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HOETICULTUEE 



February 28, 1914 



Clubs and Societies 



ILLINOIS STATE FLORISTS' AS- 

 SOCIATION. 



The time for our Annual Meeting 

 this year is March 10-11, only about 

 two weeks from now, at Danville, 111., 

 which city is centrally located, and 

 easy of access. Being so near the In- 

 diana line, we have invited the Indi- 

 ana State Florists' Society to meet 

 with us and they have accepted. So 

 we expect a large and interesting 

 meeting. Ship exhibits to W. J. Anker. 

 Danville, 111., and they will be proper- 

 ly staged. 



Following is the program: 



Opening Session, Tuesday, Marcli 10 (2 

 o'clotli)— Introductory Remarks, H. E. 

 Smith, President Danville Florists' Club: 

 Address of Welcome, Mayor Lewman : 

 Response and Welcome to the Indiana 

 Florists' Society, A. C. Kohlbrand, Chicago; 

 Response, W. W. Coles, Kokomo, Ind. ; 

 President's Address, Chas. Loveridge, 

 Peoria, 111.; Report of Secretary, J. F. 

 Ammann, Edwardsville, III. ; Report of 

 Treasurer, F. L. Washburn, Bloomington, 

 111 ; Untinished Business; New Business; 

 Public Exhibition; Remarks by Visiting 

 Indiana Florists; General Discussion; 

 Nomination and Election of Officers; Ad- 

 journment. J i ^u 



The annual banquet will be served at the 

 Plaza Hotel, Danville, at 8 p. m. 



Wednesday, March 11, 1914— All aboard 

 at 10 a. m. for the special cars to visit 

 the experimental station at Urbana. By 

 courtesy of the Danville Florists' Club. 



Public Exhibition— The exhibition of Cut 

 Flowers and Plants will be open to the 

 citizens of Danville, and all are invited to 

 attend same In the Armory, from 7 p. m. 

 to 10 p. m., Tuesday, March 10, and from 

 2 p m. to 10 p. m., Wednesday, March 11. 



Offlcial Badge for this meeting, Th» 

 Bacon Carnation. „ 



J. F. Ammann, Secy. 



Edwardsville, Ind. 



will be made three weeks from this 

 date. 



Raiser's description: Originated as 

 a sport of Nephrolejjis Giatrasll. re- 

 sembling this variety in its light green 

 color, Uut with long, gracefully-recurv- 

 ing fronds. In habit of growth like 

 Bostoniensis, but far more graceful. 

 Name, "New York." 



NASSAU COUNTY HORTICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY. 



The monthly meeting of the Nassau 

 County Horticultural Society was held 

 at Glen Cove, Wednesday, Feb. 11. It 

 was voted to withdraw from the New 

 York State Federation of Floral Clubs. 

 Chas. H. Totty was a visitor and 

 spoke on the Spring Flower Show to 

 be held in New York, and also of- 

 fered the Wells-Totty gold, silver and 

 bronze medals for competition at the 

 Glen Cove Fall Show for two blooms 

 of the new pink chrysanthemum, 

 "Neudon." Andrew Wilson, of Mill- 

 burn, N. J., also offered a special prize 

 of $25 for the Fall Show. 



Awards were made as follows: 

 Primula malacoides, F. Honeyman; 

 Gardenias, V. Cleres; Freesias, H. 

 Jones. 



Exhibits for the March meeting will 

 be antirrhinums, gladioli and violets. 

 Mr. Wilkinson, of the New York State 

 Department of Agriculture, will lec- 

 ture on "Home Gardens." 



Harry Jones, Cor. Secy. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS 

 AND ORNAMENTAL HORTI- 

 CULTURISTS. 

 Department of Plant Registration. 



Public notice is hereby given that 

 George Giatras, 4C3 Summit street. 

 West Hoboken, N. J., offers for regis- 

 tration the fern 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 



Public notice is hereby given that 

 as no objection has been received or 

 filed to the registration of the Begonia. 

 "Melior," by Julius A. Peterson ir 

 Sons, of Cincinnati, Ohio, same be- 

 comes complete. 



John Young, Secretarv. 



Feb. 21, 1914. 



LANCASTER COUNTY (PA.) FLOR- 

 ISTS' CLUB. 



The February meeting of this lively 

 aggregation found four-fifths of the 

 membership on hand, also a goodly 

 number of visitors. The new presi- 

 dent presided and the first blood of 

 the evening was shed over The Co- 

 operative Buying. Some firms who 

 have been sending inferior goods into 

 this section were handled without 

 gloves and after a great deal of discus- 

 sion pro and con the committee offered 

 a recommendation that the members 

 throw their trade as much as possible 

 to the firms who have offered us in- 

 ducements to get it. that we use our 

 membership sticker in sending in or- 

 ders to any and every one, and our 

 card for the local dealers who have 

 offered us a discount on certain lines. 



