February 7, 1914 



HORTICULTURE 



187 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS 

 AND ORNAMENTAL HORTI- 

 CULTURISTS. 



A meeting of the National Flower 

 Show Committee was held in the Hotel 

 Statler, Cleveland, Thursday, Jan. 29, 

 1914. Present: Charles H. Totty, 

 New Jersey; Willis N. Rudd, Illinois; 

 George Asmus. Illinois; A. Farenwald, 

 Pennsylvania; William F. Kasting, 

 New York; John Young, New York. 

 George Asmus, of Chicago, was unani- 

 mously elected chairman of the com- 

 mittee, to succeed Charles H. Totty. 

 Mr. Totty was accorded a hearty vote 

 of thanks for the great work he had 

 done as chairman and for the very 

 successful manner in which he had 

 arranged for and carried out all ar- 

 rangements for the recent successful 

 show held in New York City. 



The invitation of the Florists' Club 

 of Philadelphia to hold the next Na- 

 tional Flower Show in the spring of 

 1916 in Philadelphia, was unanimously 

 accepted. The secretary was instruct- 

 ed to invite the Pennsylvania Horti- 

 cultural Society to co-operate in mak- 

 ing this coming show the biggest ever 

 held in this country. Mr. Farenwald 

 presented photographs of the building 

 wherein it was proposed to hold the 

 show and letters giving the dimensions 

 and particulars, especially as to the 

 exhibition hall itself. 



Chairman Asmus appointed the fol- 

 lowing committees: 



Premium or Schedule committee: 

 Charles H. Totty, A. Farenwald, Thos. 

 Roland. 



Committee on Contracts and Lease: 

 A. Farenwald, W. F. Kasting, W. P. 

 Craig. 



Publicity committee: W. N. Rudd, 

 Chas. H. Totty, John Young. 



Committee to secure special prizes: 

 Wm. F. Kasting, Theo. Wirth. W. N. 

 Rudd. 



The meeting was most enthusiastic 

 and stirring addresses were made by 

 W. N. Rudd, Wm. F. Kasting, Chas. 

 H. Totty and A. Farenwald, showing 

 that the experience gained in the re- 

 cent exhibitions would help to 

 make the Philadeli)hia Show the 

 grand success that it should be. It 

 was the unanimous opinion of the com- 

 mittee that no city in the United 

 States is better able to conduct a Na- 

 tional Flower Show successfully than . 

 the city of I'hiladelpbia. It is doubt- 

 ful if many of the members of the so- 

 ciety realize the gfeat amount of hard 

 work which is being done by the Na- 

 tional Flower Show Committee at 

 their meetings and during the time 

 that the arrangements for the Show 

 are being made, and if every society 

 member will assist and do his little 

 share, there is no question but what 

 this exhibition will be the best ever. 



Department of Plant Registration. 



Public notice is hereby given that 

 Julius A. Peterson & Sons, of Cin- 



cinnati, Ohio, submit for registration 

 the Begonia described below. Any 

 person objecting to the registration or 

 to the use of the proposed name, is 

 requested to communicate with the 

 Secretary at once. Failing to receive 

 objection to the registration, the same 

 will be made three weeks from this 

 date. 



Raiser's description: — Seedling, re- 

 sult of cross between Lonsdale's light 

 pink sport of Gloire de Lorraine, and 

 Socotrana. Strong robust grower, 

 from 12 to 18 inches to 2 feet in 

 height; flowers are borne in great 

 profusion; male flower is 1% to 2 

 inches across and 4-petaIed; female 

 flower 5-petaled and very rare; color 

 of flowers a soft, delicate, satiny pink, 

 a shade lighter than Glory of Cincin- 

 nati; foliage nearly round and of a 

 dark green color. It flowers from 

 November till March and is in prime 

 condition during December and Jan- 

 uary. Easy to propagate. Succeeds 

 best in equal parts of loam anl leaf 

 mould with some sand added. Tem- 

 perature while in bloom, 56 to 58 de- 

 grees at night. Name. "Melior." 



John Young, Sec. 



January 31, 1914. 



