February 14, 1914 



HOBTICULTURE 



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ST. LOUIS CLUB AND SOCIETY 

 MEETINGS. 



The St. Louis County Growers' As- 

 sociation held a well attended meeting 

 Wednesday night, February 4, at the 

 Eleven Mile House. 



The St. Louis Lady Florists' Home 

 Circle met this week, Wednesday after- 

 noon, February 11, at the home of Mrs. 

 Fred C. Weber, Jr. 



The Retail Florists' Association of 

 St. Louis will meet next Monday night, 

 February 16, at Hotel Beers. OflBcers 

 for the ensuing year are to be elected. 



The St. Louis Florists Club's publicity 

 committee met on Sunday afternoon, 

 February 8, at the home of R. .1. 

 Windier. "The attendance was good 

 and the proceedings will be reported 

 at the club meeting this week. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



William J. Stewart of Boston lec- 

 tured before the Bar Harbor (Me.) 

 Horticultural Society on Friday even- 

 ing, Feb. 6. his subject being "In Our 

 Day and Generation." There was a 

 large and enthusiastic audience. 



A special course of lectures and 

 demonstrations on Fruit Growing, will 

 be given by the .Massachusetts Horti- 

 cultural Society in co-operation with 

 the Extension Service of the Mass. 

 Agricultural College, at Horticultural 

 Hall, Boston, Feb. 24 to 28. inclusive, 

 forenoons and afternoons. 



The Cincinnati Florists' Club's meet- 

 ing was well attended. Pres. Jas. Al- 

 len named a committee, consisting of 

 R. Witterstaetter, chairman, Gus. Ad- 

 rian, Max Rudolph. Frank Volz and 

 Wm. Murphy, to solicit funds from 

 local florists to aid in the fight on 

 taxation of plants and flowers at 

 Springfield, Ohio. 



The midwinter meeting of the Texas 

 State Horticultural Society, which is 

 to be held in Dallas, Feb. 19 and 20 

 promises to be a very interesting 

 event. The program of addresses and 

 topics for discussion is very full and 

 well selected to instruct, and a large 

 attendance is expected. G. H. Black- 

 mon, of College Station is asst. secy- 

 treas. of the society. 



To promote the planting of shade 

 trees the Massachusetts Forestry As- 

 sociation is offering to plant with 

 shade trees at least seven feet in 

 height one mile of highway in tlie 

 town or city of Massachusetts which 

 properly plants on its streets this 

 spring the greatest number of shade 

 trees in proportion to its population 

 based on the census of 1910. 



The rules of the contest provide 

 that at least 50 towns and cities must 

 enter and by .Tuly 1, must have an- 

 nounced their intention to compete. 

 The offlcial c'ount will be made 

 Sept. 15. 



J. Lewis Ellsworth, of Worcester, ex- 

 secretary of the Massachusetts Board 

 of Agriculture, gave an illustrated lec- 



ture on "Agriculture in Holland and 

 Denmark" on Saturday, February 7, in 

 the lecture course of the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society at Horticultural 

 Hall, Boston. Mr. Ellsworth recently 

 returned from a study of the agricul- 

 tural conditions in those countries and 

 he gave a comparison of the methods 

 of intensive cultivation there with the 

 Ame^rican method. 



The newly elected vice-president of 

 the American Carnation Society was 

 born in Buffalo some forty years ago. 

 After a public school education he was 

 employed for a time in a dry goods 

 store and in 1887 entered tiie employ 

 of W. J. Palmer, the florist. In 1892, 

 he ptirchased the business of Law- 

 rence & Giddings and has been suc- 

 cessful from the start owing to his 

 up-to-date business methods. From a 

 small space in a confectionery store. 

 Mr. Anderson has now one of the 

 largest flower stores in Buffalo, with 



S. A, Anderson. 



a branch on Elmwood avenue in con- 

 nection with his greenhouses. Mr. 

 Anderson is also State vice-president 

 of the Society of American Florists. 



