HOBTICULTUEE 



July 15, 1916 



FLORISTS' CLUB OF PHILADEL- 

 PHIA. 



For a mid-July meeting and a hot 

 night Dr. Washburn has reason to 

 feel proud of the good audience that 

 turned out to meet him at the regu- 

 lar monthly meeting held on the 11th 

 inst. He gave us a splendid talk on 

 how the National Farm School is mak- 

 ing: "good florists, gardeners and 

 farmers out of the subnnerged tenth" 

 of the great cities. What particu- 

 larly delighted the audience was the 

 common sense views that Dr. Wash- 

 burn expressed — so rare with the av- 

 erage professor. The doctor's re- 

 marks were so sane, wise and sensible 

 and so unusual — coming from an 

 academical rather than a practical 

 source. Usually a professor from a 

 college who apears before us is 

 listened to with easy tolerance — and 

 that smile on the faces of the men 

 who know forty times more than he 

 does — but Dr. Washburn has the rare 

 distinction of being able to make a 

 trade meeting of experienced horti- 

 culturists "sit up and take notice." 

 And we have to take our hats off to 

 Dr. Krauskoff and his little coterie 

 of Jews who founded the school and 

 were clever enough to find a non-sec- 

 tarian scientist and a New England 

 college graduate to take charge of the 

 practical work — even if he was a 

 Yankee and not a Jew. We are in- 

 formed that the school has broadened 

 and is now non-sectarian — open to all 

 who can qualify — Jew or Gentile. The 

 Florists' Club of Philadelphia the rep- 

 resentative trade body of this city cer- 

 tainly did itself great credit in invit- 

 ing a man who has done so much in 

 an untried field as Dr. Washburn to 

 speak before them and the doctor 

 most ably acquitted himself. He has 

 promised us a copy of his address as 

 soon as he can work one of the Bur- 

 pee stenographers without charge and 

 ■we hope to publish it in Hortkui.tube 

 in the near future. One of the first 

 principles of the National Farm 

 School near Burpee's Fordhook Farms 

 is to get everything for nothing. They 

 never pay for anything. (The "Kelly 

 Street Business Men's Association" 

 ■will please take notice of this.) The 

 essay committee of the Florists' Club 

 of which Charles E. Meehan and J. 

 Otto Thilow are members are plum- 

 ing themselves a little on getting Dr. 

 Washburn as their star for July, but 

 the credit really belongs to Howard 

 M. Earl of Burpee's, who is a brother 

 peach farmer with the doctor — and 

 both threaten to die millionaires in 

 the near future — unless the peach 

 blight strikes Bucks County, Pa. 



The August meeting of the Flor- 

 ists' Club of Philadelphia (First Tues- 

 day in August) will be especially in- 

 teresting, the subject arranged for 

 being "New Ideas in Piping and Heat- 

 ing" and an expert on this subject, 

 Cornelius F. Roland of the National 

 Tube Co.. will address the club and 

 illustrate his remarks with motion 

 picture views. E^very member will be 

 interested in this up-to-the-minute ex- 



position and should make sure that 

 no summer vacation idea prevents 

 him from being present. 



GE0RC4E C. W.\TSON. 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF 

 NURSERYMEN. 



The Convention at Milwaukee was 

 an unqualified success. Much busi- 

 ness was transacted along the lines of 

 the new policies. The executive com- 

 mittee was authorized to organize a 

 credit, collecting and reporting bureau 

 for the benefit of all the members cov- 

 ering wholesale and retail accounts 

 and the reporting of delinquents and 

 ratings of nurserymen, dealers, etc. 

 Also to obtain through the state vice- 

 presidents a list of all nurserymen en- 

 titled to wholesale price lists, compile 

 same and publish, as a confidential 

 matter, a book containing these lists 

 and mail them, under sealed cover, a 

 copy of same to each member. Also 

 to continue the "Confidential Bul- 

 letin," of which three issues have al- 

 ready been made, and adopted same 

 as the official organ of the association. 



In consequence of the above, and 

 because of thinking legal experience 

 necessary, the office of secretary was 

 merged into that of general manager, 

 and counsel Curtis Nye Smith was 

 chosen. 



Officers were elected as follows: 

 President, John Watson, Newark, N. 

 Y.; vice-president, Lloyd C. Stark, 

 Louisiana, Mo.; treasurer, Peter 

 Youngers, Geneva, Neb.; executive 

 committee, same as last year except 

 that J. B. Pilkington succeeds himself 

 and E. S. Welch was appointed on the 

 executive committee also. 



