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HORTICULTURE 



January 24, 1914 



LANCASTER COUNTY (PA.) FLOR- 

 ISTS' CLUB. 



On January 13th, a party of twenty- 

 three from Lancaster visited Stras- 

 burg, visiting the establishments of 

 Amos Rohrer and Chas. B. Herr. Mr. 

 Rohrer has added two very fine mod- 

 ern houses. He had quite a batch of 

 schizanthus in bjoom and the quality 

 of flowers would almost bring them 

 into the orchid class. At Mr. Herr s, 

 the show place of Lancaster County, 

 every thing was in the pink of perfec- 

 tion from the office cat to the bench 

 of Enchantress Supreme. Mr. Herr 

 grows every thing well but if there is 

 any difference in his ability to get 

 the best out of any one variety it is 

 with Beacon. He has it the best of 

 any one in this section and better than 

 the writer ever saw it any where m 

 the United States. 



Coming back to Lancaster we met 

 the rest of the crowd at the Brenne- 

 man Building and sat down to a real 

 banquet 6.30 P. M. 



The out-of-town visitors were F. M. 

 Read of The Whilden Pottery; C. U. 

 Ligget and E. J. Fancourt ot the S. 

 S Penock-Meehan Co.; E. L Hoehl ot 

 s' S. Skidelsky & Co.. and D. T. Connor 

 representing Lord & Burnham Co all 

 of Philadelphia; T. B. Wohlert of Nar- 

 berth- A. S. Brandt and Aug. Schatfei 

 of York- T. J. Nolan of The King Con- 

 struction Co., and last but not least 

 Prof E. I. Wilde of State College. Prof. 

 Wilde gave us a very instructive talk, 

 dealing principally on Carnations. He 

 also made a strong plea for the sup- 

 port of the florists in getting legisla- 

 tion to appropriate more money for 

 floriculture at State College as they 

 now have some 38 term students and 

 a number of short termers whom they 

 are trying to instruct in floriculture 

 with one greenhouse 30 by 100. 



He was followed by F. M. Read, D. 

 T Connor, Aug. Schafter, A. S. Brandt, 

 e' I Hoehl, T. E. Wohlert, ex-presi- 

 dent A M. Herr and the newly-elected 

 president B. F. Barr. Harry Schroyer 

 acted as toastmaster and Mr. Linkey 

 and Mr. Goldbach had a German san- 

 gerfest which was Greek to most of 

 the visitors but highly enjoyed by 

 those who understood it. 



At the business meeting B. F. Barr 

 was elected president, Lemon Landis 

 secretary; H. K. Rohrer treasurer and 

 Elmer Weaver vice-president. Alter 

 the business meeting sports were in- 

 dulged in up to midnight. On the ex- 

 hibition table Matchless was shown in 

 its usual fine form, a vase of Gloria 

 was much admired for its color and, 

 last but not least, was a bunch of 

 Philadelphia from Detroit that opened 

 up as good as if they had come in 

 from a local grower. It was its first 

 appearance here and made a very good 

 impression. A few members who do 

 not have regular firemen were kept 

 away from the banquet by the first 

 real winter we have had in this sec- 

 tion, the thermometer going four be- 

 low zero during the night and hanging 

 at ten above during the day. 



Feb. 19, will be observed as Carna- 

 tion Night Ye men especially inter- 



ested in carnations, from far and near, 

 take notice and remember you are al- 

 wavs welcome in Lancaster, Pa. 



Ai.iiKRT M. Hekk. 



GARDENERS' AND FLORISTS' 

 CLUB OF RHODE ISLAND. 



The annual meeting of this club, at 

 Providence on Monday evening, Jan. 

 19, was made a very pleasant social 

 event by the serving ot refreshments 

 and exchange of views for "the good 

 of the club." There was an excellent 

 attendance of members and W. J. 

 Stewart of Boston was present as a 

 guest. 



Retiring President Eugene A. Ap- 

 pleton opened the meeting. Alex. Ma- 

 crae was chosen temporary secretary 

 and a vote of regret and sympathy 

 with Secretary Chappell in his recent 

 accident was unanimously passed. A 



CONELIUS G. H.«TSTR.«L 

 President-elect Gardeners' nnd Florists' 

 Club of Rhode Islnnd. 



letter of greeting from A. M. Rennie. 

