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HORTICULTUBE 



September 16, 191G 



NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GAR- 

 DENERS. 



An executive meeting of tlie trus- 

 tees and directors of tlie National As- 

 sociation of Gardeners was held at 

 the Murray Hill Hotel, New York City, 

 on Thursday, September 7th, Presi- 

 dent W. N. Craig presiding. Letters 

 were received from Vice-President 

 Theodore Wirth, of Minneapolis, Minn., 

 and Director Thomas \V. Head, of 

 Lake Forest, 111., both reporting a con- 

 stantly increasing interest among the 

 gardeners of the middle west and west 

 towards the National Association and 

 recommending that the organization's 

 annual convention be held in some 

 western city in the not distant future. 



The action of the Bureau of Stand- 

 ards, of the Board of Estimate, of the 

 City of New York, recommending a 

 higher scale of salaries for the garden- 

 ers employed by the New York City 

 Park Department was officially brought 

 to the attention of the meeting. A 

 resolution was adopted endorsing the 

 Board of Estimate's action and call- 

 ing for the support of tlie Mayor and 

 the Park Commissioner of the City of 

 New York towards securing the adop- 

 tion of the measure when the 1917 

 budget comes up for consideration. 



The recent discussion in some of 

 the New York daily papers on the 

 poor compensation gardeners receive 

 in some of the public institutions was 

 also brought to the attention of the 

 meeting. While the existing con- 

 ditions were discussed and severely 

 condemned, as the matter was not 

 officially before the meeting, however, 

 no recommendations were made. 



It was decided to offer the associa- 

 tion's silver medal for competition to 

 all horticultural societies or. garden- 

 ers' clubs who desire to accept the 

 offer. The terms of competition (to 

 be for 1917) are left to the local so- 

 cieties as to whether it should be for 

 one of its shows or for monthly com- 

 petition, the only restriction being 

 that the competitor must be a member 

 of the National Association of Garden- 

 ers. The plan of the Natiohal Co- 

 operative Committee to provide essays 

 for the monthly meetings of the local 

 horticultural societies, which it has 

 done during the past year, was ap- 

 proved, and it was decided to continue 

 to supply these essays to the some 

 fifty odd societies throughout the 

 country that applied for them. 



The appointment of John Can- 

 ning, of Ardsley, N. Y., as director 

 was announced, to fill the unexpired 

 term of .lames MacMachan, deceased, 

 whose term expires Jan. 1, 1919. 



It was voted to hold the next annual 

 convention during the earlv part of De- 

 cember at Washington, D. C. For the 



1917 convention Chicago was voted as 

 the choice of the meeting. Pittsburgh 

 was also favorably discussed as the 



1918 meeting place. 



Following the adjournment of the 

 meeting some of the members coming 

 from a distance visited the estate of 

 Adolph Lewisohn, Heatherdell Farm, 



Meetings Next Week 



Monday, Sept. 18. 



Detroit Florists' Club, Bemb Floral 

 Hall. Detroit. Mich. 



Houston Florists' Club, Ch.imber 

 of Commerce Kooms, Houston, Tex. 



Xew Jersey Floricultural Society, 

 Orange. N. J. 



Tuesday, Sept. 19. 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of 

 Boston, Horticultural Hall, Boston, 

 Mass. 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of 

 Ontario, St. George's Hall, Toronto, 

 Can. 



Minnesota State Florists' Associa- 

 tion. Minneapolis. Minn. 



Pennsylvania Horticultural So- 

 ciety, Horticultural Hall, Philadel- 

 phia. Pa. 



Wednesday, Sept. 20. 



Rhode Island Horticultural So- 

 cieity. Public Librarv, Providence, 

 R. 1. 



Tarrytown Horticultural Society, 

 Tarrytown, X. Y. 



Thursday, Sept. 21. 



Essex County Florists' Club, 

 Kreuger-Auditorium. Newark. N. J. 



New Orleans Horlicultural Society, 

 Association of Commerce Bldg., New 

 Orleans. La. 



North Westchester County Horti- 

 cultural Society. JI(. Kisco. N. Y. 



Tacoma Florists' Association. Mac- 

 cabee Hall, Tacoma, Wash. 



Friday, Sept. 22. 



Connecticut Horticultural Society, 

 County Bldg., Hartford. Conn. 



Monmouth County Horticultural 

 Society, Red Bank. N. .T. 



