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HOETICULTUEE 



October 19, 1912 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



GARDENERS' AND FLORISTS' 

 CLUB OF BOSTON. 



The regular meeting of this Club on 

 Tuesday evening was a specially in- 

 teresting occasion. There were some 

 good exhibits, an excellent paper by 

 George Stewart, an interesting talk by 

 W. E. Tricker, all on chrysanthemum 

 topics and some lively discussions that 

 kept the members in session until a 

 late hour. 



Resolutions on the death of J. A. 

 Pettigrew were read by J. K. M. L. 

 Farquhar. The report of progress by 

 W. Downs for the landscape garden- 

 ing class was the occasion for much 

 debate and some moderate criticism. 

 The committee will still wrestle with 

 the problem and will discuss with the 

 oflRcers of the Mass. Horticultural 

 plans for a possible co-operation in 

 some comprehensive scheme for horti- 

 cultural education. It was announced 

 by Chairman Bartsch of the 25th An- 

 niversary Dinner Committee that this 

 event would come off on November 11 

 and that Messrs. Phil. Breitmeyer of 

 Detroit. J. Otto Thilow of Philadel- 

 phia and A. Farenwald would be 

 among the prominent guests present 

 on that occasion. The resignation of 

 President Pegler on account of ill 

 health was accepted with regrets. 



C. H. Totty's exhibit of chrysanthe- 

 mums was quite extensive, compris- 

 ing 27 large vases of singles and 

 doubles of the various classes. Among 

 his new ones were Ramapo, a big Jap. 

 incurved yellow. D. B. Crane yellow 

 Jap., seedling No. 1, a large Jap. re- 

 flexed. Enchantress pink color, and 

 some of Wells' and Nonius early flow- 

 ering novelties. The pink seedling re- 

 ceived a report of merit. Mr. Totty 

 also showed his new pink forcing rose 

 Mrs. George Shawyer in fine form. It 

 certainly looks like a winner. W. N. 

 Craig exhibited four seedling cattle- 

 yas, one of which — a lovely intermedi- 

 ate sized, fragrant flower with broad 

 brilliant dark lip — C. Hardyana X C. 

 Bowringeana — received a report of 

 merit. Mr. Craig said the seed was 

 sown June 20, 1906. Prof. E. A. White 

 of the Mass. Agricultural College, 

 staged fifteen named varieties of large 

 Jap. chrysanthemums and W. W. Ed- 

 gar Co. a fine vase of Yellow Touset. 



NEW YORK FLORISTS' QLUB. 



The New York Florists' Club en- 

 joyed an exceptionally interesting and 

 instructive lecture on Monday even- 

 ing. October 14, by H. A. Bunyard, on 

 the International Horticultural Exhi- 

 bition at London. He showed a large 

 number of beautiful slides, which he 

 described in entertaining fashion and 

 everybody was greatly pleased with it 

 all. W. A. Manda also spoke briefly 

 on the same subject. 



Quite a number of committee re- 

 ports were presented and accepted. 

 These included resolutions on the 

 death of Wm. R. Smith, read by Pat- 

 rick O'Mara. on the death of Mrs. A. 

 S. Burns, by P. J. Smith, progressive 



report of the entertainment committee 

 by C. B. Weathered, and of the Smith 

 Memorial Committee by John Donald- 

 son, for the transportation committee 

 by F. H. Traendly, for the committee 

 on steamship flower rules by J. B. 

 Nugent, and for the publicity commit- 

 tee by 1. S. Hendrickson. Mr. Hen- 

 drickson said that the committee had 

 prepared a poster for Hallowe'en flow- 

 ers, to be distributed to 2,000 flower 

 stores within a 50 mile radius of New 

 York, which they confidently expected 

 would increase the flower sales for 

 that occasion many fold. Six new 

 members were elected and five more 

 names were proposed. 



The exhibition was a very creditable 

 one. Bergenfield Nurseries showed a 

 lot of splendid new peony-flowered 

 dahlias, also some of the Stredwick 

 novelties. W. A. Manda staged twelve 

 seedling dahlias that were grand and 

 a wonderful sky-blue ipomea, flower 

 very large and showy. Scott Bros. 

 showed their scarlet carnation Wm. 

 Eccles and Traendly & Schenck their 

 Salmon Beauty. C. H. Totty was rep- 

 resented by his new rose Mrs. George 

 Shawyer and a splendid collection of 

 chrysanthemums cut and in pots. John 

 Lewis Childs showed a large collec- 

 tion of fine dahlias, named, and R. 

 Vincent, Jr., & Sons' Co. sent thirty 

 varieties of dahlias, all good ones. Mr. 

