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HORTICULTUEE 



July 20, 1912 



at Preister's Park near Belleville, 111. 

 C. E. DeWever of the Bulletin Com- 

 mittee made a favorble report. Fred 

 H. Weber, S. A. F. State vice-presi- 

 dent reported on transportation mat- 

 ters pertaining the coming convention 

 and a vote was taken in favor of going 

 by the Wabash R. R. Eight applica- 

 tions for membership were received. 

 Officers were nominated as follows: 

 President Windier having declined re- 

 election, the nominees for this office 

 were Fred H. Weber and Jules Burdet; 

 vice-president, Chas. Young and Gus. 

 Grossart; secretary, J. J. Beneke and 

 W. C. Young; treasurer, W. C. Smith 

 and C. Bergesterman ; ofr two trustees 

 F. J. Fillmore, John Connon, Will 

 Ossick, Hugo Werner and F. Venne- 

 mann, were placed in nomination. 

 The next business was two discussions 

 — one led by C. E. DeWever on Rela- 

 tive value of Overhead and Sod Irri- 

 gation, and the other by Henry Emunds 

 on Growing Chrysanthemums Late 

 and Early. Interesting discussions 

 followed. The next meeting will be on 

 August 8 at 2 P. M. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



The Greek American picnic of the 

 New York florists on July 8 was a 

 great success. 



The N. Y. and N. J. Association of 

 Plant Growers had a dinner and 

 theatre party at Coney Island, July 18. 



The Albany (N. Y.) Florists' Club 

 will have a family clam bake the lat- 

 ter part of August. The regular 

 August meeting of the Club will be 

 held at Henkes Bros' place in Newton- 

 ville. 



President Joseph A. Manda has ap- 

 pointed Frank H. Traendly, C. B. 

 Weathered, W. F. Sheridan, C, H. 

 Totty, I. S. Hendrickson, Robert 

 Koehne and A. L. Miller as the Nomi- 

 nating Committee of the New York 

 Florists' Club. 



The monthly meeting of the West- 

 chester and Fairfield Society was held 

 in Greenwich, Conn., Friday, July 12th. 

 Sweet peas were greatly in evidence 

 that night, and a vote of thanks was 

 given to all the exhibitors. The an- 

 nual outing will take place on Wed- 

 nesday, August 7th, at Edward's Ho- 

 tel, Rye Beach. Information and 

 tickets can be secured before July 

 25th from the outing committee secre- 

 tary, W. J. Sealey, Port Chester, N. Y. 



NEWS NOTES. 

 Greenport, N. V. — J. Clarence Wells, 

 of Brooklyn, has purchased the Har- 

 lowarden Greenhouses at public auc- 

 tion. 



Onarga, III. — The land on which the 

 Mosbaek greenhouses stood, has been 

 sold and will be used for farming. 

 The greenhouses were destroyed by 

 fire some time ago. 



Reading, Pa. — Part of the chimney 

 at the greenhouses of G. H. Hoskins 

 & Co., 37 North Tenth street, was 

 blown down recently, crashing 

 through a greenhouse and breaking 

 about 500 lights of glass. 



ORCHIDS 



Freshly imported and in fine con- 

 dition, which we offer at the 

 following net wholesale prices : 



CATTIEYA MOSSIAE, Per Case $40.00. 



CATTLEYA SCHROEDERAE, Our fine large flowering type, per case $55.00. 



CATTLEYA HAIRISONIAE VIOLACEA, 



ONCIDIUM VARICOSUM ROGERSII, 



Late summer flowering variety, strong 

 plants, $150.00 per 100. 



Extia fine plants, a small quantity left, only 



$150.00 p«r 100. 



We have alto about 25 c«»ei of an extra fine type of 

 CATTLEYA TRIANAE with finer flowers and will 

 yield 50% more flower* to the bed than the common 

 type. The cheapest we can tell thefe is $50.00 per 

 case, but they are cheaper at that than the ordinary 

 one at $40.00. 



