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HORTICULTUEE 



October 12, 1912 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



PITTSBURGH FLORISTS' AND GAR- 

 DENERS' CLUB. 



The club meeting the evening of 

 Oct. l8t. at the Fort Pitt Hotel was 

 well attended. It was Dahlia Night 

 with a fine display from both out-of- 

 town and home exhibitors. H. A. 

 Dreer showed for their leaders Fern- 

 and Olivet, a dark crimson cactus, 

 Papa Charme and Catherine Duer, 

 crimson and scarlet decoratives re- 

 spectively, and their well-known 

 Dreer's White. The Leo Niessen Co. 

 Showed a fine line of Peacock's 

 dahlias— very strong in the single 

 Century class. R. Vincent, Jr. & 

 Sons sent the cream of their large 

 collection. Phoenix a dark crimson 

 cactus was a leader, and there was 

 Yellow Colosse. Mrs. Seybold and 

 those charming decoratives Delice 

 and Madame Van den Daele. Randolph 

 & McClements showed a good sized 

 collection of dahlias. Neil McCallum 

 showed Tilhona speciosa, a tall grow- 

 ing Mexican plant, seedling dahlias, 

 etc. Walter James showed the "New 

 Idea," a wooden, folding cut flower box 

 invented by himself, which drew a 

 great deal of interest. It is very 

 strong and fold^ down into less than 

 one-third its size. C. A. Butler 

 showed a very attractive earthenware 

 flower vase, in a peculiar green 

 finish. 



In accordance with the request of 

 the chairman of the New York Flor- 

 ist Publicity Committee, it was voted 

 that the President should appoint a 

 local allied committee, the names to 

 be announced later. 



Subject for November meeting — 

 Chrysanthemums. 



H. P. JOSLIN, Sec'y. 



GARDENERS' AND FLORISTS' 

 CLUB OF BOSTON. 



The next regular monthly meeting 

 of the club will be held at Horticul- 

 tural Hall on Tuesday evening, Octo- 

 ber 15, 1912, at 8 o'clock. "Chrysan- 

 themums" will be the subject of the 

 evening and one or more experts will 

 speak on their culture. C. H. Totty 

 and other specialists will have flowers 

 on exhibition and a fine floral dis- 

 play is assured. 



The banquet of the club to cele- 

 brate its silver anniversary will be 

 held at Horticultural Hall on Monday 

 evening, November 11. A noted array 

 of speakers will respond to the various 

 toasts. Tickets may be obtained at 

 the coming club meeting or from any 

 of the club officers or executive com- 

 mittee. 



W. N. CRAIG, Sec'y. 



TUXEDO HORTICULTURAL SO- 

 CIETY. 



A regular meeting of this society 

 was held in the parish house. Oct. 2. 

 The chief business was the forthcom- 

 ing fall show, which will be. held in 

 the Tuxedo Club House ballroom on 

 Oct. 25th, 26th and 27th. This room 

 should prove an ideal place for the 

 setting up of the different groups and 

 specimens of miscellaneous plants, 

 palms, orchids, etc., and standard and 

 bush chrysanthemums. There are 



classes for chrysanthemum blooms to 

 suit both large and small exhibitors, 

 also for cut roses, carnations and vio- 

 lets, fruit and vegetables. The show 

 is being well patronized by seedsmen 

 and nurserymen with money and cups 

 as prizes. All entries should be sent 

 to David D. Miller, secretary of exhibi- 

 tion. Preliminary schedules may be 

 had on application to the secretary of 

 society. Regular meetings of the so- 

 ciety are held on the first Wednesday 

 of each month. E. WILSON, Sec'y. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



President Wm. Sim has called a 

 meeting of the Sweet Pea Society of 

 America at Horticultural Hall, Boston, 

 on Friday, October 11. 



The nominating committee of the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society 

 has placed in nomination J. K. M. L. 

 Farquhar of Boston for the presidency 

 of that Society. 



The regular monthly meeting of the 

 New York Florists' Club will be held 

 at the club rooms on Monday evening. 

 October 14. It will be "Dahlia night" 

 and a fine display is assured. 



The Gardeners' and Florists' Club 

 of Boston will have a banquet in Hor- 

 ticultural Hall, Boston, on November 

 11, 1912, in celebration of the 25th an- 

 niversary of the organization of the 

 club. To be exact, this affair should 

 have come off last January but, never- 

 theless, there will be a good time now. 



