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HORTICULTUKE 



August 5, 1916 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



FLORISTS' CLUB OF PHILADEL- 

 PHIA. 



The August meeting of this club, 

 lield on August 1st, was better attend- 

 ed than might have been expected. In 

 former years the great hurrah and ex- 

 citement used to be the convention 

 but since " 'Frisco" and "Hewston" 

 snitched us on that August has been 

 a funeral. The scheduled feature was 

 a moving picture show entitled "New 

 Ideas in Piping and Heating" — the 

 speaker being Cornelius T. Roland, of 

 the National Tube Co., New York City 

 — and this came off in due course; 

 showing the audience every feature of 

 pipe making from the mine to the 

 factory and finished product. Real in- 

 teresting. Especially those red-hot 

 blazing furnaces. Some of the lads 

 who looked on may mend their ways 

 now. They were shown what they arc 

 coming to if they don't behave. But 

 it was all right and Mr. Roland re- 

 ceived a hearty vote of thanks. We 

 would suggest to next year's committee 

 that heating is not a good subject for 

 August. Refrigeration lias a more at- 

 tractive sound — about then. An unex- 

 pected attraction at the meeting was 

 the presence of John Farquhar of Bos- 

 ton who. on request, gave us an ac- 

 count of the wonderful new things that 

 have come to us in recent years frbm 

 northern China through tlie Arnold Ar- 

 boretum. Some fourteen h\indred new 

 and wonderful things. We have not 

 yet begun to realize their value and 

 beauty. But if we had only three 

 things to show for Wilson's fifteen 

 years of travel and countless perils 

 and tribulations, those three — the 

 great Burtdleia, the exeat hardy lily, 

 and the only hardy cedar of Lebanon — 

 would have been ample compensation 

 and assured him fame, fortune and 

 the immortal plaudits of prosperity. 

 Very few plants of this wonderful 

 hardy cedar of Lebanon have so far 

 escaped from captivity. One of these 

 is in possession of our fellow citizen, 

 Mr. Morris, of Chestnut Hill. How 

 this hardy cedar managed to survive 

 on the higher reaches of the Him- 

 alayas is a mystery but there are lots 

 of mysteries as well as miracles in 

 this world since Moses struck the rock 

 and Joshua halted the sun and moon. 



The September meeting will be 

 Dreer's will be the spotlight hero — he 

 Dreers will be the spotlight hero — he 

 and a fine exhibit of new and fancy 

 varieties. 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. 



Anton Then, Chicago, registers the 

 new carnation Thenanthos. Parentage 

 Enchantress X Red Seedling. Color 

 brilliant red. Size 3% inches. Pro- 

 lific bloomer and entirely free from 

 disease, being never troubled with 

 rust. Raised by John A. Then. 



A. P. J. Baur. Sec'v. 



COMING EXHIBITIONS. 



August lS-18, Houston, Texas. 

 Trade Exhibition in connection with 

 S. A. F. Convention. 



August 24-25. — Lewiston, (Me.) 

 Annual Flower Show, Gardeners' 

 Union. Lewiston City Hall. 



August 3, Oyster Bay. L. I., N. T.— 

 Dahlia Show, Oyster Bay Hortkul- 

 . tural Society. 



1 August 11-12-13, Boston. — American 

 Glailiolus Society. Horticultural Hall. 



August 24, Wortwster, Uass. — 

 Glailiolus Exhibition. 



Sept. 2-9, Cleveland, Ohio.— Indus- 

 trial Exhibition and Fair. 



Syraruse, N. V., Sept. 11-16. — New 

 York State Fair. 



Sept. 12-13, Providence, B. I.- 

 Rhode Island Horticultural Society, 

 Nnrrasansett Hotel. 



Sept. 11-16, Syracuse, N. Y.- 

 Seventv-Sixth Annual New York 

 .St.ate Fair. 



TEXAS STATE FLORISTS' ASSO- 

 CIATION. 



Program of the Third Annual Con- 

 vention, Houston, Aug. 14, 1916. 



The morning and afternoon sessions 

 will be held in the Banquet Hall of 

 the Houston City Aiuditorium. 



FIRST SESSIOM, 10 O'CLOCK A. M. 



Meeting Called to Order by Presi- 

 dent R.C.Kerr; Invocation — Dr. Peter 

 Gray Sears; Address of Welcome — 

 Hon. Ben. Campbell. Mayor of Hous- 

 ton; Response — E. E. Stone. Dickin- 

 son: Reading of Jlinutes of 191.5 Con- 

 vention; President's Annual Address; 

 Report of Secretary-Treasurer; Re- 

 port of Committees; Report on 191.5 

 Flower Show; Appointment of Com- 

 mittees, Better Freight Rates for 

 Texas Florists, by W. J. Baker, Ft. 

 Worth; The Importance of Member- 

 ship in the S. A. F. & O. H. by Henry 

 Greve, Dallas. 



SECOND SESSION, 2 P. M. 



Selecting of Place for 1917 Conven- 

 tion; Selecting of Place for 1916 

 Flower Show; Election of Officers; 

 Progress that is Being Made Towards 

 Securing an Exiierimental Range of 

 Glass— Prof. E. J. Kyle, College Sta- 

 tion; The Difficulties of Retailers 

 with Wholesalers on Shipments of 

 Cut Flowers Unfit for Use and How 

 to Overcome Them — A. F. Koehle, 

 Sherman. 



THIRD SESSION, 8.30 P. M. 



The evening session of the conven- 

 tion will be held at a banquet on the 

 Rice Hotel Roof Garden. 



Practical LTse of Our Wild Flowers 

 — C. E. Papworth. Ft. Worth; The 

 .Veed of More Wliolesale Glass in 

 Texas. — H. O. Hannah, Sherman; 

 Wliat the Ladies are Doing for the 

 Florists' World — Mrs. Annie Wolfe 

 Bregance. Waco; The Outlook for 

 Texas Florists for the Coming Year, 

 with Some Suggestions on What to 

 Expect — Otto Lang, Dallas. 



All florists, in or out of the state, 

 who contemplate attending the con- 

 vention of the S. A. F. & O. H. are 

 invited to come early so as to be with 

 us on the 14th. to attend the conven- 

 tion of the Texas florists. 



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