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HOETICULTUEB 



May 30, 1914 



SOUTHAMPTON HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



At the last meeting of the Southamp- 

 ton, N. Y.. Horticultural Society, the 

 soliciting committee reported fine suc- 

 cess and the schedules will be ready 

 an a few days. The prizes offered this 

 year amount to nearly $750.00 besides 

 ■several silver cups and other special 

 prizes. The lunch and dinner table 

 'Competition is open only to the ladies 

 of the cottage colony. All other com- 

 petition is open to all. Among the 

 special prizes each year is one of 

 $20.00 given by Mr, Samuel Parrish for 

 filling and caring for ten vases on his 

 art museum grounds. These are divid- 

 ed into two classes with first, second 

 and third prizes in each class. They 

 are drawn by number at the May meet- 

 ing and must be filled by June 1st. 

 They are inspected three times by a 

 special committee appointed from 

 the residents of the village, the last 

 Inspection on the first day of the exhi- 

 bition when the prizes are awarded. 

 The judges of vases this year are: — 

 David J. Gilmartin. William Malcom 

 ;and Ormiston C. Gardner. There is a 

 prize for vegetables' grown and exhibit- 

 ed by boys of the Union School. Mr. 

 Parrish's art museum and grounds are 

 open to the public and consequently 

 the vases are viewed by many of the 

 people of the village and add to the 

 beauty of the park grounds, as well as 

 create an interest in garden adornment 

 generally. 



NEW YORK FLOWER SHOW, 1915. 



The Flower Show Committee held a 

 Tneetlng at the Grand Central Palace 

 on Thursday, May 21st. The presi- 

 dents of the different local horticul- 

 tural societies had been invited to a 

 conference to assist in the preparation 

 •of the schedule, especially as to the 

 classes provided for the private grow- 

 ers. 



The meeting was largely attended 

 and the schedule was prepared as far 

 as possible and will be completed at 

 the next meeting, Tuesday. .Tune 2nd. 

 and they will be distributed immedi- 

 ately. The local societies are request- 

 ed to have their representatives pres- 

 ent at this meeting. 



The Flower Show Committee is 

 much pleased with the progress made 

 and the great interest that is being 

 taken in the coming exhibition. Sev- 

 eral special prizes have already been 

 offered. Contracts in the Trade Sec- 

 tion for almost .$3,000.00 worth of space 

 have already been signed up and the 

 guarantee list now amounts to over 

 :$3,000.00. The retailers have practical- 

 ly all agreed to support this exhibition. 

 Secretary John Young will be pleased 

 to furnish any information regarding 

 same. 



John You.ng. Sec'y. 



53 W. 28 St., New York. 



DATE OF PEONY MEETING AT 

 CHICAGO. 



A continuation of the present hot 

 weather at Chicago where the annual 

 exhibition of the American Peony Soci- 

 ety has been scheduled for June 12th 

 and 13th, may render it necessary to 

 advance the date for the show several 

 days or even a week. The dates will 

 be fixed definitely June 1st and sent to 

 all the weekly trade papers in time for 

 publication in next week's issue. 



M. B.^KKER. Sec'y Pro, Tern. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES 



The Gardeners' and Florists' Asso- 

 ciation of Holyoke, Mass., will hold a 

 picnic sometime in the early part of 

 July. 



The St. Louis County Growers' As- 

 sociation will hold its regular monthly 

 session on next Wednesday, June 4th. 

 President Vennemann has returned 

 home from his bridal trip and will pre- 

 side. Some entertaining is looked for 

 and a large turnout is probable. 



The St. Louis Retail Florists' Asso- 

 ciation held a poorly attended meet- 

 ing at the Washington Hotel on Mon- 

 day, May 18, and it was decided that 

 during the months of June, July and 

 August the association hold no regular 

 meeting unless specially called by the 

 president. 



Secretary Beneke, of the St. Louis 

 Florist Club, says that the meeting 

 on June 11th will be a most important 

 one, as State Vice-President Robt. J. 

 Windier has made a call for members 

 of the S. A. F. in eastern Missouri to 

 meet with the Florist Club on that 

 date. The trustees are preparing to 

 entertain all the visiting S. A. F. mem- 

 bers. 



The annual outing of the New York 

 and New Jersey Association of Plant 

 Growers will be held at the Hotel Kit- 

 tatinny, Delaware Water Gap, Pa., on 

 June 23. The Committee has this year 

 arranged for a three day outing. Mem- 

 bers and friends will leave on the Del- 

 aware, Lackawanna & Western Rail- 

 road from Hoboken on the "Lacka- 

 wanna Limited" at 10,15 A. M. arriv- 

 ing at the "Gap" at 12.03 noon. Re- 

 turning the party will leave the "Gap" 

 at 5,25 P, M,. June 25, arriving at 

 New York at 7.30 P, M. Special Cars 

 for the exclusive use of the party will 

 be attached to both trains. 



