meeting on Friday evening, the 6th. 

 with Andrew L. Dorward in the chair, 

 and a good attendance of members. 

 After Secretary Frederic Carter read 

 the report of the last meeting which 

 he had sent to the national secretary, 

 William Mackay who attended the gar- 

 deners' conference held in Boston last 

 month, reported what took place at 

 that meeting. 



M. C. Ebel, secretary of the national 

 association, who came from New York 

 to attend the meeting, reviewed the 

 history of the national organization 

 and briefly outlined the activities of 

 his office. He also spoke of the nego- 

 tiations now under way to bring about 

 co-operation between the country 

 estate owners and the national asso- 

 ciation, the plans for which it is be- 

 lieved, will take definite shape before 

 the annual convention to which they 

 are to be submitted. Mr. Ebel urged 

 that all who can arrange their affairs 

 to be away during the last week in 

 August, should make every effort to 

 attend the annual convention which 

 will be held in Cleveland, August 

 26-28. A number of those present de- 

 clared their intentions of doing so. 



PHILADELPHIA. 

 The cut flower market for the first 

 week of June in this city was marked 

 by a whole lot of strenuousity and hard 

 work on the part of everybody trying 

 to make a dollar, and at the wind up 

 the dollar hunters did not have a great 

 deal to show for their extra effort. 

 In other words the market was 

 swamped and outside of regular trade 

 no prices could be got for the surplus 

 worth mentioning. The street boys 

 could get a wagon load almost for the 

 carrying away. Of course, the select 

 trade was doing about as usual for the 

 season and quotations on fancy stock 

 like American Beauty, Russell and 

 other indoor roses did not drop much. 

 Carnations also held their own fairly 

 well in the same connection, and 

 orchids were the finest thing on the 

 market. They held to the good old 

 dollar mark and the cattleyas and 

 phalaenopsis were really fine, and 

 worth the money. No Easter lilies to 

 be seen and very few callas. The 

 latter are rather poor quality. In this 

 connection there is a good showing of 

 I-ilium candidum, which helps out a 

 little. Delphinium very fine, and accu- 

 pies a front seat in the daily returns. 

 Gaillardia, coreopsis, sweet sultan, 

 bluets and similar items greet the eye 

 in quantity. Gladioli and sweet peas 

 are also well to the front. The latter 

 suffered a good deal from that 97 per 

 cent, in the shade the weather man 

 handed out. 



E. Gurney Hill is among the eminent 

 rosarians honoring us with a visit this 

 week, and he seems to be enjoying 

 himself. He talks by the hour to John 

 Burton under a tree at Wyndmoor, 

 then he blows in to the Holstein- 

 Friesien Cattle Show, where his son- 

 in-law is a prince — hailing from Seat- 

 tle. By and by, the hob-nob is with 

 Robert Craig, at the Kirk, and after 

 that there is a Quaker pow-wow — and 

 some business on the side. Leave it 

 to Gurney. He knows how to mix 

 business and sociability — if anybody 

 does. 



William Graham is now located at 

 1302 Sansom street and is doing busi- 

 ness on his own account as an expert 

 florist and decorator. He is making 

 a specialty in plant, floral and elec- 

 trical decorations, including flags and 

 bunting. 



September 23-25, New York— Dahlia 

 exhibition under the auspices of the 

 American Institute of the City of New 

 York and the American Dahlia Society 

 at the Engineering Society building, 

 25-33 West 39th street. Wm. A. Engle- 

 son, secretary board of managers, 322 

 West 23rd street, New York. 



