March 21, 1914 



HORTICULTUKE 



413 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



GARDENERS' AND FLORISTS' CLUB 

 OF BOSTON. 



The March meeting of this club was 

 well attended. The speaker of the 

 evening was Roy C. Pierce of the De- 

 partment of Agriculture, Washington, 

 and his topic was the Chestnut Tree 

 Blight. His remarks showed full fa- 

 miliarity with his subject and were 

 listened to with close attention. He 

 had samples of diseased bark and 

 wood and other exhibits appertaining 

 to the work in which he is actively en- 

 gaged. . 



Among the interested visitors were 

 several members of the Executive 

 Board of the S. A. F. who were hold- 

 ing their anuual meeting in Boston at 

 the time. President Theodore Wirth, 

 being introduced expressed his pleas- 

 ure at meeting so many gardener and 

 florist friends and paid an appreciative 

 compliment to Boston's horticultural 

 pre-eminence. He spoke feelingly re- 

 garding the late J. A. Pettigrew. whom 

 he regarded as a gardener of the high- 

 est type and made some pertinent re- 

 marks regarding club membership and 

 the duty of loyalty to organization. C. 

 H. Totty was next called upon and re- 

 sponded with a nice talk in which he 

 told of the preparations being made 

 In New York for the approaching 

 spring show. Next came W. P. Gude 

 who made a spirited address full of 

 optimism and glorying in the honor of 

 being a flower grower. He closed with 

 a few words about the proposed rose 

 test garden in Washington and the 

 plans to erect an everlasting memorial 

 for the late William R. Smith. 



The display on the exhibition plat- 

 form was not as large as customary 

 but it was all of high merit. A certifi- 

 cate of cultural merit was given to W. 

 N. Craig for some splendid white an- 

 tirrhinums. Wm. Sim received re- 

 ports of merit for four sweet pea nov- 

 elties, Bohemian Girl. Orange Orchid, 

 No. 4 A and No. 12. Votes of thanks 

 were accorded Mt. Auburn Cemetery 

 for Strelitzia, Robert Duncan for cold- 

 frame lettuce, Wm. Sim for sweet 

 peas and pansies and W. N. Craig for 

 cinerarias. 



The banquet committee made a 

 most pleasing report of the recent suc- 

 cessful affair and turned in a surplus 

 for the reserve entertainment fund. T. 

 H. Westwood was commissioned to 

 act as representative of the club in 

 cooperation with city officials and 

 others in the work for home and 

 school garden education. 



S. A. F. EXECUTIVE BOARD IN 

 BOSTON. 



The Executive Board of the national 

 society has been holding its annual 

 session in Boston this week and many 

 details for the big August convention 

 have been worked out with the help 

 and advice of the local members and 

 of the city officials through the Park 

 Department. It is worthy of note that 

 every member of the Board was pres- 

 ent, viz.: President Theodore Wirth, 

 Minneapolis, Minn.; Vice-President P. 



Welch, Boston; Secretary John Young, 

 New York; Treasurer W. F. Kasting, 

 Buffalo, N. Y.; J. J. Hess. Omaha, 

 Neb.; John A. Evans, Richmond, Ind.; 

 August Poehlmann, Chicago; J. A. Pet^ 

 erson, Cincinnati, O.; Chas. H. Totty, 

 Madison, N. J.; Thos. Roland, Nahant, 

 Mass.; J. K. M. L. Farquhar, ex-officio, 

 Boston. All the visitors with the ex- 

 ception of Messrs. Young and Totty, 

 who were obliged to leave Wednesday 

 night, were participants in an auto 

 ride through the park system on 

 Thursday forenoon, under the guidance 

 of Deputy Commissioner J. B. Shea. 

 As we go to press a banquet is being 

 prepared at the Parker House, for 

 Thursday evening, a full account of 

 which will appear in our next Issue. 



LANCASTER COUNTY FLORISTS' 

 CLUB. 



Thursday, March 12th, twenty-one of 

 us left Lancaster at 4.45 A. M. to visit 

 our brothers in Delaware and Chester 

 counties. At Coatsville we were 

 joined by Jas. Brown of that city, and 

 when we arrived at our first stop S. S. 

 Pennock of Philadelphia, having got- 

 ten wind of this trip and appreciating 

 the company, also joined us. 