At the monthly meeting of the Tar- 

 rytown Horticultural Society, May 20. 

 a beautiful display of hardy shrubs 

 and herbaceous flowers was staged, 1st 

 prize going to D. G, Reid. supt, A. 

 Golding. and 2nd to Miss B. Potter, 

 supt. G. Wittlinger. A cultural certifi- 

 cate was awarded to D. G. Reid. gard, 

 T, Morris, for vase of Mrs. Hugh Dick- 

 son sweet peas, and one to W, B. 

 Thompson, supt. S. R. Candler, for 

 Cattleya gigas, and a certificate of 

 merit for a sport of Marguerite Mrs. 

 Sander, C, Wilson received honor- 

 able mention for pink snapdragons and 

 u vote of thanks was extended to Mrs. 

 A. Golding for wild flowers. Owing to 

 the late spring the date of the June 

 show will not be decided on until June 

 5. Refreshments will be served at the 

 next meeting. Tuom.\s A. Lee. 



cerning the elm-leaf beetle. He said 

 that this insect spent the winter in all 

 kinds of dry places, such as belfries 

 and attics, where as long as it kept 

 dry it remained uninjured by very low 

 temperatures. He recommended the 

 use of arsenate of lead at the rate of 

 about three pounds to fifty gallons of 

 water. Alfred Dixon, Secy. 



An unusually effective and brilliant 

 display of tulips, lilacs, primroses, and 

 dogwood was exhibited by W, C. Ma- 

 son, Friday evening. May 22, at the 

 meeting of the Conn. Horticultural So- 

 ciety. Walter E. Cook representing 

 Stunipp & Walter Co., who was a vis- 

 itor, stated that the exhibit of tulips 

 was an unusually fine one, also com- 

 paring conditions at Hartford with 

 those at Lenox and Trenton. The chair 

 named Mr, Cook, George B. Baker and 

 George T. Whitten judges, and thev 

 awarded the exhibit a first-class cer- 

 tificate, George H, Hollister, super- 

 intendent of Keeney Park, spoke cone: 



NEMATODES AND CLUB FOOT. 



Editor Hoktutltuke: 



I have been getting letters recently 

 from peony growers relative to nodules 

 formed by nematodes on peony roots. 

 Some are apprehensive that they are 

 identified with the French club foot 

 disease, which is fatal. Now the two 

 are no more related than the chicken 

 pox and the deadly typhoid. Peonies 

 with the club foot have no fibrous 

 roots. They can neither grow nor 

 bloom. Specimens have been sent to 

 different experiment stations, and 

 about every one gives a different 

 answer. One professor received spec- 

 imens with harmless modules on them 

 and said "Destroy all the roots and dis- 

 infect the ground." Bosh! I have 

 raised peonies over thirty years, and 

 for the last sixteen years have made 

 a specialty of them. This professor 

 can give theory and jump at conclu- 

 sions, but I give cold facts. One year, 

 in rich ground, I saw some of my 

 peonies were making a very robust 

 growth and the leaves were bright and 

 healthy. I had occasion to dig them 

 up and found they were overwhelmed 

 with nematode modules. On close 

 examination subsequently I found 

 Marechal Valliant, Gandiflora Rosea, 

 one of the most floriferous of all, and 

 Andre Laurias were almost always in 

 this condition, and I made up my mind 

 from the vigor of the plants that these 

 bacteria were doing for the peony 

 what the same or kindred bacteria 

 were doing for alfalfa. In all my ex- 

 perience and careful researches I 

 never knew any injury from them. Of 

 course, for the looks, in selling we 

 strip them off. Now these are bare, 

 cold facts. There are other causes for 

 deterioration which perhaps have been 

 v.rongly charged to these. One is 

 planting on the same ground; another 

 is leaving the roots too long without 

 dividing. 



The imported club foot French dis- 

 ease is incurable. I have planted them 

 it slacked lime to no purpose. Then 

 one fall I got a washtubful and poured 

 in strong lye and let them soak a 

 week. I elfectually cured them all; 

 the disease could not possibly survive, 

 but I killed every root. I give this 

 sure cure. There is no patent on it 

 and I know it will work. 



So let me say to peony growers don't 

 get things mixed. Some time ago I 

 sent both kinds of roots to Prof. Bes- 

 sey at Miami, Florida, and he said he 

 found no nr?iiato(les whotei^cr on the 

 club-footed ones, and that the two were 

 entirely distinct. 



C. S, H.\RRisoN. 



York, Nebr. 



The governor of Massachusetts has 

 signed the bill appropriating $210,000 

 to the college at Amherst for the con- 

 struction of an agricultural building. 

 It will have an assembly hall that will 

 accommodate 800 to 1000 men and will 

 relieve the college, by a year from next 

 fall, from the crowded conditions that 

 ist in the present chapel. 



