December 14, 1912 



HORTICULTURE 



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CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



NEW YORK FLORISTS' CLUB. 



The meeting of this club on Monday 

 evening, December 9, was a record- 

 breaker in attendance, there being 

 close to 175 members and prospective 

 members present. The occasion of 

 this outpouring was the election of 

 officers, there being three nominees for 

 the presidency, leading three distinct 

 groups of followers, each group deter- 

 mined to carry its candidate to glori- 

 ous victory. According to the by-laws 

 of the club a majority of votes cast is 

 necessary for an election. The result 

 of the first ballot for president was as 

 follows: H. A. Bunyard 44, Wm. H. 

 Duckham 37, Wm. H. Siebrecht 58. A 

 new ballot was then ordered and it 

 resulted in the election of Mr. Sie- 

 brecht by a vote of 61 to 57 for Mr. 

 Bunyard, Mr. Duckham having with- 

 drawn his name. The other officers 

 elected were as follows: Secretary, 

 John Young, unanimous; treasurer, W. 

 C. Rickards, Jr., 76 to 61 for Philip P. 

 Kessler; trustees, C. B. Weathered, W. 

 F. Sheridan and John Miesem by sub- 

 stantial majorities. 



Wm. H. Siebrecht is a highly re- 

 spected and widely known representa- 

 tive of the flower growing fraternity. 

 His place is in Astoria, Long Island 

 City, and is famous for the high qual- 

 ity of the output, of which lily of the 

 valley and forced bulbous stock of 

 various kinds is the principal part. 

 Mr. Siebrecht has been a member of 

 the S. A. F. from the start, also of the 

 New York Florists' Club. He might 

 have been president of the latter many 

 years ago but always declined the 

 honor until now. He will make a 

 popular presiding officer for the com- 

 ing busy year. 



During the course of the evening 

 J. B. Nugent reported a satisfactory 

 interview with the steamship officials 

 with regard to the receipt and proper 

 care of flowers sent to passengers 

 when departing; C. B. Weathered re- 

 ported a very liberal response to his 

 committee's request for contributions 

 towards the entertainment of visiting 

 florists at the National Flower Show; 

 A. L. Miller, on behalf of the awards 

 committee, reported 91 points awarded 

 to carnation Matchless and 87 points 

 with a certificate of merit to carnation 

 Wm. Eccles; he also announced that 

 the new rose Mrs. Shawyer and Broz- 

 ert had been carefully compared and 

 were found to be distinct. A batch of 

 new members were elected and brief 

 speeches were made by several. Nine- 

 teen new members were proposed; it 

 was suggested by W. J. Stewart that 

 they be regularly qualified at once in- 

 stead of being held over until the 

 January meeting, but this motion was 

 declared to be out of order. This plan 

 of holding membership propositions 

 for a month is a good one provided its 

 intent of giving time tor inquiry into 

 the fitness of a candidate for admis- 

 sion is carried out, but when, as is the 

 case here, the rule is simply a dead 

 letter there is no apparent advantage 

 in this bit of meaningless red tape. 



A list of ladies to serve on entertain- 

 ment committee at International Flow- 



er Show was named by President 

 Manda. 



Exhibits were made by Scott Bros., 

 Wm. Eccles carnation; J. D. Cockcroft, 

 Northport carnation; Traendly & 

 Schenck, Salmon Beauty carnation; 

 Julius Roehrs Co., pink poinsettia, and 

 Wallace R. Pierson roses Milady and 

 Mme. Jules Grollez. 



ELBERON HORTICULTURAL SO- 

 CIETY. 



The regular monthly meeting of 

 this society was held in Firemen's 

 Hall, Elberon, N. J., on Monday, Dec. 

 2nd, with President James Kennedy 

 presiding. After the regular routine 

 of business, Jos. A. Manda of West 

 Orange installed the newly-elected of- 

 ficers, as follows: President, Geo. 

 Masson, vice-president, Thomas Ham- 

 bleton; treasurer, A. Bauer; secretary, 

 Chas. C. Duncan; assistant secretary, 

 Wm. R. Seymour. A vote of thanks 

 was accorded to the retiring officers. 



Tne Boddington medals for horticul- 

 ture, which were awarded for point 

 competition during last year, were 

 won by the following: 1st, gold 

 medal, George Masson, with an aver- 

 age of 83.5; 2nd, silver medal, Wm. R. 

 Seymour, average 82.5; 3rd, bronze 

 medal, Charles C. Duncan, average, 79. 

 In the competition for those without 

 greenhouses, August Grieb was first 

 and Ed. O'Rourke second. Chas. De 

 Wilde was awarded a certificate of 

 culture for a display of carnations. 



