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December 16, 1916 



NEW YORK FLORISTS' CLUB. 



One ol" the biggest meetings in the 

 Club's history took place last Jlonday 

 evening when the election of officers to 

 serve for the important year 1917 was 

 in order. The club room was packed 

 with members. Four new ones were 

 admitted. Routine matters were quick- 

 ly pushed through and the big business 

 of the evening began with the appoint- 

 ment of Jos. Manda and Chas. Knight 

 as tellers and W. F. Sheridan as judge. 

 The election of president was the 

 main issue and the withdrawal of 

 three names out of the five on the 

 ballot left the contest between Chas. 

 Schenck and G. E. M. Stumpp. Dur- 

 ing the balloting and counting of votes 

 a social hour was enjoyed in the ante- 

 room. The result of the voting was 

 declared as follows: President — 

 Schenck 84, Stumpp 98; vice-president 

 —J. H. Fiesser 85, P. W. Popp 83; 

 secretary, John Young, and treasurer, 

 W. C. Rickards, re-elected unanimous- 

 ly; trustees — R. J. Irwin, John Can- 

 ning, A. Kottmiller. On motion of 

 Mr. Schenck and Mr. Popp, respective- 

 ly, the election of President Stumpp 

 and Vice-President Fiesser were made 

 unanimous. Then followed brief 

 speeches by all the successful candi- 

 dates. A vote was recorded authoriz- 

 ing Secretary Young to recognize the 

 president-elect as the representative 

 of the New York Florists' Club on the 

 executive board of the Society of 

 American Florists. Letters of sym- 

 pathy were ordered sent to W. H. Long 

 and P. L. Bogart, two members who 

 are seriously ill. 



The following exhibits were on the 

 tables. Chrysanthemum Arawana from 

 E. G. Hill, scored 88 points. Chrysan- 

 themum Hamburg Late White from 

 W. F. Kasting Co.; Cromwell Gardens 

 — carnations Nancy and Nebraska; 

 R. J. Irwin — seedling anemone chrys- 

 anthemum; Charles Tricker — winter 

 flowering begonias Eclipse and Pink 

 Perfection; A. Demeusy — sport from 

 Enchantress carnation; Badgley & 

 Bishop — roses Little Gem and No. 108. 



WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY. 



The annual meeting of the Worces- 

 ter County (Mass.) Horticultural So- 

 ciety was held December 6, and Ar- 

 thur E. Hartshorn was elected presi- 

 dent for a second term. Other officers 

 chosen were vice-presidents Charles 

 Greenwood, Leonard C. Midgley and 

 Frederick H. Chamberlain; secretary, 

 Herbert R. Kinney; librarian. Lucy M. 

 Coulson; treasurer, Burt W. Green- 

 wood. The Hadwen medals bought by 

 an appropriation from the fund estab- 

 lished by the late Obadiah B. Hadwen, 

 and designed by Albert H. Lange, were 

 awarded Miss Lucy M. Coulson on 

 tuberous-rooted begonias; Iristhorpe, 

 the summer home of Dr. and Mrs. 

 Homer Gage, and A. N. Nickerson, 

 Pomfret, Ct. Two medals, one for 



Meetings Next Week 



Monday, Dec. 18. 



Detroit I^Iorists' Club, Bemb Floral 

 Hall, Detroit. .Mich. 



Houston Florists' Club. Chamber ||l|iil 

 of Commerce Kooms, Houston, Tex. 



New Jersey Floricultural Society, 

 Orange, N. J. 



Tuesday, Dec. 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. 



PennSTlvauia Horticultural So- 

 ciety, Horticultural Hall, Philadel- 

 phia. Pa. 



Wednesday, Dec. 20. 



Rhode Island Horticultural So- 

 ciety. Public Library, Providence, 

 K. I. 



Tarrytown Horticultural Society, 

 Tarrytown, N. Y. 



Thursday, Dec. 21. 



Essex County Florists' Club. 

 Kreuger-Auditorium, Newark, N. J. 



New Orleans Horticultural Society. 

 Association of Commerce Bldg., New 

 Orleans, La. 



North Westchester County Horti- 

 cultural Society, Mt. Klsco, N. Y. 



Tacoma Florists' Association, Mac- 

 cabee Hall, Taeoma. Wash. 



Friday, Dec. 22. 



Connecticut Horticultural Society, 

 County Bldg.. Hartford, Conn. 



Monmouth County Horticultural 

 Society, Red Bank. N. J. 



Pasadena Horticultural Societj', 

 Pasadena, Calif. 



People's Park Cottage Gardeners' 

 Association, Paterson. N. J. 



Saturday, Dec. 23. 



Dohb's Ferry Gardeners' Associa- 

 tion, Dobb's Ferry, N. Y. 



German iris, and another for Japanese 

 iris, went to Iristhorpe. 



FLORISTS' CLUB OF WASHINGTON. 



The December meeting of the 

 Florists' Club of Washington, D. C, 

 was devoted largely to a discussion of 

 the grading of flowers and the grading 

 of prices in the same connection. L. J. 

 Reed, a representative of the Agricul- 

 tural Department, a former grower of 

 the middle West, gave a talk on the 

 standardization of vegetable packing, 

 and of how this to some extent could 

 be applied to the florists' business. 



An opposite view was taken by 

 Adolph Gude, who pointed out that it 

 would be impossible to observe such 

 standards of grade because of the 

 widely variant qualities of the prod- 

 ucts of the different growers. 



The standardiz'ation of price accord- 

 ing to Mr. Gude would also be a prac- 

 tical impossibility 



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