LAGER & HURRELL, SUMMIT, N. J. 



PRESENT KNOWLEDGE OF SWEET 



PEA DISEASES AND THEIR 



CONTROL. 



A paper bv J. J. Taulieiihaus, Delaware 

 College Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion, Newark, Del., read before the 

 American Sweet Pea Society, 

 Boston, July 13, 1912. 



It is indeed a great privilege and 

 pleasure for me today to address you 

 on a topic which I am sure interests 

 us all alike. I am also glad to take 

 this opportunity to express to you in 

 behalf of the Delaware College Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station, and of 

 the University of Pennsylvania our 

 siucerest appreciation of the kindness 

 of all the seedsmen who have so gen- 

 erously sent us sweet pea seeds and 

 thus founded a nucleus for our investi- 

 gations of the diseases of the sweet 

 pea. I am a lover of flowers, and es- 

 pecially a lover of the sweet pea. The 

 more of this flower I saw the more 

 convinced did I become that it is far 

 from being as free from insect and 

 fungus attacks as the majority of the 

 seedsmen and growers honestly but 

 erroneously believe. In some of our 

 best written manuals on sweet peas 

 the topic of insect and fungus dis- 

 eases hardly occupies one-quarter 

 of a page. That the sweet pea 

 is becoming more popular with the 

 American people needs no proof. It 

 once we grow sweet peas we shall grow 

 them continuously. However, most 

 amateurs, for reason either of lack of 

 space or unknowingly, grow their 

 sweet peas in the same lot year after 

 year. The result is that disease set 

 in and make it impossible any longer 

 to grow sweet peas on that same place. 

 Immediately, the seeds are blamed and 

 the customer begins changing trade 

 from seedsman to seedsman, but with 

 no better results. Thus, lack of infor- 

 mation on the part of the grower or 

 amateur on the one hand and the 

 slowness of the seedsmen to admit 



that the sweet peas may be troubled 

 by diseases on the other, causes the 

 trade invariably to suffer. Hence, 

 when considered purely on an econ- 

 omic basis, the seedsmen are the 

 losers. For whatever disease the 

 seedsman is vvilling to admit, he usu- 

 ally throws the blame to high feeding 

 or to the dry weather. From inquiries 

 sent out to most of the seedsmen who 

 grow sweet peas in this country, only 

 two very vaguely admitted that their 

 sweet peas were troubled with blight. 

 We do not for one minute doubt the 

 truth of the statements of all these 

 gentlemen, but we believe that if the 

 seedsmen took this matter more seri- 

 ously they would soon realize that 

 their interests are at stake. We should 

 feel highly gratified and our efforts 

 would be well repaid if we could im- 

 press you with the fact that sweet peas 

 suffer from diseases caused by either 

 insects or parasitic fungi. It is to the 

 benefit of the seedsman and the well 

 being of the trade to admit these facts 

 and recognize the necessity of investi- 

 gating these diseases and finding rem- 

 edies for them, and of disseminating 

 broadcast the results of these findings 

 to all those interested in them. 



Before entering into the discussion 

 proper of the diseases of the sweet 

 pea, I wish to state that the Delaware 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, in co- 

 operation with the University of Penn- 

 sylvania, made it possible for me to 

 carry on, for the last two years, inves- 

 tigations of the diseases of the sweet 

 pea. The information which we are 

 about to give is of necessity of a pre- 

 liminary nature, since we have by no 

 means exhausted the subject. Never- 

 theless, we believe that we have gath- 

 ered enough to justify the presenta- 

 tion of this paper. The information is 

 first hand, as it is all the result of our 

 personal investigations and studies in 

 both field and laboratory. In Newark, 

 Del., we now have one-half acre of 

 sweet peas devoted exclusively to the 

 study of the diseases. 



\To be Continued.) 