Our first stop was at Brandywine 

 Summit, where E. A. Harvey met us 

 with bob sleighs and gave us a delight- 

 ful trip through drifts five and six feet 

 in depth on both sides of the road, to 

 his greenhouses. The big new Liord 

 & Burnham house was of course the 

 first attraction, and this house filled 

 with sweet peas of the Spencer type 

 was certainly the finest sight to be 

 seen anywhere right now. They are 

 eight feet high and over, and the cut 

 is averaging 12,000 a day from half 

 the house. They cut half one day and 

 the other the next, so that as we 

 reached there just as they commenced 

 cutting we had 25,000 or over to look 

 at. Beside sweet peas they grow car- 

 nations, mignonette, mushrooms and 

 tomatoes. The storm of March 1st 

 froze up a whole lot of carnations. 

 By the 12th the glass had all been re- 

 placed and a house of tomatoes started. 



At Wm. Swayne's, Kennet Square, 

 we found houses of lupins, larkspurs 

 and ten-week stocks, as well as carna- 

 tions and snapdragons. I noticed that 

 a great many mental notes were made 

 here by those who sometimes are just 

 a bit undecided as to what to plant. 

 At Mr. Palmer's we found carnations 

 very good, with tomatoes ready to 

 follow them up; the hillside construc- 

 tian here was quite an attraction. 



At Willowdale, E. C. Marshall 

 showed us the finest carnations of the 

 section; in fact, they would be hard 

 to surpass in any section. If we could 

 all have flowers and plants as good as 

 they are here, there would be less 

 complaint as to trade, etc. What 

 Chas. B. Herr is to Lancaster Co. that 

 E. C. Marshall is to Chester Co. May 

 their tribe increase. 



7.30 P. M. found us back in Lancas- 

 ter a bit tired, but chuck full of wis- 

 dom and pi(y for the fellow who was 

 not with us. 



Albert M. Hebb. 



TEXAS STATE HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



The eighth mid-winter meeting ot 

 the Texas State Horticultural Society 

 was held in Dallas, Texas, February 

 19 and 20, in the rooms of the Dallas 

 Chamber of Commerce. This meeting 

 was a very successful one, although 

 the attendance was small, but those 

 present showed that they were greatly 

 interested in the horticultural work in 

 Texas. Thanks are due the Dallas 

 Chamber of Commerce for the mtuiy 

 courtesies shown the members while 

 they were in Dallas. The auditorium 

 was turned over to the society for the 

 meeting place. 



The members spent the afternoon of 

 February 19th at the Com Show, they 

 being furnished passes by the Dallas 

 Chamber of Commerce. All of these 

 courtesies were greatly appreciated 

 and in order to show their apprecia- 

 tion, the society sent the secretary of 

 the Chamber of Commerce a vote of 

 thanks. 



After the invocation by Mr. John S. 

 Kerr, and the address of welcome by 

 J. R. Babcock, secretary of the Cham- 

 ber of Commerce, the Society took uU 

 the discussion of the subjects on the 

 program. The first was a discussion 

 of plant disease, by Dr. F. H. Blodgett. 

 Plant Pathologist of the Experiment 

 Station. This was a very interesting 

 and instructive talk, dealing with dis- 

 ease of both nursery and orchard 



Mr. J. B. Baker of Fort Worth, 

 Texas, discussed the growing of rosev 

 for the home. He brought out very 

 clearly the position that roses should 

 occupy in the beautifying of the home 

 grounds. He showed that it was pos- 

 sible to grow roses most any place, 

 provided the soil has been properly 

 prepared. 



A very Interesting paper was one on 

 Farm Terracing, by Mr. R. B. Pearce, 

 with special reference to the growing 

 of horticultural crops. In this paper 

 the writer showed some very interest- 

 ing facts. It was evident that by ter- 

 racing. It is possible to grow horticul- 

 tural crops on land that otherwise 

 would wash so badly that it would lose 

 large quantities of plant food as well 

 as being cut by the water. 



In the absence of Mr. L. N. Dalmont, 

 his paper on "Horticultural Conditions 

 on the Plains," was read by his daugh- 

 ter. Miss Mary Dalmont. This paper 

 showed that the Plains Country has 

 not been lagging in the developing of 

 the horticultural side of agriculture. 

 He showed that the horticultural con- 

 ditions are much better than they 

 were some time ago. 



The grape industry was very ably 

 discussed by Mr. Will B. Munson, of 

 Denison. He stated that viticulture! 

 seemed to have taken a new hold in 

 Texas during the past few years. He 

 spoke of varieties for various sections 

 of the state, and also dealt with grape 

 insects. In speaking of Insects, he 

 recommended Farmers' Bulletin No. 

 19, from the Department of Agricul- 

 ture at Washington, on the Grape 

 Leaf Hopper. Another speaker on vi- 

 ticulture was Prof. Flossfeder, of 



