August :U, 1912 



HORTICULTUEE 



309 



Clubs and Societies 



VEGETABLE GROWERS' ASSOCIA- 

 TION. 



At the fifth annual meeting of the 

 Vegetable Growers' Association ot 

 Ameriea. at Rochester, September 4th, 

 5th and 6th, a somewhat different plan 

 fi'oni that of previous years has bten 

 adopted. Each session is to be de- 

 voted to a single general topic, with 

 papers by eminent authorities on its 

 different phases. The geneial topics 

 of discussion are crop rotation, plant 

 breeding, soil fertility, greenhouse 

 problems, and cooperation, all treated 

 from the standpoint of the vegetable 

 man. 



Dr. H. J. AVebber of Cornell Univer- 

 sity, who is to open the discussion <.n 

 plant breeding, has been a leader in 

 the advancement of scientific plant 

 breeding both in the college world and 

 in the field. The second part of the 

 period will be occupied by O. G. Bishop 

 of Pontiac, Michigan. The discussions 

 of the soil fertilit;,' session will be led 

 by Dr. C. E. Thorne, Director of the 

 Ohio Agricultural E.xperiment Station, 

 and Prof. E. O. Fippin of Cornell Uni- 

 versity. Prof. R. L, Watts of the Pen .- 

 sylvania State College, Prof. T. C. 

 Johnson of the Virginia Ti-uck Experi- 

 ment Station, and Mr. H. F. Thompson 

 of Massachusetts, are to deal with the 

 questions of crop rotation. Greenhouse 

 building will be taken up by Prof. W. 

 .1. \A'right ot Alfred Univeisity, New 

 York, and soil sterilization by Mr. 

 Chauncey West ot Irondequi it, New- 

 York, Mr, C. R. White, president of 

 the New York State Vegetable dow- 

 ers' Association, will speak at the clos- 

 ing session on cooperation. 



The sessions of the Association are 

 to be held in Convention Hall, Roches- 

 ter. Headquarteis have been opened 

 at the Powers Hotel, where the annual 

 banquet will be held on Thursday 

 evening. 



The Munroe County Market Gard- 

 eners' Association, are planning for a 

 splendid exhibit of local products by 

 many of the leading manufacturers 

 of supplies for vegetable producers 



Complete prog ams of this meeting 

 may be secui-ed by writing to S. W. 

 Severance, 50S Walker Building. Louis- 

 ville, Kentucky, or to Paul Work, Col- 

 lege of Agricultuie, Ithaca, New York. 



CONNECTICUT HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



On the 23rd inst., business meetings 

 were resumed. Efforts this autumn 

 are to be concentrated upon the Dah- 

 lia Exhibition at Unity Hall, Hartford, 

 September 19-20. The Chrysanthemum 

 Exhibition in November will, this sea- 

 son, be omitted. 



Special prizes have been liberally 

 offered for the Dahlia Exhibition, 

 among which are the following; 



By H. L. Metealfc. Hartford, .$2 for larg- 

 est daUlia bloom. 1st prize Sl.K. 2ud 75c. 



By a lueniliei- (anonymous), for i> vases or 

 gladiolus. t> Idooms each, distinct varieties, 

 1st $3, 2ud $2, 



By TlKiraas J. Grey Compan.v, Boston, 

 for collection of dahlia blooms, named va- 

 vietii'S. one bloom each, 1st .$.3, 2nd $2. 



By (', II, Slermau, Hartford, for exhibit 

 of dalilla.s in pots not exceeding 10 inches 

 ill diameter, 1st $6, 2nd $4. 



By Joseph Brock & Sons' Corp., Boston, 

 for collection of asters, 50 blooms of each 

 variety. 1st $6, 2nd $4. 



By Stunipp & Walter Co., New York, sli- 

 ver cup for collective exhibit of .sreatest 

 merit. This prize is intended for the In- 



SPECIIVIEN HYDRANGEAS. 