The 42nd convention will be at Phil- 

 adelphia, Pa., in 1917. 



The Women's Auxiliary of the 

 American Association of Nurserymen 

 was organized at Milwaukee with of- 

 ficers as follows: President, Mrs. E. 

 S. Welch, Shenandoah, la.; vice-pres- 

 ident, Mrs. W. C. Reed, Vincennes, 

 Ind.; recording secretary, Mrs. E. R. 

 Taylor, Topeka, Kan.; corresponding 

 secretary, Mrs. Fred Watson, Topeka, 

 Kan.; treasurer. Mrs. L. L. May. St. 

 Paul. 



LAKEWOOD GARDEN CLUB. 

 This new garden club has been 

 formed in Cleveland, Ohio, through 

 the efforts of M. A. 'Vinson, who is the 

 active manager of the Industrial Ex- 

 position and Fair to be held in that 

 city. September 2 to 9, one of the fea- 

 tures of which will be a big early fall 

 flower show under canvass. Mr. Vin- 

 son discovered that the big residential 

 suburb of Cleveland, which joins the 

 park where the exposition is to be 

 held, did not have a Women's Gar- 

 den Club and as he saw the need for 

 one. in order to create a greater in- 

 terest for the Flower Show, he started 

 immediately to lay plans for the or- 

 ganization. This was six weeks ago. 

 The announcement was made in the 

 Cleveland Plain Dealer of July 7th, 

 giving the names of the officers, stat- 



ing that a club with a membership of 

 filt> had been organized. 



Due credit is given by Mr. Vinson 

 for the assistance received from Mrs. 

 L. Dean Holden, Mrs. A. L. Ingles, who 

 are members of the Cleveland Garden 

 Club, and Mrs. J. H. Rogers, of the 

 Shaker Heights Garden Club in assist- 

 ing in conducting the first meeting. 



P''Ioor plans of the Flower Show Sec- 

 tion can be obtained by addressing the 

 show manager at 1393 West 25th 

 street, Cleveland. Premium lists are 

 now in the hands of the printer and 

 will be ready for mailing in the near 

 future. 



THAT NEW PEONY SOCIETY. 



Editor HoRTICULTlRE, 



Dear Sir: I notice in the July 8th 

 issue of HoRTicuLTVRE the note by Mr. 

 Harrison in regard to the organization 

 of a northwest peony society, and also 

 your excellent editorial on the same. 



While it is not entirely a surprise 

 to me, the knowledge of actual organ- 

 ization causes me to feel consider- 

 able regret, for it seems to mo the 

 promoters have been somewhat hasty 

 in their action and from the tone of 

 Jlr. Harrison's remarks I gather that 

 there is a bit of ill feeling in the mat- 

 ter, which if true is certainly very un- 

 fortujiate, for the east has nothing 

 but the best of feeling for the north- 

 west. 



Jlr. Harrison evidently forgets that 

 the flatter of exhibitions, while form- 

 ing a 'argp part of the activities of the 

 American Peony Society, is not its 

 whole end and aim and the hard work 

 and expense that have been put into 

 the nomenclature studies have pro- 

 duced results which are worth many 

 times the amounts that have been 

 paid in the way of dues, not only to 

 the members of the society but to 

 every admirer of the peony, whether 

 a member or not. 



This work has been done by east- 

 ern men who have given freely of 

 their time and the expense has been 

 paid mostly with eastern money. 



The membership west of Chicago 

 is exceedingly small and it is hardly 

 reasonable to expect eastern mem- 

 bers to vote to meet in Minneapolis 

 when one stops to consider that at 

 least a week of the busiest season of 

 the year, would be consumed in going 

 and returning, not including the two 

 days at the meeting. And then again 

 it is no farther east than it is west, 

 Mr. Harrison being about the only 

 peony man from that region who has 

 favored the eastern metings with his 

 presence. 



But all this aside there is no doubt 

 that there is a great need of a local 

 organization in that region to extend 

 the knowledge of the peony, but I can 

 see no call for a Fourth of July inde- 

 pendence proclamation for the thing 

 could be accomplished in a much 

 more sensible way. If it was simply a 

 matter of exhibitions and competing 

 for prizes, an independent organiza- 

 tion would be the logical thing. But 

 there are the important matters of 