 Totty got 89 points for his rose and 

 honorable mention and highly com- 

 mended on his chrysanthemums. W. 

 A. Manda got honorable mention and 

 highly commended, J. Lewis Childs 

 honorable mention. Traendly & 

 Schenck highly commended, R. Vin- 

 cent & Sons Co.. honorable mention, 

 and Bergenfield Nurseries honorable 

 mention. A. T. Boddington showed an 

 attractive vase of white cosmos. 



The next meeting will be Chrysan- 

 themum Night. 



ST. LOUIS FLORIST CLUB. 



A very pleasant gathering took 

 place on last week, Thursday after- 

 noon, at Odd Fellows Hall. President 

 Fred H. Weber not being present 

 Vice-President Chas. C. Young was 

 the presiding officer. Several com- 

 mittees reported and were continued. 

 The committee on "Florists' Bulletin," 

 which has been discontinued since 

 the first of August stated that their 

 final report would be made at the No- 

 vember meeting. A communication 

 from the New Florists' Club Publicity 

 Committee was read, and after a long 

 discussion it was decided that the 

 President should appoint a local pub- 

 licity committee, they to elect one of 

 their number as a delegate to attend 

 the meeting of the National body. J. 

 F. Ammann of Edwardsville, who was 

 called upon for remarks, highly com- 

 mended the movement. 



Names of four members were rec- 

 ommended for state vice-president of 

 eastern Missouri for the S. A. F. 

 These will be voted upon at the next 

 meeting and the name selected sent 

 to President-elect J. K. M. L. Farquhar 

 for appointment. The treasurer's re- 

 port showed a fine balance in the Club 

 Exchequer. 



AMERICAN SWEET PEA SOCIETY. 



On a call from President Sim, an 

 executive meeting of our society was 

 held in Horticultural Hall, Boston, 

 Friday, October Uth. The following 

 members were present: William Sim. 

 W. Atlee Burpee, J. K. M. L. Farquhar. 

 Wm. Currie, Thos. Roland, Wm. J. 

 Stewart, Peter M. Miller, W. T. Hutch- 

 ins, Robert Cameron, Jas. Wheeler, 

 Harry A. Bunyard. 



Mr. Farquhar formally extended the 

 invitation to the society to hold its 

 annual exhibition in 1913 under the 

 auspices of the Massachusetts Horti- 

 cultural Society. Same was received 

 with a hearty vote of thanks. 



The express idea of calling a meet- 

 ing was for the purpose of completing 

 matters relative to the summer flower 

 show at Boston, 1912. The schedule 

 of this society for the International 

 Flower Show to be held in New York 

 in April was submitted and accepted. 

 Same will be published in about ten 

 days. 



'The matter of the society's medals 

 was also gone into and Thomas Ro- 

 land, chairman of the medal commit- 

 tee was instructed to proceed to have 

 the die made and such medals struck 

 off as were won at the last exhibition 

 in Boston. 



President Sim served luncheon to 

 the visiting members at the Copley 

 Square Hotel for which he received an 

 appreciative vote of thanks. 



HARRY A. BUNYARD, 

 Secretary. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS 

 AND ORNAMENTAL HORTI- 

 CULTURISTS. 

 Department of Plant Registration. 



As no objections have been filed, 

 public notice is hereby given that the 

 registration of the new rose "Milady" 

 by A. N. Pierson, Inc., Cromwell, 

 Conn., becomes complete. 



JOHN YOUNG, 

 Secretary. 

 October 5, 1912. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



The St. Louis Retail Florists' Asso- 

 ciation will meet on Monday night 

 Oct. 21, at the Washington Hotel. 



Engelmann Botanical Club held a 

 very interesting meeting on Oct. 14th, 

 at the Missouri Botanical Garden, St. 

 Louis. Mr. C. H. Thompson of the 

 Garden presented an illustrated talk 

 on "Botanizing in the semi-arid Re- 

 gions of Southwest United States and 

 Mexico." Dr. G. T. Moore, director of 

 the Garden presided over the meeting. 



At a meeting of the Newport Horti- 

 cultural Society, Oct. 8, sergeant-at- 

 arms William F. Smith was presented 

 with a handsome gold watch from the « 

 members in recognition of his valuable 

 services to the society. Mr. Smith has 

 been sergeant-at-arms for the society 

 nearly every year since it was organ- 

 ized, twenty-two years ago, and has 

 long been admitted to be the best 

 worker in the society for its interests. 



The monthly meeting of The West- 

 chester and Fairfield Horticultural So- 