.lames Warr, gardener on the estate 

 of Mr. C. S. Eaton at Marblehead 

 Neck, Mass., sends us the photograph 

 herewith reproduced. The plant on 

 the left hand side has 220 flower 

 trusses; the one on the right, 225 



trusses; the plants are 18 ft. in cir- 

 cumference. Mr. Warr says that the 

 plants have grown to their present 

 size in three years. The lawn back 

 of the plants is a putting green and 

 at the rear is a magnificent tennis 

 court. 



ilividual havin,2: the best all-around exhibit. 

 i|iialit.v and quantity both considered. 



B.v Arthur T. Boddington, New York, for 

 I'ollectiou of vegetables, to be judged by 

 the scale of points in use bv the Lenox 

 Horticultural Societv. 1st $12, 2nd ?S, 

 .'Ird .$5. 



Vice-President J. Alfred Weber, of 

 Hartford, will again have charge of 

 the immense floricultural exhibit at 

 the Connecticait Fair, at Charter Oak 

 Park, which opens on Labor Day, Sep- 

 tember 2nd, with ex-President Roose- 

 velt as one of the attractions. 



Our Society has just suffered the 

 loss of a valued and honored life mem- 

 ber, in the sudden decease of Stephen 

 Delbar. of Hartford, who dropped dead 

 on Monday last, after a long and use- 

 ful life. He was a lover of horticul- 

 ture, and a member of the former or- 

 ganizations out of which our present 

 Society evolved. 



GEORGE W. SMITH, Secretary. 



Melrose, Conn., August 27, 1912. 



Mass., will give a talk before the New 

 Bedford Horticultural Society, in Li- 

 brary Hall, New Bedford, Mass., on 

 the evening of September 6th, at 8 P. 

 M. Subject, "Paeonles." 



WM. F. TURNER, 



Chairman Com. 



The September meeting of the 

 Florists' Club of Washington is sched- 

 uled for Tuesday evening next. On 

 September 5 the club will hold a field 

 day at the Chain Bridge-Potomac 

 Heights reservation. Here will be run 

 off the various games and athletic 

 events which had been postponed from 

 the outing held in July. Glen Echo 

 and Cabin John Bridge cars pass the 

 park. 



WASHINGTON NOTES. 



Mrs. E. C. Mayberry is spending sev- 

 eral weeks at iMeadows, Md., visiting 



relatives. 



NEWPORT HORTICULTURAL SO- 

 CIETY. 



After a suspension of regular meet- 

 ings for two months this Society held 

 a business meeting on the evening of 

 August 27th. The tnain business was 

 the arrangements necessary tor the 

 fall show, which is dated for Septem- 

 ber 14, 1,5 and 16, and also for the 

 annual ball which is to be held on the 

 evening following the close of the 

 show. The schedule for this show is 

 a particularly attractive one, includ- 

 ing many special prizes for plants, 

 flowers, fruit and vegetables, with the 

 usual table decorations on the third 

 day. P'rom present indications the ex- 

 hibits will be numerous and a better 

 attendance of visitors than usual is 

 expected. 



E. C. Mayberry has returned from a 

 very pleasant fishing trip with W. W. 

 Kimmel at Blackistone's Island. 



O. A. C. Oehmler, with Gude Bros., is 

 finishing up a vacation at his cottage 

 at Colonial Beach, Va. Walter Haw- 

 ley, with the same firm is in Boston, 

 Mass. 



The family of Adolphus Gude are 

 spending August at Atlantic City as 

 are the Misses Amelia and Louise 

 Gude, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. W. 

 F. Gude, who are registered at the Ho- 

 tel Strand with Mrs. Catherine Loef- 

 fler. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



There will be an exhibition of 

 Gladioli, Montbretias and other sum- 

 mer blooms, in the Museum Building 

 of the N. Y. Botanical Garden on Sat- 

 urday, Aug. SI. and Sunday, Sept. 1. 

 under the auspices of the Horticultural 

 Society of New York. 



CINCINNATI PERSONALS. 



Wm. Gear went to the Chenoux 

 Islands from the Chicago convention. 



C. E. Critchell is spending a month 

 in Canada in the St. Lawrence region, 

 and in Michigan. 



E. J. Shaylor of Wellesley Farms, 



Visitors; Harry Papworth, New Or- 

 leans; Jas, P. Keller and John Keller, 

 Lexington, Ky., and Harry Greve, Dal- 

 las, Texas. 



