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HOETICULTURE 



November 18, 191S 



PITTSBURGH FLORISTS' AND 

 GARDENERS' CLUB. 



Chrysanthemum Night, Nov. 7, was 

 well attended. We have had larger ex- 

 hibitions, but in quality this one was 

 unsurpassed. In exhibition blooms the 

 private gardeners were in the lead, 

 the commercial men making no at- 

 tempt to compete in size. 



M. Curran, from the estate of Mrs. 

 E. M. Home. Sewickley, showed 

 doubles Daily Mail, Mrs. H. J. Jones, 

 Gilbert Drabble. Wm. Rigby, Odessa. 

 Elberon; also pompons and singles. 

 including Excelsior, and some seed- 

 lings, and was awarded a first-class 

 certificate. A. A. Leach, gardener for 

 H. J. Heinz, received a certificate of 

 merit. Wm. Thomson, gardener with 

 W. P. Snyder. Sewickley, received a 

 cultural certificate for fine blooms. 

 T hos. Sturgis, gardener with Mrs. A. 

 Lauglin, Sewickley, was given honor- 

 able mention for singles. Bureau of 

 Parks, Jno. W. Jones and Jas. Moore, 

 foremen, received first-class certifi- 

 cate for the best double white chrys- 

 anthemums ever shown before the 

 club. C. H. Godwin & Sons. Bridge- 

 ville, Pa., showed commercial doubles 

 i.nd singles, and received a cultural 

 certifjcate. 



Single and pompon chrysanthe- 

 mums were in very good form and 

 pleasing colors, and the general opin- 

 ion seems more and more in favor of 

 them, not only for their intrinsic 

 beauty but for commercial purposes. 

 It may be that the time will come 

 vhen the present monster bloom will 

 be displaced by the artistic, graceful 

 and reasonably priced singles. The 

 judges were Neil McCallum, Fred 

 Burki and Walter Jordan. 



The chairman of the committee 

 having in charge the banriuet in cele- 

 bration of the 25th anniversary of the 

 founding of the club, reported the 

 date as the 21st of November and the 

 place as the Fort Pitt Hotel. A good 

 dial of interest is being manifested 

 in this banquet, and the members are 

 looking forward with great pleasure 

 to an evening of feasting, gladness 

 rnd song and reminiscences of the 

 old days. H. P. Jo.si.tn, Secy. 



LENOX HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The annual meeting and election of 

 officers of this society was held No- 

 vember 8th. The evening was given 

 over entirely to business. Reports 

 were submitted and recommendations 

 made concerning the fall exhibition 

 which proved a big success. It was 

 voted to purchase for the use of the 

 society a die, together with six silver 

 and six bronze medals to be awarded 

 for exhibits of special merit. 



The retiring vice-president. E. W. 

 Edwards, supt. to A. N. Cooley, Pitts- 

 field, was unanimously elected presi- 

 dent for the ensuing year; Alex. Mc- 

 Leod, supt. to A. R. Shattuck, was 

 chosen to fill the vice-president's 

 chair. The resignation of the secre- 

 tary was accepted and H. Heeremans 

 selected in his place. Ed. Jenkins, S. 

 Carlquist and A. J. Loveless (treas- 

 urer) made a few remarks for the good 

 of the society, recommending a get- 

 together of members to endeavor to 

 make the season's meetings still more 

 interesting and instructive, also to ob- 

 tain as many new members as possi- 

 IJe. J. H. Framptox, Asst. Secy. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



The Executive Committee of the 

 American Rose Society held two ses- 

 sions in Horticultural Hall, Philadel- 

 phia, Pa., during the chrysanthemum 

 show. Provisions were made to hold 

 the next annual exhibition and rose 

 show in Philadelphia next March. 

 The prizes alloted for the show were 

 —$750 for plants and flowers: ?1000 

 for rose gardens; $2000 for cut flowers. 

 The schedule committee is Messrs. E. 

 Allan Peirce, Waltham, Mass.. Thomas 

 Roland, Nahant, Mass., J. K. M. L. 

 Farquhar. Boston. Mass. 



A letter was read from John Young, 

 Secretary of the National Flower 

 Show committee, inviting the .Ameri- 

 can Rose Society to join with them 

 in an exhibition in St. Louis in 1918. 



