December 21, 1912 



HOBTICULTURE 



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Johnston, trustee. The treasurer's re- 

 port showed a good balance to the 

 credit of the society. It was decided 

 to hold the annual dinner on Jan. 

 23rd. The committee of arrangements 

 are J. W. Everitt. J. P. Johnston and 

 S. J. Trepess. Prizes were offered for 

 violets, carnations and poinsettias and 

 the same awarded to A. Mackenzie, V. 

 Cleres and O. Bjorkgreen. H. Gaut 

 was awarded a certificate of culture 

 for a very fine collection of vegetables 

 and V. Cleres a certificate of culture 

 for a new seedling tomato. 



JAMES MACDONALD, Cor. Sec'y. 



THE SHAW BANQUET. 



The 23rd annual Shaw banquet took 

 place last week, Friday evening, Dec. 

 13, at the Washington Hotel, St. Louis. 



The majority attending were mem- 

 bers of the St. Louis Florist Club, the 

 guest of the night being Richard Vin- 

 cent, Jr., president of the S. A. F. 

 The toastmaster was Dr. G. T. Moore. 

 After a splendid spread Dr. Moore rose 

 and stated that the usual speaking 

 would be done away with and that the 

 evening's entertainment would be 

 given by Mr. Vincent, who gave an 

 illustrated lecture on the recent Lon- 

 don Flower Show and the Holland 

 bulb industry. This was one of the 

 most interesting talks on floriculture 

 ever listened to, while it was also very 

 instructive to the young students of 

 the garden who were all present. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



The annual meeting of the Lenox 

 Horticultural Society was held last 

 Saturday and the following officers 

 were elected: President, Alexander 

 McConnachie; vice-president, F. H. 

 Butler; treasurer, A. J. Loveless; sec- 

 retary, George Instone; assistant sec- 

 retary, William Hooper. 



J. Mack Turner of Springfield was 

 elected president of the Illinois Horti- 

 cultural Society at Champaign, on Dec. 

 12. F. R. Baxter of Nauvoo and L. R. 

 Brj'ant of Princeton were elected vice- 

 presidents. The new secretary is A. M. 

 Augustine of Normal, and the treas- 

 urer, J. W. Stanton of Richview. 



The Rochester, N. Y., Florists' Asso- 

 ciation held its monthly meeting Dec. 

 9 and members listened to an address 

 by Fred C. W. Brown, of Bucalo, on 

 "Art and the Arrangement of Flow- 

 ers." A short business session was held 

 prior to the speaking and the follow- 

 ing Nominating Committee was ap- 

 pointed: George B. Hart, E. P. Wil- 

 son and H. P. Neun. Election of offi- 

 cers will be held at the first meeting 

 of 1913. The association will send a 

 letter of condolence to the family of 

 the late J. W. Robbins, an honorary 

 member. 



The Florists' and Gardeners' Club 

 of Holyoke and Northampton, Mass., 

 met at South Hadley, Dec. 10, as the 

 guest of Reginald Carey, and after the 

 transaction of routine business the an- 

 nual election of officers was held. 

 Prof. E. J. Canning of Smith College 

 was elected president. D. J. Gallivan of 

 Holyoke, vice-president. Prof. James 

 Whiting of the State College, secre- 

 tary. Prof. Kinne of Mt. Holyoke, G. 

 H. Sinclair and George Strungel of 

 Holyoke were elected members of the 

 executive committee. Afterwards there 

 was a talk by James Rollins on "Meth- 

 ods of Gardening in England." 



The next meeting will be at the 

 Smith college conservatories Tuesday 

 •evening, January 14th. 



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 There will be an excellent program of 

 papers and discussions and illustrated 

 lectures. It is the business ol this 

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 fruits, trees, shrubs, vegetables and 

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