This was followed by a paper on the 

 Cleveland meeting and carnation show 

 by A. M. Herr. The president had too 

 much business for the meeting to al- 

 low any discussion so he called for a 

 report from the committee to arrange 

 with our local traction company to 

 carry cut flowers on their regular pas- 

 senger cars instead of being compelled 

 to wait for express cars. This com- 

 mittee reported progress and antici- 

 pated favorable results. A committee 

 was appointed to arrange for a fall 

 flower show. 



The visiting committee reported a 

 trip to Manheim for March 19th, 2.30 

 P. M., from Lancaster, and the pro- 

 gram committee reported having se- 

 cured the lantern slides from J. 

 Horace McFarland with a speaker to 

 supplement them. The ladies will be 

 invited to attend this lecture which is 

 very fine. 



The flowers shown were all good, 

 Chas. S. Herr had a vase of Beacon 

 that would have won any or all of the 

 medals at Cleveland. B. F. Barr & 

 Co. a vase of Alma Ward extra well 

 done. W. B. Girvin had Pink Delight, 

 Mrs. C. W. Ward, White Wonder, Glor- 

 iosa and Beacon, all in fine shape. H. 

 D. Rohrer had a vase of his Scarlet 

 Wonder which is proving to be a very 

 good commercial sort. Rudolph Nagle 

 had a very fine vase of Silver-Pink 

 snapdragons, but the attraction of the 

 evening was, of course, the vase of 

 Mrs. C. E. Akehurst which is keeping 

 up the standard it established at the 

 Cleveland show. 



Previous to the meeting an after- 

 noon visit was made to the establish- 

 ment of W. B. Girvin at Leola. Mr. 

 Girvin's carnations are top-notchers 

 and he contemplates erecting several 

 additional houses this summer to make 

 room for more. A. M. Hebb. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



The St. Louis County Growers' Club 

 will hold its regular monthly meeting 

 on Wednesday, March 4th, at 8 o'clock 

 at the Eleven Mile House. 



Sacramento, Cal. — The florists of 

 this city have organized a horticul- 

 tural society, with Mark Ebel as presi- 

 dent and W. J. Meldrum, secretary. 



The New York Spring Show Com- 

 mittee had a busy and enthusiastic 

 meeting at the office of John Young, 53 

 West 28th street on Tuesday, February 

 24. 



Brooklyn. N. Y. — The annual meet- 

 ing of the Greater New York Flor- 

 ists' Association was held on Feb. 

 10th and a dividend of 10 per cent 

 was declared. 



Syracuse, N. Y. — At the annual 

 meeting of the Syracuse Rose So- 

 ciety, Wallace R. Pierson addressed 

 the members, his subject being, "What 

 .Americans have done for Roses." 



At the next meeting of the Garden- 

 ers' & Florists' Club of Boston, March 

 17th. Ray Pierce, of the U. S. Dept 

 of Agriculture, will lecture on the 

 "Chestnut Tree Blight," Illustrated by 

 numerous specimens. 



San Francisco, Cal. — The officers of 

 the Pacific Coast Horticultural So- 

 ciety were Installed Feb. 7th as fol- 

 lows: President. H. Plath; vice-presi- 

 dent. Thomas Taylor; corresponding 

 secretary, Walter A. Hofinghoff; finan- 

 cial secretary, B. Meyer; treasurer, 

 Daniel McLaren. 



The Retail Florists' Association of 

 St. Louis, met on Monday night, Feb. 

 16, and elected officers for the year: 

 Harry Young, president; Theo. Miller, 

 vice-president: Alex Geranions, secre- 

 tary, and F. H. Weber, treasurer. The 

 annual banquet took place Tuesday 

 night, Feb. 24th. 



The Houston (Texas) Florists' Club 

 has found it necessary to postpone the 

 banquet which was to have been held 

 Friday night, Feb. 13, on account of 

 numerous confiicting dates and engage- 

 ments coming at this time. Planting 

 week as inaugurated by the club, how- 

 ever, started Monday, February 16. 



At the recent two-day meeting of the 

 Michigan Horticultural Society at 

 Benton Harbor, Representative J. J. 

 Jakway told the fruit men Michigan's 

 fruit laws were inadequate. He said 

 it was not frosts or pests that were the 

 fruit men's enemies, but the dishonest 

 growers who resort to sharp tricks to 

 cheat the consumer. 



At the regular meeting of the Cook 

 County Florists' Association, Feb. 19, 

 there were thirty-one members present. 

 The chief business was the election of 

 officers, which resulted as follows: 

 president, N. P. Miller; vice-president, 

 A. Henderson; secretary, A. T. Pyfer; 

 treasurer, J. Zech; sergeant-at-arms, 

 M. Fink; trustees — A. C. Kohlbrand, 

 A. J. Zech, J. L. Raske, Peter Olsem, 

 Jas. Novak. A communication was 

 read from the Grand Trunk railway, 

 offering special rates to the east with 

 the Boston convention in view. The 

 club voted to take the matter up later. 

 A collection of the Zvolanek sweet 

 peas, grown by Henry Wehrman at 

 Maywood. 111., was exhibited. 