 Gary, Ind.. was read and plans for 

 improving the section of the city ad- 

 joining the old canal, by W. T. Hatch, 

 were displayed and explained by Rob- 

 ert Johnston. The president-elect. 

 Cornelius G. Hartstra. then took, the 

 gavel and Robert Johnston, on behalf 

 of the members, presented the retir- 

 ing president with a handsome um- 

 brella, suitably engraved. A hopeful 

 address was made by the president, 

 indifcating his desire to make the year 

 1914 a most successful one for the 

 club. He called upon W. J. Stewart, 

 who responded with a spirited appeal 

 for lovaltv to the best horticultural 

 interests of city, state and New Eng- 

 land and asked for a large attendance 

 at the Boston convention next sum- 

 mer. James Hockey followed with 

 words ot enthusiasm regarding the 

 outlook and urging an immediate 

 grasping of the great opportunities 

 for improvement in exhibition man- 

 agement. Mr. Powers told stories as 

 the chowder was handed around and 

 toasts were drank to the prosperity 

 ot the club and to the absent secre- 

 tary. 



GARDENERS' AND FLORISTS' 

 CLUB OF BOSTON. 



According to custom, the January 

 meeting of the Gardeners' and Flor- 

 ists' Club was "Ladies' Night." On 

 this occasion it is part of the cere- 

 mony of installation of the new offi- 

 cers to stand them up in a row, let 

 the ladies see how fine they look, and. 

 with a couple ot hundred admiring 

 feminine eyes gazing upon him, what 

 fiorist or gal'dener wouldn't put on 

 his best smile and make all kinds of 

 promises to be good during the year? 

 Altogether, "Ladies' Night" is a great 

 night for everybody, and on this par- 

 ticular occasion it surpassed the rec- 

 ord. 



Horticultural Hall was filled to the 

 limit with an aggregation of beauty 

 and wisdom, youth and maturity, har- 

 mony and good fellowship such as 

 anv organization might well be proud 

 of and all lines of "private" and 

 "commercial" and "allied trades- 

 were obliterated. Business was very 

 brief. The secretary's notes showed 

 an average attendance of 162 at the 

 meetings of the past year; 74 ne-w 

 members had been added, 4 members 

 had died. The treasurer's report 

 showed a balance of $1657.63 on hand. 

 President Kennedy made a brief but 

 very optimistic address, outlining the 

 great work for the coming season — 

 the club's part in receiving and enter- 

 taining the S. A. F. convention vis- 

 itors. He appointed Peter Miller, 

 James Wheeler and Henry Penn as 

 m.embers of the general preliminary 

 convention committee to represent the 

 club, together with himself and S. A. 

 F Vice-President Welch ex-officio. He 

 appointed the standing exhibition and 

 entertainment committees with Wil- 

 liam Sim and Wm. J. Patterson as 

 chairmen, respectively. Twelve new 

 members were enrolled. 



Then came the musical program 

 and for an hour the audience was 

 treated to the best entertainment 

 they ever had. Mr. James Singer. 

 Miss Katherine Singer, Miss Marga- 

 ret Alexander, Miss Marion Kay, Mr. 

 Joseph Lorraine, Miss Ruth Dyer and 

 Master Sawyer were the artists and 

 there was not a weak spot In the feast 

 of vocal and instrumental music, char- 

 acter impersonations and recitations 

 which they presented. After that re- 

 freshments were served lavishly and 

 then followed dancing, which lasted 

 until the midnight hour. 



STATE FLORISTS' ASSOCIATION 

 OF INDIANA. 



The annual meeting of the Indiana 

 State Florists was held on Tuesday, 

 January 13. at the Hotel Severin, In- 

 dianapolis. It was a well attended 

 and interesting session. President W. 

 W Coles in his address referred to 

 the approaching meeting and exhibi- 

 tion of the Chrysanthemum Society 

 of America, which is scheduled for In- 

 dianapolis next November, and urged 

 prompt activity in preparation there- 

 for so that a creditable showing may 

 be assured from the local growers. He 

 spoke optimistically of the Associa- 



