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took the plant away with him, ami "ivill 

 bring it before the club at the next meet- 

 ing "that all may see the suecess of the 

 process. This scheme, while not new-, is 

 practically new to the florists in this vicin- 

 ity so far as I know. There were some 

 pleasing poinsetlias, begonias and cypri 

 pediinns exhibited Iiy the Bureaus of Parks. 

 Korthside and Schenley. A rising vote of 

 thanks was given Mr. Gillespie for his 

 address. 



At the next meeting of the club in -Jan.! 

 ary the nomination of officers for li)l.> will 

 be taken up. 



II. P. .JOiSLIX. Sccretarv. 



PATERSON (N. J.) HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



At the annual meeting of the Paterson 

 (N. .J.) Horticultural Society, held Tuesday 

 evening. December 2, the following officers 

 were elected for the ensuing year: Presi- 

 dent, .Joseph Ackerman: vice-president. Dr. 

 Thomas iloore: recording secretary. Se- 

 bastian ?Iubsclimidt: financial secretary. 

 Francis Bredder: treasurer. Hugh Clark. In 

 the monthly competition the award went to 

 F. ililne of Totowa, who showed a mag- 

 nificent vase of carnations. 



NEWPORT HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



This society licld its annual meeting on 

 Decemljer 8, and the following officers were 

 elected for the ensuing year: President. 

 William ilacKay ; first vice-pi-esident, John 

 B. Urqulmrt; second vice-president, James 

 Bond; treasurer, A. K. McMahon: record- 

 ing and financial secretary. William Gray: 

 sergeant-at-arms, James Watt. Executive 

 Committee, with the above officers: Richard 

 Gardner. Alexander ilacLellan. Bruce But- 

 terton. James J. Sullivan, Andrew L. Dor- 

 ward, James Robertson, Fred Carter, An- 

 drew S. Meikle and Alexander Fraser. Re- 

 ports of the treasurer and secretary show 

 the society to be in a very satisfactory 

 condition. 



The coming year promises to be the most 

 eventful one in tlie history of this so^ety, 

 as it lias already voted to Join with the 

 followiiig-iiamed organizations in holding 

 exhibitions in Newport; American Sweet 

 Pea Society and Newport Garden Associa- 

 tion on July 8 and 9: Newport Garden Club 

 in August: also monthly shows through the 

 summer months with the Newport Ciarden 

 Association. Lectures on gardening sub- 

 jects are also provided for through the win- 

 ter months. — Horticulture. 



MENLO PARK (CAL.) HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



The second annual banr|uet of the ilenlo 

 Park Horticultural Society was held on 

 Saturday evening, November 28. Over 

 eighty people were at the tables, all mem- 

 bers of the trade along the peninsula, and it 

 was voted the most successful afl'air ever 

 held by this hospitable society. .James T. 

 Lynch was the toastmaster of tlie evening 

 Henry Maier, of Burlingarae, Gal., gave the 

 society a splendid talk, which was aporeci- 

 ated by all the members. President Henry 

 Goertzhain responded, and was listened to 

 very attentively, pointing out how the so- 

 ciety could expand and pledged himself to 

 see that it woiilil do so. Wra. Kettlewill. of 

 Burlingame, also praised the society's meth- 

 ods of holding flower shows. .John il. Daly, 

 vice-president of the society, made an elo- 

 quent plea for a larger membership, with- 

 the result that there will be quite an ap- 

 preciable increase next meeting. George 

 Nunn amused the members with reminis- 

 cences of the early days of the society, and 

 was heartily applauded. The musi-al nart 



of the program was furnished by Arthur 

 Bearsley. Owen O'Donuell, Harry Home- 

 wood, Jack Atkin, Bernard O'Donnell, Frank 

 R, Roach and .Jack Patterson, After the 

 musical program President Goertzhain pre- 

 sented the cups to the winners at the last 

 Hower show. The principal ones were David 

 lias<ett, Wm. Kettlewill. John M. Daly, 

 •John Carbone, Andrew ilcDouall. Jaik Sin- 

 clair and C, Ulrich. — American Florist. 



CONNECTICUT HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY, 



This society held its annual meeting on 

 Friday, December 11, in the county building, 

 Hartford, Before proceeding to the election 

 of officers. President Iluss requested that a 

 new president be elected in his stead, inas- 

 much as he felt that a change was desirable 

 and that he had held the office for six 

 years and should therefore be released. 

 After the secretary and treasurer made 

 tlieir reports, we proceeded to elect officers 

 for the ensuing year, Avhich resulted as fol- 

 lows: President, Warren S, ilason, Farm- 

 ingtoii: first vice-president, George II, Hol- 

 lister, Hartford: second vice-president, Carl 

 Peterson, West JIartford; tliird vice-presi- 

 dent, Oscar F, Gritzmacher, New Britain: 

 secretary, Alfred Dixon, Wcthersfiehl: 

 treasurer, W, W, Hunt, Hartford: librarian, 

 William T, Hall, Hartford; botanist, C, H, 

 Siernian, Hartford: pomologist, G, H, Hol- 

 lister: county vice-presidents: Middlesex, 

 Ale.x, Cumniing, Jr„ Cromwell; Fairfield, 

 Charles H, Plump, West Redding: New 

 Haven, Jolin II, Slocombe, New Haven; 

 \^'iiidhain. Frank M, Smith, Willimantic: 

 Tolland. Theodore Staudt, Rockville; Litch- 

 field. A\'alter Angus, Chapinville. The presi- 

 dent will announce the executive committee 

 at the next meeting. 



The treasurer and secretary were ap- 

 pointed a committee to solicit the members 

 for contributions for the purpose of pur- 

 chasing a .suitable present for the retiring 

 president. 



ilr. JIason is the grandson of C. S, ^lason. 

 who held, in New Britain, in 1S82, the first 

 flower show ever given in the State of Con- 

 necticut, He was born in Meriden in 1879, 

 For the j-ast fourteen years he has had 

 charge of the conservatories and grounds 

 of the late A, A, Pope, of Farmington, 

 which are conceded to be among the best in 

 this section of New England, 



The next meeting will be held .January 8. 

 101,1, when' a program for the first half of 

 the vcar will be ])re~ented, 



ALFRED DIXON, Secretary, 



Wetliersfield, Conn,, December II, 1914. 



THE WESTCHESTER AND FAIRFIELD 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The "boys" turned out in force to attend 

 the monthly meeting of the society, lield 

 in Greenwich, Conn., Friday evening. Decem- 

 ber 11, President Robert Williamson jire- 

 siding. President Williamson conchuled his 

 24th consecutive monthly meeting in his 

 term of two years. A rising vote of thanks 

 was tendered to him for his unfailing cour- 

 tesy and interest in the society's welfare 

 This being the annual meeting, the officers 

 for the ensuing year were elected. An en- 

 thusiastic agsregation of "live wires'' were 

 elected to office, assuring the society of a 

 continuation of tlie phenomenal succes-es 

 of the past. The December meeting also 

 marks the fourth anniversary of the organi- 

 zation of the Westchester and Fairfield Hor- 

 ticultural Society, The writer had the 

 pleasure of being present on the evening of 

 December 14, 1910, when the society was 

 organized in the office of the J^rienl Nur- 

 series at Rye, N, Y, Starting with fourteen 



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