Under the auspices of The Horticul- 

 tural Society of New York, there will 

 be a lecture in the East Assembly Hall, 

 American Museum of Natural History, 

 New York City, on Saturday, February 

 21, at 4 o'clock, by Alex Cumming, Jr., 

 on "Roses." Mr. Cumming, who has 

 had much to do with this popular 

 flower, will undoubtedly give an inter- 

 esting and practical talk on the sub- 

 ject. A good audience should greet 

 him. On the same date will be held 

 an exhibition of roses, carnations, or- 

 chids, etc., for which liberal prizes are 

 offered. 



A committee from the Holyoke and 

 Northampton, Mass., Florists' and 

 Gardeners' Association visited the 



members of the park board last Mon- 

 day, requesting the reappointment of 

 Thomas A. Bray as superintendent of 

 parks, it being rumored that he is to 

 be removed for political purposes. 

 The committee represented that he 

 had given the city excellent service 

 and was better fitted to continue in 

 the position than any candidate whO' 

 had as yet been mentioned. It is un- 

 derstood that they will also have a 

 conference with Mayor Woods over 

 the matter later. 



The Connecticut Nurserymen's As- 

 sociation held its annual business 

 meeting at the Hotel Bond, Hartford. 

 February 4. President Thomas E. Bur- 

 roughs of Deep River presided. Dr. 

 William E. Britton of New Haven, 

 state pomologist, spoke on the de- 

 sirability of uniform laws for the in- 

 vestigation and shipments of nursery 

 stock between states. The following 

 officers were elected: 



I'rpsident, Thom.is B. Burrouglis, Deep. 

 Itiver; secretary, P. L. Thomas, Manches- 

 ter; treasurer, W. W. Hunt, Hartford. 



President Burroughs appointed the fol- 

 lowing committees: Legislative — E. F. 

 Coe, New Haven: J. R. Barnes, Yalesville; 

 Stephen Hoyt. New Canaan. Executive — 

 C. n. Sierman, Hartford; W. W. McCart- 

 ney. New Haven; Gustave Minge, Hart- 

 ford. Entertainment — W. W. Hunt, Hart- 

 ford ; Charles Turner, Hartford ; C. R, 

 Burr, ^lanchester. 



The next monthly exhibition of The- 

 Horticultural Society of New York 

 will be held on Saturday, February 

 21st, at the American Museum of 

 Natural History. Entries should be 

 in the hands of the secretary not later 

 than the morning of the 20th. Sched- 

 ules are now ready, offering prizes for 

 roses, carnations and orchids. The 

 exhibition committee, however, is au- 

 thorized to award special prizes for 

 exhibits not provided for in the reg- 

 ular schedule. All are invited there- 

 fore to bring in any interesting plant 

 or flower they may have, thus adding 

 variety to the exhibition. Schedules 

 will be sent upon application to the 

 secretary, George V. Nash, New York 

 Botanical Garden, Bronx Park, N. Y- 

 City. A meeting of the society will' 

 be held on the same day at the same 

 place at 3.45, followed at 4 by a lec- 

 ture on "Roses," by Alex Cumming. 

 Jr. 



George V. Nash, Sec. 



At the annual convention of the Ten- 

 nessee State Nurserymen's Association 

 Thursday. January 29. in the Max- 

 well House, Nashville, the following 

 officers were elected: 



President, Harvey M. Templeton. Win- 

 chester: vice-presldent-at-Iarge. A. J. 

 Fletcher, Jr., Cleveland; secretary-treas- 

 urer. Prof. G. M. Bentley, Knoxville; vice- 

 president for East Tennessee, A. I. Smith. 

 Knnxville; vice-president for Middle Ten- 

 nessee, W. H. Davis. Sniithville: vice-presi- 

 dent for West Tennessee, H. Stallings. 

 Humboldt. 



Resolutions were adopted condemn- 

 ing the McKellar cold storage bill. 

 now ponding in Congress, as detrimen- 

 tal to the fruit-growing industry in 

 Tennessee. 



S. W. Crowell, who has large rose 



The Service Bureau 



OF THE 



National Association Of 

 Gardeners 



Is maintained for the purpose of providing opportunities for efflcient 

 iind ambitluus men engaged in the profession of gardening. 

 This department of the Association is at the disposal of those who 

 may require the services of capable superintendents, gardeners or as- 

 sis(,int gardeners, Aililrcss 



M. C. EBEL, Secretary - - - Madison, N. J. 



NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GARDENERS 



