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HORTICULTURE 



February 21, 1914 



section, also a collection of vegetables. 

 The next meeting is March 12th which 

 will be "Question Night." 



A meeting of the Monmouth County 

 Horticultural Society, was held Jan. 

 15, at Red Bank, N. J. There was a 

 good attendance, election of officers 

 resulted as follows: William Metz- 

 •dorf, president; Philip Bonner, vice- 

 president; Harry A. Kettel, recording 

 secretary; Percy Hicks, financial sec- 

 retary; Philip Bonner, corresponding 

 secretary; George H. Hale, treasurer; 

 Philip Bonner, William Dowlen and 

 John A. Kennedy, executive commit- 

 tee. The annual exhibition will be 

 held Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 

 28 and 29. The annual dinner was 

 held Wednesday evening, Feb. 18, 

 1914, limited to members and their 

 lady friends only. 



The Holyoke and Northampton 

 (Mass.) Florists' and Gardeners' Club 

 met Feb. 12 at Gallivan Bros.' green- 

 houses in Smith's Ferry. It was voted 

 to hold the second annual flower show 

 in Northampton in the fall. The an- 

 nual banquet will be held in Boyden's 

 Inn, Northampton, March 1. The com- 

 mittee in charge of the preliminary ar- 

 rangements for the show is as follows: 

 James Whiting, Amherst, R. S. Carey. 

 South Hadley Falls, George H. Sin- 

 clair and George Strugnell of this city, 

 and Frank Barnard of Northampton. 

 The committee in charge of the ban- 

 quet is composed of R. S. Carey of 

 South Hadley Falls, Ned Hennessey of 

 Northampton and James Whiting ot 

 Amherst. The club awarded Charles 

 B. Mackintosh of "Bonnie Brae," a 

 ■certificate of merit for a fine display 

 of cyclamens. 



The seventh annual meeting and 

 dinner of the American Society of 

 Landscape Architects at Hotel Vic- 

 toria, New York City, was attended by 

 thirty. Warren H. Manning, presi- 

 dent was toastmaster and chairman. 

 Harold A. Caparn of New York, just 

 returned from Washington, where he 

 attended the hearing on the proposi- 

 tion of Federal control ot Niagara 

 Falls, which the society strongly ad- 

 vocates, spoke on that topic. Harris 

 A. Reynolds, secretary of the Massa- 

 chusetts Forestry Association, in his 

 address on "State Forests tor Massa- 

 chusetts," urged State prohibition of 

 the ruthless and harmful stripping of 

 its forests. Forests, he pointed out, 

 were so closely allied with other natu- 

 ral resources that the present waste- 

 ful method of clearing them was cost- 

 ing millions. An attempt should be 

 made, he said, to preserve them; or, 

 lacking this, to compel owners to cul- 

 tivate the soil after their removal. 



The meeting of the Connecticut 

 Horticultural Society on February 

 13th was given up to the considera- 

 tion of cyclamen, and Mr. George W. 

 Fraser, of the Connecticut Agricultural 

 College, who was the principal speak- 

 er showed one cyclamen plant and a 

 vase of carnations, which he named 

 "A. G. Gulley" and blooms of a rose 

 crossed between Belle Seibrecht and 

 Kaiserin Augusta 'Victoria. He gave 

 a complete history of the cyclamen. 

 He stated in part that the cyclamen 

 originated in Italy, and in the year 

 1731 they were introduced into Eng- 

 land, but were not favorably received. 





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and their value as flowering plants 

 was not discovered until about fifty 

 years ago. The temperature for cycla- 

 men should be kept at about 60 de- 

 grees. The meeting was well attend- 

 ed, and the members extended to Mr. 

 Fraser a hearty vote of thanks. 



Alfred Dixon, Sec. 

 Weathersfield, Conn. 



Feb. 13, 1914. 

 Dear Sir: 



Enclosed find a postal money order 

 for $1 for one year's subscription for 

 your valuable paper. "Rose Growing 

 Under Glass," as practical informa- 

 tion, is alone worth that money. 

 Yours very truly, 

 Mass. M. B. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Springdale, Conn. — Lilian Lund has 

 leased her greenhouses in Glenbrook 

 to Hugh P. Campbell, who expects to 

 start in the florist business. The 

 houses were formerly used by florist 

 LePage. 



Chicago, III. — George Willens, for- 

 merly in the employ of John C. Mon- 

 inger Company lias opened an office at 

 1527 Spaulding avenue, under the 

 name of the Willens Construction 

 Company, and is prepared to erect 

 s?reenhouses on contract. 



DON'T MISS 

 The Annual Banquet of the Garden- 

 ers' and Florists' Club of Boston, Hor- 

 ticultural Hall. Tuesday Evening, Feb- 

 ruary 24 at six P. M. 