THE AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



The Executive Committee of the 

 American Rose Society will meet in 

 New York City on Feb. 9th. The 

 business before the committee will be 

 the fixing of dates for staging the 

 different exhibits, tlie arranging for 

 managing details, as there are always 

 a number of things that do not show 

 for much, but if not looked after 

 cause many little annoyances. The 

 great exhibition of last year reflected 

 much credit upon the working man- 

 agement. Various entries are already 

 started, and it looks as though the 

 rose growers are going to take a very 

 active interest in the show. The 

 American Rose Society would be very 

 .glad to have early notice of intending 

 exhibitors. Any one having special 

 prizes to offer we shall be pleased to 

 hear from them, A variety shall be 

 considered undisseniinated. which can- 

 not be exhibited by other than the in- 

 troducer. All roses shall be disqual- 

 ified where exhibited with more than 

 two growths fone pinch) except in 

 classes calling for displays. .No va- 

 riety shall win either the American 

 Rose Society Silver Medal or Gold 

 Medal more than once. 



The Waban Rose Conservatories 

 have offered a special prize of $25.00 

 for Russell roses. 



Bkn.iami.n H.\.mm()Mi. Sec. 



Beacon, N. Y. 



The American Rose Society records 

 the new rose, "Francis Scott Key" or- 

 iginated by John Cook, Baltimore, a 

 seedling from "Cardinal" crossed with 

 ciimson unnamed seedling, flowers red; 

 ^ize large to very large, with sixty pet- 

 als or more, opening to high center; 

 a strong, free and easy grower aver- 

 aging more long, sturdy stems than 

 any other Hybrid Tea rose. 



Bk.\.i.\mix Hammond, Sec. 



FLORISTS' CLUB OF PHILADEL- 

 PHIA. 



K. T. Brown of the Cottage Gardens 

 was the attraction at the monthly 

 meeting held on the 3rd inst. He gave 

 an informal address full of well di- 

 gested and up-to-date information on 

 the carnation. The latest claimants 

 for public favor were ably discussed 

 and much valuable advice given in 

 regard to propagating and marketing. 

 By careful attention to these details 

 an aggregate return of three and a 

 (luarter cents per flower was realized 

 during the past five years. With an 

 average cost of production of twenty 

 three per plant showing a hand- 

 some profit in growing this flower 

 commercially, provided the retailers do 

 their duty and give proper returns. 

 Comparisons of English methods of 

 growing and marketing were made 

 and such of these as were applicable 

 to our dift'ering conditions and cli- 

 mate were duly noted and recom- 

 mended. The latest word from the 

 Cleveland convention was also a fea- 

 ture of Mr. Brown's very interesting 

 and instructive talk. 



P. Joseph Lynch of New Castle, 

 Indiana, gave an interesting talk on 

 roses, emphasizing the point that many 

 of the older roses like Bonsilene, Ce- 

 cille Brunner and Marie Guillot were 

 still in the ring and doubtless there 

 were many more worthy of careful 

 test, and the retailers should wake up 

 and make their customers interested. 

 He said it was just as Mr. Brown re- 

 marked about the older carnations. 

 The new ones, many of them were 

 good but we should never be in loo 

 much of a hurry to throw out our old 

 well-tried standbys. 



Among the exhibits of the evening 

 were some splendid flowers of new 

 varieties, which created great inter- 

 est. Pennock-Meehan showed Mrs. Ake- 

 hurst, also seedling No. 30 clear white 

 and Princess Dagmar. S. S. Skidelsky 

 showed Philadelphia. Cottage Gardens, 

 Matchless and a sport of Mrs. C. W. 

 Ward a pure light pink. Richard 

 Langle, a vase of white Enchantress 

 very well done and a large pure white 

 seedling Freesia. J. M. Rider, Balti- 

 more, vase of pink seedling, color of 

 Enchantress Supreme, also a new 

 white seedling. 



The secretary read a letter from the 

 S. A. P. National Flower Show Com- 

 mittee stating that the Club's in- 

 vitation to hold their next Interna- 

 tional Exhibiton in Philadelphia had 

 been accepted. The subject for next 

 meeting, "Geraniums," by a master-hand 

 R. Vincent, Jr., of Maryland; stereop- 

 li( on illustrations. 



NEW BEDFORD HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



The regular monthly meeting of the 

 New Bedford Horticultural Society 

 was held Monday, Feb. 2, with the 

 largest attendance known for several 

 years. It has been the policy for 

 three years past to have all shows 

 free and depend on the generosity of 

 the ])ublic to support these by what is 