At the next meeting, January 6th, 

 Thos. Hambleton will talk on the "Cul- 

 ture of Chrysanthemums." 



WM. R. SEYMOUR, 

 Asst. Sec. 



NEWPORT HORTICULTURAL SO- 

 CIETY. 



The annual meeting of the society 

 was held Dec. 10 with President A. S. 

 Meikle in the chair and a good attend- 

 ance of members. Officers and execu- 

 tive committee were elected as fol- 

 lows: President, A. S. Meikle; first 

 vice-president, William Mackay; sec- 

 ond vice-president, John B. Urquhart; 

 treasurer, A. K. McMahon; recording 

 secretary, D. J. Coughlin; financial 

 secretary, William Gray; sergeant-at- 

 arms, W. F. Smith; executive commit- 

 tee, with the above officers, Richard 

 Gardner, Alex. MacLellan, John T. Al- 

 lan, C. M. Bugholt, Bruce Butterton, 

 James Bond, James Boyd, J. Robert- 

 son. This meeting also marked the 

 close of a yearly competition in help- 

 ing the society in various ways, the 

 competition being governed by a spec- 

 ial scale of points which encourages 

 the members to attend the regular 

 meetings, exhibit at the shows, secure 

 new members, etc. The first prize, a 

 valuable silver cup, was won by A. L. 

 Dorward; the second prize, also a sil- 

 ver cup, goes to J. Robertson, and the 

 third, a cash prize, to C. M. Bugholt. 

 The report of the treasurer showed a 

 very good cash balance, and the so- 

 ciety seems well equipped in every 

 way for the business of the coming 

 year. J. R. 



PITTSBURGH FLORISTS' AND 

 GARDENERS' CLUB. 



At the December 3rd meeting of the 

 Pittsburgh Florists' and Gardeners' 

 Club, on December 3, P. S. Randolph 

 gave an interesting and timely talk 

 on Christmas Greens and Decorations. 

 Mr. Randolph Is senior member of P. 

 D. Randolph & Sons, plant growers, 

 and senior member of Randolph & 

 McClements, retail florists, and is the 

 oldest fiorist in the city actively en- 

 gaged as both grower and retailer, so 

 that when he said a retail florist could 

 not be a good plant grower, we all 

 pricked our ears and sat up. He went 

 on to say that the demands of the re- 

 tail end of the business on the man 

 who grows his own stock were such 

 that he is continually being compelled 

 to retard or force growth, either to 

 meet the demands of the present or 

 the expected demands of the future, 

 and by this way of doing is never able 

 to put out his plants at their best. He 

 thought the time was coming rapidly 

 when plant growing would be divided 

 among specialists, as the variety of 

 plants now grown is beyond the abil- 

 ity of any one plant grower to meet 

 their various requirements and fur- 

 nish at their best. 



Speaking of Ardisia crenulata he 

 showed fine specimens of plants with 

 good-colored berries, grown from seed. 

 This plant, he said, was not often 

 raised from seed in this country, but 

 it could be done and there was a profit 

 in it. Mr. Randolph is a firm believer 

 in the future of the plant growing 

 trade, and has recently erected a 

 range and established his two sons In 

 that branch of the business. 



Cultural certificates were awarded tO' 

 Randolph & McClements for well- 

 grown plants, Walter James for Be- 

 gonia Turnford Hall. Mr. Turner, of 

 Winkinsburg, showed Primula obconl- 

 ca, and the Bureau of Parks showed 

 well-berried Solanum capsicastrum, 

 variety Fra Diavolo, and an interest- 

 ing vase of outdoor grown plants and 

 grasses. 



At the meeting in January the 

 nomination of officers for 1913 takes 

 place. H. P. JOSLIN, Sec'y. 



FLORISTS' CLUB OF WASHINGTON. 



The subject of advertising for the 

 holidays was the main topic of dis- 

 cussion at the December meeting of 

 the Florists' Club of Washington. An 

 effort will be made to have the news- 

 papers take up the cause with a view 

 to the publication of interesting read- 

 ing matter pertaining to flowers, bulbs, 

 etc., in the news columns. This will 

 be under the direction of the recently 

 appointed publicity committee. The 

 use of placards in the windows of at 

 least the uptown stores as an advertis- 

 ing medium was discussed and a gen- 

 eral concensus of opinion was that it 

 was unsatisfactory and detracted from- 

 the appearance of the stores. As a 

 result of this it is probable that all 

 sorts of card advs. will be barred from 

 display in so conspicuous a place as 

 the windows and all such available 

 space will be given over to the right- 

 ful showing of sfock. 