Messrs. Kallen & Lunnemann, Bos- 

 koop, Holland, have sent six speci- 

 mens of roses for test in the Hart- 

 ford Rose Test Garden. 



At the evening meeting there was 

 an attendance of over fifty. E. Allan 

 Peirce stated the work of the show, 

 and a letter ^vas read from the Phila- 

 delphia Chamber of Commerce, invit- 

 ing the American Rose Society to 

 come to Philadelphia "The World's 

 Greatest Workshop and Convention 

 City" promising every co-operation for 

 its success. The following gentlemen 

 spoke in favor of the exhibition going 

 It Philadelphia — .Messrs. Farenwald, 

 Eisele, Simpson, Kleinheinz, Brown, 

 .Mills, Dodge, Cartledge, W. R. Pier- 

 son Skidelsky, W. A. Manda and 

 others. 



The guarantee fund as pledged so 

 far is $4565, fifty-one firms and indi- 

 viduals making up the amount. 



BE^•.JA^^IN Hammond, Sec'y. 



Beacon, N. Y. 



WESTCHESTER AND FAIRFIELD 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 

 A well attended and interesting 

 meeting of the Westchester and Fair- 

 field Horticultural Society was held 

 in Greenwich. Conn.. Friday evening. 

 Nov. 10. An interesting display was 

 on the exhibition tables and the fol- 

 lowing awards were made: Roses 

 from John Forbes and grapes from 

 Anton Pederson, highly commended; 

 seedling chr>santhemums from Jas. 

 Foster, certificate of merit; single 

 chrysanthemums from Carl Hanken- 

 hon. cultural certificate; Sulanum 

 capsicastrum from H. P. Bullpitt. 

 honorable mention. A pleasing fea- 

 ture was the presentation of the 

 prizes won at the recent Fall Exhibi- 

 tion, Oscar Addor acting as spokes- 

 man. A social session with refresh- 

 ments was provided by the principal 

 winners that proved a happy ending 

 for the exhibition season of 191G. 

 Another interesting feature was the 

 discussion of the various exhibitions 

 attended by several members, includ- 

 ing Lenox. Mass., Tuxedo, N. Y., Glen 

 Cove, L. I., and Tarrytown. N. Y.. in 

 addition to our own as well as those 

 in N. Y. City. The next meeting will 

 be held Dec. 8, when the election of 

 officers will take place. 



P. W. Popp, Cor. Secy. 



o'clock. The principal business of the 

 meeting will be the election of a pres- 

 ident, a vice-president, four trustees, 

 and a nominating committee of five 

 members. 



The voting will be by Australian 

 ballot and the polls will be open from 

 twelve to three o'clock. 



W.M. P. Rich, Secy. 



CLUBS AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



The November meeting of the Cin- 

 cinnati Florists' Society was held 

 Monday evening at Hotel Gibson. 

 President Wm. Schumann appointed 

 a preliminary flower show committee 

 to formulate plans for a fall show 

 next year and report to the society at 

 the December meeting. 



Politics occupied the entire evening 

 on the occasion of the meeting of the 

 Florists' Club of Washington, D. C. 

 this being a subject of exceptional in- 

 terest to the local trade. It was stated 

 at the meeting that there will probably 

 be an inaugural ball next March. 

 When President Wilson was elected 

 for the present term he refused to con- 

 sider this and thousands of dollars' 

 worth of business was lost to the 

 trade. It was also predicted that, un- 

 der the present Mrs. Wilson, social ac- 

 tivity at the White House would he re- 

 vived. 



DURING RECESS. 



Boston Florists' Bowling League. 



Scores, Nov. 9, 1916. 



.Snyder 40s r.il 405 1250 



Flower Market 427 438 4:37 1302 



Penn 417 393 387 1197 



Wahan 431 414 434 1279 



M. & M 4.'i7 439 409 12S5 



.\. England 418 392 393 1203 



Hohinson 434 451 378 1263 



Klower Exchange 439 415 415 1269 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTUR- 

 AL SOCIETY. 



The annual meeting of the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society will be 

 held at Horticultural Hall, Boston, on 

 Saturday, November 18, at twelve 



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