Pasadena Horticultural Society, 

 Pasadena, Calif. 



People's Park Cottage Gardeners' 

 Association, Paterson, N. J. 



Saturday, Sept. 23. 



Dobb's Ferry Gardeners' Associa- 

 tion. r>nbb's Fi'rry. N. Y. 



Ardsley, N. Y., over which John Can- 

 ning presides as superintendent, and 

 later proceeded to "Greystone," Yon- 

 kers, N. Y., the estate of Samuel Un- 

 termyer, where over a million dollars 

 is being expended in improvements 

 and over four hundred men are re- 

 ported to be at present employed in 

 the development work. 



THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 

 OF NEW YORK. 



The Horticultuial Society of New 

 York, in cooperation with the New 

 York Botanical Garden, will hold a 

 dahlia exhibition on Saturday and 

 Sunday, September 23 and 24, in the 

 Museum building. New York Botanical 

 Garden. The prizes for this exhibi- 

 tion are offered by the New York 

 Botanical Garden from the income of 

 the William R. Sands Fund. The ex- 

 hil)ition will he open from 2 to .5 P. M. 

 on Saturday, and from 10 A. M. to 5 

 P. M. on Sunday. It is hoped that all 

 interested in this popular flower will 

 make entries and help to make the 

 exhibition large and attractive. Sched- 

 ules are now ready tor distribution 

 and will be sent upon application to 

 the Secretary, George V. Nash, Tlie 

 Mansion. New York Botanical Garden, 

 Bronx Park, New York City. 



George V. Nash. Secretary. 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY. 



The dahlia and fruit exhibition on 

 Saturday and Sunday, September 9 

 and 10, made a very attractive spec- 

 tacle which was visited and admired 

 by many people. Gladioli were almost 

 as abundant on the tables as dahlias 

 and these two specialties together 

 with the collections of herbaceous 

 border plants and native wild flowers 

 made a glowing expanse of color. 



The principal exhibitors and prize 

 winners were J. K. Alexander, W. D. 

 Hathaway, Geo. L. Stillman, Fred. P. 

 Weber, Fottler, Fiske, Rawson Co., 

 Mrs. L. A. Towle and George Ott on 

 dahlias; J. K. Alexander and Wren- 

 tham Dahlia Gardens on gladioli; 

 Faulkner Farm and Blue Hill Nur- 

 series on herbaceous perennials. The 

 sensation of the show and. in our 

 judgment, one of the finest dahlia ac- 

 quisitions in several years, was the 

 peony-flowered dahlia Mrs. Frederick 

 Grinnell, a seedling of 1911, grown 

 and exhibited by John P. Rooney. The 

 flower resembles an enormous peony 

 but its chief claim to the silver medal 

 awarded is its color which is a deep 

 pure pond lily pink, unlike any other 

 dahlia we know of. There was an- 

 other dahlia, Jleritorious, exhibited 

 by Emerson W. Bennett, a seedling 

 of many colors, which received a well- 

 merited certificate of merit. A silver 

 medal was awarded to Fottler. Fiske. 

 Rawson Co. for an extensive and very 

 fine collection of named dahlias and 

 gladioli. 



The fruits and vegetables were dis- 

 played in the small hall. Thomas T. 

 Watt received honorable mention for 

 his prolific tomato Watts' Wonder, a 

 cross between Stirling Castle and 

 Dawson's Plum, The fruits were 

 shown on the vine in enormous clus- 

 ters. There were some excellent hot 

 house grapes from Mrs. John C. 

 Whitin. 



HOLVOKE AND NORTHAMPTON 

 FLORISTS' AND GARDEN- 

 ERS' CLUB. 

 The monthly meeting was held 

 Sept. 5 at the Massachusetts Agricul- 

 tural College, on invitation of Prof. 

 Nehrling. A hardy perennial garden 

 has recently been established and is 

 receiving much attention from 

 visitors. The business meeting was 

 called to order by President Butler, 

 and plans for the coming show were 

 discussed. Prof. Nehrling read two 

 papers received from the National As- 

 sociation of Gardeners, one on "The 

 Diabroticas," by R. A. Sell, of Texas, 

 the other on "The Iris Worm," by T. S. 

 Snow, of Penn. A general discussion 

 on insect pests followed. Several 

 vases of perennials were on the table 

 from the college garden and H. E. 

 Downer showed Senecio clivorum. 



H. E. D. 



