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HORTICULTURE 



March 28, 1914 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



LANCASTER COUNTY FLORISTS' 

 CLUB. 



Two-thirty P. M., March 19th, found 

 us on our way to Manheim and the 

 Hostetters, Emanuel, Phares and Mon- 

 roe. To give in detail an account of 

 these trips is simply to repeat, as the 

 majority of growers in this section 

 are carnation men with an occasional 

 side line. It is the genial good fellow- 

 ship established and the readiness to 

 discuss both failures and successes 

 that makes the trips valuable. E. P. 

 Hostetter has the largest area of glass 

 of the three. His carnations did not 

 average up quite as good as at the 

 other two places, but sweet peas, snap- 

 dragons, yellow daisies, primula and 

 Sprengerii made up a combination of 

 stock that is bringing in money. Com- 

 bination boxes of all this stock are ar- 

 ranged with an eye to effect, made up 

 so that a buyer could hardly resist 

 when he saw the box opened. Man- 

 heim produces snapdragons with eight- 

 foot stems and flower spikes in pro- 

 portionate length. 



Seven-thirty P. M. we were ready for 

 our meeting and had with us Adam 

 Heim, Connersville, Ind.; Thos. D. No- 

 lan of the King Construction Co., and 

 Ernest Morrell of the Berry Hill Nur- 

 series, Harrisburg, Pa. The latter gen- 

 tleman gave us an interesting and in- 

 structive lecture accompanied by lan- 

 tern slides on Herbaceous Plants and 

 Their Uses, and opened up our eyes to 

 some hitherto unknown possibilities. 



At the regular business part of the 

 session, H. A. Schroyer, chairman of 

 his committee, reported having se- 

 cured a written order from the trac- 

 tion company authorizing the conduc- 

 tors on all cars to accept cut flowers 

 or designs for rush orders, or where 

 it is Impractical to use the regular 

 express cars. This is quite an item 

 to our growers and could have been 

 secured only by means of the Club. 

 The writer reported for his committee 

 on co-operative buying, having secured 

 another local concern that would al- 

 low us straight ten per cent on steam 

 and hot w-ater fittings and supplies of 

 all kinds. This also will mean con- 

 siderable to those who take advantage 

 of it. The co-operative buying sticker 

 for use on correspondence was dis- 

 tributed at this meeting. 



After a half hour's local color and 

 fun, through the question box, Mrs, A. 

 M. Herr moved for the ladies that a 

 rising vote of thanks be given the 

 Club for their privilege of seeing the 

 slides and hearing the interesting lec- 

 ture and despite the present day nar- 

 row skirt every lady was on her feet 

 in an instant. Mr. Nolan in behalf of 

 the Scranton florists invited us to at- 

 tend their spring show, and the meet- 

 ing adjourned to meet April 16th, when 

 for a visiting trij) the members take 

 the Coatsville car, 1.45 P. M., and get 

 over what ground the afternoon al- 

 lows. Albert M. Herb. 



COOK COUNTY FLORISTS' ASSO- 

 CIATION. 



The regular monthly meeting of 

 the Cook County Florists' Association, 

 Chicago, was held March Iftth and the 



principal event of the evening was the 

 installation of the newly elected of- 

 ficers by H. E. Philpott, as follows: 

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

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

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

 .\I. Pink. There was a discussion on 

 the advanced express rates on short 

 hauls, which culminated with a motion 

 to write a letter of protest to the com- 

 mission. Communications from vari- 

 ous railroads regarding the coming 

 convention at Boston in August were 

 read and referred to the transporta- 

 tion committee, which will report at 

 the next meeting. Herbert E. Smith, 

 of Danville, III., newly elected presi- 

 dent of the Illinois State Florists' As- 

 sociation, was proposed for honorary 

 membership. 



GARDENERS' AND FLORISTS' 

 CLUB OF BALTIMORE. 



Prof. P. W. Besley, State Forester, 

 gave a very interesting, and instruc- 

 tive ilhistrated lecture before the Gar- 



E, C. Brucker, 



Re-elected trensurer of tbe Euffulo Flor- 

 ists' Clul). 



deners' and Florists' Club of Balti- 

 more, March 23. He talked mainly on 

 the value of roadside trees and the 

 kinds suitable for street planting. His 

 views well illustrated the advantage of 

 trees for such purposes. The ones 

 showing the mutilation by improper 

 trimming and the after results were 

 educational and especially so as the 

 Gardeners' Club have for years been 

 trying to prevent the tree butchers 

 from destroying the street trees of 

 Baltimore. The past year the munici- 

 pal authorities took full charge of all 

 street tree planting and It is now 

 hoped the city will soon be in a way 

 to have fine tree-lined avenues. There 

 is a bill now before the le,gislature for 

 planting trees along the public high- 

 ways in the State, which will be cared 

 for by the State Board of Forestry. 



The club is in the best financial con- 

 dition of its history. Walter L. Hal- 

 loway, of Old York Road, exhibited a 



A CORDIAL INVITATION 



la extended to tbe trade to Tlalt and 

 Inspect our new establishment, Fifth 

 Avenue at 46th Street, New York City. 



TRiBklMSF-ER 

 C3RDE:RS 



by Telegraph or otherwise for dellTcry 

 of Flowers to Steamers. Theatres, •» 

 Residences In New York and Tlclnlty 

 executed In l)est manner. 



Thos. F. Galvin, Inc. 



Established 1847 



Fifth Ave., at 46tb Street, NEW YORK 

 THREE STORES IN BOSTON 



CHICAGO 



And Neighboring Towns 



Are Thoroughly Covered by 



SCHILLER, THE FLORIST 



(Member Florists Telegraph Delivery). 



Flowergram or Mail Orders from florlste 

 anywhere carefully filled and delivered 

 under tbe supervision of 



GEORGE ASMUS, Mgr. 



2221-2223 W. Madison St., CHICAGO. 



'Phone West 822 



WASHINGTON, 

 D.C. 



OUDE S«OS.CO 

 FLORISTS 



GUDE'S 



Member Florists' 

 Telegraph Deliver.v. 



GEORGE H. COOKE 



FLORIST 



Connecticut Ave. and L St., N. W. 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



WASHINGTON- 



915 F ST. N. W. 



F. H. KRAMER 



Auto delivery of Designs and Flowers to 

 any address in Washington. 



Stock and Work First Class 



RANDALL'S FLOWER SHOP 



HARR¥ I. BANDALL., Proprietor. 



Phone: Park 94 

 3 PLEASANT ST.. WORCESTER. MASS. 



Mumbor Florists Telegraph Delivery Ass4)^imti»n 



fine Stem of double white snapdragon 

 grown from seed. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



The American Rose Society at its 

 annual meeting in Grand Central Pal- 

 ace, New York, on March 23, reelected 

 Wallace R. Pierson as president; vice- 

 president. Robert Pyle; secretary, 

 Benj. Hammond; treasurer, Harry O. 

 May, all by an unanimous vote. Direc- 

 tors elected were August Poehlmann, 

 Chicago, and Louis J. Renter, Wester- 

 ly, R. r. The selection of the next 