The Ohio Horticultural Society will 

 hold its first flower show at Gray's 

 Armory, Cleveland, on November 14 to 

 16. Besides cups and certificates, cash 

 prizes amounting to nearly J3000 are 

 offered and if, as one of our corres- 

 pondents elsewhere says, it requires 

 only liberal prizes to bring out exhib- 

 its, then Cleveland is assured of a fine 

 show. Copies of the schedule, rules, 

 etc., may be procured from John A. 

 Stockwell, secretary, 218 City Hall, 

 Cleveland. John Boddy, same address, 

 is chairman of the committee on 

 prizes and exhibitions. 



The regular meeting of the South, 

 ampton (N. Y.) Horticultural Society 

 was held in Odd Fellows' Hall, Octo- 

 ber 3rd, President U. G. Ager in the 

 chair. It was voted to offer $25 in 

 gold for award at the National Flower 

 Show in New York next April, the 

 class to be decided on by the manage- 

 ment. 



It was voted unanimously to have 

 this Society incorporated, the neces- 

 sary steps to be taken at next meet- 

 ing. 



The essay committee was instructed 

 to ask Mr. Fullerton, of Wading River, 

 to give a lecture before the Society at 

 some future date. The regular meet- 

 ings for the winter months are 

 the first and third Thursdays of each 

 month. WM. McLEOD, Sec'y. 



The Yonkers (N. Y.) Horticultural 

 Society held the regular monthly 

 meeting in Hollywood Inn on Friday 

 evening, Oct. 4th. President Howard 

 Nichols presiding. 



The fall show will be held in the Ar- 

 mory. Oct. 30, 31 and Nov. 1, and it 

 will surpass any flower show previous- 

 ly held in Yonkers. Two beautiful sil- 

 ver cups, each valued at fifty dollars 

 will be awarded, one for specimen 

 bush chrysanthemum, and the other 

 for the best twenty-tour large blooms, 

 eight varieties. The Armory is a fine 

 big building, so the exhibitors will 

 have an opportunity to display their 

 exhibits to advantage, and will be 

 able to arrange them with comfort. It 

 is hoped the competition will be 

 strong in all the classes, as the com- 

 mittee have been busy all season, and 

 have the work well advanced. It now 

 remains for the exhibitors to come 

 forward and put up a good fight for 

 the cups already mentioned, as well as 

 for other cups, medals, etc.. In the va- 

 rious classes. 



The fifty-eighth annual meeting of 

 the Western New York Horticultural 

 Society will this year be held in Con- 

 vention Hall, Rochester, N. Y., Decem- 

 ber 11, 12 and 13, as provided by special 

 vote of the society at its last meeting. 

 The principal explanation for this ar- 

 rangement lies in the fact that the 

 Rochester Chamber of Commerce had 

 announced its intention to hold an- 

 other and a larger Apple Show in this 

 city the latter part of November or 

 early in December, and It was sug- 

 gested that it would be a good idea for 

 this society to hold its meeting about 

 the same time to show its sympathy 

 with the efforts of the Chamber of 

 Commerce to boom the fruit interests 

 of New York State. 



At the present writing, however, it 

 is doubtful if the Apple Show will be 

 held, but, whatever may be the ulti- 

 mate decision of the Chamber of Com- 

 merce, the announcement has gone out 

 that our meeting will be held on the 

 dates specified, and plans have been 

 perfected for the same. Judging from 

 the opinions which have been ex- 

 pressed, the proposition to hold the 

 annual meeting early in December Is 

 receiving very general endorsement, 

 and we look for a large attendance. 

 JOHN HALL, Sec. 



A genuine lovefeast was enjoyed by 

 over thirty Detroit fiorists who went 

 by special car to Toledo, O., in pur- 

 suance of the cordial invitation of the 

 florists there. Chaperoned by the Tole- 

 do boys they went visiting from place 

 to place and partook of a delicious 

 noon repast at Cushman's. The after- 

 noon was spent just as pleasantly and 

 the final seal of friendship was at- 

 tached with a dinner at the Com- 

 merce Club. 



Detroit, Mich. — J. A. Stahelin moved 

 the four houses, each 35x173, built last 

 year, over a field of carnations culti- 

 vated during the summer, also four 

 new houses 36x173 built by Garland 

 during the past summer. The work 

 was done by nine men in less than a 

 day and everything went off without 

 hitch, not even breaking a pane of 

 glass. 



