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HORTICULTUEE 



November 30, 1912 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



CONNECTICUT HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY, 



Our second November meeting, on 

 the 22nd, was made interesting by the 

 exhibition, by T. B. Brown of Windsor, 

 of a pinli seedling chrysanthemum 

 plant, grown by him, and bearing sev- 

 eral pure white sport blossoms. Mr. 

 Brown was awarded a certificate of 

 merit. President John F. Huss and 

 William H. MacKenzie both gave In- 

 teresting accounts of their recent at- 

 tendance at the gathering of the Na- 

 tional Association of Gardeners. 



An article recently appearing in the 

 horticultural press, entitled "Mandio- 

 ka," by L. Rice, was read by the secre- 

 tary and proved of much instructive 

 value. This plant or tuber is the 

 principal farineaceous plant of Brazil, 

 and from it is made the well-known 

 tapioca of commerce. 



December 13th will be the annual 

 meeting for the election of officers. 

 GEORGE W. SMITH, Sec'y. 



Melrose, Conn. 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. 

 New Carnations Registered. 

 By Patten & Co., Tewksbury, Mass., 

 Princess Dagmar— Genevieve X un- 

 named crimson. Deep, bright crimson. 

 Size 31/, to 4 inches. Lxing, stiff stem. 

 Calyx ' seldom splits. Perfectly 

 healthy. Strong grower. Average 

 bloomer. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



Thomas W. Lawson has been re- 

 elected president of the Marshfield, 

 Mass., Agricultural and Horticultural 

 Society. 



The 27th annual meeting of the Ore- 

 gon State Horticultural Society was 

 held at Portland on Nov. 20-22, in con- 

 nection with the Pacific Northwest 



Land Products Show. Apple orchard- 

 ing was the main topic for considera- 

 tion. 



The December meeting of the Flor- 

 ists' Club of Washington will be held 

 next Tuesday evening at eight o'clock 

 at 1214 F street, N. W. Plans will be 

 discussed for increasing the Christmas 

 flower business of this year and sever- 

 al proposed changes in the by-laws 

 will be offered. 



At the annual meeting of Florists' 

 Employees' Union, No. 14,134 of St. 

 Louis, in Floral Hall, the following 

 officers were named: Robert C. Hayes, 

 president; George Wagner, vice-presi- 

 dent; Edward Pieper, secretary; Mrs. 

 M. Kingsley, financial secretary, and 

 Charles Connon, delegate. 



The programme of the annual meet- 

 ing of the Maine Seed Improvement 

 Association, which is to be held in the 

 City Hall, Dec. 3 to 6, inclusive, con- 

 tains many interesting features. In 

 connection with the meeting of the 

 seed improvement association there 

 will be held the meeing of the Maine 

 Dairymen's Association. There will 

 also be an exhibition. Dr. Raymond 

 Pearl of Orono will give an address on 

 "What Plant Breeding Can Do for 

 Maine." 



The joint committee of the Garden 

 Association and the Newport Horti- 

 cultural Society met recently at the 

 residence of Mrs. Hamilton Fish Web- 

 ster to make arrangements for the 

 flower show to be held next June on 

 the grounds of Mrs. John Nicholas 

 Brown's residence, "Harbourcourt," at 

 Newport, R. I. A tentative schedule 

 was made up and a sub-commiUee 

 consisting of H. W. H. Powel, Andrew 

 S. Melkle, Daniel J. Coughlin, Mrs. 

 Hamilton Fish Webster and Mrs. Ar- 

 nold Hague was appointed to make 

 further arrangements. The joint com- 



mittee consists of Mrs. Arnold Hague, 

 Mrs. Hamilton Fish Webster. Miss 

 Wetmore and Mr. H. W. H. Powel, 

 representing the Garden Association 

 and Andrew S. Meikle, president, Dan- 

 iel J. Coughlin, secretary, James Rob- 

 ertson, James McLeish, Richard Gard- 

 ner, Alexander MacLellan and Wil- 

 liam Gray from the Horticultural So- 

 ciety. 



At the meeting of the National As- 

 sociation of Gardeners, held in New- 

 ark, N. J., last week, an invitation was 

 received from the Pacific Coast Horti- 

 cultural Society inviting the National 

 Association to hold its convention In 

 San Francisco in 1915. It was favor- 

 ably acted on and resolutions passed to 

 the effect that in appreciation of the 

 invitation received from the brothers 

 on the Pacific Coast, it is the senti- 

 ment of the 1912 convention that its 

 1915 meeting should be held In San 

 Francisco, but that it is too early now 

 to take positive action. 



The bowling trophies were awarded 

 to the victors at the dinner. The Aphine 

 cup went to the winning team, 

 the Pennsylvania Horticultural Socie- 

 ty. The president's cup to Walter 

 Gray, of Orange, N. J. The National 

 Association cups went to Wm. Robert- 

 son, of Jenkintown, Pa.; Joseph Man- 

 da, West Orange, N. J.; and Thomas 

 Aitchison, Mamaroneck, N. Y. 



The Goodsell $50 gold prize won by 

 Mr. James Stuart, of Mamaroneck, N. 

 Y., in the membership contest was also 

 presented to the winner by Mr. Goo,-!- 

 sell with a tew well choosen words 



DURING RECESS. 



The bowling team of the Washing- 

 ton Florists' Club continued their 

 reputation of being invincible by de- 

 feating the Baltimore team last Thurs- 



Banquet, National Association oi^ Gardeners, at Ne-waek, N. J 



