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H E T I C U L T TJ E E 



November 23, 1912 



ST. LOUIS FLORISTS' CLUB. 



The members of the St. Louis Flor- 

 ists' Club met November 14tli in the 

 Odd Fellows' building. The meeting 

 •was well attended with all the officers 

 present and President Fred H. Weber 

 presided for the first time since his 

 election. After the regular prelimi- 

 nary proceedings and reports of com- 

 mittees resolutions were read on the 

 death of the late Charles B. Schoenle. 

 Two candidates were elected to mem- 

 bership, and four applications were re- 

 ceived. 



There were four candidates for S. 

 A. F. state vice-president for Eastern 

 Missouri and Edwin Denker of St. 

 Charles, won out. The treasurer's re- 

 port showed a healthy balance on 

 hand. Short talks were made by 

 some of the visitors. Weber's Nur- 

 sery showed a vase of a fine yellow 

 chrysanthemum which according to 

 the growers present was Dollie Dim- 

 ple. The next meeting takes place 

 December 12th. 



Seed Trade 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY OF 



AMERICA. 



Work of Committees. 



Exhibited at Chicago, 111., Nov. 2, by 

 Elmer D. Smith & Co., Lucile Quinlan, 

 yellow, com. scale S5 points. 



Exhibited at Chicago, 111., Nov. 9, by 

 Wm. P. Longland, card, to C. L. 

 Hutcliinson, Lake Geneva, N. Y., not 

 named, flesh, large single, com. scale 

 85 points. 



Exhibited at Chicago, 111., Nov. 16, 

 b.' Elmer D. Smith & Co., Mary E. 

 Meyer, white, reflexed, com. scale 90 

 points. Golden Robin, yellow, reflexed, 

 com. scale 89 points. 



CHARLES W. JOHNSON, Sec. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



The Alameda County (Calif.) Floral 

 Society has been organized. J. M. 

 Carroll, of Fruitvale, Calif., is secre- 

 tary. 



Trustees of the Worcester County 

 (Mass.) Horticultural Society had their 

 annual meeting in the library of Hor- 

 ticultural Hall, Nov. 13. 



President Edward W. Breed, Clin- 

 ton, presided at the meeting and com- 

 mittees were appointed and appropri- 

 ations made for premiums for next 

 year. 



Twelve hundred dollars was appro- 

 priated for premiums for flowers. $1000 

 for premiums for fruits, and $650 for 

 premiums on vegetables and $300 for 

 ■winter meetings. It was voted to have 

 the children's exhibitions in July and 

 August, the same as last year. 



The Florists' and Gardeners' Club, 

 of Rhode Island, held its annual meet- 

 ing and election of officers in the club 

 rooms, Monday evening, November 

 18th, with a good attendance present. 

 Eugene A. Appleton was re-elected 

 president. Other officers elected were 

 as follows: Vice-president, Cornelius 

 Hartstra; secretary, William E. Chap- 

 pell; treasurer, James Hockey; libra- 

 rian, James Dillon; executive commit- 

 tee, H. C. Neubrand, James Dillon and 

 Cornelius Hartstra. Addresses setting 

 forth the necessity of combined efforts 

 of the florists in the interest of the 

 industry were made by Michael 

 Sweeney, William E. Chappell and 

 Charles MacNalr. 



Shortage of Crops. 



The cucumber, musk and water 

 melon, pumpkin and squash crops 

 have turned out fairly well in most in- 

 stances, but there will be a shortage 

 of a few varieties, although nothing 

 serious. 



The early and late varieties of sweet 

 corn are turning out very poorly, the 

 early varieties being very short and 

 light yields and the late varieties not 

 having become well matured, so that 

 a scarcity of early and late varieties of 

 sweet corn is looked for. The medium 

 early varieties have turned out some- 

 what better and it is believed there 

 will be sufficient to go around of these 

 varieties. 



The field corn crops are making fair- 

 ly good yields, but some of the larger 

 kinds have not ripened up as the/ 

 should and a hard cold spell may ef- 

 fect the germinating qualities. If we 

 have some nice weather for the next 

 month it will help all of the corn 

 to quite a large extent. It is rather 

 difficult to tell just how these crops 

 will turn out prior to their being har- 

 vested and delivered. 



Notes. 



Whitesville, Mo. — A new seed house 

 is being built by Thomas Slawson. 



King City, Mo. — A seed cleaning and 

 preparing house is to be erected here 

 by Berryman & Maupin. 



Jackson, Miss. — The Taylor Seed 

 store is a new seed business started 

 here of which the proprietors are S. 

 J. Taylor and S. E. Taylor. 



Nabb. Ind. — The Indiana Tomato 

 Seed Co. has been incorporated here 

 with a capital stock of $15,000. The 

 incorporators are J. N. Grant, H. E. 

 Grant and E. V. Grant. 



Cincinnati, Ohio — The Rahe Seed 

 Co. has been incorporated with a cap- 

 ital stock of $5,000. Wm. J. Rahe, H. 

 H. Peters. Alfred Peters, Wm. L. Mil- 

 ler and C. S. Shook are the incorpora- 

 tors. 



New Albany, Ind. — The New Al- 

 bany Seed and Implement Co. has 

 been incorporated with a capital stock 

 of $5,000. Incorporators, Herman 

 Brown, Sr., Louisa Brown and Henry 

 Goetz. 



GREENHOUSES BUILDING OR CON- 

 TEMPLATED. 



Ganges, Mich. — Abner Miller, house 

 20x36. 



Norwalk, Conn. — R. G. Hanford, ad- 

 dition. 



Ogden, Utah — A. Laine, small bulb 

 forcing house. 



North Adams, Mass. — Rudolph Mar- 

 shall, one house. 



Westerly, R. I. — Conrad Schultz, 36 

 Beach street, several houses. 



Worcester, Mass. — W. D. Ross, 84 

 West Boylston street, house 28x100. 



Chicago. III. — Eassett & Washburn, 

 Gregg's station, twelve houses, each 

 28x225. 



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